Anna, an Italian art student, bought a Ming Dynasty-style pearwood dressing box in Turin and unexpectedly discovered a letter in the mezzanine. It tells the tragic story of an official lady and the carpenter Xiao Hui, who fell in love with each other. In the end, the lady was forced to marry into the prince's mansion and was tortured, and planned to elope (slightly expanded here). Anna shared the story on the Internet and sparked a heated discussion.
She then received a long reply from netizen Michael and flew to the UK to meet her grandfather Ye Siyuan. The old man burst into tears when he saw the wooden box, revealing the secret family history it carried: During the Republic of China, Ye Qingming, a son of an aristocratic family who had returned from studying abroad, fell in love with Liu Yuan (male), a famous Peking opera actor, in Shanghai. The Ye family is under pressure to break up, Liu Yuan gives a box to say goodbye
