Chinese Drama 2021

Word of Honor (Chinese Drama Review & Summary)

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• Also Known as Tales of Wanderers
• Genre: Historical Costume Drama Fiction, Bromance
• Release Date: 22 February 2021
• Origin: China, Adapted from a Priest’s BL novel
• Cdrama: 36 Episodes

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Cast

• Zhang Zhe Han as Zhou Zishu
• Simon Gong Jun as Wen Kexing
• Zhou Ye as Gu Xiang
• Ma Wenyuan as Cao Wei NIng
• Wang Dong as He Lian Yi/Prince Jin
• Huang Youming as Ye Bai Yi (Changming Sword Immortal)
• Sun Xilun as Zhang Cheng Lin
• Rebecca Jin as Gao Xiao Lin
• Li Dai Kun as Prince Xie
• Ke Nai Yu as Lu Qian Qiao
• Emily Chen as Tragicomic Ghost
• Rolling Wang as Zhao Jing (Tai Hu Sect Leader)
• Damon Guo as Shen Shen (Da Gu Shan Sect Leader)
• Zhang Yong Jang as Chevalier Gao Cheng (Yue Yang Sect Leader)
• Guo Jia Nan as Qin Jiu Xiao
• Fan Jin Wei as Wu Xi/Da Wu
• Miles Wei as Jing Bei Yuan
• Sun Zihang as the Black Grim Reaper

Quick Precis

Two martial artists fought their way into a lovely bromance. 🙂

Episode 1

Twenty years ago, Rong Xuan was captured at Mong Qingya by the Five Lakes Alliance together with other brave fighters.

Rong Xuan left an armory of invincibility.  But this legendary armory could only be opened by the Glazed Armour.

Therefore, there was a race to find this key.

Prince Jin secretly created an army of assassins to kill corrupt court officials.

This secret organization is called the Window of Heaven which is headed by Zhou Zi Shu.

Their latest mission is the military governor, Officer Li who was trying to run off with important court documents.

Zhou Zi Shu killed him.

The assassins killed everyone at the manor.

Zhou Zi Shu especially went to see Princess Jing An, the daughter of the governor to tell her to drink poison,  apparently a more elegant way to die rather than beheading.

Zi Shu noticed that the princess was holding the wooden hairpin his brother, Jiu Xiao, carved.  He felt a bit sorry that the princess had to die.

Bi Chang Feng and Zhou Zi Shu are the only two left from the original 83 members of the Window of Heaven – Four Season Manor.  Uncle Bi is old and Zhou Zi Shu was not in the best of health either because of the Window of Heaven which like a Black Hole, once entered, you can’t leave.

Uncle Bi was tired of it all and told Zi Shu to end it for him.  So Zhou Zi Shu had to kill him using the  Seven Points Three Autumn Nails, which meant Uncle Bi will live for three years as a zombie and then die.

It turned out that Zhou Zi Shu wanted to leave the Window of Heaven he created because he blames himself for the death of all of his brothers.  He had the nails embedded in his body but not all at once, so he would only lose half of his martial art and still basically compos mentis.  For 14 months he had been in pain and suffering.

At last, he went to see Prince Jin, who was pissed off from waiting for him to appear.

He told the Prince their mission was a success and that he will leave the Window of Heaven and then he proceeded to strip his top half to show his chest with 6 nails.

He told the Prince that he only needed one more which will kill him. He said that he had lost his full martial art power and now quite useless.

The Prince was raging and told him that he was so stupid.  He did not have to do that.

The Prince was so annoyed and a little sad that he has no one he can trust anymore.  He was desperate to take down the throne from the emperor.

Zhou Zi Shu went home and had a prosthetic face to disguise himself as a drunk.

Meanwhile, in the Devil’s Mountain, there was an uproar because the Glazed Armour was missing.

Three months later…

Gorgeous Wen Ke Xing was in a resto-bar in the capital with a pretty girl who was chattering away.

The girl was going on and on about how sad the beggar was.  No one was stopping by to give him alms.

But then a young man did stop and gave him a few coins which the beggar threw aside.

The girl, Gu Xiang,  hollered to the beggar that she will treat him to a meal.

The beggar said he does not need food, he needs more wine.

The girl flew to him with a carafe of wine which the beggar appreciated.

But the girl wanted to be entertained and started trying to beat up the beggar which she was finding impossible to do as she can’t seem to touch him despite her excellent martial art.

In the end, she took her whip and was using it on the beggar but finally, the elegant Wen Ke Xing intervened and caught the rope to stop the girl.

