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“Testing His Loyal Wife”
General Ma Chongwei hears that his father-in-law plans to usurp power and the throne, so he decides to crusade against him. Before taking action, Ma goes on to test his wife Lady Zhou’s conduct, by lying to her that he himself plans to betray the emperor. However, Lady Zhou is so loyal to the emperor that she would rather die than join her husband. Ma feels his wife is trustworthy so he tells her the truth.

“Beating the Monk”
Zhang Fengxian becomes a monk and lives in the mountain to stay away from troubles. One day he meets the crown prince calling for help. The crown prince made a pilgrimage to Qingzhu Temple with his family, but his wife and maid were kidnapped by the Monk in the temple. Hearing the story, Zhang Fengxian hurries to Qingzhu Temple and confronts the monk.

“Retrieving the Head at Gao Ping Guan”
In the Five Dynasties, Gao Xingzhou, the Prince Eastern Lo, based at the Gao Ping Guan, the border of later Zhou, has always been a shoo-in in the battlefield. The Emperor of the later Zhou Dynasty, Guo Wei, is afraid Gao’s reputation will cause harm to his Empire. To kill Gao Xingzhou, Guo Wei imprisons the parents of Zhao Kuangyin and threatens the son to kill Gao Xingzhou in exchange of the freedom of his parents…

The King of Northern Qi invades Ngai, and violates Concubine Ngai. He then dies suddenly after Concubine Ngai gives birth to twins, a boy and a girl. When the jealous Queen intends to kill Concubine Ngai and the twins, Choi-ha and Yung Chun take them to flee the palace. Kwok Sai-fan is then ennobled for killing Concubine Ngai.
Choi-ha adopts Princess Fung-lin as her niece and earns their living by selling medicine in the streets while Yung Chun adopts Prince Yuk-lung as his son. As a grown-up, Fung-lin loves both Chiu Kum-lung the outlander and Yuk-lung. At first, she chooses to marry Chiu Kum-lung.
However, learning that Yuk-lung becomes The Queen of Northern Qi’s foster son, Fung-lin finally decides to be Yuk-lung’s wife, in order to avenge her mother. Taunted and angered by Yuk-lung, Kum-lung, who actually is the Crown Prince of Chiu, goes home and leads his troops to attack Qi. Before the wedding night, Yuk-lung is defeated and wounded at the battlefield.
Kum-lung intrudes into the palace and sees Choi-ha who clears the misunderstandings between the lovers. And when Kum-lung tries to kill Yuk-lung, Chun stops him by exposing the identity of the twins. After the reunited brother and sister kill the Queen and Sai-fan, they regain control of the country.

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The Emperor Zhen Zong of Song Dynasty is desperate to have a son to inherit his crown, thus he spends a night with one of his concubines Li Chen. Queen Liu is jealous when Concubine Li finally gets pregnant. With the help of the eunuch Guo Huai, she exchanges the prince with a raccoon.
Misunderstanding that his concubine has given birth to a demon, the Emperor sends Concubine Li to an isolated palace. To kill the prince, Queen Liu orders the maid Kou Zhu to drop the baby down the bridge of Jin Shui. The hestiant Kou Zhu encounters the servant Chen Lin. In order to save the baby, they hide it from other guards and send it to the House of the Prince Baxian in a fruit box. After ten years, the sonless Emperor is critically ill and plans to crown his nephew as successor. Prince Baxin presents Zhao Zhen to his brother, so that the father and son can secretly meet. Unfortunately, Huai spots out and informs Queen Liu. Queen Liu interrogates Zhu the whereabouts of the prince, forcing Lin to torture her. Zhu keeps her mouth shut till death for the sake of loyalty and justice.

Shum Siu-fuk is a behaving husband who has always been following the rules set by his wife, Maang Ying-chun. But one day he finds out his old father-in-law is deeply in love with a singer, Lau Piu-piu – it is not problem. His father-in-law expresses all his love in Siu-fuk’s own name – it is still not yet a problem. The whole thing has been heard by his ruthless wife – now that is a problem. What will he do to get away from the trouble?

At the Song Emperor’s Spring Festival banquet, the talented Lau Yuk-ngo beats all gents in riddle and is awarded by the Emperor a jade coin. She gives it to her husband Chan Gwai-sheung. So Kam-cho, an unwilling candidate for the Emperor’s harem, infiltrates into the palace as a dancer and seeks help from her cousin So Tung-po.
To avenge the insult and the salary-cut caused by Yuk-ngo, Tung-po advises Kam-cho to seduce Gwai-sheung and ask for the jade coin as the gift of engagement.
Back home, the infuriated Yuk-ngo beats Gwai-sheung with the rosewood stick and orders him to kneel and repent by a willowy pond. Tung-po seeks the chance to instigate Gwai-sheung to divorce Yuk-ngo. Yuk-ngo goes to the court for justice, but her uncle Kwai Yuk-shu tries to punish her for being a shrew. However, he himself is ordered to kneel by his wife. Gwai-sheung and Yuk shu then go to seek help from the Emperor. The Emperor orders Yuk-ngo to let Gwai-sheung keep Kam-cho as his concubine but she refuses and chooses to take arsenic instead. In her last word, she urges Gwai-sheung to be loyal to Kam-cho. Her words move Gwai-sheung. Fortunately, the Empress has replaced the poison with vinegar. Finally, the couple is reconciled and reunited.

Kiu Dan-fung, a brilliant girl with civil and military talents, is proficient in Chinese medicine. She is always at odds with Dai Sam-ku, a woman quack opposite to her clinic. Cheung Chong-ci, a marquis from Huainan, looks for his mother, who has left him in his childhood. Sam-ku disguises herself as Chong-ci’s mother so as to cheat him for his fortune. Chong-ci is fooled by Sam-ku and thinks that she is his mother. Chong-ci has a prenatal betrothal with Szema Chiu-tung; yet he is in discord with Chiu-tung’s brother, which bothers the marriage. Meanwhile, Chiu-tung has a secret love with a nobleman and seeks help from Dan-fung in order to escape from the marriage with Chong-ci. Thus Dan fung disguises herself as Chiu-tung and decides to spoil the marriage. However, Chong-ci and Dan-fung fall in love with each other when they first meet. Sam-ku learns that Dan-fung impersonates Chiu-tung and plans to unmask her. But Sam-ku herself is also a fake and cannot unveil Dan-fung’s plot. Eventually Chong-ci and Dan-fung manage to have their wedding in the end.

The story takes place in the Three Kingdoms Period (220-280). Cai Wenji, the daughter of Cai Yong, is famous for her nonpareil accomplishments in literature as well as music. She is captured by a Xiongnu (Huns) chieftan, the Wise Prince of the Left, during the chaotic times of war. He admires her artistic gift and finally wins her heart, so the two become husband and wife. Twelve years later, Cao Cao has gained power and is the prime minister of Han. He remembers his old friend, the historian Cai Yong, who had left no heir to continue his monumental work of writing The Book of Han. So he sends an envoy to the Huns, expressing willingness to pay a large ransom for Cai’s release and return to Han land. He envisions that she would pick up the work from where her father left off, and, feeling grateful and indebted to him, she would write him favourably into the historical archives. What Cao has mistaken is that he may have a good intent, but the rude severance of Cai from her family in Hun is taking away all her happiness. As wife and mother, she is never able to see her husband and son again. She is so heartbroken that she grieves to the end. On her long journey back to Han land, Lady Cai pours out her heart in a song cycle with lyrics, both of which she writes. And that, is the creation of the masterpiece, Eighteen Variations on a Hu Pipe Melody.