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* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: Gets impaled by General Cheng's BladeOnAStick. He doesn't die immediately, so General Cheng then stabs him with a knife.

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* UncertainDoom: [[spoiler: She's last seen in deep and icy-cold water, and we don't see her swim to the surface.]] It's possible she survived, but there's no official confirmation either way.


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* UncertainDoom: [[spoiler: He's last seen sinking out of sight in deep and icy-cold water.]] It's possible he survived, but there's no official confirmation either way.
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* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: Gets impaled by General Cheng's BladeOnAStick. He doesn't die immediately, so General Cheng then stabs him with a knife.
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* AnArmAndALeg: His arm is cut off after he tries to assassinate Yan Xun.
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* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: All of her villainous actions are to get revenge for what she and her brother suffered/

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* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: All of her villainous actions are to get revenge for what she and her brother suffered/suffered.
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* ActionGirl: She can certainly hold her own in a fight.


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* RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething: Spends most of her time sneaking around a foreign country and learning secrets its upper class want to keep hidden.


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* RoyalBrat: Has a reputation for being exceedingly weird at best and an arrogant, entitled brat at worst. His eccentricities include refusing to eat food that's been grown or prepared by men -- everything he eats is grown in a separate garden tended by women; making ridiculously elaborate preparations for short trips then travelling very slowly; and being a nuisance to his hosts.
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* BreakTheCutie [=/=] TraumaCongaLine: In the space of mere days he's arrested, thrown in prison, accused of treason, learns his family have been murdered, is confronted with their decapitated heads, witnesses his mother's suicide, thrown back in prison, forced to cut off his own finger, and learns Yuwen Yue -- someone he considered his best friend -- knew about the plot against him and didn't warn him. Any one of those events would be deeply traumatic. All of them, one after another... No wonder Yan Xun snaps.
* {{Determinator}}: Nothing will stop him reaching his family's bodies. Not a small army of heavily-armed soldiers, not a rain of arrows, ''nothing''.
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: He and his friends gallop recklessly through the streets, nearly damaging the shops' merchandise. A man's cart overturns when he can't get out of the way in time. Yan Xun is the only one who stops to let the man pick up the cart, while the others gallop past without looking back.
* EvilCostumeSwitch: Starts wearing black clothes and dark eyeshadow after his FaceHeelTurn.
* FaceHeelTurn [=/=] FallenHero: Becomes increasingly villainous in his quest for revenge.
* {{Fingore}}: Cuts off his own finger to save Chu Qiao.
* TheGadfly: Starts out as one. He constantly teases Chu Qiao and Yuwen Yue, even after they've both made it clear they're fed up with him, and he switches the guards' swords and steals food from a passing servant for his own amusement. In spite of his antics he isn't malicious; just careless and inconsiderate of others.
* HumanPincushion: Gets shot repeatedly in episode twenty-four. He snaps the arrows' shafts so they don't get in the way and continues trying to reach the box holding his father's head.
* LikeBrotherAndSister: Played with. Yan Xun outright says he thinks of Yuan Chun as a younger sister, but she's in love with him.
* {{Multishot}}: Kills two wolves by firing two arrows at once.
* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: He absolutely berserk after learning his family have been murdered and seeing Yuwen Huai hold up his father's head.
* RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething: Among other things he stages a rebellion and marches his army out of Chang'an on his wedding day.
* SadisticChoice: Xi Feng forces Yan Xun to choose between cutting off his own finger, or watching as Xi Feng crushes Chu Qiao's fingers. Yan Xun chooses to cut off his own finger.
* SelfFulfillingProphecy: The emperor thinks the Yan family are plotting against him. So he has them all killed... except for Yan Xun, who plots against the emperor to get revenge.
* SkywardScream: Screams "Mother!" at the sky after Bai Sheng's suicide.
* SpottingTheThread: He's the only person who notices Yuwen Yue isn't nearly grief-stricken enough for someone whose grandfather was murdered.
* WeddingSmashers: A rare self-inflicted version; Yan Xun rebels just before his wedding to Yuan Chun.


