Felix Wong

Lee Dai Yau and his father, Lee Kay, operate a loans company in partnership with triads, notorious for cruel and violent methods in retrieving outstanding payments. After their small business fails, good friends Chin Chin and Chung Oi Ling are riddled with debt and suffering constant threats from Dai Yau's loan company. However, they discover Dai Yau is not as savage as they imagined. Chin and Dai Yau even go on to partner in opening a karaoke bar. Always looking for opportunities, Dai Yau realises horseracing is where the big money lies. After initial success, he decides to join the world of horse racing and become a horse owner, enlisting the assistance of horse trainer Cheng Kai Fung. Along the way, Chin grows affection towards Dai Yau, yet Oi Ling is also full of admiration for him. How will Dai Yau choose? And will his dreams of becoming a horse racing magnate with Kai Fung be successful?

Based on the events of the Taiping Rebellion and the rise and fall of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom during the late Qing Dynasty.

The drama is a story that details the fall of the Sui Dynasty, and what it took to lead to the eventual rise of the Tang Dynasty.

It is set in the late Song Dynasty (12th century), when the failing Song government was slowly falling prey to the northern tribes.

The series deals with several separate yet intertwining storylines revolving around the protagonists Kiu Fung, Duen Yu and Hui Juk. Duen Yu is a young, naive prince of the Kingdom of Dali. Despite the long tradition of the practice of martial arts in the royal family, he refuses to learn martial arts due to Buddhist influence and his disdain for bloodshed. When his father tries to force him to learn martial arts, he runs away from home. Ironically, he acquires three of the most powerful skills in the novel and becomes immune to poison after consuming the Zhuha, a poisonous toad known as the "king of all venomous creatures". During his adventures, he encounters several beautiful young maidens who all fall in love with him. Kiu Fung is the charismatic chief of the Beggars' Sect, who possesses strong leadership qualities and exceptional prowess in martial arts. He falls from grace after he is revealed to be a Khitan and after he is wrongly accused of murdering several fellow martial artists to conceal his identity. He becomes an outcast and the prime enemy of the Han Chinese wulin (martial artists' community).

The story continues from the end of The Bund II and chronicles the final years of Ting Lik's long reign as master of the Shanghai underworld.