Chu Qiaoyu, the legendary Honorable Master of the Brocade Guards, hides her past in Fengcheng. After her husband dies, she raises her daughter Chu Ruoyun while running a butcher shop on the southern border of the Great Xia. This frontier town sits next to the Dongyi state. Years later, Brocade Guard Supervisor Mu Yuanshuang arrives to visit the secluded family.
