Ming Lou and Man Chun: What If?

The Butterfly Lovers, The Peacock Flies Southeast, Phoenix Hairpin… All are tales of love that could never be. If Ming Lou and Manchun had chosen each other with clear minds back then, if Wang Manchun had never joined the Japanese camp, would the deep regrets of the original story have been avoided? Between them lie the blood feud between the Wang and Ming families and a chasm that everyone believes impossible to cross. Yet he promised her, “Wait,” and she spent her whole life keeping that appointment. There were no grand, impassioned vows, only mutual support in a world torn by war and reaching for each other in desperate times. They never failed their country, and this time, they didn’t fail each other either.