Relic of an Emissary

TAI wants to kill PO. YEUNG covers PO with her body. TAI spares his life in the end. TAI lets PO go, but he prefers to stay. FUNG hands in his resignation to MAN, who claims that he trusts FUNG. LI SHING, the cook with a scar on the face, follows FUNG. He asks FUNG to pay him the money for killing PRINCE TSUN. YEUNG is very upset about FUNG. With a view to showing her what kind of person FUNG is, LUNG takes her to follow FUNG and SHING. FUNG arrives at Yuet Loi Inn, where SHING is severely injured. FUNG takes out a letter from a concealed drawer in the room. He is taken by surprise that his new target is MAN. Meanwhile, LUNG breaks into the room suddenly.

FUNG puts YEUNG under hostage. After he has got rid of LUNG, he tells her to return to the palace. She, however, refuses to leave. LUNG tells MAN FUNG is responsible for the death of PRINCE TSUN. MAN believes there is some misunderstanding and so tells him to look into the matter further. FUNG returns to the capital. After passing YEUNG to PO, he goes to the Brocade Guards Headquarters with CHUN. CHUN tortures FUNG. FUNG claims he is innocent when MAN shows up. MAN gives TAI two days to prove FUNG’s innocence. PO and TAI have found some clues. SAM invites TAI to her boat. PO and YEUNG visit the fishing village again, where they learn about the truth at last. They hurry to the execution ground with what they have found. FUNG treats YEUNG and PO to a meal. PO tells him to thank TAI instead.

FUNG presents KIU with a music instrument and apologizes to her for destroying her family. He also promises to celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival with her. MAN and TSUN intend to promote FUNG to Prefect, which is CHUN’s position. FUNG declines their kindness though. People from the previous dynasty are planning a rebellion on the border. TAI volunteers to subjugate the rebels. MAN does not like the idea and suggests each feudal prince to lend five thousand troops and horses to LUNG instead. The feudal princes offer to resign so as to avoid a military power cut. MAN has no choice but to take back his decision. TAI understands that his relationship with MAN will never be the same from that moment on. TAI is sad to hear the truth. Meanwhile, SAM has come to return the jade pendent he has left behind. She listens to him talk about his troubles, and they sleep together. FUNG and YEUNG have had a good time at the Mid-Autumn Festival……

Filled with remorse, FUNG swears to find out the person who has humiliated KIU. LEUNG is dead drunk. FUNG interrogates him. YEE-WAH, TAI’s concubine, is pregnant. He therefore wants to go home to her company. To his disappointment, she is already on the way to the capital under MAN’s arrangement. PO has found the birth record of the imperial family. The pages regarding to TAI’s birth are missing. TAI believes there is something suspicious about his identity. FUNG manages to draw out the man who raped KIU but the man puts KIU under duress. TAI chills out at Willow Court. His eccentricity scares SUET and she turns to SAM for help. MAN’s scout reports to him TAI’s frequent visits to the brothel. MAN finds it incomprehensible that TAI enjoys being whipped. On the other hand, TAI is surprised to learn that WAH is already in the palace.

WAH’s brother TSU FAI-CHO tells her about TAI’s frequent visits to the Willow Court. She reveals her husband’s love for being whipped in times of troubles. PO tells TAI one of the princes has been demoted to common people for no apparent reason. He also worries about WAH. TAI, however, thinks he worries too much. In fact, TAI cares for nothing now except for the secret of attaining immortality. YEUNG learns by chance that TO has died. FUNG concludes that he was killed in one stab, which only a kung fu expert can manage. The memory of childhood flashes through FUNG’s mind as he plays the flute. He returns to the fishing village, and is astonished to learn that it has been slaughtered and is now known as the Ghost Valley. Later, he tells PO his encounter with the “Headless General”. YEUNG demands to go for a look with them. FUNG and YEUNG are rendered unconscious, while PO is nowhere to be found.

It turns out everything is a show put up by the villagers. PO fully comprehends their motive though. FUNG digs out the things he buried as a kid. WAH’s health is getting worse. She feels heavy-hearted all the time too. YAN-WAI gives her a beewax bracelet, which is believed to bring peace and health to the person who wears it. WAH refuses to take it and falls. TAI throws blood and passes out when he learns about WAH’s miscarriage. The imperial doctor says that TAI is out of his mind due to the loss of his son. SAM has been keeping an eye on TAI. She reports what she has found to MAN. MAN decides to let TAI return to Beiping, but CHING and the others think he should kill TAI instead. FUNG tries to find out the truth of the slaughter from TAI’s record but fails. He vents his disappointment at YEUNG. SAM misses TAI. Her reflection in the mirror refuses to act as her body double anymore.

