"Young master, someone from the Pei family sent this to you, inviting you to the theater tomorrow morning." Lianxin handed over an invitation card and a theater ticket.
It detailed the time, location, and the play to be performed.
It's the recently popular "Baochai Chronicles" in Dongshan, telling the story of a former dynasty princess who falls on hard times among commoners and is saved by a scholar.
Ultimately, it's a tale of the princess's misplaced affections and the scholar's ingratitude.
A precious hairpin serves as their token of love but also as the instrument of doom.
This play is imbued with a strong sense of fatalism. The former dynasty princess, inevitably ending in tragedy, with the scholar meeting a similarly miserable fate.
It's a good story, but such stories don't hold much appeal for Lin Miao because he's heard and seen too many.
But for the people of this world, with limited entertainment options, once it was staged, it was nearly always a full house.
