Hongpailou: Metamorphosis

Sold by her own brother with a contract of servitude, she falls into a carefully laid trap. What looks like an ordinary brothel is actually a den of iniquity where officials and merchants collude and human lives mean nothing. Swallowing her humiliation and keeping her talents hidden, she uses her accounting skills to gather evidence, finding a way out of one dead end after another. After lying low for three years, she tears the entire web of corruption apart with her own hands. Once a helpless victim, she rises from the ashes of the Red Pavilion to become the queen who turns the tables and takes control.