The Long Tassel Shines on the Heart

The young were full of chivalrous spirit, befriending heroes from the five capitals. Their hearts were open, their hair stood on end. A meeting was all it took for them to pledge to share life and death. A promise was worth a thousand pieces of gold. Years later, when the young man was young no longer, as he sat alone atop the city of Zhaochun and gazed toward the distant Cang Mountains, would he remember those old stories and the people from years gone by?