When Song Wanwan woke up, she transformed into Song Wan'er, the most disliked concubine of the Song family in Bianjing in the Northern Song Dynasty.
Her aunt made things difficult, her father was indifferent, her brother persuaded her to accept her fate, and her family even regarded her as a marriage pawn, planning to marry her off to a powerful man over fifty years old.
Everyone in the capital said: "Women are born to be lawful and keep to themselves. Getting married and having children is the right way."
Song Wan'er didn't believe in this fate.
She opened an incense shop, a poetry club, and established a school for girls. She taught women in boudoirs how to read and calculate accounts, taught widows to get back their dowries, taught merchant women to run their businesses, and also taught women whose spines had been bent by ethics to raise their heads again.
Until she met Li Qingzhao when she was a girl.
At that time, Li Qingming was bright, proud, and talented, but he was still trapped in the secular rules that "women must eventually marry."
Song Waner held her hand and told her:
"Qingzhao, a woman should not just wait for one marriage in her life."
"We can write poetry, do business, read books, save people, and choose the path we want to take."
So, starting from a boudoir poetry party, the two women joined hands to set off a storm in the fate of women in the Song Dynasty.
They used poetry as their blades, their pens as their banners, and women's education as their lamps. In the prosperous Bianjing and the troubled mountains and rivers, they opened a path for women all over the world that no one had ever walked before.
And Song Wan'er also met the young man on this road who didn't ask her to bow her head or trap her into the house, but just wanted to walk side by side with her.
He said:
"I love you, not because I want you to be my wife."
"But I want to see you become yourself."
This is a female awakening that spans thousands of years.
It is also a story about a woman trapped by the times, leading Li Qingzhao and thousands of women from the Song Dynasty to personally rewrite their destiny.
