Actress Jesseca Liu says her crying scenes in Emerald Hill were cut

Many bad things happen to Malaysian actress Jesseca Liu's character in the ongoing Mediacorp series, Emerald Hill - The Little Nyonya Story.

- Jan Lee

The 46-year-old actress, who is based in Singapore, plays Li Shuqin — a woman married to the second son of a wealthy Peranakan family — in the loose sequel to the broadcaster's 2008 hit The Little Nyonya.

In the early episodes of the period drama, Shuqin and her husband, Zhang Jinhe (Taiwanese star Hsiu Chieh-kai), lose their son to an accidental shooting and their daughter also goes missing shortly after. Yet, audiences who tuned in felt that the couple coped with the tragedies much too calmly.

In response to the criticism, Liu told Chinese-language newspaper Lianhe Zaobao that two scenes of her crying were cut.