Director: Liu Wenpu
Screenplay: Yang Bingjia / Lu Xun / Xiao Duan
Starring: Pan Binlong / An Zhijie / Xi Wang / Chunyü Shanshan / Jiang Zhengyu / Liu Fengchao / Xu Xiangdong / Xu Minghu / Guo Hongjie / Hu Xiaoyuan / Ning Xiaohua / Zhao Jingshuyu / Liang Dongyu
Genres: Crime / Wuxia / Costume
Country/Region of Production: Mainland China
Language: Mandarin Chinese
Release Dates: 2026-10-16 (online release in Mainland China) / 2026-09-27 (Pingyao International Film Festival)
Runtime: 98 minutes
Also Known As: A Battle to Fame / Cup Snow: Night Rain Strikes the Golden Lotus / A Better Jianghu
IMDb: tt39602636
Synopsis
During the time Qin Hui held sway over the imperial court, he manipulated his imperial cavalry guards into suppressing anti-Jin resistance forces throughout the land. Several months earlier, forty-one people, including a Jin envoy, had died at Qilipu. According to rumors circulating in the martial world, the killer was Shen Fang, the only surviving civil official. Second Commander Yuan Hanting, the elite imperial cavalry guards known as the „Gengyun Silang“, and others were ordered to hunt down the murderer. The 280,000 taels of silver involved in the case, whose whereabouts were unknown, also attracted many martial artists. Unexpectedly, when all the factions gathered at the post station, not one of them managed to capture Shen Fang, while many other experts were killed one after another. Shen Fang, however, wept and claimed that he was too weak to even slaughter a chicken, insisting that the murders had all been committed by a young swordsman. The martial artists and the imperial cavalry guards consequently fell into mutual suspicion and began fighting, only realizing at the last moment that someone seemed to have deliberately set everything up…