I was the daughter of Princess Changning and a peasant from the countryside.
When I was seven, the Empress Dowager bestowed a name on me.
She said my very birth was a grievous wrong, and named me Luoyuan.
For years I lived in the palace, fearful and ashamed, keeping both myself and my heart imprisoned.
But someone told me I should be a bird with its wings spread against the sky, free to soar.
And so, in the end, I found the courage to be brave—for myself, and for him.