Shen Jinyue has been hopelessly in love with Pei Huaixu for eight years. To marry him, she willingly endures the brutal torture of the Imperial Music Bureau, firmly believing that he will eventually come to marry her in a grand wedding procession. Unexpectedly, on their wedding night, she is abandoned in a remote courtyard at the back of the mansion, while Pei Huaixu shares a loving life with her elder sister, Shen Jinyao. Her years of devotion turn out to have been nothing but a cruel deception. With her heart completely broken, Shen Jinyue volunteers to travel to Youzhou to guard the imperial mausoleum. There, at the frontier, she meets Wei Xiao, an upright and gentle general whose sincere affection helps heal her wounds. When the schemes of Pei Huaixu and Shen Jinyao are exposed, they come searching for her in deep regret, desperately trying to make amends. But nothing can make Shen Jinyue turn back. In the end, she cuts ties with her painful past and finds lasting happiness with Wei Xiao in Youzhou. After enduring years of heartbreak, she finally finds the happy ending she deserves, leaving her former infatuation as a cold and distant memory.