When she returned home, her parents betrothed her to a childhood friend, but her fiancé was put into prison in Chengzhou for smuggling firearms and illegal Western drugs.

Murong Feng, son of the most powerful northern warlord, rushed back to China from his studies in Russia after his father's assassination.

Awaiting him in Chengzhou is one dangerous plot after another devised by his father's generals to thwart his succession to the northern territories.

As Murong Feng succeeds in becoming the Military Governor of the North, he embarks on his next ambition to unify his country.

Amid this furious military struggle, Murong Feng unexpectedly begins to harbor very strong feelings for an ordinary young woman from the South, Yin Jingwan.