Flowers in the Mirror
" Flowers in the Mirror " was a Qing Dynasty story about a group of talented scholars and beautiful women in the late Ming Dynasty. They had disputes and entanglements in officialdom, Jianghu, love, and family. The main plot of the story revolved around the four main characters: Li Jinghua, Zhao Banshan, Yuan Hongdao, and Sun Qing. In the story, Li Jinghua was a talented and witty scholar who was involved in political struggles because he opposed the corruption of the emperor and bureaucrats at that time. Zhao Banshan was an open-minded gentleman. He was upright but not good at expressing himself. He often used his wisdom and wit to resolve crises. Yuan Hongdao was a quick-witted and flexible bureaucrat. He used his political means and connections to rise in the officialdom. Sun Qing was a beautiful, intelligent, kind and upright woman. The emotional entanglement between her and Yuan Hongdao was one of the main lines of the story. In the story, Li Jinghua, Zhao Banshan, Yuan Hongdao, and Sun Qing were involved in emotional entanglements, political struggles, and conspiracies. The relationship between them was complicated, full of drama and contradiction. Finally, after experiencing all kinds of hardships and tests, their respective life paths also got a happy ending. This novel not only showed the various features of Chinese society at the end of the Qing Dynasty, but also profoundly reflected the complexity and variety of human nature.