A historical novel with cultural relics as its bones and words as its heart, it tells the story of Li Qingzhao's life from a talented girl in Bianjing to a lonely hero in troubled times. She protected the fire of civilization in the overthrow of the dynasty, and used words to nail the backbone of a scholar who will never sink.
In the seventh year of Yuanfeng in the Northern Song Dynasty (1084), by the Shuyu Spring in Jinan, six-year-old Li Qingzhao opened his eyes to see the world through the enlightenment of his father Li Gefei's "Han Shu" and his mother's "Book of Songs". When he was nine years old, he wrote "Preface to the Picture of Horse Beating", and the tears of the maid who fell into the well gave rise to the girl's sentiments in "Red Lips"; when he was fourteen years old, he shocked the Bianjing literary world with the sentence "Green, fat, red and thin", which was praised by Su Shi as a wall inscription. When Qingmei met Jinshi, she formed a good relationship with Zhao Mingcheng, and her love was confirmed by Shangyuan lantern riddles, and Qin Quan's copper weight was used to recruit her. However, on the night of flowers and candles, she was shocked to hear that Cai Jing had returned to the prime minister, and the Han mirror inscriptions were printed to calm people's panic.
However, the prosperous age suddenly fell apart. Yuanyou's family was burned down by the party war, and her father was listed as a sinner. Jingkang was stained with shame and blood. She witnessed Qinzong surrendering in a sheep's fur, and risked his life to snatch the fragments of Su Shi's "Han Shi Tie" from the fire. Fifteen carts of cultural relics fled south. By the Wujiang River, she dipped her blood on a wall and wrote "I will be born as a great man." In the third year of Jianyan's reign, Zhao Mingcheng was ill and studying the "Inscriptions on the Stone" until his sudden death in "Han Dynasty Deer Antler Standing Crane".
Alone, she fell into Zhang Ruzhou's marriage scam trap. On the wedding night, he found out about the transfer contract in "Mid-Autumn Tie", investigated the chain of fraud in the imperial examination alone, and recited the marriage law of "Xingtong" in court to kill the jackal.
In her later years, by the West Lake, she refused to write a birthday message for the prime minister, and burned the unfinished manuscript before her death. The ashes drifted out of the remaining notes of "Slow Voice". Seventy years later, Lu You traveled through the ruins of Qingzhou; Yuan soldiers burned Lin'an, and scholar Chen Tong risked his life to make rubbings of the "Inscriptions on Gold and Stone"...
