The Conqueror's Story is a Hong Kong television series based on the events in the Chu–Han Contention period of Chinese history. It was first broadcast in 2004 in Hong Kong on TVB Jade.
Social & External
The people behind it
Adam Cheng Siu-Chow
刘邦 Lau Bong
Kwong Wa
项羽 Hong Yu
Maggie Cheung Ho-Yee
吕雉 Lui Chi
Melissa Ng Mei-Heng
虞姬 Consort Yu
Wayne Lai Yiu-Cheung
韩信 Hon Sun
Cerina da Graça
戚夫人
Ram Chiang Chi-Kwong
张良 Cheung Leung
Law Lok-Lam
范增 Fan Tsang
Henry Lo
萧何 Siu Ho
Ricky Wong Chun-Tong
英布 Ying Bo
Shi Xiaofan, a modern engineer, transmigrates into a fictional dynasty as Shi Feifan, a notorious playboy, and secretly uses his advanced knowledge to protect his family, build power, and reshape the empire. While pretending to be irresponsible, he quietly amasses wealth, outsmarts political enemies, and rises from “good-for-nothing” to a hidden military force pivotal to the kingdom’s survival.
Set in the ancient capital Luoyang during the era of 13 dynasties, it revolves around three people who come together to investigate a series of mysterious incidents involving the conspiracy to overthrow Empress Wu Ze Tian. Adapted from the novel Luoyang by Ma Bo Yong.
Li Yunqian, the heir of Prince Cheng, faced years of mistreatment and injustice from powerful factions in the court. A series of dire events pushed him to the brink, but a fateful encounter with a mysterious merchant sparked a determination to change his destiny. With the support of key allies, Li Yunqian set out on a challenging path, determined to restore order and strengthen the Southern Qing dynasty.
During the turbulent mid-Tang dynasty after the An-Shi Rebellion, Baiyu Jing was established to protect the imperial city from warlord threats. Externally, it shelters homeless women, while internally, it trains female assassins known as "Yinniang." These women navigate life amidst danger, facing trials of love, betrayal, and their fates. Ultimately, they find themselves caught in a growing conspiracy, leading them to rise and fight in defense of the world and its people.
Xie Mingyuan, the martial arts alliance leader, plans to marry his daughter, Xie Tianba, to Ningyuan Marquis, a notorious traitor. Outraged, Xie Tianba leaves home and ventures into the martial world, where she is saved by Mo Haoran, leader of the Storm Sect. As she helps relieve him from a rare poison, they gradually fall in love. Later, Xie Tianba uncovers dark secrets about her father and becomes entangled in a web of betrayal and conflict, testing her trust in Mo Haoran and forcing her to confront her own beliefs and loyalties.
Ling Chuxia, caught in difficult circumstances, bravely challenges her family's restrictions and society's prejudices. She finds comfort and mutual support in Liang Junye, a kindred spirit facing similar struggles. Together, they overcome personal challenges, uncover a sinister plot from an opposing group, and defend their homeland.
Si Yichen, son of King Zishang, loses his entire family in a massacre on his wedding day. To seek revenge, he assumes the identity of Mu Han and gains the trust of the Eldest Princess. Meanwhile, his fiancée, Hang Anning, believing him to be dead, infiltrates the palace by swapping faces with the princess. Under the same roof, their hidden identities lead to unexpected emotions, love and vengeance become inseparable.
After his father, Chang’an’s richest man, dies in a political scandal, Li Qixing grows up in hiding and becomes a county magistrate. When a murder occurs in the household of wealthy Yin Susu, the two join forces to investigate, uncovering corruption and intrigue in their city.
Zixuan, a descendant of the goddess Nüwa, falls in love with Lu Linfeng, who dies saving her. After waiting a hundred years, she meets his reincarnations—first as the Taoist Lin Yeping, then as the immortal Xu Changqing—and together they fulfill their destiny to save the world.
In a magical world of inter-clan rivalry, two soulmates face treacherous schemes and uncover a dark mystery linked to a tragic event in the past.
After losing her memory in battle, skilled archer Fu Yixiao is taken in by a noble family and unexpectedly reunited with her former enemy, Prince Feng Suige—the man she once struck with an arrow. As they face the dangers of Yujing together, trust replaces suspicion and a deep bond begins to form. Caught in a web of past betrayals and political intrigue, the two must confront their shared history while fighting for survival, freedom, and each other.
He Lanjun a talented doctor, discovers that his son was fathered by his steward. Upon stumbling upon the information in despair he heads to the streets. Su Lianyi an owner of a brothel who brazenly has a crush on him, takes him in at his worst.
To break a powerful curse and save his clan, Lu Qianqiao is reborn as a human and secretly marries Xin Mei, a gifted cultivator with a fated curse. What starts as a mission of survival soon entangles them in betrayal, memory loss, and growing affection as they face deadly trials and uncover their intertwined destinies.
A noblewoman who becomes a righteous bandit called Gil Dong, and Joseon Prince Yi Yeol who secretly investigates this bandit, only to find their souls mysteriously swapped, forcing them to work together and fall in love amidst intrigue, as they uncover conspiracies while protecting the people!
After being pulled into a storybook world, former grand princess Yun Qi awakens as a disgraced fake heiress. As the true heiress takes her place, Yun Qi unexpectedly becomes the center of attention for several powerful men, setting off a tangled battle of love, power, and destiny.
