Yi Anjie

Forty-six-year-old Li Qingzhao lived in Jianyan of the Southern Song Dynasty for three years. This year became a bloody disaster in her bones and blood. Wushu of the Jin Dynasty crossed the Yangtze River and broke through the Yangtze River and Huaihe River. Emperor Gaozong of the Song Dynasty fled southward in a panic and fled to the sea to avoid the enemy. In the Southern Song Dynasty, the court was full of factions and powerful ministers flattered the enemy. Jiangnan became a Shura field in troubled times. Zhao Mingcheng, who was the prefect of Jiangning at the time, abandoned the city to save the people and was infamous. Li Qingzhao did not understand his difficulties, and the couple became estranged. When they were crossing the Wujiang River, she wrote "Summer Quatrains" to express the grief and indignation of her family and country. Later, Zhao Mingcheng was ordered to take office, and the two parted forever by the river. Soon after, he contracted an illness and died of Jiankang. Li Qingzhao was devastated. He was also unjustly accused of the "Jade Pot Tongjin" case. She desperately pursues Emperor Gaozong with gold and stones to prove her innocence. Along the way, she sees through human nature: her personal maid is a gold spy, her loved ones are tricked into trouble, and there are also righteous men and honest officials who help in times of trouble. She finally learned the secret behind Zhao Mingcheng's abandonment of the city, and also found out that the unjust case was a conspiracy between Jin and the powerful officials of the Southern Song Dynasty to plot gold and stone. At the end of the year, Hongzhou fell, and all the ancient books he had collected during his lifetime were destroyed. Li Qingzhao experienced the destruction of his country, the death of his husband, the loss of treasures, injustice, and wandering. His style of writing changed from graceful to gloomy and desolate. In blood and tears, he tempered his pride as a scholar, adhered to his cultural integrity, and completed the awakening of his soul in a desperate situation.