Barefoot Boy

In a certain year of the Qing Dynasty, barefoot lad Guan Fengyao (played by Aaron Kwok) ventures alone into the provincial city, completely impoverished, relying solely on his martial arts skills and his father's old friend Duan Qingyun (played by Ti Lung) from the dye house 'Four Seasons Weave'. The situation in the provincial city is quite unstable; the owner of Tianlong Fang, Kabe (played by Zeng Jiang), uses his status as a flag man to dominate a territory, holding continuous fighting matches to recruit bodyguards. The newly appointed county magistrate Yuan Tianyou (played by Zhang Zhaohui) and a teacher (played by Qian Pei) wish to eliminate Kabe but find themselves powerless and unstable. Guan Fengyao fortuitously encounters the owner of the Four Seasons Weave, Bai Xiaojun (played by Maggie Cheung), and the daughter of Teacher Yuan, Xiao Lian (played by Wu Qianlian), ultimately meeting Duan Qingyun, who has changed his name and hidden in the dye house to evade capture, and has developed feelings for Bai Xiaojun. Kabe plots to annex the Four Seasons Weave with various schemes, and when Guan Fengyao can no longer tolerate it, he confronts him, only to be subdued and used by Kabe. Yuan Tianyou repeatedly suffers setbacks in his struggle against Kabe and even threatens Duan Qingyun to fight Kabe. Guan Fengyao rushes to rescue him, but it is too late...