Adapted from Princess Agents drama series and original novel by Xiao Xiang Dong'er – Chu Qiao Chuan Biography
Towards the East winds (pass)
It was almost spring after the darkest winter in Yuwen Yue's life, he is walking down the busy street when he bumped into a young man dressed in his casual peasant clothes, he looked at the young man and it reminded him of someone in the past. In his earliest twenties, the young man looks handsome and gorgeous. He works as longshoremen at night but trains and stays in the Shaolin temple at daytime.
The young man looks immature but owns a golden attitude in the inside. Bullied from time to time, the young man got involved too many gangster fights in the city. Usually beaten by the gangsters in the public but does not fight back to them. At the Shaolin temple, he is a simple monk at day and lives by the temple values, sworn an oath to use his skills in martial arts when the innocent is hurt or if he badly needs it for self-defense. Many times, he let's go and do not fight at all, escaping his urge to hurt or kill, he closes his eyes then prays and hums in peace. A simple young man who works as a laborer at night, he loads and unloads cargoes into a ship to earn money and donate some of his earnings to the poor. He hides behind his conceited self, but he is a good young man with a good heart.
Zuo Zong left at the Shaolin temple at an early age when his father was killed in the ports of Shangxi. His father was a foreigner in the land who traveled to visit the Luoyang Shaolin temple with his two sons Zuo Shan and Zuo Zong his eldest brother. Unfortunately, their father was followed by his rival assassins and his eldest brother was taken captive by them. Zuo Zong's father was one of the best mercenaries that served the warlords of feudal Japan who specialized in unorthodox war-related skills, well versed in espionage, sabotage, infiltration, and assassination. They came to the temple to let them train, but their father's life ended at the hand of the cruel ninja assassins. These assassins thought Zuo Zong was dead for he fought to defend his father but who is he? A warrior inside a child's body who is not capable to defend yet and watched his father die. The ninja assassin thought only of him as a child, so they didn't bother and let him live when his eldest brother protected him and told them to take him instead. After the bloody scene, Zuo Shan on his tears was taken by the assassins but left his brother a jade stone and he told him: "Do not be afraid, we shall meet again."
The boy cried but his brother faded like a mist in his sight. He was left holding the dead body of his father. The boy went blackout. The next thing he knew, he was back at the Shaolin temple. The monks pitied him and took him to their care. He is so little and does not have any defense for himself yet. Later on, the monks trained him of Kungfu martial arts and he became the youngest kungfu master. He is young, tough and accurate in his targets. Using his martial arts skills, Zuo Zong had already carried out many secret missions.
Since Yuwen Yue got out of the icy lake and survived the tragedy, he kept his identity to himself. His looks disguised himself and did not come back to Wei or to Green Hills courtyard. He went to several journeys, to the deserts and ravines to the East, keeping himself alive through quietly living one day at a time. He worked and talked like a servant. Everything about him turned upside down, introducing himself as ordinary to the people as no one. He never let people know about his superb Gongfu (a type of martial arts) or let people identify him as the missing master of the eyes of God.
Back to his desert days, when he was living in the harsh winds and had to calm his senses through a thousand sandstorms, his memories came to surface. But he also knew that one day, all roads will lead to Xinger. If she is alive, he promised himself that he will be looking forward to the day when he comes back again to face her and the people who took them apart will have to pay it forward. Yuwen Yue still handsome despite this rugged appearance, his cold eyes still can drop any knees. In his princely stature shows its calm face like waters of spring. He makes sure that he does not draw any attention or any favors from people he works and meets so that he can protect himself and always reminds himself to look at the bigger picture.
Yuwen Yue looked at the address to deliver the parcel, a square shaped wooden box picked and packed from a seafood restaurant where he works as a part-time peddler man. He lived differently than his former life, where he has servants before, now, he works for himself. The only thing he was not able to change was the fact, that people seem attracted to him and these peddlers follow him and would always ask for his service to deliver important items to the rich lords of the East.
"I found the place." Yuwen Yue looks at the address in his pocket.
He knocked on the door but then he saw some women are looking at him and whispering among themselves. Yuwen Yue locked his brows and gave them a cold look. The rugged man on his age of forty years (in his 40s), robust and formal opened the door. Yuwen Yue came in to deliver the parcel. The man took the parcel but Yuwen Yue left waiting for the payment, but no one came. Yuwen Yue thinks this is rude, he twitched his palms wanting to teach him a lesson. When he was about to leave, the man came back, this time with another four men. They dragged him inside the lodge and put him to a cell. He did not have that quick reaction as Yuwen Yue is known to be a slow child. He just let them drag him like that. He suddenly finds himself locked up within a cell full of haggard looking men. Yuwen Yue looked at them as a sharp knife in his eyes, he closed his eyes to meditate at the moment. Any slight movements, he senses it and he is thinking, and controlling his twitching palms. Either he is going to end up beaten or these men will have a taste to make the most unforgettable event of their life.
Suddenly, loud noises outside the cell heard, drum rolls banging and issued dragging sounds. The door was left open near the cell, where Yuwen Yue were locked, he saw a crowd of people cheering from its first floor, and in the balcony where some money thrown in the ground. This place is like the cockpit area but no cockfighting. Instead, the people dressed in their fighting costumes, several warriors and fighters, which looks like foreigners to the land. He saw a man wearing a black mask concealing his face, dressed as a ninja warrior but there is no long sword on his waist. This fellow is currently making the crowd go crazy with loud noises and cheering people. The crowd also cast their bet on him and some dirty looking male youngsters gathered them before the fight began. This is a man-to-man fight, no weapons allowed rules. Just pure martial arts. Yuwen Yue thought that he found a hidden cockpit where the warriors get a chance to earn from a paid fight.
Yuwen Yue composed himself and recalled his rules. Yuwen Yue is a master who plays by the rules. Back to his former days, as the Green Hills courtyard master of the eyes of God, he thought his slaves this rule "slave obeys", if not obedient heads will roll. If there is a crime committed someone must pay to be justified. Yuwen Yue thought he cannot fight, not this time, it is spring season. After his self-talk, a man came and dragged him. True to what he just saw, this is a hidden place of savage fighters. Yuwen Yue forced to watch the current match. For the first time, his blood rose up to this exciting match, his eyes brows locked and rarely in the past, even now that he is getting impressed on someone. Today, an impression came watching this near sight is such an amazing view. The man wearing the black mask on his ninja costume is currently executing his "Kata". Yuwen Yue watched his moves, rewinding him back to his past. Though he cannot see the face of the male fighter, judging entirely from his moves, he remembered someone, he is close to, back at Yuwen household.
"The seventh Yue", Yuwen Yue almost screamed but no one heard as the crowd shouts heightened on excitement. Seems the masked black ninja have many fans while the contender looks like a big muscled man, a dangling on his nose, thick eyebrows, and some scars on his shoulders indicating this is not his first time to fight. The contender's face turned horrible, then he runs to finish the black ninja. The masked black ninja's crowd favorite, showed an exhibition move when suddenly he was at the back of his contender, he snapped its arms and grabbed its feet. The contender fell on his back. The black ninja came face to face with Yuwen Yue in front of the noisy crowd crying for more action. Both looked eye to eye while the black ninja looked startled meeting Yuwen Yue's eyes. Yuwen Yue is busy looking at him, he thought of seventh Yue. From his curious brow, is a man who looks somewhat confused and puzzled, the black ninja is not recognizing him. Yuwen Yue's senses awakened and think he is ready to break his own rules.
