Half a Pair of Scissors

Classic Huangmei Opera, won the Golden Eagle Award for the Best Opera in the 1993 China Popular Television Competition. When they were childhood sweethearts, the young master Cao Jintang fell in love with the maid Chen Jin'e. The red sleeves add fragrance to the reading at night, Chen Jin'e and Cao Jintang secretly eat the forbidden fruit, but the sweet dream is too hasty. When the gold medal was named, Cao Jintang married another wealthy woman Liang Huimei. While the new couple laughs, the old one cries. Cao Jintang is attracted by Liang Huimei's beautiful appearance. On the wedding night, he doesn't know that someone is licking the scars alone. Chen Genfu, the younger brother of the maid Chen Jin'e, comes to visit his sister but discovers that Liang Huimei once stayed at their inn. He accidentally picked up a letter from Liang Huimei to her old lover Sang Junjia in the Caofu Garden. In order to avoid being exposed, Liang Huimei deliberately put her hairpin in the house. In the clothes that Chen Jin'e gave to his younger brother, Chen Jin'e was driven out of the Cao's Mansion. Chen Jin'e was accused of being pregnant and was sent out of the Cao's Mansion to give birth to a son. At this time, Liang Huimei had also given birth to a daughter, Cao Yanan, who was actually born to the actor Sang Junjia before they were married. Chen Jin'e's younger brother gave the child to a family named Xu to raise for the sake of his sister's reputation, and married the child to Xu Tianci. By some combination of circumstances, Chen Jin'e became Xu Tianci's wet nurse, and her biological mother and son became masters and servants. Cao Yanan was born with a motherly spirit and was extremely charming and savage. When she grew up, she actually married Xu Tianci. In the middle of the night in the wedding room, she spilled blood on the newlyweds with scissors, and Cao Yanan died.