Spring Comes Again with a Chill

Famine tears two siblings from their home in Kangxi-era China, driving them to beg through the capital's unforgiving streets. Fortune smiles on each—wealth, status, a taste of splendor—but fate has sharper teeth. Court intrigue, power struggles, and the merciless churn of history threaten to devour them whole. Will they hold fast to who they were, or will ambition and survival reshape them into strangers? In an age where spring promises warmth but delivers frost, can two souls bloom before the cold crushes them underfoot?