Hark Tsui	...	(Director)
Chia-lu Chang, Kuo-fu Chen	...	(Writer)
Angelababy	...
Mark Chao	...
Kun Chen	...
Shaofeng Feng	...
Dong Hu	...
Bum Kim	...
Carina Lau	...
Gengxin Lin	...
Zhaoxu Lin	...
Jingjing Ma	...
Chien Sheng	...
Kenji Kawai	...	Composer
Sung Fai Choi	...	Cinematographer

Summary: The young Dee Renjie arrives in the Imperial Capital to join the Supreme Court as a district magistrate, a high level government posting with the functions of detective, prosecutor, judge and executioner intent to become an officer of the law.

Empress Wu, who is at the start of her reign, has sent the fiery-haired Detective Yuchi to investigate a sea monster that stalks the city at night. By chance, both Dee and Yuchi fight off the creature when it attacks a ceremonial procession carrying the beautiful courtesan Yin to be sacrificed at a temple to appease the Gods. Suspicious of the stranger, Yuchi has Dee imprisoned.

Dee escapes with the help of visiting doctor Shatuo and together they discover that the upper reaches of society, including the Emperor himself, are addicted to a poisonous tea produced by Yuan's famous teahouse. Yuan, who was romantically attached to Yin, has been missing for months. Dee shadows the courtesan, who is under Yuchun's protection, until the sea monster reappears. Just as the two men are about to kill it, Yin reveals that the monster is her lover, Yuan. Yuan has been poisoned by a foreign Prince whose kingdom was overthrown by the Emperor. As the Prince's army readies itself on a nearby island to attack the capital, a real sea dragon rises from the deep.