Story summary
Childhood sweethearts: Lu You and Tang Wan have been together since childhood. They read poetry and books together in Shen Yuan when they were young and developed a mutual affection for each other. Dingqing Fengchai witnessed their innocent love, but also laid the groundwork for future tragedies.
Newlyweds: After getting married, the two sang poems and wrote in harmony, and Lu You indulged in a gentle country. The sachet made by Tang Wan and the fan with poems written by Lu You became witnesses of their sweet life, but they also caused dissatisfaction with Lu's mother.
Family rift: Lu's mother put pressure on her to pursue a career in the imperial examination, and Tang Wan's failure to conceive for three years only added to the conflict. At the Mid-Autumn Festival banquet, Lu's mother scolded her daughter-in-law in public, which became a flashpoint in the family conflict.
Hidden in Chen Cang: The maid Wu Touzhu and the two met in a separate courtyard. The brief gathering by the red clay stove on a winter night concealed stolen time and the unborn fetus, which was finally broken by Mother Lu.
Shen Yuan's last song: Reunion eight years later, Lu You wrote "The Hairpin Phoenix", Tang Wanhe died of illness after the poem. In the late evening, Lu You visited Shen Garden four times and wrote his last mourning poem at the age of eighty-five.
It focuses on the scene on a rainy night when Lu You and Tang Wan are forced to separate. This plot shows the fragility of personal emotions under feudal ethics and the struggle of the two in the torrent of fate.
