Song Qing, the legitimate daughter of a scholarly family from Jiangnan, suffers a fall in her family's fortunes and is exiled to the desert frontier. After being set up by the Lin family of Shaliu Town, she is forced to marry their second son, Lin Feng. On their wedding night, Lin Feng leaves on military business and never returns for three years. Song Qing endures endless humiliation and mistreatment at the Lin household, nearly starving to death. At the brink of death, she saves a thousand-year-old wolf spirit who failed his heavenly tribulation and names him Xue Tuan. Xue Tuan can sense people's fortunes and discovers that the Northern Frontier's Great General, Pei Zhen, is surrounded by overwhelming baleful energy. Staying by his side will help restore his spiritual power, so he repeatedly tries to bring the two together. Pei Zhen was once saved by Song Qing and has spent years searching for her. Now that they have reunited, she is already another man's wife. He tries to suppress his feelings, but witnesses her being mistreated by the Lin family and betrayed by Lin Feng. This time, he refuses to let her go.