Asher Ma

A story about love and fighting for justice follows the quarrelsome pair of Tan Ling Yin and Tang Tian Yuan. Tang Ling Yin is the quirky daughter of a wealthy family whose life becomes entangled with county magistrate Tang Tian Yuan. He is sought after by many for being handsome, well-mannered and having an impressive family background. The two start off on the wrong foot yet eventually join hands to solve a case.

The movie story is born out of Sima Qian's "Historical Records: Biography of an Assassin", which originated from Yurang, one of the four great assassins in ancient China, and revolved around the allusion that "the scholar died for his confidant". The adapted story tells that in a turbulent period of the separatism of the nations, Lian Qi, in order to avenge the slaying of the king, tolerated his name, and from this led to a complex entanglement of love, and the ultimate choice of his family, the world, and his personal morality.