Nalan Rongruo, who was born in a wealthy family and served as an imperial guard, wrote deep feelings and melancholy in the shackles of feudalism with the sincerity of "not a wealthy flower in the world". This historical novel follows the context of "Nalan Ci" and unfolds his short life of thirty-one years.
His childhood sweetheart's cousin entered the palace because of a draft, and the phrase "a pair of people in a lifetime" became the first sorrow of being unable to love; Lu, who got married at the age of nineteen, became his salvation with her gentleness and talent, singing poems by the Lushui Pavilion, and studying ink under the lamp After passing away in childbirth, the ordinary time finally turned into a deep memory of "it was ordinary at that time"; Jiangnan met the talented girl Shen Wan, and they had a close relationship with each other, but they were forced to separate because of their family background, leaving only the distant look at each other in the mist.
From the high walls of the imperial palace in the capital to the misty rain of black awnings in the south of the Yangtze River, from the involuntariness in officialdom to the true expression of the words, the novel uses delicate brushwork to restore the moments hidden behind the words - the begonias blooming and falling in front of the pavilion, the ink on the desk is still wet, and the tears in the eyes when parting are hazy.
He is a "melancholy guest in the world" and "the crown prince of the poetry world in the early Qing Dynasty". When the sigh of "if life is just like the first time we met" travels through a hundred years, this work will finally let readers see how the talented man who wrote all his regrets used blood and tears as ink to condense his life's deep feelings into an eternal song.
Purpose: Deconstruct the three-dimensional life of the "melancholy talented man": break away from the single label of "melancholy guest in the world" and restore Nalan Rongruo's multiple identities as a noble son, imperial guard, and affectionate lover. It not only writes about his inability to do anything under the feudal imperial power and family mission, but also writes about how he used poetry as armor to stick to his inner purity and sincerity, showing the contradiction and reality of "a guest in wealth and a man of temperament".