The story fell apart. Revising, revising, revising.
Song Shutang, the most proper young lady in the capital and daughter of the Minister of War, had a secret. At a plum-blossom banquet, after the emperor proposed a marriage between her and Prince Qin, she turned around and exchanged a kiss with the young general Jiang Luehuai in a warm pavilion in the plum grove.
She maintained a secret affair while pretending they were strangers in public.
A school for women became the starting point of her quest for freedom.
Later, she realized that marriage was far from the only thing one could resist. More than that, she could fight the deep-rooted prejudices against women in people's hearts.
PS: The dynastic setting, official ranks, institutions, and everything else are all in service of the plot.
Message: Women resisting feudal ethics