CHOR-CHOR, dressed as SAM, visits FUNG. She is surprised to find that he and KIU are so intimate. FUNG asks SUET why she claims to be his former girlfriend. She then tells him how SAM has asked her to do her a favor. TAI brings along his dog to the winter ceremony. What is more, he lets it defecate everywhere. MAN orders TAI to return to Beiping. CHING instructs LUNG to arrange TAI’s assassination on hearing this. FUNG gets TAI’s schedule with YEUNG’s help. He is certain TAI has altered the content. TAI and WAH take a shortcut when they are leaving the capital. FUNG steps in their way. TAI reveals that someone had used his name to kill the people in the fishing village. He also reminds FUNG that neither MAN nor TSUN is his boss. Before he finishes, he tells FUNG to find the answer in the Ghost Valley.

FUNG runs into YIM-YIM in the Ghost Valley, who he used to play with as a child. He remembers who his boss is at last. WAH has been having nightmares since her miscarriage. TAI is remorseful. TAI gets back to Beiping at last. He is astonished to hear that his troops in the capital have been transferred a couple of times and that his mansion is being monitored. Ordered by MAN, KOT SHING brings a doctor to TAI’s house. FUNG reports the truth of TING’s death to MAN. MAN tries to sound WAI out to see whether she knows anything about it. On the other hand, he blames TSUN for TING’s death and assigns FUNG to replace his place as Lieutenant. TAI shows SHING his newly built farm, claiming he and his wife enjoy farming and playing with their son more than anything else. TAI mistakes CHOR for SAM on the mountain. CHOR faints in his arm.

CHOR thanks TAI the first thing she comes around. She also asks him about SAM. FUNG goes to the Willow Court to see whether its new owner, YIK-SUET, knows where SAM is. He and YIM exchange what they have found. MAN wants to divorce WAI. CHING and other officials stop him. YEUNG also talks to MAN, hoping he would change his mind. As they talk, he reveals FUNG has reiterated he is no more than a friend of hers. YEUNG makes a beeline for FUNG to see if he really meant it. PO discovers that GAOWA is following him. He cannot believe it that she helped HIN fight off the assassin. They become sword brother and sister and study astrology together. WAH and TAI are reconciled thanks to CHOR’s help. WAH suggests that they become sworn sisters. TAI throws a banquet for GAOWA. GAOWA invites CHOR to a fire dance, during which the crystal TAI gave SAM falls from CHOR’s chest.

TAI recognizes the tattoo on CHOR’s back. He firmly believes she is one of the personalities displayed by SAM, who he thinks is suffering from an identity disorder as a result of avoiding him. YEUNG looks for FUNG at the lieutenant mansion but he is not there. She is angry to see KIU acts like a hostess. FUNG and YIN have discovered where the imperial government stores black gold, but they have no idea how to convey it. MAN opens the imperial storehouse to relieve the people. FUNG is in charge of the rice handout. TSUN meets with CHOR to see how her investigation in the Yin Mansion is going. YEUNG is upset that FUNG does not care about her. She wants to revenge him but YIM sees through her trick. YEUNG tries to stop YIM from taking away the rice. She gets hit and is thrown into a dry well as a result. FUNG falls into the well when he is trying to save her.

PO and YIM are conveying the black gold. YIM wants to get rid of GAOWA, who insists in going with them. CHING reports to MAN late at night that the black gold has been stolen. He suspects TAI is involved in the theft. WAH has fallen ill. CHOR takes snacks to the farm to TAI for her. Some imperial guards show up, requesting to search the farm. TAI’s arsenal collapses suddenly, revealing a secret passage. He has no choice but kills the guards. TAI confines CHOR. She puts on a hunger strike as a protest. WAH has another miscarriage. TAI, who is tipsy, holds CHOR in his arms and calls her SAM. He apologizes to her as soon as he has realized his mistake. To his surprise, she confesses her love for him. CHOR takes out a dagger after sleeping with him.

