Dawn's Mirror, Dusk's Gloom

The General's Wife Is Very Virtuous

With his camp running out of food, the General is forced to rob the tombs of the fabled Tianling Palace. After wandering around for a while, he ends up stealing the tomb keeper instead.

The General is mistakenly sold into slavery. The tomb keeper goes looking for him, only to get bundled up and sold too. The two are sold together at a discount and sent to Shusha.

By chance, the two save the badly wounded Crown Prince of Shusha and swear brotherhood with him. The prince is kind and benevolent, treating them like blood brothers. But out of loyalty to his country, the General has no choice but to secretly steal Shusha's border defense map, scheme to send the prince to war, arrange for the prince's betrothed to marry another man, and let the prince's grandmother die. Later, he even kills his sworn elder brother, the Crown Prince of Shusha, with his own hands at the city gates.

After conquering Shusha, he takes the tomb keeper, his sworn second brother, back to the frontier to guard the border. His second brother becomes his military strategist and stays with him at the Three Great Camps.

The Blood Clan marches in and taunts them at the front lines. The General is horrified to discover that the Blood Clan's commander is none other than his sworn elder brother from years ago. The strategist also learns what the General did in the past and, furious, turns against him.

Driven mad and twisted in temperament by the General's betrayal, the Crown Prince of Shusha wants to make the General pay. He also wants to drag the strategist into his hatred for the destruction of his family and country…