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* AluminiumChristmasTrees: Ge Lao is a black man in ancient China. It's not as impossible as it sounds; the Tang Dynasty had contact with many places, including the UsefulNotes/ByzantineEmpire, and people from all over the world came to China.
** More specifically, Ge Lao was a former 'Kunlun Nu', a term meaning Black Slave during the Tang Dynasty. There is even a story written during the period depicting a heroic Kunlun Nu who saved his master.
** More specifically, Ge Lao was a former 'Kunlun Nu', a term meaning Black Slave during the Tang Dynasty. There is even a story written during the period depicting a heroic Kunlun Nu who saved his master.
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** More specifically, Ge Lao was a former 'Kunlun Nu', a term meaning Black Slave during the Tang Dynasty. There is even a story written during the period to depict a heroic Kunlun Nu who saved his master.
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** More specifically, Ge Lao was a former 'Kunlun Nu', a term meaning Black Slave during the Tang Dynasty. There is even a story written during the period to depict depicting a heroic Kunlun Nu who saved his master.
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* AluminiumChristmasTrees: Ge Lao is a black man in ancient China. It's not as impossible as it sounds; the Tang Dynasty had contact with many places, including the UsefulNotes/ByzantineEmpire, and people from all over the world came to China. There is even a story written during the Tang Dynasty to depict a heroic Kunlun Nu who saved his master.
** More specifically, Ge Lao was a former 'Kunlun Nu', a term meaning Black Slave during the Tang Dynasty.
** More specifically, Ge Lao was a former 'Kunlun Nu', a term meaning Black Slave during the Tang Dynasty.
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* AluminiumChristmasTrees: Ge Lao is a black man in ancient China. It's not as impossible as it sounds; the Tang Dynasty had contact with many places, including the UsefulNotes/ByzantineEmpire, and people from all over the world came to China. There is even a story written during the Tang Dynasty to depict a heroic Kunlun Nu who saved his master.
** More specifically, Ge Lao was a former 'Kunlun Nu', a term meaning Black Slave during the Tang Dynasty. There is even a story written during the period to depict a heroic Kunlun Nu who saved his master.
** More specifically, Ge Lao was a former 'Kunlun Nu', a term meaning Black Slave during the Tang Dynasty. There is even a story written during the period to depict a heroic Kunlun Nu who saved his master.
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* AluminiumChristmasTrees: Ge Lao is a black man in ancient China. It's not as impossible as it sounds; the Tang Dynasty had contact with many places, including the UsefulNotes/ByzantineEmpire, and people from all over the world came to China.
** More specifically, Ge Lao was a former 'Kunlun nu', a term meaning Black Slave during the Tang Dynasty.
** More specifically, Ge Lao was a former 'Kunlun nu', a term meaning Black Slave during the Tang Dynasty.
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* AluminiumChristmasTrees: Ge Lao is a black man in ancient China. It's not as impossible as it sounds; the Tang Dynasty had contact with many places, including the UsefulNotes/ByzantineEmpire, and people from all over the world came to China.
China. There is even a story written during the Tang Dynasty to depict a heroic Kunlun Nu who saved his master.
** More specifically, Ge Lao was a former 'Kunlunnu', Nu', a term meaning Black Slave during the Tang Dynasty.
** More specifically, Ge Lao was a former 'Kunlun
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** More specifically, Ge Lao was a former 'Kunlun nu', a term meaning Black Slave during the Tang Dynasty.
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* BloodierAndGorier [=/=] DarkerAndEdgier: The series has more graphic violence than the majority of Chinese dramas. Among other things it features a man getting [[ImpaledPalm a knife driven into his hand]] on-screen and a woman being BuriedAlive. Not to mention the man who had his eyes gouged out, and who appears in several scenes with his face covered in blood. Or Yu Chang getting her arm caught in the tower's cogs and ''[[AnArmAndALeg cutting it off]]'' to free herself.
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* BloodierAndGorier [=/=] DarkerAndEdgier: The series has more graphic violence than the majority of Chinese dramas. Among other things it features a man getting [[ImpaledPalm a knife driven into his hand]] on-screen and a woman being BuriedAlive. Not to mention the man who had his eyes gouged out, and who appears in several scenes with his face covered in blood. Or Yu Chang getting her arm caught in the tower's cogs and ''[[AnArmAndALeg ''[[LifeOrLimbDecision cutting it off]]'' to free herself.
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* ShownTheirWork: The series is exquisitely researched in its historical aspects, from the clothing and armour to the role of "foreign" groups like the Zoroastrians and Turks in the Tang Dynasty to small details like characters sipping pomegranate juice through straws.
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--> Tan Qi does this in order to publicly cut her ties with Li Bi and not to implicate him by any of her following activities.
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* HistoricalBeautyUpgrade: Portraits of the real Li Bi are scarce, but it's safe to assume [[https://www.popo8.com/host/data/201907/13/8/p1563056526_10938.jpg_b.jpg he didn't look like Jackson Yee]].
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* HistoricalBeautyUpgrade: Portraits of the real Li Bi are scarce, but it's safe to assume [[https://www.popo8.com/host/data/201907/13/8/p1563056526_10938.jpg_b.[[https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DNAOD_ZU8AAm8bf.jpg he didn't look like Jackson Yee]].
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* TheFarmerAndTheViper: Jiao Zhuo pulls Po Yan out of the river. Po Yan repays him by robbing and killing him.
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* TheFarmerAndTheViper: Jiao Zhuo Sui pulls Po Yan out of the river. Po Yan repays him by robbing and killing him.
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* AxCrazy: Yu Chang. Even Long Bo is shocked by her cruelty, especially when she defies his orders to kill a girl.
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* AxCrazy: Yu Chang. Even Long Bo is shocked by her cruelty, especially when she defies his orders not to kill a girl.
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* BreakTheHaughty: At the start of the series Li Bi is head of the Peacekeeper Squad, has considerable influence in the city, and has a high opinion of himself. Half-way through he loses his office, is outsmarted by Long Bo, and gets locked up with no way of contacting his friends.
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* BreakTheHaughty: At the start of the series Li Bi is head of the Peacekeeper Squad, Corps, has considerable influence in the city, and has a high opinion of himself. Half-way through he loses his office, is outsmarted by Long Bo, and gets locked up with no way of contacting his friends.
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* AxCrazy: Yu Chang. Even Long Bo is shocked by her cruelty, especially when she defies his orders to kill Wen Ran.
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* AxCrazy: Yu Chang. Even Long Bo is shocked by her cruelty, especially when she defies his orders to kill Wen Ran.a girl.
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* BigBad: Long Bo.
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* BigBad: Long Bo.Bo is the real threat to the city.
* BolivianArmyEnding: A villainous version that isn't actually the end of the series. Long Bo dies when he charges into the soldiers gathered to kill him.
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* DualWielding: Yu Chang wields two swords at once.
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* DeliberatelyMonochrome: The desaturated version is used frequently, usually for flashbacks.
* DualWielding: Yu Chang wields two swords at once. Long Bo does the same just before his death.
* DualWielding: Yu Chang wields two swords at once. Long Bo does the same just before his death.
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* FromNobodyToNightmare: In flashbacks Long Bo is a relatively insignificant soldier working with Xiao Jing. In the main series he's planning to blow up half of Chang'an to kill the emperor.
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* ClockworksArea: The mechanisms powering the lantern tower. Xiao Jing and Yu Chang fight a duel on top of the clockwork.
* DualWielding: Yu Chang wields two swords at once.
* DualWielding: Yu Chang wields two swords at once.
