The Battle in Red Cliffs is a textbook case demonstrating how small kingdoms could defeat a superpower. During the 3rd century, the once strong empire Han Dynasty, that dominated the land of Far East for nearly 400 years, was crumbling and torn apart. Cao Cao, the last prime minister of the dying dynasty with an ambition to replace Han monarch, ruled the […]
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When the Wind Begins to Blow Lyrics: Haiyan (the author of the drama); Music: Meng Ke; Singer: Hu Ge (the actor playing the leading character Mei Changsu) (https://goo.gl/i8GstS) 变幻 风云几卷 Sudden change of life, storms are full of volume 乱世起惊澜 A troubled time, a terrifying wave 血仍殷 何人心念 Blood is still hot, memories are not lost 烈火清平愿 Justice for […]
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Jingrui, Mei Changsu’s friend, found himself a deeply troubled man. His mother, the emperor’s sister, was pursued by a masked assassin, and they suspected it had something to do with a letter left to her by Marquis Xie, who recently died in a work-related accident in a labour camp. It was an open secret about a verbal agreement reached between the […]
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After returned to the capital, the emperor installed Prince Jing as new Crown Prince. In the meanwhile, Layang Info Centre’s CEO Lin Chen also arrived in the capital after received Mei Changsu’s express mail delivered by pigeon. Lin Chen and his father were the only two people under heaven who could deal with Fire Frozen Toxin. He presented two options for General […]
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While the emperor, Prince Jing and Royal Guards Commander Meng Zhi went for a spring hunting excursion, back in the capital, a demoted Prince Yu received a letter of his biological mother, late Princess Linglong of the doomed Hua Kingdom. The letter was handed to Lady Qin by Linglong’s sister Princess Quanji, who created the spy network Red Sleeve Seduction […]
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While Mei Changsu was forced fed with a poisonous drug by Xia Jiang at Royal Discipline Committee, Lady Xia, Xia Jiang’s disciple, was summoned by the emperor. Duke Ji, the emperor’s brother, reported to the throne he saw Lady Xia instructing several kung fu men to take fugitive Wei Zheng onto a horse-drawn carriage. “Now I’ve realised who is really behind […]
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In the ancient city Chengdu, the provincial capital of Sichuan, 30 bronze Chinese chess pieces were recently unearthed from a tomb dating back to the period between Tang and Song dynasties about a thousand years ago. Chinese Chess is one of the two major traditional Chinese chess games, along with Go (Weiqi or Game of Siege), and usually has 32 pieces. The earliest […]
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A plan to rescue former Red Flame Army general Wei Zheng was quickly drawn by Mei Changsu. Observing how the pale-faced scholar developed an intricate prison break strategy and simulated each step of the operation in meticulous details, the chief of the Medicine Valley kung fu sect was awfully impressed. “What a marvelous action plan!” he exclaimed. Mei Changsu played it down. […]
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As Marquis Xie, the chief of the kingdom’s military force and the top ally of the crown prince, was prosecuted and eventually sent to a labour camp in remote Guizhou, Prince Jing was appointed as the new head of the capital defence force by the Emperor. An ancient Chinese bar While Prince Jing – no one knew he had any association with Mei Changsu […]
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Following China’s scholarly garden tradition, Mei Changsu redesigned his residential garden. After the completion of the project, he invited his friends and associates in the capital to his garden parlour for a drink. Being grateful for Mei Changsu’s help on the incident of firecracker mill explosion that resulted the emperor to severely punish the crown prince, Prince Yu arrived at garden-warming party without […]
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Chinese New Year was approaching and cargo business was booming. The wharfies complained to the headman that the two boatloads of mandarin packages were unreasonably heavy. The traditional Chinese royal family was a strictly hierarchical community, with emperor at the top as the absolute ruler and empress as his deputy sheriff Each morning, emperor’s lesser wives were required to pay respect […]
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A traditional Chinese balcony, fully integrated with the indoor space Mei Changsu’s initial misjudgement over Princess Nihuang incident rose Prince Jing’s suspicion in his character. Thus he laid ground rules for their cooperation: you may play party politics, but you must not hurt the people who spilled their blood and risked their lives to defend the nation. Mei Changsu was […]
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