Overview
Two individuals, the scholar Shen Fang and the knight-errant Luo Han, steal a huge sum of silver from the official Qin Hui to support the anti-Jin rebels, devising a grand deception to combat the imperial guard and rally people from all walks of life to their cause during the Southern Song Dynasty.
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