There are three hardships in life: wanting something you cannot have, being unable to give something up, and failing to cherish what you have.
Li Yuxi, a woman who transmigrated to the Qing Dynasty, lived out these twelve words to the fullest. There, she learned the helplessness of schemes and plots, discovered how love could hurt, and realized that the only pure place in the world was that person's embrace.
The Fourth Prince and the Fourteenth Prince's pain at wanting what they could not have, the Eighth Prince and the Eighth Princess's pain at being unable to give up what they had, and their failure to cherish what they possessed all left her sighing with regret. In the end, to help the Thirteenth Prince escape the two fates laid out for him under Emperor Yongzheng's court, either having his title stripped and being imprisoned, or being discarded once he was no longer useful, she rallied every force she could muster and took him away to roam the mountains and rivers.
