Meng Zhiyin and Huangfu Yixiang's Rebirth Bond

Beyond the Great Wall, south of the desert, stood a Han Chinese city, founded when the young Hongwu rose in rebellion, and enduring for two hundred years.

Through a carefully laid scheme, the female chancellor raised an actor to the throne. She had intended to rule from behind the scenes, but instead raised a true emperor. Women stood among the court officials, and women could serve as ministers.

War swept across the grasslands. The emperor suffered a stroke and lost his speech, while the heirs dwindled away. In a crisis, the emperor's legitimate daughter took command, first governing as regent, then becoming heir to the throne, before accepting the abdication and claiming the empire.

Minnan and the Ming dynasty stood side by side, as close as lips and teeth. They witnessed the golden age of the Central Plains and shared in the tragic songs of the Ming's final years. When the capital fell and the Southern Ming raised its banners, this last army of Han Chinese beyond the frontier marched to the Central Plains, where they too were consumed by the flames of war.

So many people came and went through this story. Meng Lijun was one of them...

And so it became a distant tale of the past...