Actress Li Weiwei time travels to ancient times and takes the place of the silly princess Li Caiwei, who is engaged to Shen Huajin. But on the day before they are scheduled to marry, he's murdered. Suddenly she finds that they are all stuck in a time loop, and so Huajin and Weiwei try to save him and break the time loop by solving who is targeting him and why.
After time-traveling into the body of a five-year-old princess, Lu Zhaozhao discovers her tyrant father can hear her thoughts. Using her foresight, she warns him of impending disaster, prompting him to protect her, elevate her status, and ultimately save both his life and the kingdom.
A series of British television films featuring William Shakespeare's History Plays.
Belgravia, 1871. When Lord Frederick Trenchard meets Clara Dunn, their courtship is full of passion. But after they marry, the scandalous world of high society and a long-buried family secret threaten to unravel their happiness.
The story of New York farmer, Abe Woodhull, who bands together with a group of childhood friends to form The Culper Ring, an unlikely group of spies who turn the tide in America’s fight for independence.
A show of heroic deeds and epic battles with a thematic depth that embraces politics, religion, warfare, courage, love, loyalty and our universal search for identity. Combining real historical figures and events with fictional characters, it is the story of how a people combined their strength under one of the most iconic kings of history in order to reclaim their land for themselves and build a place they call home.
The early 17th Century story of three courageous, dynamic women who leave their dark pasts behind in England, and make the journey of a lifetime across the ocean for a new life in America.
A group of fun-loving American girls burst onto the scene in tightly corseted 1870s London, kicking off an Anglo-American culture clash. Sent to secure husbands and status, the buccaneers' hearts are set on much more than that.
The story of Elizabeth of York, the White Queen's daughter, and her marriage to the Lancaster victor, Henry VII. Based on the Philippa Gregory book of the same name.
Dublin, 1868. The Guinness family patriarch is dead, and his four children — each with dark secrets to hide — hold the brewery's fate in their hands.
Drawn from interviews with survivors of Easy Company, as well as their journals and letters, Band of Brothers chronicles the experiences of these men from paratrooper training in Georgia through the end of the war. As an elite rifle company parachuting into Normandy early on D-Day morning, participants in the Battle of the Bulge, and witness to the horrors of war, the men of Easy knew extraordinary bravery and extraordinary fear - and became the stuff of legend. Based on Stephen E. Ambrose's acclaimed book of the same name.
Brothel owner, Margaret Wells, struggles to raise her daughters in London during the 18th century.
The story of World War II told through the intertwining fates of ordinary people from all sides of this global conflict as they grapple with the effect of the war on their everyday lives.
In Japan in the year 1600, at the dawn of a century-defining civil war, Lord Yoshii Toranaga is fighting for his life as his enemies on the Council of Regents unite against him, when a mysterious European ship is found marooned in a nearby fishing village.
The pirate adventures of Captain Flint and his men twenty years prior to Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic “Treasure Island.” Flint, the most brilliant and most feared pirate captain of his day, takes on a fast-talking young addition to his crew who goes by the name John Silver. Threatened with extinction on all sides, they fight for the survival of New Providence Island, the most notorious criminal haven of its day – a debauched paradise teeming with pirates, prostitutes, thieves and fortune seekers, a place defined by both its enlightened ideals and its stunning brutality.
The shocking story of how fashion icon Christian Dior and his contemporaries including Coco Chanel, Pierre Balmain, and Cristóbal Balenciaga navigated the horrors of World War Il and launched modern fashion.
L.A. Law is an American television legal drama series that ran for eight seasons on NBC from September 15, 1986, to May 19, 1994. Created by Steven Bochco and Terry Louise Fisher, it contained many of Bochco's trademark features including a large number of parallel storylines, social drama and off-the-wall humor. It reflected the social and cultural ideologies of the 1980s and early 1990s, and many of the cases featured on the show dealt with hot-topic issues such as abortion, racism, gay rights, homophobia, sexual harassment, AIDS, and domestic violence. The series often also reflected social tensions between the wealthy senior lawyer protagonists and their less well-paid junior staff. The show was popular with audiences and critics, and won 15 Emmy Awards throughout its run, four of which were for Outstanding Drama Series.
Navy SEAL Commander James Reece turns to vengeance as he investigates the mysterious forces behind the murder of his entire platoon. Free from the military's command structure, Reece applies the lessons he's learned from nearly two decades of warfare to hunt down the people responsible.
A behind-the-scenes drama and espionage thriller in Cold War-era England that centers on a journalist, a producer, and an anchorman for an investigative news programme.
Following the attack on Pearl Harbor, the extended Henry and Jastrow families navigate the personal, social and political impacts of World War II, including the Holocaust, the Battle of the Bulge, and the Pacific theater.
The trials of a U.S. Army platoon serving in the field during the Vietnam War.
Once a powerful lawyer, Billy McBride is now burned out and washed up, spending more time in a bar than a courtroom. When he reluctantly agrees to pursue a wrongful death lawsuit against the biggest client of Cooperman & McBride, the massive law firm he helped create, Billy and his ragtag team uncover a vast and deadly conspiracy, pitting them all in a life or death trial against the ultimate Goliath.