Di Nü Hua is a Chinese fictional story about Princess Changping of Ming Dynasty and her husband/lover Zhou Shixian. The contemporary popular version comes from Cantonese opera script. They meet and get engaged, with the blessing of parents. Her father, the emperor, is overthrown by revolutionists. She hides as a nun in a monastery but meets Zhou again. Being found by the new regime, she follows Zhou's plan to commit suicide. Zhou formulates a plan to make sure the late emperor, her father, properly buried while her little brothers released to safety. Zhou returned to negotiate with the new regime alone with the bargaining power vested in him by a written request from her. Once the new regime makes good on these promises, the couple returned to her former home for a wedding ceremony. They t