At the director's dressing room, a young woman named Guitianqing is waiting for her turn to appear onstage. She's an actress who's just been signed on by the director of a new production of a popular Chinese song. The young woman tells the director that her name is Lanyan, and she's from an orphan family in Zhejiang province. She says that she used to live alone, but that she never thought that she'd love someone as much as the man who killed her family. The director tells her that the part of Lanyan is hard for her to play, but she says she'll try anyway.