To save Shen Moqing, Wang Jiaotong snipped the red thread with a pair of scissors and plunged into the Gates of Hell. Watching her fall, Shen Moqing stared up at the sky, left alone in despair as “the sun rises on the horizon, while my sun sets.” To find the lover trapped in the rift between Yin and Yang, Shen Moqing stakes his yang soul as a pact and braves the opera house, destroys the altar, and crosses the waterside pavilion. With Nie Moli’s lingering spirit haunting him, he embroiders a wedding robe for a pair of mandarin ducks with blood and tears. In this tale of two people saving each other across the divide between life and death, love ultimately breaks the evil spell and brings their scattered souls back to the human world.
