Eye patches, hidden identities, and forbidden love? This wuxia soap opera said YES to ALL of it.
Season 1 • Episode 42
LatestPIK feels concern over TING who nearly miscarries and pleads her to spare the new life from the curse of vendetta. TING intends to abort KAU’s bastard once she has her revenge exacted. Her merciless speech breaks KAU’s heart. LUI arrives at the WONG’s residence to find PIK being held hostage by TING in order to make him yield. LUI is beaten by KAU. FUNG coaches him on the side. TING stabs FUNG in a rage. TING feels a sharp pain in her stomach and distracts KAU. LUI seizes the chance to hold the blade to TING’s neck. KAU pleads him to spare her life. TING says she would go as far to confront her worst enemy in her best dress and to marry an influential man for twenty long years like PIK in order to exact her revenge. KAU sees through her unremorseful nature and arrives at a painful decision. FUNG disappears without a trace. PIK chances on BLIND MONK during her search for FUNG and seeks his advice. He bestows her an umbrella……
The Szema family murdered the Tong family in order to monopolize the weapons industry. Twenty years later, the chief of Brocade Guards, YUEMAN FUNG (CHENG SIU CHOW, ADAM), fights against MRS. WONG (WANG MING CHUN, LIZA) of the biggest escort carrier in town. During the fight, they realize they might know each other… FUNG has changed his name, put on an eye patch and become a Brocade Guard. His wife, TONG PIK, has married WONG. They live with humiliation while they wait for the day of revenge. However, they both are in situations where they can’t reveal their identities. PIK hires MANG LUI (LAM RAYMOND) as a fighter. He falls in love with PIK’s daughter YEE (YEUNG SZE KI, SHIRLEY). Ironically, LUI is PIK’s son, whom she lost many years ago, and so love between the two is impossible. How can love and hatred end between two generations?
Acting
Liza Wong and Adam Cheng serving decades of unspoken angst.
Costume
Brocade Guards in literal brocade. The eye patch is *icon*.
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Brocade Guards (Jinyiwei) were real Ming Dynasty secret police, making this historical fiction with extra melodrama.
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