She was the most inconspicuous concubine in the Wei Kingdom. She lost her mother at the age of three. She stayed with the cranes in her father's crane garden, and no one called her by her name.
He was a high-spirited young man from Qi State. When he first met, he was chased by a crane and fell into the grass. He blushed and called "poor bird".
That year at Chaoge Crane Garden, she rescued an injured baby crane and named it Feixue. He hooked hers with his little finger and said, "Hang yourself with a hook and it won't change for a hundred years."
But in troubled times, promises are never fulfilled.
During the Qi State's coup, he was cut off from all news, and news of his death came. In the year of Qi, she was used as a bargaining chip by her father to marry far away to the small country of Xu. She thought her whole life would be buried - until Beidi's iron hoof broke through Chaoge, her father died in battle, and the country of Wei fell.
That night, she abandoned her status as a prince's wife, braved the disapproval of the world, and rushed home alone at night. Holding the talisman of the ancestors and assuming the power of the country's ruler, he sneaked across the Yellow River and went to Qi to ask for help.
On the way, the Di people chased and intercepted her, and she thought she would die. But he saw a snow-white figure rising into the sky - it was Feixue. The crane she saved with her own hands used it as bait to lure away the enemy's cavalry, giving her a chance to survive.
In the Jingyuan of Qi State, a mysterious masked man tries his luck with a jade pendant. She chose national affairs, but she didn't know that underneath the mask was the face she had been waiting for for ten years. He was disfigured, anonymous, and lived in the shadows for ten years just to protect her in troubled times.
When Duke Xu Mugong died in battle, she supported his spirit and returned him to serve as regent of the court. When everything settled, she and he finally broke free from the giant web of etiquette and fate, carried the crane eastward, and hid on an isolated island in the East China Sea.
Behind "The Book of Songs: Zai Chi" is a woman's life from prison to freedom.
Historical legend·Female growth·Sadistic love·HE
