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* NightmareFuel: [[spoiler: Meishan's execution. Could also double as AdultFear. Your partner has rights of life and death over you, and nobody will punish him for having you murdered. It's implied that nobody from the outside will even know what happened to Meishan...]]
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* NightmareFuel: [[spoiler: Meishan's execution. Could also double as AdultFear. Your partner has rights of life and death over you, and nobody will punish him for having you murdered. It's implied that nobody from the outside will even know what happened to Meishan...]]
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If there are multiple examples of a trope, they all go at second level, not one at first level and the rest at second level. Also, the second wife's name is romanised as Zhuoyun, not Zhouyun.
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* TearJerker: Songlian's quiet devastation when she finds out Master Chen has burned her father's flute. Made so much worse by Master's sheer obliviousness to the reasons behind it, and his attempt to console her by saying he'll just buy her several better flutes.
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* TearJerker: TearJerker:
** Songlian's quiet devastation when she finds out Master Chen has burned her father's flute. Made so much worse by Master's sheer obliviousness to the reasons behind it, and his attempt to console her by saying he'll just buy her several better flutes.
** Songlian's quiet devastation when she finds out Master Chen has burned her father's flute. Made so much worse by Master's sheer obliviousness to the reasons behind it, and his attempt to console her by saying he'll just buy her several better flutes.
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** The lives of the wives. They live in luxury, with servants to care for their every need, but Yuru has been discarded and abandoned long ago, Zhouyun is friendless, constantly scheming and locked in a losing battle with the streams of mistresses her husband marries, Meishan is trying to fill in an empty, boring life and misses her opera past and Songlian is traumatized by the backstabbing of the other wives, the insensitivity of her husband and the academic path she had to abandon. [[spoiler:After Meishan is killed and Songlian goes insane, Zhouyun seems to have won... but Chen merely marries a ''fifth'' woman, indicating that she still only has so much time before she's thrown aside like Yuru.]]
** Then you realize that the four wives are likely four stages in the life of countless women in such society.
* TheWoobie: Yan'er. A young girl from a very modest background, she was taken advantage of by her employer and had dreams of escaping her life of servitude and becoming a mistress. Unfortunately, Master Chen had no intention of marrying her, and her bitter conflict with Songlian ends with Yan'er defiantly kneeling before the burned remains of her red lanterns. Unfortunately, this defiance causes her death, as she becomes ill afterwards and dies.
** Then you realize that the four wives are likely four stages in the life of countless women in such society.
* TheWoobie: Yan'er. A young girl from a very modest background, she was taken advantage of by her employer and had dreams of escaping her life of servitude and becoming a mistress. Unfortunately, Master Chen had no intention of marrying her, and her bitter conflict with Songlian ends with Yan'er defiantly kneeling before the burned remains of her red lanterns. Unfortunately, this defiance causes her death, as she becomes ill afterwards and dies.
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** The lives of the wives. They live in luxury, with servants to care for their every need, but Yuru has been discarded and abandoned long ago, Zhouyun Zhuoyun is friendless, constantly scheming and locked in a losing battle with the streams of mistresses her husband marries, Meishan is trying to fill in an empty, boring life and misses her opera past and Songlian is traumatized by the backstabbing of the other wives, the insensitivity of her husband and the academic path she had to abandon. [[spoiler:After Meishan is killed and Songlian goes insane, Zhouyun Zhuoyun seems to have won... but Chen merely marries a ''fifth'' woman, indicating that she still only has so much time before she's thrown aside like Yuru.]]
**]] Then you realize that the four wives are likely four stages in the life of countless women in such society.
* TheWoobie: Yan'er. A young girl from a very modest background, she was taken advantage of by her employer and had dreams of escaping her life of servitude and becoming a mistress. Unfortunately, Master Chen had no intention of marrying her, and her bitter conflict with Songlian ends with Yan'er defiantly kneeling before the burned remains of her red lanterns. Unfortunately, this defiance causes her death, as she becomes ill afterwards anddies.dies.
