This article is an expansion of Bai Juyi's "The Charcoal Seller". It unfolds the full text from the perspective of the Charcoal Seller's daughter. Can it be considered an essay? Light novel.
The background of this article is fictional history, incorporating some backgrounds of the Tang Dynasty but not entirely.
It seems that people are losing something in their life. For this reason, some people fight desperately, and some people have no choice but to compromise.
As for Shen Heng, he is neither.
She just hasn't learned to compromise, and she hasn't had time to think about what it means to fight. She was only fourteen years old, walking on an endless road with a curved pole on her shoulders and broken charcoal on both ends.
Purpose: Throughout life, people are learning how to reconcile with suffering.