Wen Ke Xing had a very meaningful gaze with the beggar who was Zhou Zi Shu.

Based on how the female lead is presented, I don’t blame the two male leads to go for each other instead.  LOL😜🤪😝

Episode 2

Wen KeXing knew that the beggar is no ordinary man.  He saw how the beggar was using a technique unique to Four Season Manor.

This episode is so flirtations.  Wen Ke Xing was seducing Zhou Zi Shu who at the moment is resisting but he can’t help having a second look at Wen Ke Xing.

Anyway, the boy who tried to give him alms also gave him a token which allows Zhou Zi Shu to be a guest at Mirror Lake Manor.

When Zi Shu got to the manor, he was shown the woodshed as his room.

He did not complain but that night his nails activated some worms in his blood.  His pain was interrupted by some noises outside. He then saw those ghost-masked assassins having invaded the manor and were killing all the servants and the young master who invited him was being hunted as well.

The young master was being protected by the old boatman, who brought Zi Shu to the island.

Later on, the old boatman was dying and made Zhou Zi Shu promise to take the boy to Five Lakes Alliance.

Meanwhile, Zhou Zi Shu, Wen Ke Xing, Gu Xiang (the feisty girl) and Zhang Cheng Lin (the young master) have formed an alliance.

Episode 3

The four seemed to end up at the same place all the time and Wen Ke Xing calls this fate.

He told Zhou Zi Shu that he will sort of leave him alone if he shows him his real face which must be very handsome.

Zhou Zi Shu said that he will show his true face if Wen Ke Xing shows his first.

Wen Ke Xing said that his real face is monstrous.

Anyway, Wen Ke Xing was exhibiting intense boy love for Zhou Zi Shu who was still resisting. LOL

I am beginning to like the girl, Gu Xiang.  She is very upfront and she was giving confidence to the orphan Zhang Cheng Lin, who was grieving and had a very bad wound that he won’t tell them about.

It seems Zhang Cheng Lin is a target of the ghost sect because he was once again saved by Wen Ke Xing in between the men’s flirtations.

Simon Gong is deliciously camp!

Episode 4

Wen Ke Xing and Zhou Zi Shu with Zhang Cheng Lin were just about to have some breakfast at the busy marketplace when a horde of ferocious beggars started surrounding them.

The gang said that no one will get hurt, they just need to fetch Cheng Lin for their boss.

Cheng-Lin got frightened and hid behind Zhou Zi Zhu, who told Wen Ke Xing to look after the boy while he sorted out beggars.

He did a pretty good job fighting with the beggars, that was until he started coughing blood.  He took Cheng Lin away and left Wen Ke Xing to obliterate every single one of the beggars.

Gu Xiang was pretty shocked when she finally turned up.  She scolded her master for making so much mess.

Gu Xiang later found Zhou Zi Shu feeding the unenthusiastic Zhang Cheng Lin with grilled fish.  Gu Xiang told Zhou Zi Shu that the fish was bitter because he did not gut it before cooking.

Zhou Zi Shu could not help but asked where Wen Ke Xing was.

Gu Xiang pointed to the nearby yacht and sure enough, Wen Ke Xing was with a couple of girls while he started playing the flute.

After a while, Wen Ke Xing could not bear teasing Zhou Zi Shu and he flew to him.

Cheng-Lin asked Zhou Zi Shu to be his master.  He wanted to learn martial arts.

But at 15, Zhou Zi Shu, told him that he was too old.  To become good at a martial art, one should start at 5 years old to learn the basics.

Cheng-Lin was crashed but Wen Ke Xing took him aside.  He said that Zhou Zi Shu looks ferocious but he has a kind heart.  The secret was not to give up.  Keep asking until you get a satisfactory answer.

This applies to Wen Ke Xing as well and it seems Zhou Zi Shu is beginning to warm to him, so much so, he allowed Wen Ke Xing to tag along with them when they went to deliver Cheng Lin to Zhou Jing of Tai Lake Sect of the Five Lakes Alliance.

Episode 5

At the Sanbai Manor of Tai Lake Sect, Cheng Lin was warmly welcomed but somehow Zhou Zi Shu was rather suspicious.

A banquet was held at the manor and many attended from different sects.

Wen Ke Xing is more openly gay 🤗, he eyed the young men.

But hell broke loose in the manor when some assassins turned up.

They thought that the assassins were after Cheng Li but actually, someone from the inside stole the three of the five of the Glazed Armor.

