Season 1

Acrobatic performer TAI DOU and his son MING-BUT are heading towards Longzhou to put on a show for the Magistrate. Also in the troupe are DOU’s three adopted children, namely NGON-NAM, NIM-YAN and HO SAU. In the meantim…

YAN discovers a letter written by FUNG requesting that BIN and LUNG get married. Unwilling to take another guy’s wife, BUT decides to break off the engagement. YIN accuses her elder brother, YUK-LONG, when she sees him …

YAN is a music genius who plays even better after a glass or two of wine. BUT therefore tells DOU to take good care of YAN. LAU CHEUK-LAW, like YIN, is a principal dancer of Chun Yat Yuen, has been bitten by a dog. As a…

BUT introduces YIN to the people in Cheung Lai Yuen, requesting YUET to take care of her. BUT and DOU require YAN to finish the second half of the movement but the muse has left him. A drunk stops YIN’s sedan chair. SHA…

SHAN is given a severe punishment for beating BUT. KUK YUEN-YUEN helps her out when she sees her being putting on by BUT. HA visits SHAN at Cheung Lai Yuen. YIN helps SHAN dress up as a dancer for fear HA will find out …

BUT dashes to the execution ground to plead for SHAN, who was only trying to drive the wasp away and save the emperor. On the other hand, he tells his family YAN remembered seeing him once at a restaurant. He is therefo…

BUT asks YUET how the dancer trainees are doing. She replies that SAU is doing exceptionally well. BUT requests YUET to train SHAN up in one month to help her pass the dancer trainee exam. THIRD PRINCE would like to thr…

YAN suspects that his mother and BUT’s mother came from the same village. DOU starts to worry. SHAN practices hard so that she can pass the dancer trainee exam and join the other girls. DOU finds YUET’s tenderness beaut…

YAN hopes that BUT will give SHAN one more chance but to no avail. SHAN is so ashamed of herself that she goes to the mountain instead of going home to see her mother. YAN finds her, and then puts her up in an inn. The …

Thanks to BUT’s help SHAN is allowed to return to Cheung Lai Yuen. She is grateful to his help. The reason he helped her, he explains, is because he finds themselves bearing striking similarities to each other. YAN fini…

CHUN accuses YUET of trying to outshine the others by vulgar means. KIU-YEUNG steps up to YUET’s help, accusing CHUN of setting YUET up with a view to becoming the principal dancer. The emperor praises BUT for SHAN’s br…

MUI blames BUT for claiming to be LUNG, her grandson. BUT is nervous. But when he learns from her maid, SIU MEI, that she is suffering from dementia, he decides to get away with it by saying that MUI has mistaken YAN fo…

YIN sincerely thinks that BUT has no respect for her. Using fruits as a metaphor, he tries to explain to her that it is no use forcing LONG. He hopes she will give him one more chance. SHAN’s fellow dancers find a handk…

MUI asks BUT and YIN when they are going to tie the knot. That YIN and BUT have been engaged comes as a blow to YAN. Someone bumps into MUI and injures her when she is praying for BUT and his future wife at the Matchmak…

MUI locks BUT and YIN in a room after adding an aphrodisiac to their wine. She believes this will leave them with no choice but to get married. BUT invites YAN and SHAN to participate in a wine drinking contest. Both un…

It grieves YAN to remember his past and how he was cheated by the person he trusted most. He goes on a drinking spree to try to forget his sorrows. YIN is dancing as he wakes up. She gives him a slap for saying that BUT…

BUT tells YAN he never wants to harm LUNG. When he finishes, he hands in his sword to YAN. For fear that YAN will revenge them, DOU suggests giving up the 100 taels of gold and leaving Changan but BUT opposes the idea. …

SHAN and YIN have very different styles. YUET believes it is difficult for SHAN to handle movements that express the beauty of pliancy, for she has never fallen in love. YAN takes YIN to watch the reed so as to let her …

SHAN has made some soup for YIN, who she regards as her role model and goal. CHIN refuses to listen to SHAN during a practice. If she wishes, SHAN replies, they can swap their positions. YING GOONG GOONG requests the co…

YIN is recuperating from her injury. Judging from SHAN’s recent behavior, she believes SHAN is coveting after her position of principal dancer as well as the man she loves. As YIN is injured, BUT suggests SHAN taking th…

At a debriefing called for BUT, the girls give an opinion that the competition for the position of the leading dancer is the cause of YIN and SHAN’s dispute. FA asks SHAN whether she has shown the emperor her pendent du…

YAN ties BUT up and grills him about the truth. What is more, he, claiming to be representing YAN, takes the money to Five Mile Slope to CHOW so as to find out about the truth. YIN would like to chat with BUT yet his at…

SHAN tells her mother Cheung Lai Yuen has fallen into the clutches of the empress but on the other hand she stops FA from fleeing, as she is determined to win the Belle Contest to return her mother’s innocence. BUT anno…

YAN demands that the government official who set fire to the inn will point BUT out with menaces. The man turns him off, unwilling to get involved. BUT agrees to turns himself in to BUT after the Belle Contest but YAN d…

Little princess’ feast is approaching but SHAN still cannot grasp the feeling of a fairy. To make things worse, she is injured at a special training. The doctor advises her to take a rest, for if not, she will surely su…

SHAN falls from the stage at the command performance. YING GOONG GOONG gives BUT a good telling-off for disappointing the emperor and empress. He demands an explanation from BUT. And if he is not satisfied with it, the …

SHAN asks YIN whether it ever occurs to her that she can save BUT by turning herself in to the empress. YIN tells her Highness that the daughter of the death row inmate is in Cheung Lai Yuen now. She hopes that the empr…

SHAN and FA are heading to the pier. As they are taking a rest, BUT shows up suddenly, claiming he has learnt about SHAN’s real identity. He also tells her to stay in Changan and participate in the Belle Contest. In add…

Taking the opportunity that WAN has fainted, NAM and CHUNG make YUEN pour her heart out to WAN with a trick. Thanks to their trick the sisters have finally patched up with each other. CHUNG expresses his love for YUEN t…

SHAN tells YIN the reason she takes part in the Belle Contest is to prove her mother’s innocence. She gives YIN a present, telling her to open it only after the contest. YAN points a knife at BUT in an attempt to arrest…