This book is one of the Chinese Opera Overseas Communication Project Series series. This series introduces Chinese opera culture to overseas readers in the form of English books, and consists of several representative plays. The whole play takes the joys and sorrows of Hou Fangyu and Li Xiangjun as the main line, showing the social reality of Nanjing in the late Ming Dynasty, and also revealing the reasons for the decline and fall of the Hongguang regime. It is a major feature of this play to describe the rise and fall of the country with the love between men and women. The first part of this book introduces the content outline, ins and outs and main creators of the script, the second part is the script, and the third part is the appendix, mainly a brief introduction to the Kunqu Opera genre.