There were also women from the Ghost Valley who were attacking men who committed infidelity and this added to the confusion when men from another sect were found hanging by the outside wall of Senbai Manor, presumably attacked by Ghost Valley Sect.

Cheng Lin was looking like a lost soul but Zhou Zi Shu told him to hold his tears because men don’t cry.

Anyway, Wen Ke Xing and Zhou Zi Shu ended in the mortuary then the Zhou Ancestral Home where they both became victims of hallucinogenic incense.

After seeing his young self and his father, though it made him happy he knew that it was not real.  As to Wen Ke Xing, he embraced his hallucination completely.

When Zhu Shi tried to tell him that it was not real, Wen Ke Xing called for his mother telling her that Zhou Zi Shu was being mean.

Zhou Zi Shu was surprised!  He asked himself if Wen Ke Xing knew that he was Zhu Zi Shu all along

Episode 6 – Flirtation 101

Zhou Zi Shu was able to wake himself from his hallucinations while Wen Ke Xing was behaving like a very tactile child to his mother which was rather inappropriate at that time as they were being attacked by a hoard of zombies coming out from the many coffins in the courtyard.

There were so many mummified zombies that Zhou Zi Shu thought it was the end of him when he ended up flat on his back ready for the attacking zombies.

But Wen Ke Xing chose the right moment to come out of his dream and with one whip of his fan the zombies were flying all over the place.

Wen Ke Xing found the Soul Winding Box; he then carted Zhou Zi Shu to safety.

They were sitting by the lake when Zhou Zi Shu started tending to his own wounds from zombie scratches and bites.

Wen Ke Xing tenderly cleaned up the bite on Zhou Zi Shu’s shoulder and he had to suck off the blood from the wound which made Zhou Zi Shu felt uncomfortable at the sensual act.

Zhou Zi Shu fought off the feeling and they ended up literally fighting and ended up in a barge in the lake.

Wen Ke Xing won the fight and had Zhou Zi Shu toppling in the lake.

Wen Ke Xing waited for him to surface but he did not.  He started to get worried and dove in to find him.

I thought he will find him and then Wen Ke Xing will give him a mouth to mouth but nope.

Zhou Zi Shu was alive and his prosthetic mask was gone.

Wen Ke Xing was smitten.  Zhou Zi Shu told him to stop looking at him.

They got talking about the Soul Winding Box and the Hanging Ghost.  Zhou Zi Shu said that the real Hanging Ghost was not the one they saw at the Zhou Courtyard.

The real Hanging Ghost is only a young man.  I bet he is Wen Ke Xing.

Wen Ke Xing gave the box to Zhou Zi Shu but warned him to be careful with it.

Zhou Zi Shu was able to open the box quickly and found a piece of the Glazed Armour which he gave to Wen Ke Xing.

Wen Ke Xing teased Zhou Zi Shu about giving it to him because it was bad luck.

Zhou Zi Shu was that he was already bad luck to him but if he doesn’t want it then he can throw it away.

Flirteously, Wen Ke Xing said never, it was the first gift Zhou Zi Shu had given him and he would treasure it always, he will put a chain on it and it will be in his body all the time. 🙂

Zhou Zi Shu just rolled his eyes but he can’t help the smile on his face.

Wen Ke Xing was now sure that Zhou Zi Shu is the real Zhou Zi Shu.

Zhou Zi Shu was pondering that it seems the Window of Heaven was involved in many things that he did not know about.  He was wondering if they were involved with Ghost Valley because the incense of hallucination was actually Zhou Zi Shu’s own creation which is called Drunk-Like-Dream which gives one 5-7 days of sweet dream unless one takes the antidote.  So how did the Ghost Valley got the Drunk-Like-Dream.

Zhou Zi Shu took an antidote for the Drunk LIke Dream and then thoughtfully gave an antidote to Wen Ke Xing as well.

This made Wen Ke Xing so happy.

Poor Cheng Lin was not having a fun time at Sanbai Manor because the Fifth Brother was forcing him to tell them what happened when the assassins attacked Mirror Lake.

Cheng LIn said he could not remember and this only infuriated the Fifth Brother.

Zhou Zi Shu and Wen Ke Xing went back to Sanbai Manor but found out that Tai Lake Sect had left for a seminar in Yueyang.

Zhou Zi Shu saw someone familiar at the Sanbai Manor and knew more than ever that Window of Heaven was involved with the Ghost Valley and in many more things.

