In Ming Dynasty China, two pair of siblings are destined for each other. But fate throws countless o...
In Ming Dynasty China, two pair of siblings are destined for each other. But fate throws countless obstacles in the path of their happiness. One pair is high-born: the young Emperor and his sister Wushuang, both confined to the Imperial Palace and very much under the thumb of their mother, the Empress Dowager. The other pair is decidedly lowborn: the wanderer Li Yilong (known as King Bully for the way he terrorized the town of Meilong in his youth) and his sister Phoenix, who still run a restaurant in Meilong. When both the young Emperor and his sister Wushuang contrive to leave the Palace and head south, they meet the loves of their lives in Meilong. But Wushuang has disguised herelf as a man, and the Emperor is incognito. Numerous confusion, complication and misundertandings enue: gender and gender-roles are revered, class differences prove hard to negotiate and identities and egos block the promptings of desire. It takes the intervention of a goddess to get everyone back ...