HIN writes a letter to the family of the guard leader and to the government respectively under the leader’s name. TAI, however, still worries that his death will come to light. PO would like to take LADY UNG home. MAN turns him down. What is more, he sends her away behind PO. PO opens the small bag HIN gave him, and arrives at a small house following HIN’s instruction. As he enters the house, he is shocked to see… MAN is thrilled to bits to see TING again. However, the woman in front of her denies she is TING. MAN tells FUNG to probe into the matter. TING has gone disappeared. Firmly believes that PO is involved, MAN agrees to release LADY UNG. MAN apologizes to TSUN for wrongly accused him. He would like to promote TSUN for his contribution to the smashing of TAI’s scam and to the protection of WAI. TSUN declines his goodness though. TAI rages at HIN for delivering an order in his name……

GAOWA has returned to the capital. PO has become a wanted criminal. She is arrested when she is trying to save a man that looks like PO. Fortunately, YIM saves her. WAH proposes to become sworn sisters with CHOR on their way to a temple. MAN stations massive forces in Beiping. On the other hand, he surrounds the Yin Mansion. TAI manages to talk MAN’s soldiers into turning against him. YEUNG tells FUNG LUNG has bought up a marriage proposal to MAN. To her disappointment, FUNG wishes her good luck. She is so angry that she breaks the bamboo flute he gave her. YEUNG volunteers to escort LADY UNG’s coffin to Beiping. LUNG finds PO in the fleet. YEUNG promises to marry him on the condition that he lets PO go. FUNG is very upset that YEUNG is marrying LUNG. He drowns his sorrows in liquor till drunk. Mistaking KIU for YEUNG, he sleeps with her.

TAI and his troops carry all before one wherever they go, as many of the local generals used to be under his command. MAN plans to take the opportunity of delivering LADY UNG’s body to Beiping to counterattack TAI. TAI would like to borrow PRINCE NING’s Duoyan guards. CHOR tells TAI she is SAM’s twin sister, and that TSUN has killed SAM. PRINCE NING is dragging his heels over the lending of the Duoyan guards. He likes CHOR, and so promises to send the Duoyan guards to TAI immediately if CHOR will stay. TAI continues to advance victoriously wherever he goes. FUNG suggests LUNG to lead five hundred thousands soldiers to fight back. LUNG hopes to marry YEUNG first. YEUNG discovers that FUNG has been chasing her Hung Ming lantern so as to fulfill her wish. She is determined to run away with him.

YEUNG tries her wedding gown. TIM-YEE helps her. YEUNG faints after eating WAI’s sweet dumplings. KIU commits suicide after learning that FUNG is leaving with YEUNG. FUNG therefore promises her that he will not leave. YEUNG overhears their conversation. LUNG’s troops are defeated and held captives. TAI would like to go to the frontline. FAI-CHO makes him change his mind with a psychological trick. MAN would like to make peace with TAI. YEUNG, who is now MRS. LI, wife of the Governor of Left Garrison, is responsible for the negotiation with TAI. FUNG is to escort her to Beiping. KIU is upset to see the bamboo flute. FUNG decides to marry her. YEUNG is taken aback when she learns that FUNG and KIU have already married, and that KIU’s suicide was the reason he did not show up on the day they were supposed to run away.

TAI is very pleased to see YEUNG, totally unaware of her mission. At the banquet she throws specially for her, she goes down on her knees to plead him to make peace with MAN. He tells her MAN does not really want to make peace. His real intention, instead, is to have him killed, which is why he has sent FUNG. PO takes YEUNG to see LUNG. FUNG helps them escape. PO gives them a hand. MAN commends FUNG for saving LUNG and YEUNG. LUNG blames YEUNG for failing to get over FUNG. He is so furious that he tells MAN FUNG is a mole. FUNG, YEUNG and KIU are leaving via the secret passageway. LUNG blows it up. TSUN takes MAN to see FUNG. FUNG claims he would rather lose his memory than betraying MAN. Touched, MAN lets him off. FUNG has made up his mind to…

FUNG’s arm has a wolf tattoo, a tattoo every TAI’s emissary has. With a view to repaying MAN’s kindness, he cuts the arm off. He passes out as soon as he has done so. MAN is at his wit’s end as to how to deal with TAI. FUNG and YEUNG are very happy with their reclusive life. But when he learns that TAI’s troops are already on their way to the capital, he wants to return to the capital to help MAN. YEUNG tells him to come back before she is due to deliver. YIM surrenders to LUNG, who opens the city gate for TAI’s army. MAN’s trusted eunuch betrays him, putting WAI’s and his lives at risk. WAI kills herself by taking poison. TAI finds a burnt body by her side. TAI resumes the prince titles of his brothers as soon as he has been enthroned. In addition, he makes WAH and CHOR empress and Lady CHOR respectively. In order to stop MAN from leaving by sea, PO tries to look for clues from the burnt body……