The Lin family had an ill-favored concubine-born daughter named Lin Yue Li. One snowy night, while searching for a three-legged cat, she came across a young man lying in the snow. After he woke up,
he asked to marry her in repayment for saving his life. Later, an imperial decree came down, and the emperor bestowed her upon the Seventh Prince, Lu An. On their wedding day, the man who came to escort her was Lu Ran, the one she had saved.
She had thought that married life would be perfectly fine, until Su Xiao Xiao appeared. He married her, and to win a beauty's smile, amassed wealth and goods at the people's expense, squandering resources and building on a grand scale. Three hundred laborers died or were injured during the construction of the Moon-Gathering Tower.
Lu Ran: "Are you a bodhisattva?"
"No. I'm looking for a cat."
Theme: Only when the peach blossoms have all fallen does the faint promise of reunion remain hidden.
