Back in the Guangxu era of the late Qing Dynasty, Dai Tianli (played by Weizi), the young master of the Dai family in Chengde, Rehe, was a man who feared nothing, stood tall and true, and always kept his word. After killing two foreigners, he became a wanted criminal and fled his hometown to seek refuge amid the uproar. In the blink of an eye, the Qing Dynasty was gone, and the Republic of China had taken its place. Tianli made his way back to Rehe, where his father had nearly been executed by firing squad, his master had had the tendons in his feet severed by his fellow disciple Natuolu, and the lovestruck Na Suzhi was waiting desperately for Tianli to return and marry her. This man truly never got a moment's rest. To make matters even more complicated, Tianli became entangled with the Beggar Gang, a group made up of beggars. It turned out that Brother Hou, who had killed foreigners alongside him years before, was the Beggar Gang's leader. Before Hou died, he entrusted Tianli with the gang's token, the Dog-Beating Staff. Before he knew it, Dai Tianli had become the leader of a whole gang. And in the turbulent years that followed, he would use the Dog-Beating Staff in his hand to write a heroic legend of blood and iron...
