What It's Like to Be a Princess at the End of the Southern Song Dynasty

If someone posted the question, "What's it like to be a princess at the end of the Southern Song?" on Zhihu,

Zhao Mian could only answer: Thanks for the invite. It's been a terrible experience.

Whenever she walked through the streets and saw the common people, she thought of how they would all end up as bones in the cold waters beneath Yashan, along with her unborn little brother, Zhao Bing, the last emperor of the Song.

At this point, only ten short years remained before the Southern Song fell and the Mongol hooves and curved blades tore through the Central Plains.

Faced with a choice between fleeing and fighting with all her might, she chose the former.

Zhao Mian thought she would build a ship, save up some private money, and flee to Southeast Asia with her funds and the people she cared about. They would find a small island and lie flat, living out their days in peace. How pleasant that would be.

But somehow, she inexplicably became the figurehead of the "fight to the death" faction.

Zhao Mian figured it must be because Wen Lüshan's "Since ancient times, who has not died?" attitude was dazzling enough to blind anyone, while Lu Junshi's worried expression, full of concern for his country and its people, was too hard to bear.

P.S. Wen Tianxiang's courtesy name was Lüshan, and Lu Xiufu's courtesy name was Junshi. However, neither Wen Tianxiang nor Lu Xiufu is the male lead; it's someone else. Also, the romance is a subplot, while the main focus is the story.

Theme: The saying "After Yashan, China was no more" is utter nonsense.