Lin Yanzhi, a new scholar of Jinke, went to the Jiaofangsi for a banquet and amazed everyone with his poem "Mingjingtai". The "Linghua Mirror" in the poem coincided with the secret heirloom of Shen Hengqiu, the daughter of the guilty minister. Shen Hengqiu was shocked to realize that the poem contained clues to the destruction of the Shen family, and kept the manuscript of the poem close to his heart. Three years later, Lin Yanzhi was promoted to a third-rank official. During the Dragon Boat Festival, he reunited with Shen Hengqiu. After piecing together the broken jade, he found out that the two were originally engaged to each other. It was also revealed that Lin's father had been involved in the Shen family's tragedy. Shen Hengqiu's body was poisoned by the cinnabar poison painted by his grandmother. Even though his bones were broken, he still danced with a green waist. The blood marks on his feet revealed that the "twelve-story building" actually refers to the past of the twelve sons of the Shen family who hung beams.
Lin Yanzhi knelt down in the rain to pray for the seven-leaf Ganoderma lucidum in front of the Buddha, and copied the Diamond Sutra three thousand times with blood to extend Shen Hengqiu's life. When Shen Hengqiu was dying, he took off his jade bracelet with "Shen Lin Yonghao" embedded in it, sang "The Peony Pavilion" and bled to death. Fifteen years later, when Lin Yanzhi was old and passing through the south of the Yangtze River, he met a girl on a boat who looked exactly like Shen Hengqiu. The cinnabar mole on her heart and the jade bracelet reappeared. In the secret room of the Shen family's ancestral tomb, the blood-lettered marriage letter and twelve vengeful ghosts finally revealed the truth: Lin's father was ordered to kill the Shen family, but he split the engagement jade pendant into two. In the end, Lin Yanzhi died as a martyr and offered a blood sacrifice to the three hundred souls of the Shen family. In the rebirth curse, Lin Yanzhi and Shen Hengqiu's reincarnation returned to the water chestnut mirror, and the golden thread of the peacock's patch turned into a butterfly, thus ending their half-life fate.
Purpose: The dilemma of human nature and the reincarnation of cause and effect under the shadow of power - the struggle of individuals between historical destiny and self-salvation, revealing the feudal system's devouring and alienation of true feelings**