The Life of the Brazen Concubine, Noble Lady Ning Ye Lanyi

My name is Ye Lanyi. I am a horse trainer at the Hundred Steeds Garden in Yuanming Garden, responsible for training fine horses brought into the palace from foreign lands. I love the freedom of galloping on horseback, spending every day with the horses, carefree. My parents left me forever when I was ten. All they left me was my skill at taming animals. To make a living, I applied to become a horse trainer at Yuanming Garden. There, horse trainers were treated as worse than even the lowliest slaves of the House of Servants. I struggled at the bottom and saw all the world's coldness and cruelty, along with the ugliness of human nature. Proud and aloof, I had always kept to myself, like a little creature that wanted to cover itself in thorns...