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Author: Xue Haixiang
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Publish Date: 2003-08-01
Features: A life-and-death dialogue between generations in the bustling Shanghai, a tale of love and hatred spanning centuries in a thousand-year-old ancient town. In the Nanshang Ancient Town of 1930s Shanghai, the descendants of two rival families, Zhang Yanzu and Li Xianglan, who have been feuding for over two decades, fall in love in a shocking "Romeo and Juliet" style. However, the merciless reality of society, along with the fate of the inherited cultural classics, gives rise to a suspenseful, enigmatic, eerie, and poignant story. It showcases the intense conflicts between enmity and love, life and death, as well as the legendary lives of cultural inheritance and personal transcendence. This novel, rich in the folk style of Shanghai, has been adapted into a 20-episode TV series, which is currently in hot air. The series stars the popular actors Liu Sitong, Zhao Yang, Luo Haiqiong, and An Zehao as the four main characters.