Wen Ke Xing went to a jeweler and asked that he wanted 30 copies of the piece of the Glazed Armour.

He then gave them to Gu Xiang to put them together.

Episode 7

I am not sure about the translation of names here but the woman with long white hair presiding over a council with the List of the Unfaithful was called Tragicomic Ghost of Mount Emei Sect. 😜

Anyway, Tragicomic Ghost first case was Mu Yun Ge of the Broken Sword Manor versus the ghost of Mo Yan Wan of Most Emei Sect.

Apparently, Mu Yun Ge promised eternal bliss to Mo Yan Wan to get into her knickers but after she got pregnant, he cast her away so Mo Yan Wan killed herself and her baby.

The Tragicomic Ghost said that since he promised Mo Yan Wan an ever after relationship, Mu Yun Ge was forced to marry the Mo Yan.

Then there were 10 fighters from the Yueyang Sect.  They were put inside a ring and they had to fight and kill each other until only one is left who will be forgiven. But by the looks of it, they ended all dead.

Cheng Li overheard the Second Brother and the Fifth Brother that Cheng Li is a very unsuitable heir to the Five Lakes Alliance.

Second Brother said that they had to give the boy a chance because he was still mourning and pretty shocked about the death of his family.

Zishu continues to shadow Cheng Li to make sure that he is well-taken care off.  He was reassured that Cheng Li was in good hands but then he noticed a guard outside who seemed to be sending a signal to someone.

He noticed someone doing the same signal.  Zishu followed him, at first he thought that the man was from Window of Heaven.  He ended up killing the man when Kexing suddenly appeared and told of Zishu for being barbaric.  So different from Kexing’s philanthropic character.

Anyway, after their flirting, Kexing said that the man Zishu killed looked like he was a member of the Scorpion Sect, the second biggest assassins next only to the Window of Heaven.

Anyway, the two ended in a resto-pub for some dinners and drink.

They noticed that Gu Xiang was on a date with a young scholar, Cao Wei NIng.

Kexing went to see them and put the fright on the young scholar, especially when he heard that the scholar rather looked down on Gu Xiang when he found out that Gu Xiang is Kexing’s maid.

He told the scholar to disappear.

Gu Xiang then noticed that Kexing was also on a date with someone very handsome but very familiar looking.

She realised that it was Zishu.  She started fondling his face and Zishu was quite happy for her to do so until Kexing removed her hand and remarked to Zishu that how come Gu Xiang can touch his face but he would not allow him to.

Zishu said because Gu Xiang is a cute girl.

Anyway, they noticed that the scholar did not have money to pay for the date.

Gu Xiang said that she has money but Kexing behaved like the wife of Zishu.

Kexing asked Zishu to give him Zishu’s wallet.  They flirted back and forth until Zishu gave him his wallet. Awww.  They are so cute.

Episode 8

Cao Wei Ning became the ticket for Gu Xiang to enter the Yueyang Manor.

Upon learning that Cheng Li was being taken to the monument of the Five Lake Alliance by Chevalier Gao, Gu Xiang went to Kexing immediately to tell him the latest.  She added her concern that it was pretty late in the afternoon to go traipsing in the mountains.

This was all Zishu needed to hear.  He went haring off in pursuit and followed attentively by Wen Kexing.

They were just in time to see that the Five Lake Alliance was surrounded by Window of Heaven army who were armed with sophisticated crossbows.

The Window of Heaven was demanding the surrender of Cheng LI.

Chevalier Gao refused and was preferred to fight to the death if Zishu did not take that time to run in supersonic speed which distracted the Window of Heaven soldiers while Kexing was able to snatch their leader by the throat.

The leader was Han Ying who recognised Zishu immediately and was in awe.

Han Ying owed his life to Zishu and was loyal to him and when he learned that Cheng Li was a disciple of Zishu, he promised to protect the boy as well but secretly.

When they were left alone, Zishu thanked Kexing for his part.

Kexing could not help but asked Zishu who he is to to him.

Zishu said that Kexing was a good friend.

Suddenly, Kexing went flirty and asked only friends?  He mentioned that he had saved him several times already and surely they are now more than friends.

Zishu just left Kexing who said to himself that Zishu is his soulmate.

The next day, they met Chevalier Gao and when they asked him if they could visit Chengli, they were told that Chengli was under the weather.

Episode 9

Kexing invited Zishu to have a drink under the moonlight.  So they flew into the rooftop and enjoyed a bottle each.  It was a rather convivial evening until fighting commenced from the street below.

