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Wun Tailai's subordinate Yu Yu was deeply in love with
Wun's wife, Luo Bing. However he could not speak up because Wun Tailai treated him very
well prior to being sent to jail. As a close friend, it was his obligation to look after
Wun's wife, Luo Bing, but to him this assignment was tormenting. Consequently he took as
many jobs given by the head of Honghuahui as he could and by doing so he could avoid
gazing at Luo Bing. He loved Luo to the degree that he neglected Li Wanjhih, a girl who
deeply in love with him. Until Wanjhih was heavily injured in a battle avenge Yu Yu's
master, Yu Yu moved his focus from Luo Bing to her. Then they married.
Chen Jialuo was in love with a Muslim girl, Huo Cingtong, and later with Cingtong's
sister, Kesihli, Princess Siangsiang. He was in a dilemma when he found out that Cianlong
also was in love with Kesihli. He persuaded Kesihli to marry Cianlong in order to complete
the mission: to overthrow the Cing Dynasty. Kesihli did what Chen Jialuo told her to do,
but when she found that Cianlong could not give up his throne she committed suicide as a
warning to Chen Jialuo.
Many folk tales are interwoven in this story. It also criticizes Emperor Cianlong and the
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