Mirror Flower Ci: Zhu Menjin

In the middle of the Dajing Dynasty, Su Qingyuan, the legitimate daughter of the Su family in the capital, originally fell in love with her cousin Xie Mingxuan, but was used as a bargaining chip by the family to marry into the powerful Lin family and became the wife of Lin Yanci, the legitimate son. Within the high walls of the wealthy family, what she witnessed was the hypocrisy and calculation under the strict ethics, the indifference between relatives for their own interests, and the struggle of her husband Lin Yanci under the seeming indifference. As the four major families of Su, Xie, Lin and Gu were involved in the imperial power game, fraud in imperial examinations and collusion with the enemy followed one after another, and their former prosperity receded like the tide. Su Qingyuan tried to protect her sincerity in the storm, but saw Xie Mingxuan die on the border. The Lin family was overturned overnight, and she became a prisoner in the palace. When the last piece of royal tiles fell, the flowers in the mirror, the moon in the water, and the love of youth all turned into ashes. This is not only the tragedy of a woman, but also the elegy of an era and a class coming to an end.