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* TheWoobie: Yan'er. A young girl from a very modest background, she was taken advantage of by her employer and had dreams of escaping her life of servitude and becoming a mistress. Unfortunately, Master Chen had no intention of marrying her, and her bitter conflict with Songlian ends with Yan'er defiantly kneeling before the burned remains of her red lanterns. Unfortunately, this defiance causes her death, as she becomes ill afterwards and
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** The lives of the wives. They live in luxury, with servants to care for their every need, but Yuru has been discarded and abandoned long ago, Zhouyun is friendless, constantly scheming and locked in a losing battle with the streams of mistresses her husband marries, Meishan is trying to fill in an empty, boring life and misses her opera past and Songlian is traumatized by the backstabbing of the other wives, the insensitivity of her husband and the academic path she had to abandon.
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** The lives of the wives. They live in luxury, with servants to care for their every need, but Yuru has been discarded and abandoned long ago, Zhouyun is friendless, constantly scheming and locked in a losing battle with the streams of mistresses her husband marries, Meishan is trying to fill in an empty, boring life and misses her opera past and Songlian is traumatized by the backstabbing of the other wives, the insensitivity of her husband and the academic path she had to abandon. [[spoiler:After Meishan is killed and Songlian goes insane, Zhouyun seems to have won... but Chen merely marries a ''fifth'' woman, indicating that she still only has so much time before she's thrown aside like Yuru.]]
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* TheBadGuyWins: Arguably. Zhouyun manages to directly eliminate one of her biggest rivals, which results in the madness of her second one. However, the Master gets a new wife soon after that, so Zhouyun's triumph is short-lived.
** Played straight if you consider Master Chen the BigBad. He gets to continue perpetuating the oppressive environment of his household, gets no comeuppance for what he did to Meishan and Songlian and continues to acquire young women.
** Played straight if you consider Master Chen the BigBad. He gets to continue perpetuating the oppressive environment of his household, gets no comeuppance for what he did to Meishan and Songlian and continues to acquire young women.
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** Then you realize that the four wives are likely four stages in the life of countless women in such society.
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** Played straight if you consider Master Chen the BigBad. He gets to continue perpetuating the oppressive environment of his household, gets no comeuppance for what he did to Meishan and Songlian and continues to acquire young women.
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* TearJerker: Songlian's quiet devastation when she finds out Master Chen has burned her father's flute. Made so much worse by Master's sheer obliviousness to the reasons behind it, and his attempt to console her by saying he'll just buy her several better flutes.
** Yan'er's face as she watched her lanterns burn. Her subsequent death is also heartbreaking.
** Meishan's fate.
** The lives of the wives. They live in luxury, with servants to care for their every need, but Yuru has been discarded and abandoned long ago, Zhouyun is friendless, constantly scheming and locked in a losing battle with the streams of mistresses her husband marries, Meishan is trying to fill in an empty, boring life and misses her opera past and Songlian is traumatized by the backstabbing of the other wives, the insensitivity of her husband and the academic path she had to abandon.
** Yan'er's face as she watched her lanterns burn. Her subsequent death is also heartbreaking.
** Meishan's fate.
** The lives of the wives. They live in luxury, with servants to care for their every need, but Yuru has been discarded and abandoned long ago, Zhouyun is friendless, constantly scheming and locked in a losing battle with the streams of mistresses her husband marries, Meishan is trying to fill in an empty, boring life and misses her opera past and Songlian is traumatized by the backstabbing of the other wives, the insensitivity of her husband and the academic path she had to abandon.
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* MomentOfAwesome: Songlian honors Meishan by breaking tradition and lighting ''all'' the lanterns in Meishan's house by herself, and by playing the recording of Meishan's song. It frightens the servants who come to investigate (possibly the same men who [[spoiler: murdered her on the orders of her husband]] to such an extent that they believe they are witnessing a [[spoiler: manifestation of her ghost]].