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* BreakTheCutie [=/=] TraumaCongaLine: She knows about the plot against the Yan family beforehand, but is caught and locked in the palace before she can warn Yan Xun. Later he stages a rebellion on the day he's supposed to marry her. She begs Yan Xun to stop it, but he coldly tells her he never loved her and rides away. Then Yuan Song tries to assassinate him, so in retaliation [[spoiler: Yan Xun's men rape Yuan Chun]].
* LikeBrotherAndSister: Played with. Yan Xun outright says he thinks of Yuan Chun as a younger sister, but she's in love with him.
* RapeAsDrama: [[spoiler: Yan Xun's men rape her after Yuan Song's assassination attempt.]]
* UngratefulBastard: Blames Chu Qiao for everything that happened to her and Yuan Song. Even though Chu Qiao knew nothing about it beforehand, rescued them as soon as she found out, and goes out of her way to protect and help them. Somewhat justified Yuan Chun is traumatised and heart-broken, but she still pins the blame on the one person who isn't responsible in any way.
* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: All of her villainous actions are to get revenge for what she and her brother suffered/


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* INeedAFreakingDrink: Resorts to drinking after a day of enduring [[RoyalBrat Xiao Ce]] and his demands.


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* TheCaligula: He isn't as obviously deranged as some examples, but he's crazy and paranoid enough to have an entire family murdered because he's convinced some of them are traitors.
* SuddenlyShouting: When the emperor tells Yuwen Yue he suspects Yan Xun's family of treason he speaks calmly at first. When Yuwen Yue disagrees the emperor continues to speak calmly... for a few seconds. Then he yells at Yuwen Yue for daring to contradict him.


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* FakingTheDead: He survives the assassination attempt, but he and Yuwen Yue decide to pretend he died. Yuwen Yue holds a fake funeral for him while Yuwen Zhuo recovers in peace.


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* AssholeVictim: His actions include taunting Yan Xun with his father's decapitated head and ''murdering a toddler''. No one is sorry when he dies.
* AxeCrazy: His idea of entertainment is to kidnap dozens of unarmed, defenceless girls for his friends to hunt down and kill.
* DeathOfAChild: [[spoiler: Locks Hao Er, Lan Shu Yi's toddler, in a box and leaves him to suffocate.]]
* HuntingTheMostDangerousGame: Kidnaps girls, including Chu Qiao, then hunts them for sport.


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* AssholeVictim: He cheerfully joins in the plots against Yan Xun, so his fate is richly deserved.


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* {{Nephewism}}: He was adopted as a child by his uncle Wei Guang.
* TokenGoodTeammate: He's the only one of Yan Xun's so-called friends who truly is his friend -- at first -- and who tries to save him when he learns he's in danger.


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* AssholeVictim: Murders Yan Xun's pregnant sister, forces Yan Xun to cut off his own finger, and is generally a monster. He richly deserves his painful death at the hands of Yan Xun and Chu Qiao.
* AxeCrazy: He's delighted by Yuwen Huai's HuntingTheMostDangerousGame. Later he gleefully murders a pregnant woman as she tries desperately to escape.
* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: Gets impaled twice, by Chu Qiao's arrow and Yan Xun's sword.
* SadisticChoice: Forces Yan Xun to choose between cutting off his own finger, or watching as Xi Feng crushes Chu Qiao's fingers. Yan Xun chooses to cut off his own finger.
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* SecretTestOfCharacter: Yuwen Yue gives Chu Qiao a razor and tells her to shave him. It's actually a test to see if she'll take the opportunity to kill him for [[spoiler: killing her brother]]. She considers it, but doesn't go through with it.


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* TheStoic: He barely ever smiles, and not even assassination attempts can disturb his calm. Only one person can mildly fluster him: Chu Qiao.
* StrollingThroughTheChaos: Walks through a fight without getting so much as a scratch.
* WhatTheHellHero: Calls Yan Xun out for planning to flood Chang'an, knowing it would kill thousands of civilians, to avenge his family and escape the city.


