Forty years ago, I lived downtown in Dongchang, a compound which had housed the secret service of the Ming dynasty.

Products such as methane chloride, gourmet powder, sorbierite, rutile, freon and benzene series were mostly produced in the east plant compound.

A stranger arrives in the town wanting Ku to paint hisportrait, but his real objective is to bring a female fugitive back to the city for execution on behalfof the East Chamber guards.