Footnotes:

^ A figurative term referring to “the world of mortals”.
^ “Under the eastern fence” is quoted from the poem “Drinking Wine” by Tao Yuanming (365–427) of the Jin Dynasty: “I pluck chrysanthemums under the eastern fence / And serenely I gaze at the southern mountains”. This poem is famous for the pursuit of a reclusive lifestyle.
^ Images associated with that reclusive lifestyle.
^ “The swift horse” is a synecdoche. It’s hard to translate the word 江湖 (jiāng hú) “rivers and lakes”——a figurative term often used to refer to a chaotic world of unpredictable changes.
^ 恩怨 (ēn yuàn) literally means “gratitude and resentment”, but this term often means “resentment”.
^ 折腰 (zhé yāo) “bend my back, bow” alludes to the anecdote that Tao Yuanming would not “bow like a servant in return for five bushels of grain”.
^ 工笔 (gōng bǐ) Gongbi is a realistic technique Chinese painting.
^ “Chance” refers to the possibility of two people encountering each other——in this case, the possibility of meeting one’s soul mate.
^ 写意 (xiě yì) Xieyi is an interpretive and freely expressive Chinese painting style, the opposite of Gongbi.