(The first person is the main perspective. This book refers to the famous book "Jane Eyre". There may be similarities in the highlights, so don't criticize if you don't like it.)
Chen Bingbing's first eighteen years were like a paper kite soaked in mud - she was stepped into the dust by her uncle's orphan, locked in a golden cage by a brothel, and had to learn how to bend down even while "living".
Until she stood under the red wall holding the letter of appointment from the East Palace. Prince Li Haoyuan said, "I want you to teach A-Yao music arts." She replied, "The repairs are at market price, and I won't get them for nothing." He gave her the title of "Le Zheng," but she took a step back and said, "I am only a teacher, not a palace concubine."
Some people laughed at her for being stupid: "What do you think of His Highness the Crown Prince?" She stroked A Yao's newly made bamboo flute and smiled: "Your Highness's wishes belong to His Highness, and my life belongs to me."
After all, she redeemed herself for freedom, not to be a concubine trapped under the red wall in the future.
In the third year of teaching piano, Ayao performed "Ice Cracking" at a palace banquet and amazed everyone. Enemies from the old brothel blocked the door and blackmailed her, so she stood in front of her child: "My past, Chen Bingbing, will not dirty the grounds of the East Palace." At that moment, Li Haoyuan suddenly understood, Her "strength" is not to grit her teeth and hold on, but to endure all the hardships to build up the strength - the injury at the age of ten became her bones, and the ransom money at the age of eighteen became her blade. Now she stands in the East Palace, not to cling to the prince, but to tell the world:
"Even if you are born in the mud, you can still live as your own light; even if you teach music and art, you must teach a soul that does not kneel."
This is the story of Chen Bingbing - a musician's counterattack, never to marry the prince, but to let the prince learn how to look up to a soul that is not attached to him.
Intention: Equality of soul and independence of spirit are the power that transcends all worldly shackles.