"People say that mandarin ducks by the water are more devoted to each other than any other pair. But who knows that after the female lays her eggs, the male abandons his family, leaving her alone to raise their young?"
"He and I are like those mandarin ducks. We were never meant to stay together." "Even the whitest silk, when placed in a dye vat, will take on the color of the dye, with no way to resist. If I wanted to survive in the He household, I had to dye my heart the same as theirs, saying what people wanted to hear, whether I was talking to a person or a ghost. Just as the saying goes, 'When you meet someone, tell them only three-tenths of what you think. Never bare your whole heart.'" So said Liu Ruosu, who had married into the He family more than thirty years ago and was now a woman of mature years.
"Mother once told me, 'A person must stand on their own two feet to survive.' There is no one in this world you can rely on for your entire life." So said He Qingyun, a female chancellor at the age of twenty-two.
"Mother said, 'Since you have learned martial arts, you must use them where they are needed. You should ride into battle, win glory, and build a career. Let me see my daughter prove that women are every bit as capable as men!'" So He Qingyue, an eighteen-year-old general famed for defeating the enemy, told her subordinates.
"Liu Ruosu, a commoner woman from Zhangzhou, is truly an extraordinary woman." So the emperor of the day once exclaimed.
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