Zishu saw that martial artists are fighting and ended up killing each other and later noticed that it was because of the same piece of the Glazed Armour that he gave Kexing.

Kexing laughed it off which made Zishu abhorred him a little bit.

Kexing and Zishu saw many side attractions to the forthcoming Heroes Conference held at Yueyang.

Zishu mentioned that only those who wanted to be heroes are those who are unqualified to be heroes because real ones know that being a hero knows the tragedy of it.  It is a bloodbath involving oneself and those who get killed.

They saw the legendary quartet of the Sages of Anji.  These martial artists were soulmates who chose to leave the arena and live in a secluded part of the country.  They were happy and contented and would only surface into town once in a while like the Yueyang’s Heroes’ Conference.

Then Kexing was a witness when the four sages became victims of the greed of men.  To get their Glazed Armour, the three were killed one by one by marauding sects. The fourth one was so aggrieved he killed himself.

Kexing realised what he had done.  After all, he was the one who saturated the area with his fake pieces of the Glazed Amour that made ambitious people kill or be killed.

Cheng Li was a victim of bullying at Yueyang.  He was being beaten for just being there during basic martial art exercises.

Kexing implied that he was going to die within three years.

Episode 10

Zishu found Kexing burying the Four Sages of Anji.

Zishu asked him if he was happy now that these exemplary people were dead because of what Kexing did.  Was is worth it?

Kexing asked him back if he had only ever killed bad people.  Kexing felt his own guilt remembering a little girl being a victim of a massacre perpetrated by the Window of Heaven which was led by him, then there was the princess, etc.

This conversation affected them both.  Zishu was mulling over what he previously thought that Kexing was his soulmate; he told himself that he was obviously wrong.  He said he will die soon anyway.

While Zishu was drinking alone and getting really sozzled, Kexing was also drinking with the ladies or rather he was getting the ladies drunk while he remained sober.

They are obviously missing each other but they both let their pride run riot.

Cheng Li was immediately engaged to the daughter of Chevalier Gao.  The girl told his father that she does not want to marry the kid because he doesn’t even like her.

Chevalier Gao said that marriage is decided by parents.

Kexing went really gorgeously and sexily badass.  He is the master of the Ghost valley and was presiding over the ten ghosts including Tragicomic ghost, Black Grim Reaper and White Grim Reaper, who he throttled to serve as an example that he, Kexing, cannot be trifled with.

Episode 11

Cheng Li received a letter which was seemingly from Xu or Ah Xu (Zishu) instructing to meet up at 11pm at the North Garden.

So under the cover of darkness, Cheng Li went out but was seen by one of the stewards of the manor.

Cheng Li said that he was starving and looking for the kitchen for some nibbles.

He was told to go back but thankfully Gu Xiang turned up and did a neck pinch to the steward who fell to the ground.

Cheng Li quickly explained about his letter from Zishu.  Someone did turn up but it was not Zishu.  It was a woman of the four assassins aided by Qin Song, the Phantom Musician.

The woman was too good, even for Gu Xiang.  The woman was able to spirit Cheng Li away which was seen by a drunk Zishu, who was feeling very sorry for himself.

Zishu flew to follow to woman and Cheng Li.

Soldiers from the Chengwu Palance saw Kexing and told him that Cheng Li had been abducted by assassins with the Phantom Musician.

Kexing did not waste any more time.  He flew to follow the musician and killed him after he found out where Cheng Li was taken.

Kexing then threw the body of the musician to the two women assassins who had tortured Cheng Lin by waterboarding.

Kexing saw Zishu all spent, beaten up, and ready to fall.

Kexing went mental and prepared to destroy anyone who had hurt Zishu but Zishu stopped him as they needed to get Cheng Li to safety.

They stopped in the forest and had a lovely barbecue.  They then quizzed Cheng Li about why he had been abducted.

At last, he confessed everything.  He told them that his father did not trust the Five Lakes Alliance so his father embedded the piece of Glazed Armour into Cheng Li’s stomach.

Cheng Li said that Zishu could take the amour from his tummy but Zishu said to keep it for now.

They then asked if he knew any more information.

Cheng Li said that the Five Lakes were never interested in him personally as well as taking revenge for his family.  All they wanted was the Glazed Armour and make him an excuse to hold the Heroes Conference.  He continued that he was given a letter which he hid under the Buddha at the abandoned temple.  His father told him  to deliver the letter to Elder Changming Sword Immortal.

They then asked Cheng Li the gist of the letter.

