Nangong Yanguí

A historical male-oriented period drama. General Nangong Ming and Emperor Nangong Feng are brothers. Nangong Feng uses a forged edict to ask his elder brother, Nangong Ming, to help him ascend the throne. Years later, Nangong Feng grows suspicious of his brother. Nangong Ming’s wife, Lou Ni, gives birth to twins, and to save the boy, Nangong Ze, from being killed, the military adviser Li Tu takes him out through a dog hole. Raised among commoners, Nangong Ze grows up, completes his studies, and returns determined to serve his country. But under Nangong Feng’s incompetent rule, the people are destitute and corpses of the starving litter the land. He also learns that the emperor murdered his father. His elder brother, Nangong Lun, who has likewise endured humiliation to survive, discovers a tungsten mine in the Northern Dynasty and forges sharp weapons to help his younger brother overcome every obstacle and establish a new dynasty where the country is at peace and the people live in prosperity.