In the movie I watched when I was young, the female lead was a flower demon (I think it was a peony)

The male protagonist was a love-struck fool who loved peonies. At first, he didn't know that the female protagonist was a flower demon. Later, when the female protagonist died, someone taught the male protagonist to raise a flower. When the flower bloomed, the female protagonist returned. There was a scene in which the male protagonist dug out the peony and took it away. The camera flashed, and the peony in the male protagonist's basket became the female protagonist. As the petals fell along the way, the female protagonist became more and more haggard.
The female lead is a white peony

Answer 1

The female lead of the movie I watched when I was young was a flower demon (it seemed to be a peony). You can refer to the following relevant online knowledge:

The Peony Pavilion is a classic love story written by the Tang Dynasty poet Bai Juyi. The heroine of the story was Du Liniang, a flower demon with a beautiful appearance and a rich inner world. Through her love story with the male protagonist Peony, she expressed the complexity and contradiction of love.

"Dream of the Red Chamber" was one of the classics in the Qing Dynasty and also in the history of Chinese literature. In the story, Lin Daiyu was Jia Baoyu's cousin. She was a typical flower demon, beautiful but fragile. Her fate was full of troubles. Finally, she obtained freedom and dignity through self-redemption and finding true love.

The Legend of the White Snake is a famous Chinese myth. The female lead, White Snake, is a snake demon, but she has a firm belief and noble moral character. Through her love story with the male lead, Xu Xian, she shows the love and marriage between humans and demon beasts, and also expressed the concept of harmony between man and nature.