Out of the Gilded Cage

Lin Shu takes a job tutoring Shen Yanqing's younger brother, which puts her inside the family's house. A chance encounter there brings her to Shen Yanqing's attention, and she is drawn further into his world after that. To the people around him she is a bird kept in a gilded cage. Once she understands that this is what she is to them, she leaves. She wanted love and marriage on an equal footing, and getting there takes her seven years of work. At the end of them she is on a stage at the top of her profession, and Shen Yanqing, who runs a large company, is in the audience applauding her.