Li Yannian
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北方有佳人 , From the north comes a ravishing maiden, 絕世而獨立 . Whose beauty stands alone. 一顧傾人城, One look at her, cities fall, 再顧傾人國 . On the second glance, empires collapse. 寧不知傾城與傾國 . Care not whether cities fall or empires collapse, 佳人難再得 . Such beauty never comes around twice
Jiaren Qu also known as the The beauty song which had been said to be a song describing the empress
But little do they know that it is no empress that Yannian was describing, it was a concubine—you