In a world where the legendary Eternal Jade cures all but carries a deadly curse, Gu Suizhi, cursed to die before turning thirty, devises a plan to make Ruan Shu, the last orphaned daughter of the Ruan family, fall in love with him—her heart's blood being the only way to break the curse. As love and redemption intertwine, they unknowingly awaken the unresolved grudges of their past lives, unraveling a deeper, more complex fate.
In the first year of the Tianqi reign of the Ming Dynasty, Nurhaci, the emperor of the Jin Dynasty, led the Eight Banners Army and took advantage of the change of imperial power and the slack of military preparations in the Ming Dynasty to capture important towns outside the Great Wall one after another. When the Liaodong border was in danger, Yuan Chonghuan rode out of the border alone to inspect the situation and later served in Liaodong.