Silver jewelry

Author: Zhou Daixin
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Publish Date: 2004-09-01
Features: This novel was adapted into a feature film by the renowned director Huang Jianzhong, which will be released in the near future. The eldest wife of the Nanьян City Magistrate, Lü Jingren, is Bi Lan. Due to the psychological abnormality of her husband, Lü Daojing, she cannot receive normal marital love. After failing in suicide, she turns to seek the love she has longed for through a illicit relationship with the honest and simple silversmith Zheng Shaoheng. Upon learning the truth, the magistrate, in order to uphold the family's reputation, schemes and uses Bi Lan to poison the silversmith who was deceived into working in the mansion. The old silversmith, in order to avenge his son, sets traps on the silverware he made and kills Bi Lan, only to take his own life shortly after.