Mandarin Duck Gu

When forbidden love is kindled by a curse that forces it upon its victims, which is more likely to condemn them to eternal ruin?

Deep within a tomb sealed in ice for three thousand years, the Kunlun King’s obsession is awakened by modern technology. Virtual technology forcibly implants his shattered consciousness into the mind of Zhuang Zhou, an IT mogul, creating a sci-fi version of “resurrection in another body”! The IT mogul’s intellect and the Kunlun King’s combat prowess set a revenge plot in motion. A love curse known as the “Mandarin Duck Gu” binds Sheng Ji, the high priestess who wields divine authority; Xiang Yeting, the Kunlun King who commands the army; and Ji Si, the emperor who holds the throne. Their identities make their love a taboo of the highest order. When the bloodthirsty King Shura, a madman who upends the world, breaks that taboo, forced love can only provoke merciless resistance.

As Zhuang Zhou pieces together fragments of the Kunlun King’s disordered memories, a shocking conspiracy spanning three thousand years, the “Dragon-Slaying Plan”, comes to light. Amid a mystery woven from past and present, the Kunlun King and Sheng Ji know that the road ahead leads to certain death, yet these cursed lovers burn away everything they have to make a mutual journey across time, choosing to face death together and live on through it.

Xiang Yeting: How do we break the curse?

Sheng Ji: Only death can break it!

Xiang Yeting: Are you trying to fool me? How could I become a star-crossed lover with you? I refuse to believe that every renowned physician in the world would be helpless!

Sheng Ji: How stupid are you? If you make this public, you’ll give whoever cast the Gu a chance to strike. You and I are bound to live and die together. If something happens to one of us, the other is sure to die.

Xiang Yeting: Then what should we do?

Sheng Ji: If we can’t find the answer, we can only carry the question with us and keep moving forward until we can solve it. If we live long enough, we’ll eventually see the consequences come to fruition and resolve themselves.

Xiang Yeting: In plain language?

Sheng Ji: We’re doomed!

[Intangible Cultural Heritage: Shamanic Dance and Nuo Masks]