After losing his country, Zhu Yihai, the Prince Regent of the Southern Ming, went into hiding in the mountains of Kinmen and along the Fujian coast. The Qing court’s agents and Zheng Jing in Taiwan both sent out large numbers of warriors to search for Zhu Yihai. This set off a series of tragic and comic martial-world tales in which national and family grudges gave rise to tangled passions of love and hate.
