Cheng Yanqiu, a famous actor in Peiping, is the magnificent Du Liniang on the stage, while the actor is a tolerant and aloof person off the stage. He was used to acting on every occasion, but at a meeting at the Governor's Mansion, he met Shen Peilan, the third concubine of Han Governor.
She was born in a scholarly family in the south of the Yangtze River. She was forced into a wealthy family because of her poor family background. She sat alone in the hustle and bustle with plain clothes and light makeup. Only when he sang "Good times and beautiful scenery can't help the sky", she shed a tear that no one noticed.
One scene, two tears, half a lifetime.
The sound of the flute in the library, the whispers in the Pear Blossom Villa, and the brief tenderness in troubled times are ultimately unable to withstand the cruelty of fate. When their secret was discovered by Han Zhaolin, Shen Peilan was tortured, Cheng Yanqiu's right hand was crippled, and their unborn child became the only witness of this love...
Ten years later, in the misty rain in the south of the Yangtze River, a girl with a pear blossom birthmark on her left shoulder listened to her father playing "The Peony Pavilion", but she didn't know that the sound of the flute hid a thrilling old dream of a pear garden.
Intention: This is not only a love tragedy, but also two people who have been crushed by the times, using their lives to prove that there are some things that power cannot destroy - such as Du Liniang's four hundred years of love, such as the unfinished flute under the moonlight.