Jin Ping Mei Plot Introduction: Song Dynasty. Ximen Qing (played by Lin Weijian), a young man from a prestigious family, is handsome and gifted with extraordinary talents. He also inherited his father's (played by Xu Shaoqiang) true skills in medicine and pharmacology, being proficient in yang replenishment techniques. Just as he is beginning to spread his wings, his father hires a charming prostitute Ziyan (played by Kaera Uehara) to come to the house, ostensibly as a daughter of an old family friend temporarily residing at the Ximen household.