Chen Xiao

In the late Qing Dynasty, a passionate young man named Gu Ping Yuan came from a family of small merchants. He wanted to study and pursue an official career to shine, but he failed in the imperial examination room. He was framed, became a prisoner, and was exiled to a foreign land. In order to find out the truth and return home, he fled to Shanxi with a private salt caravan and started a legendary business road by accident. With his astonishing courage, he led a caravan into the swamps and gained a small reputation in the ancient plains. Faced with the conspiracy of Tiangui, the overlord of Shanxi merchants, he was very happy and solved the situation, which attracted the attention of Li Qin, the son of a Beijing merchant tycoon. Gu Ping Yuan is regarded as an old enemy by Li Qin. In the struggle between the two, Gu Ping Yuan always turns defeat into victory in dangerous situations. From the pawn shop to the tea industry to the military grain and salt industry, Gu Ping Yuan gradually breaks out of his own world step by step, and at the same time discovers his own life experience. The conspiracy behind the murder was directed at the Li family.

Yun Xiang, a disciple of Yuntai, entered the world to exact revenge for his massacred family after fifteen years of cultivation. Though lacking any martial arts skills, but having an incredible intelligence about him, while traveling Yun Xiang made several friends who shared his aura of intrigue and mystique. Shu Ya Nan, an orphan taken in by Yun Xiang's master, possessed amazing martial art skills but also had many secrets she was hiding, Jin Biao was a master swordsman with a sense of his own justice, and Su Ming Yu, who hid his skills and due to his travels, possessed an uncanny ability to understand almost every martial art skill and name as well as its weakness. Yun Xiang and his friends spent a period getting to know each other through various means of unveiling secrets to determine whether they were really friends or foes. With the ever growing in-depth investigation of past tragedies, Yun Xiang unearthed more appalling secrets, and things began to unravel as much was not as he had originally thought including Yuntai itself. Throughout all of this, he and his friends experienced deception, betrayal, and many life and death struggles. Could Yun Xiang and his group determine who all of the villains were and bring justice to the land as well as get their revenge or would they lose to the evil in the end?

Zhao Pan Er, a clever teahouse owner in Qiantang, embarks on a journey to the Capital, Bian Jing, after discovering her fiancé left her for another woman. Along the way, she saves her two best friends, Sun San Niang and Song Yin Zhang, who join her quest. Gu Qian Fan, a commander in the elite Capital squadron "Living Devil," is framed in a conspiracy involving the imperial court. He crosses paths with Zhao Pan Er, and despite initial disagreements, they form an alliance. As they work together to uncover the truth, their bond deepens. In the Capital, Zhao Pan Er, her friends, and Gu Qian Fan face many challenges while striving to turn a small teahouse into the most successful restaurant in Bian Jing. Along the way, they each seek the love and happiness they deserve.

The story is about friendship and love, deception and betrayal, ambition and lust for power. In the middle of it all is, Ling Hu Chong, an orphan who is the senior student of Yue Bu Qun, leader of Huashan Sect, and the protagonist of the story. The story deals with his journey and development as a swordsman and his witness to the various intrigues which take place in the martial world of the story.

Yun Xiang lives in seclusion in a small town on the southeast coast, hoping to live a peaceful life and not get involved in the disputes of the underworld. However, he is accidentally involved in a new conspiracy and once again join hands with Kou Lian Yi, Jin Shi Liang and other friends to fight against the new dark forces. There are many dangers on the way to find the truth, and they gradually uncover the conspiracy. Yun Xiang returns to the underworld, determined to turn the tide and quell the chaos.