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* AntiVillain [=/=] WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: All of his villainous actions are to get revenge for his murdered family.
* BareHandedBladeBlock: Grabs the blades of two spears at once, snaps them off, and uses them against the soldiers.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Most of the time Yan Xun is a good-natured guy who's rarely seen without a smile. But if you hurt someone he cares about -- or even worse, murder his family -- then heaven help you.
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* ActionGirl: Flashbacks show she was one even as a child. She becomes even more of one after training to be a spiy.
* AmnesiacHero: Loses her memories after almost drowning.
* AndThisIsFor: As she beats him to death Chu Qiao tells Yuwen Xi her punches are for Zhi Xiang, Lin Xi, and all the girls he's murdered.
* BareHandedBladeBlock: She blocks Yuwen Hao's blade -- which is sharp enough to slice through rock -- with her bare hands.
* CombatHaircomb: Uses a sharp hairpin as a dagger.
* DeathFakedForYou: Yuwen Yue pretends to kill Chu Qiao and gets a doctor to confirm her "death". It's actually a ploy to get her away from Yuwen Huai. Unfortunately the people not in on the plan think Chu Qiao is really dead and take her body to be cremated.
* ExactEavesdropping: She overhears Yuwen Zhuo and Yue Qi discussing how Yuwen Yue's training her to use against the enemy, and she'll probably be killed.
* HappilyAdopted: She was adopted by the Jing family and renamed Jing Xiao Liu to protect her. She was happy with them, but unfortunately by the start of the series she has amnesia and can't remember them.
* IHaveManyNames: She's known as Chu Qiao, Jing Xiao Liu, and Xing Er.
* MadeASlave: She and many other innocent people are kidnapped and forced into slavery.
* PoorCommunicationKills: Yuwen Yue has no time to tell Chu Qiao about his plan to fake her death. She thinks he really did try to kill her, so when Zhong Yu saves her she doesn't tell Yuwen Yue she's safe. Yuwen Yue thinks she was accidentally cremated and blames himself for her "death". Meanwhile Chu Qiao is working for Yan Xun and is convinced Yuwen Yue is her enemy.
* StabTheScorpion: She stands over an ill and unarmed Yuwen Yue, sword in hand, remembering how he killed Lin Xi. She raises the sword... and uses it to shove away the snake about to bite Yuwen Yue.
* SweetPollyOliver: Briefly disguises herself as a man in episode forty-three. It's one of the least convincing disguises imaginable, complete with a blatantly fake moustache and beard.


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* CallingTheOldManOut: Does this indirectly when he reminds his grandfather of all his father's shortcomings.
* HappilyAdopted: He's the grandson of Yuwen Zhuo's second brother. Yuwen Yue's mother went insane, so Yuwen Zhuo adopted him and raised him as his own grandson.
* {{Jerkass}}: Starts out as one, with his callous disregard for servants' lives, refusal to investigate whether Lin Xi was actually guilty, and not even caring that he cuts Chu Qiao's arm when he kills a spider. Luckily he gets better later.
* PoorCommunicationKills: Justified, since he had no time to let Chu Qiao in on the plan beforehand, but they would have both been spared a lot of trouble if he'd found some way to tell her he was going to fake her death.
* RaisedByGrandparents: Played with. Yuwen Zhuo is actually Yuwen Yue's great-uncle, but he adopted Yuwen Yue and raised him as his grandson.
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!!Main Characters

[[folder: Chu Qiao]]
--> '''Played by:''' Zhao Li Ying

An amnesiac maid who trains to be a spy.
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[[folder: Yuwen Yue]]
--> '''Played by:''' Lin Geng Xin

Fourth young master of Yuwen Manor and heir to the Eyes of God.
[[/folder]]

[[folder: Yan Xun]]
--> '''Played by:''' Shawn Dou

Prince of Northern Yan.
[[/folder]]

[[folder: Yuan Chun]]
--> '''Played by:''' Li Qin

Princess of Western Wei.
[[/folder]]

!!Western Wei

[[folder: Yue Qi]]
--> '''Played by:''' Xing Zhao Lin

Yuwen Yue's right-hand-man.
[[/folder]]

[[folder: Yuan Song]]
--> '''Played by:''' Niu Jun Feng

Yuan Chun's brother.
[[/folder]]

[[folder: Emperor]]
--> '''Played by:''' Tian Xiao Jie

Emperor of Western Wei. Yuan Chun's father.
[[/folder]]

[[folder: Yuwen Zhuo]]
--> '''Played by:''' Kwok Fung

Yuwen Yue's grandfather.
[[/folder]]

[[folder: Yuwen Huai]]
--> '''Played by:''' Wang Yan Lin

Yuwen Yue's cousin.
[[/folder]]

[[folder: Wei Shu You]]
--> '''Played by:''' Jurat

Young master of the Wei family.
[[/folder]]

[[folder: Wei Shu Ye]]
--> '''Played by:''' Chen Si Han

Wei Shu You's cousin.
[[/folder]]

[[folder: Zhao Xi Feng]]
--> '''Played by:''' Jin Han

Young master of the Zhao family.
[[/folder]]

!!Northern Yan

[[folder: Zhong Yu]]
--> '''Played by:''' Li Ruo Jia

A warrior loyal to Yan Xun.
[[/folder]]

!!Southern Liang

[[folder: Xiao Yu]]
--> '''Played by:''' Huang Meng Ying

Princess of Liang and one of its best spies.
[[/folder]]

[[folder: Xiao Ce]]
--> '''Played by:''' Deng Lun

Crown Prince of Liang. Xiao Yu's brother.
[[/folder]]

!!Xiu Li Army

[[folder: He Xiao]]
--> '''Played by:''' Ruan Sheng Wen

Second commander of the Xiu Li army.
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