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After nine years of practice, Master Zhixiao began to enter zazen. During zazen, shadows from the past come one after another. Before becoming a monk, Zhixiao, whose common name was Xianzhi, was a rich girl. She was beautiful and innocent, and fell in love with Donghua, a poor college student. Donghua introduced Xianzhi to his sister Dongmei. Dongmei is a blind and beautiful woman who makes a career out of massage in order to save tuition for her younger brother Donghua. Xianzhi had always been worried that her father would not approve of her falling in love with a poor boy, but her father was very open-minded and did not take family status seriously. Xianzhi was very happy and told Donghua the good news. Unexpectedly, as their relationship deepened, they suddenly saw Xianzhi's father raping Donghua's sister Dongmei! Donghua couldn't face it and broke up with Xianzhi. Xianzhi felt that she was in the wrong and could only accept the reality silently. She also concealed the fact that she was pregnant with Donghua and performed the operation alone. When Xianzhi was desperate, she met Xingzhe, who looked down upon her master. He introduced her to the family with indifference, and became a bhikshuni, with the Buddhist name Zhixiao. In the monastery, there was a helper named Peng Dou who carried firewood. His face was burned and left terrible scars. The lay people often ran away when they saw him. Only Master Zhixiao sympathized with him. Zhixiao encountered great difficulties while sitting in meditation. That is, all the unbearable memories that she had buried deeply came back to life. Those things in the past,