Jiang Yuanxiao: "When I grow up and become a general, I will marry you as my bride."
Li Bing: "I don't want to be a bride, I want to be the prime minister."
The timeline spans several decades, from Abing's childhood to his old age, completely showing a woman's sense of breaking through the shackles of gender in feudal society. The main plot (A Bing's career and ideals) and the secondary plot (emotions with Jiang Yuanxiao) are intertwined. Experienced wars, imperial examinations, flood control and other events.
Purpose: Gender and power: Abing's struggle to enter the officialdom as a male points directly to the oppression of women by the feudal system. Ideals and reality: the contrast between the hard-working spirit of water control and border defense vs. Official corruption and the cruelty of war. Love and family and country: personal feelings always give way to the righteousness of the country. Being a commoner affects another kind of perfection in history.