NIP CHI YUEN (Ma Steven), who works in the anti-smuggling camp, is determined to wipe out the Tau’s Fort, which is the stronghold for salt smugglers. He pretends to be a down-and-out scholar. TAU SING SUET (Yeung Yi), daughter of the chief smuggler, sympathizes with YUEN and puts him up in the village. Later, they even become fond of each other. During an anti-smuggling operation SUET is badly hurt and has since been separated from YUEN and her family. Fortunately she is saved by WU TING HIN (Wong Ho Yin), son of salt merchant WU KIN (Kwok Fung). HIN takes her home. One day, SUET is horrified to see the dead bodies of her parent being hung on the wall of the city tower, and that the official standing on the top of the tower telling the public not to sell smuggled salt is none other than the man she misses day and night. She is heartbroken, and her love for YUEN turns into hatred that moment on...
SUET meets SAM, one of the leaders at Tau’s Fort, on the street. She tries to approach him but somebody hit her on the back and she faints. YUEN doesn’t want SUET to know that he is directly responsible for the death of her parents. SAM tries to blackmail YUEN and YUEN tries to borrow money from FAI. LUNG comes back to Yangzhou secretly for he wants to kill YUEN. He sneaks into YUEN’s home and learns that YUEN has gone to the temple. HUNG meets up with SAM but he discovers that SAM is hiding something away from him. HUNG follows him and discovers that SAM is meeting YUEN at the temple. LUNG learns that SAM knows the secret of YUEN and he is overjoyed. He captures SAM and brings him to SUET for he wants SAM to reveal everything to SUET… YUEN and SUET get married eventually. After the wedding, YUEN decides to reveal the truth behind the death of SUET’s parents to her…
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