Flying Daggers is a Taiwanese television series adapted from Gu Long's novel Feidao Youjian Feidao of the Xiaoli Feidao Series.

故事由一宗世纪之交的泄密大案而起，扣动两岸局势脉搏的同时，还掩藏着一场境外势力与我方在隐蔽战线上的针锋较量。上世纪九十年代末，闵中市国家安全局一对性格迥异的师徒，因机缘巧合的命运安排，为了共同的使命与信仰并肩作战。他们联手挫败了各种阴谋，也与敌手在横跨二十年的命运长河里 不断纠缠。当时间流转，新世纪的潮流剧变席卷而来，国家安全局势攻防易势，隐蔽战线上的较量却不止不休。在一次次关乎人性的考验中，这三人的命运关系因不同抉择，在岁月洗礼中悄然改变着……

Gong Li stars in this low-key drama about a single mother who will do anything to provide for her son. Sun Liying (Li) struggles to care for her hearing-impaired child Zheng Da (Gao Xin) after her taxi driver husband divorces her. After Zheng Da gets his hearing aid smashed in a fight with classmates, Sun Liying sets out to raise 5,000 yuan (a small fortune) to buy him a replacement. A friend helps her set up an unauthorized bookstall, which soon gets raided by the police. Later she splits her time delivering newspapers and cleaning house for a rich businessman. This film was screened at the 2000 Berlin Film Festival.