When ideals conflict with desire, we must all learn to choose what to give up.
She wanted to unite the realm and bring peace to the land.
She did it.
She led the envoys of the Xiao Dynasty across the grasslands of Hanzhou, until the proud herdsmen of the Northern Continent bowed their heads in submission.
The herdsmen told her that the other woman had said, "You are her wife, so you are the mistress of Hanzhou."
And that woman had also fulfilled her ideal. She sailed down the Tian Tuo Strait and never came back.
In the end, they both achieved the most important ideal of their lives.
But the wish that came second would quietly consume the rest of their lives.
Theme: What we choose and what we give up, life and death
