I will try to introduce one by one.
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I will quote from http://condorheroes.silverthreads.net - there are some parts that made me laugh, when I equate the link with ourselves:
Even though Yang Kang is a despicable man who betrayed his country, his love for Mu Nianci (GRACE) has moved the hearts of all.
Yang Kang is a proud man and has only one purpose: money and power. In fact he is obsessed with helping the Jin Empire rule the world. Yang Kang is very intelligent and cunning, though not a man of his words. Aside from his mother and foster father, he is only loyal to one other and that is Mu Nianci.
The only sign of regret the Yang Kang shows for all his wrong doing is when he is about to die. The only good Yang Kang ever does is marrying Mu Nianci and having a son like Yang Guo (BEN). In the end Yang Kang dies and is buried in the dust behind an old temple. For all his attempts to achieve fame and glory in the end, he was buried as a common man.
Mu Nianci falls in love with Yang Kang at first sight. However, she is not the smartest woman in this story and is too easily fooled by the lies of Yang Kang. It is because she is kind-hearted that she believes that Yang Kang will one day change. The happiest day in her life is when she marries Yang Kang. In the end however, her attempts to change Yang Kang are fruitless.
Mu Nianci has the same traits as Yang Kang’s mother, Bao Xiruo (MINGLI). Both are kind hearted and easily fooled by evil men. Her traits makes her a perfect match for Yang Kang. Yang Kang is smart and selfish and Mu Nianci is dumb and unselfish. She would rather have an average husband, live in an ordinary home, rather than marrying a Jin Prince and live in the palace. (This part is completely ROFLMAO!)
Story:
Their love story began when Mu Nianci was having a tournament to find a husband. When Yang Kang participated she was only too happy to accept the challenge. However, after winning the competition, instead of marrying her, he kept her shoe that he took during battle as a trophy, insulted her and left. This caused Mu Nianci to be heart-broken.
Days gone by after the little incident, and Yang Kang realized how much he missed seeing Mu Nianci and how much her beauty had captivated him. Times and again he looked at her shoe, which he had always kept with him since he took it, while mesmerizing about her. He then realized that he really did like Mu Nianci, and decided to win her back.
However, Mu Nianci didn’t need to be won back, for her heart had already been won by him since the beginning. Her only request of Yang Kang was that he left the Jin Empire to fight for the Song Empire, and to leave all wealth and luxury of Jin to be a common Han and live happily ever after with her. Yang Kang was torn between the woman he loved and the comfort of wealth and luxury. He wanted to have both.
When his foster father, the Jin King Wanyan Honglie (LESTER), found out about Mu Nianci, he had ordered his men to secretly kill her. This was found out by Yang Kang, who prompted to threaten his father that he would kill himself if Mu Nianci was hurt. He did not want any other princesses or noblewomen that his father offered… he only wanted Mu Nianci, who was reluctant if he was still in the Jin Empire.
Not once, but more than many times Yang Kang lied to Mu Nianci that he was willing to throw his title away, just to keep her by his side. And all those times, Mu Nianci fell for it, and each time got her heart broken.
Mu Nianci decided that she’d had enough and left Yang Kang one day. Fate must have brought them back together when Yang Kang was poisoned by the Mongolians and collapsed at Mu Nianci’s house. However strong her will to leave Yang Kang, she still couldn’t bear to see him suffer, so she sucked out his poison into her own body and was ready to die so that he might live. Fortunately, Guo Jing brought the antidote just in time to prevent Mu Nianci from killing herself.
Yang Kang, who was awaken to find Mu Nianci gone, prompted to look for her, wanting to be with her and touched that she had sacrificed herself for him. However, Guo Jing came back bearing a message from Mu Nianci. He said that should Yang Kang decided to leave his title and all wealth and luxury behind, then he could go and look for her. Otherwise, he was told to just forget her.
Yang Kang was contemplating about this a lot, and just when he decided that he loved Mu Nianci and went to see her, he saw his father and his army looking for him, and without thinking twice, he ran to his father, instead of the other direction to where Mu Nianci was. Meanwhile, Mu Nianci was waiting for him in a little pavillion. She waited patiently until she realized its futility and dropped a tear. Again, her heart was broken.
After Yang Kang was saved by Mu Nianci, his days at the palace though full of luxury and wealth, was missing something. So day by day he ordered his men to search for Mu Nianci, and each time his men returned bearing nothing, he’d always retreated in desperation.
Fate, however, was in their favor again as Mu Nianci and Yang Kang was again brought together when Mu Nianci encountered Mei Chaofeng (YVONNE), Yang Kang’s teacher, who after hearing the entire story, decided to put the two couple together. After much persuasions from both Mei Chaofeng and Yang Kang, and after Mu Nianci realized the futility of refusing and how much she loved him, she finally accepted his marriage proposal. No sooner than that, they got married; witnessed by Mei Chaofeng.
A day into their marriage however, Yang Kang left her to do an important mission for Wanyan Honglie, and left Mu Nianci saddened. When he returned a couple of days later and begged Mu Nianci to follow him, she reluctantly agreed only after he promised he would stop his evildoings and give up his title. Once again, she believed him.
Yang Kang showed his love when he stabbed his close friend Ouyang Ke (KAREN) for trying to rape Mu Nianci. (ROFLMAO! Karen raping Grace!) He was forgetting that he was the son of the powerful Ouyang Feng and momentarily enraged when he stabbed him. Even though this would cause much trouble from Ouyang Feng, Yang Kang was not afraid of defending Mu Nianci.
When Mu Nianci found out about Yang Kang plan to kill Guo Jing and Huang Rong, she couldn’t take it anymore and was very angry at him. She finally left him when she’d had enough. This caused Yang Kang to be miserable and alone, but then he was free to do whatever he want without having to be careful that Mu Nianci would know.
Out of his own ruthlessness, Yang Kang finally reached his final hours. He was dying at the old temple when he told Guo Jing that he wanted to see Mu Nianci once more before he left. Out of pity, Guo Jing persuaded Mu Nianci to come see him for one last goodbye. Alas, Mu Nianci was still very much in love with Yang Kang, and immediately hurried to see him. She was angered once again when Yang Kang put up an act that he was very healthy and not dying. He only said he was dying so that she would come.
When Mu Nianci ran out, angry at his lies, she realized that he really was fatally injured. So she immediately ran back in to see that he had collapsed. She was crying then and scolded Yang Kang because on his dying day he could still tell a lie to her. When she knew he couldn’t survive, she sang him a song, whilst the both of them mesmerized about the times they shared together. The hardships, the happy times, the sad times… and only then Yang Kang was regretful of all his actions. He apologized to Mu Nianci for having lied to her so many times, and he wished that he could fulfil her wishes to live as commoners side by side with a child in Mu Nianci’s arm, while he attends to the crops. They would live in a small cottage in the country away from the world…
As she finished her song, Yang Kang breathed his last breath and closed his eyes forever. Mu Nianci was already pregnant with Yang Kang’s son when he left her. Without support, Mu Nianci died when her son Yang Guo was 11. Her only fault was not telling Yang Guo what his father was like. Luckily Yang Guo posses the best traits of these two, smart and unselfish, and worked out in the end that Guo Jing and Huang Rong did not kill his father.
Picture from the 1st-film ever made on Condor Heroes - Yang Kang and Mu Nianci (1983)
金庸crew Modern Day 念慈? (2008)
Stunning! =X
Cheers
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