There was a famous legal case commonly referred to as "Yang Naiwu and Xiao Baicai," a notorious case of injustice in the Qing dynasty in Chinese history. It is listed by Chinese historians as one of the four great criminal cases of the last imperial dynasty, and regarded as symbol of the corruption that contributed greatly to the once-powerful dynasty's eventual fall. The case has been dramatized in several other forms, particularly operatic productions but also in several Hong Kong and Singapore film versions. In addition to "Yang Naiwu," these subsequent versions used the English titles "The Adulteress," "Yang Naiwu and Little Cabbage" and "The Scholar and the Serving Maid." Our story began when Xiao Baicai was taken to the court to be interrogated if she murdered her husband. She kneeled down on the floor, bowing to a man who was in charge of the case. The man’s name is Liu Xitong and he was the magistrate in a
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