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After her family is impoverished by the tax collector Ma, Haitang is sold into a brothel and later becomes his second wife, bearing a son. Ma is poisoned by his first wife Yü-Pei, who frames Haitang and claims the child. Before Emperor Pao, both women must pull the child from a chalk circle; Haitang refuses to hurt him, revealing herself as his true mother. Pao learns the child is his and makes Haitang his wife.
Klabund’s reworking of Li Qianfu’s story changes the ending so that the emperor marries the heroine, rather than her returning to live with her brother.
After her family is impoverished by the tax collector Ma, Haitang is sold into a brothel and later becomes his second wife, bearing a son. Ma is poisoned by his first wife Yü-Pei, who frames Haitang and claims the child. Before Emperor Pao, both women must pull the child from a chalk circle; Haitang refuses to hurt him, revealing herself as his true mother. Pao learns the child is his and makes Haitang his wife.
Klabund’s reworking of Li Qianfu’s story changes the ending so that the emperor marries the heroine, rather than her returning to live with her brother.