『Sworn Enemies or Husband and Wife?』
He is Pei Jin—the youngest general of Beiyuan. At seventeen, he took command of the military; at nineteen, he quelled the Northern Rebellions; and at twenty-one, he repelled three northern expeditions by Southern Chen. In Beiyuan, his name is a banner of war—striking terror into the enemy and bringing peace to the common folk. When he was twelve, the army of Southern Chen took advantage of border turmoil in Beiyuan to launch a surprise attack on Zhenbei Pass, wiping out the entire Pei family. Miraculously surviving, he knelt before the ruins to gather his family's bones, and by the next day, he appeared at the royal autumn hunt of Beiyuan. On that day, he pierced three flying wild geese with a single arrow. The monarch of Beiyuan personally took down the famed bow "Jinghong"—which had hung on the wall for a century—and bestowed it upon the twelve-year-old boy. For the next five years, he vanished. No one knew where he went or what he did. All that was known was that when he returned to the Beiyuan Royal Court five years later, a snow-white fox followed at his heels, and a military tally hung at his waist—in those five years, he had risen from a foot soldier all the way to a general. Now, he guards the Beiyuan border, commanding thirty thousand heavy cavalry in a tense standoff against Southern Chen. His prestige keeps the armies of Southern Chen from daring to cross the line, and his tactical brilliance strikes fear into the hearts of his enemies. He is a blade unsheathed—sharp, piercing, and terrifyingly cold. Yet no one knows that the edge of that blade has always been pointed toward Southern Chen.
“The wind and snow of Beiyuan cannot sustain a Southern flower. Are you certain you want to stay here?”