A Young Scholar in the Great Song

That year, I was seventeen when I met a young girl named Xiao Qing.

That year, I was eighteen when I met a married woman named Xiao Bai.

That year, I was nineteen, came first in the imperial examinations, rode a fine horse, and married a princess.

That year, I was twenty. The Jin army marched south, the court fled in every direction, and cities crumbled as towers collapsed…