Xiao Yan is a gifted youth who has fallen from grace, shunned by his own family and publicly rejected when his fiancée, Nalan Yanran, calls off their engagement. Guided by his master, Yao Lao, he sets out on a defiant road back toward greatness. The story unfolds through Xiao Yan's recollections of this stretch of his life, from the broken engagement up to the humiliation known as his snow shame, alongside the bond between Yao Lao and Xiao Yan. This three-episode action fantasy ONA remakes the first season of Dou Po Cangqiong.