Cheng Li said that it talks mainly about the five brothers of the alliance: Gao, Shen, Zhang, Lu and Zhao and how they fought and lost against their old friend Rong Xuan.

Apparently, Rong Xuan went evil because he was betrayed by his friends who put poison on one of their swords which drove him absolutely crazy that other martial artists started fighting with him.  None of his five friends came to his aid.

Cheng Li ended his narration by saying that the poisoned sword belonged to Chevalier Gao.

It looks like Rong Xuan might have been Kexing’s father because he was especially upset.

Cheng Li noticed the distance between Kexing and Zishu so he asked they if they were having a domestic.

The two told him to shut up.  Then Zishu started coughing.  Kexing moved behind him a gave him some of his qi energy which eventually made Zishu calm down from his nail torture.

And everything is once again well in their world for two.  LOL. Aww

Cheng Li said that what he really wanted was to learn martial art and he would like Zishu to teach him.

Zishu said that he had to know him first before Cheng Li pledges his loyalty to Zishu.

Zishu confessed that he was from the Window of Heaven.  He created the group and basically killed every one of the 81 members himself because of his negligence.  He said that he knew about the Scorpion Sect because he had a few conflicts with them.

Cheng Li said that the first time he saw Zishu, he saw Zishu as his master.

Episode 12

Zishu advised Cheng Li to give his piece of the Glazed Armour to Chevalier Gao.

This shocked Cheng Li because he felt that he was betraying his father and what entrusted to him.

Zishu asked him which is more important the Glazed Armour or his life?

Cheng Li immediately said that it was the Glazed Armour.

Zishu told him that there in nothing more important than life itself. Cheng Lin’s father did not cling to the importance of the Glazed Armour but rather to the brotherhood, otherwise he would have done something about the Glazed Armour twenty years ago.

Kexing said that he knew the origin of the Glazed Armour.

Rong Xuan, known as the Death Sword came out of nowhere.  He has a theory that all martial artist came from the same source and therefore if you pool together their strength and knowledge, they could create an unprecedented mastery of martial art.  This was twenty years ago.

But Rong Xuan wanted a total perestroika of the thousand of years tradition of Martial Art.  He started searching for the X-files by whatever means.  This obsession drove him crazy that his long-suffering wife, a master healer, had to rescue him from death.

But he descended into madness, however he was still able to find all the secret files.  Rong Xuan created the World’s Armoury in a hidden location and the key broke into five pieces.

The Five Lakes Alliance then held a conference where they invited heroes to kill the madman Rong Xuan.

Rong Xuan killed them but realised that he was tired of it all and killed himself in despair.

Cheng Li said that Kexing’s story was different from the norm.

Kexing said that because was he told was the story of Rong Xuan (his father?) and not the end of the Martial Art world.

Anyway, they advised Cheng Li to go back to the Yueyang Sect.

When Kexing and Zishu took Cheng Li to the gate, they looked at the boy wistfully as if bringing their own child on his first day of school.

Zishu teased Kexing that he looked like a mother worrying for his child.

Zishu and Kexing then became inseparable and doing a pub-crawl.

Cheng Li removed the glazed armour piece from his tummy which he then gave to Chevalier Gao who was so pleased.

Gu Xiang went to see Kexing and Zishu.

Zishu told her that she doesn’t have to return to Yueyang manor anymore as she had done her job.  She was rather reluctant and they found out why when Cao Wei Xing turned up.

Cao Wei Xing said that he would like to look after Gu Xiang and then he then said that his master knew of medics who could cure the terminally ill Zishu.

Zishu refused the medical help because he would rather travel with his soulmate for his remaining years rather than hope that he will be cure.

Episode 13

Cao Wei Xing was feeling romantic after realising that Kexing was the soulmate of the dying Zishu.  He told Gu Xiang that his master once told him that he had never married because he had not found ‘the one’.  However he is pretty sure that Gu Xiang was his ‘the one’ the scabbard to his sword. Awww that is really romantic.

Anyway, Ke Xing and Zishu are now more or less a couple and admitted to each other that they are each other’s soulmates.

Ke Xing found Zishu putting on a facial disguise once again which KeXing did not approve of.  He said that Zishu was perfect in his natural state.

Zishu said but not as handsome as Ke Xing.

Ke Xing was over the moon and asked Zishu to confirm that he found Ke Xing handsome.  Aww they were drooling at each other and me at them.  LOL

Zishu asked Ke Xing if his real name is Rong, son of Rong Xia?

Kexing said he was not.