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* CrowningMomentOfAwesome: Songlian honors Meishan by breaking tradition and lighting ''all'' the lanterns in Meishan's house by herself, and by playing the recording of Meishan's song. It frightens the servants who come to investigate (possibly the same men who [[spoiler: murdered her on the orders of her husband]] to such an extent that they believe they are witnessing a [[spoiler: manifestation of her ghost]].
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* CrowningMomentOfAwesome: MomentOfAwesome: Songlian honors Meishan by breaking tradition and lighting ''all'' the lanterns in Meishan's house by herself, and by playing the recording of Meishan's song. It frightens the servants who come to investigate (possibly the same men who [[spoiler: murdered her on the orders of her husband]] to such an extent that they believe they are witnessing a [[spoiler: manifestation of her ghost]].
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* NightmareFuel: [[spoiler: Meishan's execution. Could also double as AdultFear.]]
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* NightmareFuel: [[spoiler: Meishan's execution. Could also double as AdultFear.]] Your partner has rights of life and death over you, and nobody will punish him for having you murdered. It's implied that nobody from the outside will even know what happened to Meishan...]]
* CrowningMomentOfAwesome: Songlian honors Meishan by breaking tradition and lighting ''all'' the lanterns in Meishan's house by herself, and by playing the recording of Meishan's song. It frightens the servants who come to investigate (possibly the same men who [[spoiler: murdered her on the orders of her husband]] to such an extent that they believe they are witnessing a [[spoiler: manifestation of her ghost]].
* CrowningMomentOfAwesome: Songlian honors Meishan by breaking tradition and lighting ''all'' the lanterns in Meishan's house by herself, and by playing the recording of Meishan's song. It frightens the servants who come to investigate (possibly the same men who [[spoiler: murdered her on the orders of her husband]] to such an extent that they believe they are witnessing a [[spoiler: manifestation of her ghost]].
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* NightmareFuel: [[spoiler: Meishan's execution. Could also double as AdultFear.]]
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* NightmareFuel: [[spoiler: Meishan's execution. Could also double as AdultFear.]]]]
* TheWoobie: Yan'er. A young girl from a very modest background, she was taken advantage of by her employer and had dreams of escaping her life of servitude and becoming a mistress. Unfortunately, Master Chen had no intention of marrying her, and her bitter conflict with Songlian ends with Yan'er defiantly kneeling before the burned remains of her red lanterns. Unfortunately, this defiance causes her death, as she becomes ill afterwards and dies.
* TheWoobie: Yan'er. A young girl from a very modest background, she was taken advantage of by her employer and had dreams of escaping her life of servitude and becoming a mistress. Unfortunately, Master Chen had no intention of marrying her, and her bitter conflict with Songlian ends with Yan'er defiantly kneeling before the burned remains of her red lanterns. Unfortunately, this defiance causes her death, as she becomes ill afterwards and dies.
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* TheBadGuyWins: Arguably. Zhouyun manages to directly eliminate one of her biggest rivals, which results in the madness of her second one. However, the Master gets a new wife soon after that, so Zhouyun's triumph is short-lived.
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* TheBadGuyWins: Arguably. Zhouyun manages to directly eliminate one of her biggest rivals, which results in the madness of her second one. However, the Master gets a new wife soon after that, so Zhouyun's triumph is short-lived.short-lived.
* NightmareFuel: [[spoiler: Meishan's execution. Could also double as AdultFear.]]
* NightmareFuel: [[spoiler: Meishan's execution. Could also double as AdultFear.]]
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* BadGuyWins: TheBadGuyWins: Arguably. Zhouyun manages to directly eliminate one of her biggest rivals, which results in the madness of her second one. However, the Master gets a new wife soon after that, so Zhouyun's triumph is short-lived.
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* BadGuyWins: Arguably. Zhouyun manages to directly eliminate one of her biggest rivals, which results in the madness of her second one. However, the Master gets a new wife soon after that, so Zhouyun's triumph is short-lived.
