| Chow Yun-fat Liu Yifei Hiroshi Tamaki Alec Su Annie Yi Qiu Xinzhi Yao Lu Ni Dahong |
The film is set in China in the late 210s — the years preceding the end of the Han Dynasty. In the earlier two decades, Cao Cao had defeated Lü Bu and other rival warlords to gain supremacy in northern China. In 216, Cao Cao is granted the title of a vassal king, "King of Wei", by Emperor Xian — the figurehead Han sovereign controlled by him. He constructs the Bronze Sparrow Platform as a showcase of his power.
Lingju is the orphaned daughter of Lü Bu and Diaochan. She, like many other orphaned children of Cao Cao's enemies, had been recruited in her childhood by Cao Cao's rivals to be trained as assassins to kill Cao. She meets Mu Shun, who protects her while she is in training and falls in love with him. Mu Shun is castrated at one point. Lingju and Mu Shun eventually find their way into court life: Lingju is taken by Cao Cao as one of his mistresses while Mu Shun becomes a palace eunuch.
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