Liu Rushi, the willow leaves weep in the wind

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Features: Delicate willow leaves flutter helplessly in the cold rain and wind, just like the petite Willow Rishio, who rose and fell amidst the turbulent currents of the late Ming and early Qing dynasties. This once-famous Jiangnan courtesan was well-read in poetry and literature, excelling in both painting and calligraphy, making countless literary giants fortunate to glimpse her beauty. However, Willow Rishio was far from an ordinary courtesan. She admired scholars who bravely died for their cause and often compared herself to a Confucian scholar. With an aloof and noble temperament, she deeply worried about the chaos of the times and frequently engaged in poetic exchanges with prominent figures from both the court and the world. In love, she was bold and passionate—her first love, Song Yuanwen, was filled with innocence, her later love for Chen Zilong was all-consuming, and her final devotion to the nearly sixty-year-old Qian Qianyi, a towering figure in the literary world, was shocking and fiery. Just as Willow Rishio had painstakingly fought for her own life, the Ming Dynasty fell, the Qing forces invaded the south, and another trial of human will and soul descended upon her family and every corner of the vast land of China.