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A Red Opera Actor's Song for His Beloved

share time: 2026-01-31 02:30:56

In Republican-era Nanjing, Gu Zhao, the top actor of an opera troupe famous for *Farewell My Concubine*, falls for Shen Wantang—a tea merchant's daughter who often sits in the second-floor box and the only one who understands the "obsession" in his lines. But the Shen family forces her to marry a warlord's son for business. On the wedding day, Gu Zhao, dressed as Yu Ji (Concubine Yu), waits on the stage along the wedding procession route, singing a revised *The Beautiful Lady Yu* to sacrifice his life for her freedom. However, when the gun fires, he sees Shen's hand in the sedan—stained with the same red as his opera robes. It turns out she had already taken poison, determined to join him in their own "Farewell My Concubine" finale. A mutual doomed love, this song of red opera tells the ultimate affection between the actor and his beloved.

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