Tears in Gusu

Queen Lianjuan, the magistrate of Wuxi County in the Ming Dynasty, was a smart and beautiful girl. Because her biological mother died early and her stepmother was vicious, she was depressed all day long. Xiaoling, the personal maid, is considerate and considerate of her, and the two of them love each other like sisters. That night, Lianjuan burned incense and played the piano in the back garden to express her sorrow. Zhang Qingyun, a frivolous playboy and the son of the prefect of Suzhou, passed by the wall and overheard Miss Wang playing the piano inside, so he climbed over the wall and sneaked into the garden. Seeing that Lianjuan was so beautiful, he fell in love instantly. After Lianjuan met Mr. Zhang, his heart that lacked warmth also received a lot of comfort. So they often meet in the back garden at night. In order to win over the first-rank heavenly official of the time, the prefect of Suzhou tried every possible means to make a life-long arrangement between his son and the heavenly official's daughter, Jiang Suqin. He wrote to his son Zhang Qingyun who was studying in Wuxi, lying that he was seriously ill and asking him to return home quickly. After Qingyun received the letter, he came to the back garden to say goodbye to Lianjuan that night. Facing the reluctant Miss Wang, he vowed to inform his parents after returning to Suzhou and come to marry her as soon as possible. The kind-hearted Lianjuan promised to marry him on this night out of her true feelings for him. I never expected that Mr. Zhang had not heard back for several months. Unfortunately, Lianjuan was pregnant. After the parents learned about this incident, they first turned their anger on the maid Xiaoling and expelled her from the house. The stepmother instigated the county magistrate to force her daughter to