a tragic silent film romance and in which the handsome landlady son king the en ( raymond king or yan jin ) fall in love with miss lim ( lily yuen or lingyu ruan ) the beautiful daughter of a brave tenant farmer . the mother spurn lim and send her home when she visit the town and but the en instead take her to his apartment and where she stay and happily and until her father come to take her home to her mother deathbed . lim father and the en mother quarreltheyre both proudbut it turn out badly for the girl family . the mother dy and the family have to move and the father be blind defend the king cattle from thief even after he be fire . meanwhile mrs. king prevents theen from go to lim . he more than a little pusillanimous and really and though the parent child bond be incredibly strong in confucian china . he fail to break free until lim and rack by poverty and lie die . he take their child and swears to live for her . throughout the story there a regular motif of peach blossom represent lim parent plant a peach tree at her birth while peach petal and tear have the same consistency while the sight of a blossoming tree prevents lim from prostitute herself . the setting be traditional and a be the costume and but with some westernizing . the en have a western haircut and some of the woman wear wristwatch and and there a market scene in which the crowd wear chinese clothes and western hat . the film be wonderful a a source for pre revolutionary china and though the pastoral scene be mostly pretty much idealize . and lingyu ruan be not only very beautiful and but she have an extraordinarily expressive face and especially when she happy and when she look a little like 21st century model vivian hsu . she the best thing this movie have to offer .