At the end of the Ming Dynasty, the world was in chaos, the court was incompetent, and officials were corrupt. The Ming Dynasty was in danger. Amid internal and external troubles, dignitaries, businessmen and scholars indulged themselves in dreams and enjoyed themselves, which objectively gave rise to the rapid development of the entertainment industry, and the "Eight Beauties of Qinhuai" in Nanjing came into being.
Liu Rushi ranks first among the "Eight Beauties of Qinhuai" and is recognized as a talented woman of her generation. She is said to be as beautiful as Zhaojun and as talented as Wenji. But Liu Rushi was a miserable person. Her parents died when she was 8 years old. She lived on the streets and was taken in by a brothel. At the age of 10, she was bought as a concubine by retired official Zhou Daodeng. During this period, she read extensively, studied hard and became a talented woman who was good at poetry and painting. Zhou Daodeng died of illness at the age of 14, and Liu Rushi returned to the brothel. At the age of 16, she met Chen Zilong, a famous poet and anti-Qing hero, and she followed Chen Zilong to Songjiang. At the age of 18, she separated from Chen Zilong and Lao Yan. Later, through the introduction of "yellow shirt businessman" Wang Ranming, he met literary leader Qian Qianyi, and married 59-year-old Qian Qianyi when he was 23 years old. A heart-stirring love story between a talented man and a beautiful woman.
King Chuang entered the capital, the Qing army entered the pass, and the Ming Dynasty was destroyed. Liu Rushi was unwilling to be a slave to the country's subjugation, and wanted to die for the country together with her husband, but failed to do so. So she and Qian Qianyi supported Zheng Chenggong's anti-Qing activities and spent all their wealth. At the age of 46, her husband died of illness, and Liu Ye also hanged himself in the "Qian Family Disaster".
Concept: Those who love are the cutest, and those who dare to sacrifice for love will definitely stand up in the face of the rise and fall of the country.