The heroine is rather powerful, so this passage was originally intended to be the hero's inner thoughts. But when the characters were being designed, the hero was every bit her equal. Though the heroine was born into a remarkable family, she had struggled her way up from the very bottom since childhood, living amid unpredictable twists and turns. So she, too, yearned for a simple, peaceful life, “picking chrysanthemums beneath the eastern fence, gazing leisurely at the southern mountain.”
