Calvin Yu

It is a adapted from a novel by Cang Min Shui 沧溟水 that tells the life of a woman, intelligent and kind, who becomes a concubine of the inner court while her love for the people enables her to do great things for the country. It's standard palace politics that we've all heard before but also the kind of story that can be so addictively good.

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.