The crimson velvet curtain blocks out the evening breeze. Under the cold moon in the Bianjing prison house, Li Yu, the empress of the Southern Tang Dynasty, is lying on the ground with a poison in his body. The little queen Zhou Nuying holds her cold lover in her arms. She has spent half her life in the south of the Yangtze River, and once she was subjugated and humiliated, all of them are shattered in this gold-plated cage.
In the past, by the south side of the painting hall, she would hold up her stockings for an appointment, and her sky-blue clothes would hide the tenderness of an emperor; now, in the deep courtyard of Bianliang, her skin is corroded by poison, and her frost-white hair is filled with the sadness of the overthrow of mountains and rivers. The innocent poet mistakenly believed that his enemy was benevolent, and surrendered wholeheartedly in exchange for a glass of deadly poison. The weak woman witnessed the tragic death of her beloved and was unwilling to bend down to serve the enemy who would destroy her country. His unfinished poem "Poppy" lingered in her ears.
Spring flowers and autumn moons fade away the old dreams of the motherland, and a river of sadness carries away the sorrow and hatred of a subjugated country. When the sad words faded in the evening breeze, and the pearl dagger pierced her chest, she followed him into the eternal night, writing the final and most tragic ending for the Southern Tang Dynasty that had existed for more than thirty years. A lonely moon illuminates the changes of old and new dynasties. Love, hate, family, country, romance, all end up in the desolate moonlight.
Purpose: The purity and fragmentation of love in troubled times. Comparing the sincere and affectionate love between the two in the Jiangnan period, and the tragic ending of life and death in a prison in Bianjing, it highlights that the beautiful love in troubled times cannot be crushed by power; the two stick together to death, praising the loyal love that does not seek to live alone and lives by the side of life and death.