Ceo-lian, A Living Widow

Ceo-lian, A Living Widow is a tragic Chinese love story set in the nineteenth century. It is the folk story of the older couple depicted in the movie Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.

Lee Mo-bai falls in love with Yu Ceo-lian, but she is promised to marry Mon Zhi-an who is a wanted criminal and travels incognito. He dies from fighting Lee's enemies. Lee Mo-bai feels that he cannot marry Yu Ceo-lian under these circumstances.

Though Yu Ceo-lian has never met her fiancé, she becomes "a living widow." She is the victim of an unreasonable and superstitious custom.