Taiping Nights: One Thousand and One Nights in China

During the Taiping and Xingguo years, the emperor ordered Li Fang to compile "Taiping Guangji" to collect the world's strange stories. Liu Yiyin, a folk storyteller who was convicted for speaking out, was punished as a handyman in the editing room. In order to delay his death, he tells the supervisor a "lost story" that has never been recorded in the classics every night, thus starting the story of One Thousand and One Nights.