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Author: Jin Liang Zuma
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Publish Date: 2005-06-01
Features: Novel version of a 30-episode TV series, the first long novel in China themed around mahjong. The story intertwines mahjong with life, the struggle between a righteous official and a corrupt one, the showdown between the legitimate and the underworld, and the romance between a beauty and a martial artist. The tale also explores love and bestiality. During the Qianlong Emperor's southern tour, he brought back a set of dragon purple sandstone mahjong to the palace, but the phoenix purple sandstone set ended up in the hands of the common people. Legend has it that when the dragon and phoenix purple sandstone mahjong are brought together, extraordinary phenomena will occur.
By the Guangxu era, the Empress Dowager Cixi wished to take out the dragon mahjong for play, only to find that the box containing it was empty. Inside the box, she discovered a message insulting her, which enraged her. She then ordered the Left Guardian of the Imperial Secretariat, Tuerduo, and the folk mahjong master Jin Daoming to find the dragon and phoenix purple sandstone mahjong and bring them together.
Jin Daoming and Tuerduo bore a grudge over the murder of their wives, and as they searched for the dragon and phoenix purple sandstone mahjong, they engaged in a battle between justice and evil.