After transmigrating to the end of the Qin dynasty, Xiang Fei finds himself the impoverished distant cousin of Yu Ji. When Xiang Yu comes to ask for her hand, Xiang Fei panics.
To avoid being dragged down with the whole clan when Xiang Yu kills himself by the Wu River, Xiang Fei comes up with a desperate plan to stop the marriage: “Want to marry my sister? Then bring me Kuaiji City as the bride price!”
He thinks that will scare off the brute, but the next day Xiang Yu returns carrying the governor’s head. “Brother-in-law, I understand your test now. You’re pushing me to conquer the realm!”
Xiang Fei is utterly dumbfounded. With no other choice, he begins the long road of defecting to the enemy with his sister in tow. If he can just foist her on Liu Bang, he’ll be safe from death.
But Xiang Yu tells everyone he meets, “The heavens would destroy Chu? Impossible! With my brother-in-law risking his life to infiltrate the enemy and probe their plans, I’ll sweep across the realm!”
Liu Bang, meanwhile, packs up and flees in the middle of the night. “That Xiang Fei must be setting a trap. If I don’t run now, I’m dead!”
Several years later...
Xiang Fei, now with several beautiful wives and unwillingly made the founding emperor’s brother-in-law of Great Chu, sighs helplessly. “I really just wanted to join the Han camp as a low-level clerk and get a secure government job...”
