Gossip from the Inner Chambers

In a youthful ballad.

The kite string breaks as I laugh, chasing the clouds,

I spill the rouge, and no blame is taken.

Mother dots a cinnabar mole between my brows,

Father teaches me poetry beneath the moon.

Zhang Rongyu, a girl who only wanted to live an ordinary, peaceful life, discovers in her old age that her life can hardly be described by the words turbulent and eventful alone.