Friday, January 2, 2009

Martial Butterfly Lover (2008) Photobucket

Narrator explains that legend has it that the story of Shan-Pak and Ying-Tai is reincarnation of Weaving Goddess and the Cowherd. They are destined to relive their tradegic love story for ten lives. One live of which is Liang Chun-Shan and Zhu Yan-Gi.

Zhu Yan-Gi (Charlene Choi) is a daugther of a weathy winery owner. She dressed up as a young man to enroll in the all-male Soul Ease Clan to learn marital arts. Her childhood friend Ma (Hu Ge) escorts her to the martial school. In the beginning she hates the eldest brother, Chu-Shan (Wu Jun) for picking on her. When he begins teaching her martial arts they start to have respect for each other. Yan-Gi does really cute things like drawing butterflies on Chu-Shan's sword and drinking for Chu-Shan in a match. 

Yan-Gi always had a dream of a man with his back turned in a middle of a flower field but doesn't know who he is. 
Yan-Gi is very bad at martial arts even with Chu-Shan's help. They both work very hard to keep Yan-Gi in school. The head herbal teacher, Herb Head (Harlem Yu), is the only one that knows Yan-Gi is a girl. He lets her stay in his herbs room and becomes her confidante. He has her help him test a new drug he made that allows a person to fake death. A person appears dead but comes back to live after taking a certain herb. Herb Head takes the drug and everyone at school thinks he is dead. The second day Yan-Gi goes to the mountain to find the herb but falls unconsciences because of dehidration. Chu-Shan gets worried and goes to look for her. He finds her and when he tries to revive her Chu-Shan finds out Yan-Gi is a woman. 

After that day they start flirting and falling for each other. That's when they found out Yan-Gi's family has been in trouble with corrupted governments and that's why they sent her to the martial school. Ma has been helping conspire with another government offical to save Yan-Gi's family. Ma is madly in love with Yan-Gi. Yan-Gi's father forces her to marry Ma because Ma saved the family. 

She gets locked up because she wouldn't marry Ma. Chu-Shan gets extremely wounded by Ma's men trying to see Yan-Gi. When he got to Yan-Gi she stabs him in the chest because she wanted to him to forget their love. She has to marry Ma or Ma would send his men to kill her parents and Chu-Shan. 

Herb Head perfects his drug and sneaks to see Yan-Gi. Herb Head tells her to take the drug and she will come back to live after 3 days. When everyone thinks she is dead, she can run away with Chu-Shan. Before Herb Head could savely leave the premises to tell Chu-Shan the plan Herb Head gets killed by Ma's men. 

Yan-Gi drinks the drug on the day of her wedding. Everyone thinks she is dead. Chu-Shan is so heart broken he goes to Yan-Gi's funeral to retrieve her body. Ma fights Chu-Shan at the funeral. Chu-Shan is so hurt he's about to die. Seeing this Ma lets him go with Yan-Gi's body. 

Chu-Shan takes her to a field of flowers and digs a grave big enough for the both of them. He lays next to her and tells her he always dreamed of being with her in the flower field. When the martial brothers find the pair laying in the grave, out of grieve, they start buring the grave. That is when Yan-Gi wakes up from her fake death. When she sees Chu-Shan dead laying next to her. She says that butterflies should be in pairs and not lonely. She closes her eyes and is buried along with Chu-Shan. 

The end scene, Yan-Gi and Chu-Shan is happy holding hands in the flower field.



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