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About
Production: China
Released: 2003
Episodes: 8
Genre: Ancient - Musical Drama
Role: Ma Yi Li
Casts: Michelle Yip, Chen Xiao Sha, Mi Sha
Appearance: All episodes
Screen capture: 121 items (for full screen captures, click here)
Summary
@ Michelle Ye's Realm (michelle-ye.com)
Ma Yi Li, also favorably termed as Cha Fa Lui is a famous Suzhou hooker for her beauty, kindness and intelligence. Although she is constantly showered with money and gifts from others, they are often quickly donated away to raise orphans and help the poor. The rich and powerful men often used her kindness to raise fund for the poor to tease her. Once, four men wanted to buy her skirts when a man, Tou Kuan Ping came to her rescue.
Although he is a poor scholar, Ma Yi Li found her true love in him. Both of them fell in love and did not bother the critics of others of their status gap. As the rich men were jealous that Ma Yi Li no longer entertains them, they forced Kuan Ping's institution to expel him out of school, forcing Kuan Ping's father to plea Ma Yi Li to leave his son as well as help his son forget about her. Ma Yi Li was saddened but loved Kuan Ping too much to see his future destroyed because of her.
Ma Yi Li thus announced that she will be auctioning herself in hopes to help Kuan Ping forget her. All the rich and powerful men came to auction for her. Because Ma Yi Li was an orphan who was adopted by her current 'mother', therefore the qualifying fee to auction for her is to pay her mother a thousand yuan, which Kuan Ping couldn't afford.
Kuan Ping misunderstood that Ma Yi Li was greedy for money and hated her but could not forget her. Meanwhile Yi Li who was to marry Master Li was then shooed out of the house by Master Li's wife. Yi Li had already prepared to die whatever the outcome is and drank a bottle of poison…