The precious flowers of Lanyuan may still be found, if you seek them.
The depths of Qinse Lake may still be reached, even if you fall in.
The heights of the waterside pavilion may be climbed, step by step, but love remains beyond reach.
She takes everything into her mind and holds everything in her hands.
All along, ‘she’ has been the unseen hand behind the twists and turns of love.
Come see how the Four Beauties of the Capital made their legend at the Waterside Pavilion;
Come see how the Four Beauties of the Capital became legends at the Waterside Pavilion.
Murong Pan has spent most of her life sheltered beneath the wings of the Capital’s Number One. Longing and longing, she now wants to fly, and she finally can.
She doesn’t want to spend her whole life in one place,
nor does she want to keep sitting behind a curtain, plucking her ancient zither.
Though she feels guilty toward the elder sister who raised her, in the end,
on a day of great revelry, amid the chaos of war, she took flight alone.
She slipped away quietly, leaving not a cloud behind, taking only the silver and jewelry she had saved over the years.
All right! It wasn’t as if she had simply decided to leave on a whim. She admits she had an ulterior motive.
It was all because that arrogant, conceited man had suddenly returned to the frontier, leaving an emptiness in her heart.
She meant to chase him down, and give him a taste of his own medicine, too, so he would understand that even as a woman, even as someone from a singing and dancing house, she could be better than a man!
Just as her elder sister, the ‘Capital’s Number One Beauty,’ said:
“I’m a woman, so of course women can be better than men. Just look at Master Li’s example, and you’ll understand.”
