Nine Kingdoms: Princess of the Steppes

Relations between the Great Empire of Chao and the seven unyielding tribes of the Ebei Plateau are strained. Everything changes when a magical mirror shows the emperor the most beautiful girl in the world, Cihai Zhui – the youngest daughter of the khan of one of the tribes. Enchanted, he sends a squad of elite warriors to fetch her. However, the princess resists the idea of marriage and refuses to leave her native plateau, finding comfort in the company of a winged blacksmith. Now Cihai Zhui must choose between her duty to her tribe and her freedom. The elder sister, Cihai Lian, also faces a difficult fate: the emperor forcibly marries her to Zhu Yin, one of his generals. Having disliked each other from the very beginning, Cihai Lian and Zhu Yin eventually discover that they have much more in common than they initially thought… Two stories of how power can take away love and… reconcile two proud hearts.