In a nutshell: After years of being a miserable understudy and playing bit parts, he finally gets his first taste of love.
The lyrical version: The inspiration for this story really did come from Kunqu opera.
This ancient theatrical art, with a history of six hundred years, went from flourishing to fading away, yet it still deserves its honorific as the mother of all operas.
I'm an outsider. I fell in love with Kunqu for the exquisite, delicate Suzhou embroidery on the costumes,
the tenderness in every glance, the soft, lilting Wu dialect, and those lyrics that stir the heart with their extraordinary beauty.
This story begins amid the graceful elegance of Jiangnan in the late Ming Dynasty. In those days, scholars and beauties of Qinhuai
were all part of a lingering, melodious tale of youth and years gone by.
