Seventeen-year-old Ai Ling knows that her parents have had a hard time finding a proper husband for her, but when her father is called away to the Imperial Court and then goes missing a lecherous neighbor tries to blackmail her into marriage. She can't force herself to accept, so instead, she searches for her father and meets another wandering misfit in search of his parents. Chen Yong doesn't know the identity of his birth parents, only that one of them was obviously a foreigner, since he is only half Xian. Together Chen Yong and Ai Ling soon find that their mysteries are connected and that they may need each other to survive.
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