Mystic Ink, Heartfelt Love.

Yang Zhi was from the royal family and she could have lived luxuriously at the palace squandering money on clothes and jewelleriess but she chose to live a tough life fighting alongside men leading troops to war as the general of the Yingdui army of the Xiang State. However a twist of events occurred cornering her to a hopeless position and surrender to the enemy state. To meet their enemy country's demands of sending off one of the princesses to their state for a marriage alliance,Yang Zhi and her sisters were selected as potential marriage candidates. With her stubborn nature she wasn't willing to submit to the enemy through marriage and she used a shortcut to get herself disqualified from the marriage candidates. Shen Wu,a famous yet mysterious painter was deeply involved in the shortcut she took. Meeting each other through various planned and unplanned coincidences,the two grew naturally closer. In all this Shen Wu had secretly manipulated her into finding him from the start just to fulfill his master's wish to protect the destined Empress who turned out to be Yang Zhi. The protection turned into deep love and by the time Shen Wu fulfilled the wish Yang Zhi had already become his love obsession that he couldn't let go. For Yang Zhi he was her first love and she cherished him for it.