Where Does the Peach Blossom Ashes Go?

Story summary He Danggui, an immortal person who traveled from modern times. From the end of the Tang Dynasty to the beginning of the Song Dynasty, she had lived for too long - so long that she couldn't remember her age, so long that she was used to seeing the king's flag changing on the city wall. She had seen the tragedy of Huang Chao entering Chang'an and "trampling all the bones of the public ministers"; she had helped the rebels who were refugees and tried to establish a "equal" world, but in the end she watched Huang Chao defeated and died in Mount Tai, watched Zhu Wen usurp the Tang Dynasty, and watched the wars of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms burn across the Central Plains. Exhausted, she hid in Taohuawu, adopted orphans, trained substitutes, and traveled through the troubled times with various identities - she was He Youzhen, the owner of the dock, He Guangyuan who went on an expedition on behalf of the owner, He Waner, the palace doctor, and He Chengping, the counselor. She originally wanted to be a bystander of history, but she met Li Congjia, the future empress of the Southern Tang Dynasty, Li Yu, who had not yet ascended the throne in Bianjing. She had read his poems and shed tears for his "homeland that was unbearable to look back on", so she had a delusional thought: Let the ending not be so miserable. She left the elixir to continue Chai Rong's life, but it could not stop the acceleration of history; she defended Caishiji, joined forces with Wu and Yue, and donated firearms, but she was no match for the 120,000 troops recruited by Zhao Kuangyin himself. On the eve of the fall of Jinling City, she watched Li Yu write "Family and Country for Forty Years" and finally admitted: There is no room for poets in these troubled times, nor for monsters who defy fate and change their lives.