During the Jiajing period, Shen Qing, the "jade-faced scholar" of the Hanlin family in the Three Dynasties, resigned from office and traveled south, hoping to find his literary mind dulled by officialdom in the mountains and rivers. He settled in the remote Qingwu Mountain Village. At first, he couldn't bear the rough mud, the crowing of chickens and the barking of dogs, and he couldn't understand the straightforward speech and behavior of the villagers.
Until I met the village girl Ah Ruan - a girl who ran through the mud chasing a yellow dog and understood "collecting wind" as "picking flowers". Her eyes are as clear as mountain springs. She doesn't know much but is full of curiosity about all things. Under her guidance, Shen Qingci wrote no longer carved poems, but "Knowing Grass and Trees" and "Streamside" with the fragrance of grass and trees; his moon-white gown was stained with mud, but he learned to identify herbs and dig ditches to drain water.
However, when the housekeeper brought the threat of his father's "disconnection" and the ridicule of his colleagues' "self-destruction", he realized that the real choice was not between the countryside and the temple, but between "the future in the eyes of others" and "the destination in one's own heart".
This is a transformation in which the tsundere's heart is warmed by fireworks, and it is also a love affair across classes. When the mountain moon illuminated the stream again, Shen Qingci finally understood: the real poems are never found on the writings inside the red wall, but in the ordinary days of staying with one person and coexisting with the mountains and rivers.
