What use is wealth and rank?
While still in swaddling clothes, she lost her parents.
In a blink, she mourns the setting sun;
The Xiang River flows on, the Chu clouds fly away.
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This verdict concerns Shi Xiangyun. Though born into a wealthy marquis family, she lost both parents in infancy. 'The Xiang River flows, Chu clouds fly' conceals the characters 'Xiang Yun' and foreshadows her ultimate fate of loneliness and drift.
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