From the vicissitudes of Lu Tian'en's life, we see a scroll depicting the historical changes in China over the past hundred years. In 1904, he was born into a prominent imperial family in Beijing; his grandmother, Mrs. Lu, was a princess and the daughter of a prince, his deceased grandfather was the nephew of Empress Dowager Cixi, and his maternal grandfather was a Mongolian prince. This illustrious family background endowed him with an extraordinary fate from the moment he was born. Moreover, as the only son in several generations, he was the apple of his family's eye and thus excessively protected and restricted, turning him into a gilded bird in a cage, unable and afraid to spread his wings and fly high.