Anyway, Zishu said that he was putting on a disguise so he could check on Cheng LI because it was strange that Chevalier Gao had not announced yet that Cheng Li had surrendered the Glazed Amour to Gao Chong.

Zishu disguised himself as a steward at the Yueyang manor.  He found Cheng Li who told him that he was going to be married off to Gao’ daughter in two years time.

Cheng Li was concerned that if he leaves after the announcement of his engagement to the Gao girl, that the girl would suffer.  The Gao Girl had only been kindness to him.

The conference was getting nearer and more and more guests are arriving including a very handsome man in flowing white robe.  He was Ye Bai Yi, the swordmaster.

Chevalier Gao was impressed how excellent Ye Bai Yi’s martial arts when he looks so young.

Apparently he was not so young because, Zishu found out later that he was the one who gave Zishu’s master the wraparound sword that he was given by his master.

Ye Bai Yi seemed to know a lot about Zishu and even said that he was a way of curing him.

Zishu was not interested by being cured so he was stopping Ye Bai Yi touching him and they were flying romantically over the bridge.

At that exact moment, a rather jealous Kexing turned up and he started fighting with Ye Bai Yi to stop him from fighting with Zishu.

Episode 14

Ye Bai Yi and Kexing had a beautiful prolonged fighting scene.  Ye Bai Yi was stronger and told Kexing that he could kill him in ten moves.

Kexing told him that he could kill him in ten years.

Anyway, Zishu got fed up of watching them fight and stopped them.

Ye Bai Yi tried to open Zishu’s hanfu to see his chest but Kexing stopped him.  Then when Kexing found out what Ye Bai Yi  was doing it for, He tried to open Zishu’s hanfu as well.

Zishu complained that now he knew how a woman feels.

And then the two tried to open his hanfu at the same time.

Zishu told them to stop.  He told them what would people say if they saw two men trying to undress another man on the street at midnight.

Anyway, Kexing was really shocked when Zishu gave up and finally allowed him to see his bare chest and saw the nails.

Ye Bai Yi knew what it was.

They asked him if he could cure Zishu.

Ye Bai Yi said that of course, he can even bring a newly dead to life.

Anyway, he said he can give Zishu a minimum of another ten years to live but he had to disable Zishu’s martial art.

Zishu suddenly lost interest.  He told Ye Bai Yi that he will think about it.

When Zishu was alone with Kexing, Kexing did not lose any time in asking Zishu what is there to think about.

Zishu said that without martial art, he might as well be dead.

This really upset Kexing, who told Zishu that the world is so vast, he will travel with Zishu to find ways to resurrect his martial art.

Zishu however was not interested.

Kexing asked him how much time has he go left.

Zishu told him two years at the most.

Kexing was heartbroken.  He was like a lost soul that when Gu Xiang reported that the Ghost Valley had been ransacked any the most of the ghost maidens had been killed and Tragicomic Ghost had been abducted, Kexing was uninterested.  Instead, he told Gu Xiang that Zishu has only two years to live.

It turned out that Tragicomic Ghost was a former girlfriend of Zhao Jing, who betrayed her.  When she entered the Ghost Valley she had to drink the Water of Lethe to erase her memory.

The Heroes Conference had started but not how Chevalier Gao had wanted.

Episode 15

It was chaos but Chevalier Gao managed to put everything under control by declaring that he was to retire after everyone had helped him vanquished the Ghost Valley with the help of everyone.  He said that Five Lakes Alliance would not be able to exist at the same time as the Ghost Valley.

He asked everyone, enemy or foe, to stand with him so there will be peace in the land.

Most agreed with him including Zishu in theory.

Zishu noticed that Kexing was almost catatonic with rage and said that everyone of the fighters are inhumane.

Again Zishu asked Kexing if he was the son of Rong Xia.

Again Kexing denied it and said that he had never lied to Zishu.

Episode 16

The Heroes Conference ended in a complete bloodbath when most of the invited guests, incited by the leader of the Beggar Gang, turned against Chevalier Gao and blaming the Five Lakes Alliance for all manner of atrocities.

Chevalier Gao, however, offered himself to fight against any one of them to clear his name because he said he had nothing to hide.

Everyone fought against him.  He was aided by the Fifth Brother Shen Shen and his military but Second Brother knelt down before the leader of the Beggar Gang asking him to spare Chevalier Gao.  They will surrender the Glazed Armour but they must not kill Chevalier Gao.  He will take Gao Cheng to a monastery where he promised to spend the remaining days of their lives.

