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In late Qing Dynasty's Tianjin, Su Wanzhao, known as the "Living Yuji" (a legendary Peking Opera role), is the star of her opera troupe. Yet she bears a blood feud—her family's massacre was caused by Lu Jingshen, the warlord who now spends heavily to promote her. She hid her identity and trained in opera for a decade, waiting to assassinate him. But when her knife presses against Lu's chest, she discovers this "devil" secretly funds revolutionaries and even took a bullet to save her. On stage, "Farewell My Concubine" is sung with断肠 sorrow; off stage, they're torn: cling to revenge, or let go of grudges to fight for the nation? Beneath the opera makeup lie not just love, but life-or-death choices in a turbulent era.
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