Blind Cheng (Miao Xie) is a bounty hunter by trade, and is known as a knife-catcher by his peers. In Eye for an Eye: The Blind Swordsman, this warrior gets taken in by a pretty face who wants to hire him to enact some revenge. Her family got assassinated and she wants revenge! Although Ni Yan (Weiman Gao) gets by working at a way stop, a diner, she wants some justice and hires this tacker.
Although this setup feels more like a story set in the wild west, what’s presented in this Tang dynasty tale works just as well. The only difference lies in adding in a layer of political turmoil in the mix. And as for why it matters here, the common folk are at ends meet.