Chevalier Gao forbade the Second Brother from begging.  He took the Glazed Armour and crunched the pieces into uselessness.  But seeing that the Five Lakes Alliance was over, he killed himself.

The thing that made me happy during this battle was that someone killed the annoying midget that sits on the shoulder of an equally annoying man.  Yipeee

The Beggar Gang leader had told his two cohorts that the Glazed Armour was gone forever.

No, it is not. Knowing that there will be trouble during the Heroes Conference, Chevalier Gao gave the Glazed Armour to his closest friend, the leader of the Gentle Wind Sword Sect.

Zishu managed to rescue the heartbroken Cheng Li with the help of Kexing.

They took refuge in a cave where Ye Bai Yi found them.

Zishu rather suspected Zhao Jing, the Second Brother of a hidden agenda.  He should have supported Chevalier Gao to the bitter end but he played like he was downtrodden and very sorry for what the alliance had down.

They were correct to suspect because the Second Brother is the father of the Scorpion King.

Shen Shen left the manor to look for the kidnapped Xiao Lian.

Episode 17

Gu Xiang can’t help but get closed to Cao Wei Ning who was saved by Master Yu of Mount Hua Sect, aided by Qian Qiao.

Meanwhile, poor Cheng Li had started training with three masters, Zishu, Kexing and Ye Bai Yi.

Kexing was like a mother hen trying to protect Cheng Li from the brutality of the training Zishu was putting the boy under.  But Ye Bai Yi was not helping and encouraging Zishu to be stricter.

Because of this, Kexing became rather quiet which puzzled Zishu and thought that Kexing was behaving like a wronged wife.

Meanwhile the Scorpion King was busy recruiting members of the Ghost valley while Zhou JIng, who is now known as Chevalier Zhou tried to resurrect Five Lakes Alliance in his own way.

Those sects who tried to leave were given an offer they can’t refuse.

Episode 18

Zishu, Kexing and Ye Bai Yi with Chengli carrying the brat Long Xiao in a rattan woven basket on his back proceeded to Longyuan to find the Longyuan Cabinet that his all the secret of immortality.

They came across a bridge which leads to Longyuan.

Ye Bai Yi crossed the bridge with no problem so Zizhu, Kexing and the heavy laden Chengli followed.  They were midway when the bridge collapsed after Kexing stepped on some sort of mechanism.

The brat Long Xiao fell out from the basket into the abyss bellow immediately followed by Chengli.  Both Zishu and Kexing flew down after him.  They managed to catch and throw Chengli up towards Ye Bai Yi.

Zishu and Kexing fell into the deep abyss.

Kexing woke up cradled in Zishu’s arms.

Zishu transferred to Kexing some of his qi energy.

They found themselves stranded on top of a rock in which below it were the living dead: zombies and mummies.

They quickly found out these beings were creation by the brat Long Xiao who appeared in his wheelchair on a crevice above them.

The brat taunted them that his ‘kids’ are very hungry.

Between Zishu and Kexing they managed to fell down all the ‘kids’

They got away and ended in a meadow.  It looks so lovely and green that Kexing said they landed in Xanadu.

They saw a farmer leading an ox.  They hollered to him but he did not hear so they went near him and found that he was not human but a puppet.  A Pinocchio who when they touched exploded.  They were lucky to getaway.

They started flirting when Ye Bai Ye appeared and told them to stop because Cheng Li is missing.

Ye Bai Yi sort of lost Chengli who fell when the floor underneath him opened up.

He rolled and rolled until he ended up in the underground and nasty brat Long Xiao was there with his two minions who ordered that they take out Chengli’s eyeballs.

They inserted a needed on top of his head. A minion was only a few inches away from plucking his eyes when both KeXing and Zishu fell from the ceiling of the cave.

Kexing and Zishu beat up the minions as well as the nasty brat Long Xiao, who was enraged because they were killing all his kids.

As they left the cave a puppet replica of the brat Long Xiao appeared.  They seemed to instinctively know that the puppet is a goody, an antithesis of the brat.  The puppet gave them a detailed mao of the underground.  It then led them into another mouth of a cave that stunk.  Still they went in and found a man tethered in chains.

Zishu recognised him as Long Que, the great Long Que, the architect of the Lonyuan cabinet.

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8 June 2021: The producers have confirmed that there will be NO sequel or another season for this drama.  This is it.

19 June 2021:  Their collaboration was so successful, Zishu and Kexing became the number one CP in Weibo for the first half of the year.