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At the Song Emperor’s Spring Festival banquet, the talented Lau Yuk-ngo beats all gents in riddle and is rewarded by the Emperor with a jade coin. She gives it to her husband Chan Gwai-sheung. So Kam-cho, an unwilling candidate for the Emperor’s harem, in耂ltrates into the palace as a songtress and seeks help from her cousin So Tung-po. Tung-po and Gwai-sheung often hang out and mess things up, which leads to Yuk-ngo reporting them to the Empress. The Empress punishes them by reducing their salary.
Tung-po lines Gwai-sheung and Lanting up rst as a revenge, secondly also as to solve the problem of Kam-cho. Yuk-ngo makes Kwai Sheung vow to the rosewood stick for his delity while also sends Lau Sheung to spy on him. Tung-po advises Kam-cho to seduce Gwai-sheung and ask for the jade coin as the gift of engagement. Lau Sheung discloses all he spied to Yuk-ngo for a generous reward. Back home, the infuriated Yuk-ngo beats Gwai-sheung with the bevowed rosewood stick and
orders him to kneel and repent by a willowy pond. Tung-po seeks the chance to instigate Gwaisheung to divorce with Yuk-ngo which he then does. She then goes to the court for justice, Yukngo’s uncle Kwai Yuk-shu tries to punish her for being a shrew. However, he himself is ordered to kneel by his wife. Gwai-sheung and Yuk-shu then go to seek help from the Emperor. The Emperor orders Yuk-ngo to let Gwai-sheung keep Kam-cho as his concubine but she refuses and chooses to take arsenic instead. In her last word, she urges Gwai-sheung to be loyal to Kam-cho. Her words move Gwaisheung.
Fortunately, the Empress has replaced the poison with vinegar. Finally, the couple is reconciled and reunited.