The Chinese TV drama "The Tale of Rose," featuring Liu Yifei and Wan Qian as leads, has moved audiences to tears with a scene that shows a woman being sexually assaulted by her stepfather.

Liu Yifei plays Elso, a reputed French flutist who travels from Paris to Chengdu. Her life is compared to the one of a night peacock, an eternal conflict between life and death, love and time.