The flower is the talisman for life, and the moon is the soul-killing knife.
The most prosperous Ximen Mansion in Qinghe County has never really had a good time. There are only flowers blooming on the bones, the moon shining on the blood stains, and four women hiding knives.
Pan Jinlian is the hand that cuts peach blossoms. She poisoned her husband to death and walked in the door on blood. The world called her a pervert, but they didn't know that she had been living in the hell of being bought and sold for as long as she could remember. What she wanted was never love, but to trample under her feet everyone who had ever stepped on her.
Li Ping'er is a pear blossom with dew. She married with one hundred thousand silver, gave away her husband with her own hands, and then gave away her son with her own hands. Her gentleness is the most deadly poison, and she will get back everything she owes her with interest.
Wu Yueniang is cold soaked moonshine. She was a virtuous matron praised by everyone. She poured anti-fetal medicine into the gutter and watched her husband's romantic debts accumulate one by one. She doesn't love anyone, she only loves the authority of Ximen Mansion, and no one can take away her things.
Pang Chunmei is a sharp knife hidden in the shadow of flowers. She entered the house holding half of the blood jade pendant, and stayed silent for three years, watching with cold eyes. She came here with only one purpose: to save the life of her father who was killed by Ximen Qing.
They compete with each other and are wary of each other, but they form the strangest alliance in the darkness.
When Hua Zixu was violently executed in prison, when Wu Dalang's secret message was revealed, when Ximen Qing's smuggling and killings were uncovered layer by layer, the four knives were finally unsheathed at the same time.
There is no winner in this killing under the flower moon.
But at least they have to live for themselves once.
