Liu Yingru Is

She is a courtesan, a poet, a remnant, and a wife. She is Liu Rushi. In the forty-sixth year of Wanli, a baby girl was born to a poor family in Jiaxing, with no name or surname. She was sold at the age of four, entered a brothel at the age of nine, became the concubine of the prime minister at the age of fourteen, and was expelled from the high family at the age of sixteen. She named herself "Liu Rushi" - I saw how charming Qingshan was, and I expected Qingshan to be like this when she saw me. She disguised herself as a man and went into the literary world, posing poems and engraving poetry anthologies, impressing scholars all over the world. She fell in love with the anti-Qing hero Chen Zilong, but was abandoned because of her family background. At the age of twenty-three, she married Qian Qianyi, a sixty-year-old literary leader, as a wife, and put on a red wedding dress amid the rubble of the city. When the Jiashen country changed, she persuaded her husband to die for the country, but he replied, "The water is too cold." She jumped and was rescued without wearing a full suit for the rest of her life. When her husband surrendered to the Qing Dynasty and went north, she stayed in the south of the Yangtze River and secretly helped fight against the Qing Dynasty. Her husband was imprisoned due to the crime, so she sold her jewelry and traveled a long way to save her husband. After her husband's death, the clan members seized the family property and she committed suicide by hanging herself from a beam. One hundred chapters, Liu Rushi looks back on his life in the first person in his later years. Her poems are integrated into the narrative, and her emotions are present throughout. This is "This I Smell" written by a woman throughout her life.