柴进天贵星 · 10
Leaf 10 of the marsh · 小旋风 Little Whirlwind
Chai Jin 柴进
In Water Margin 水滸傳 (c. 1400) · rank 10 of the 108 Stars · nicknamed 小旋风 “Little Whirlwind”
The last heir of a lost dynasty, who bankrolled everyone else's outlawry.
The great deeds 大事記
- ch. 9
His Door Open to Every Exile
門招天下客Last heir of the Later Zhou throne, he keeps a door open for every branded exile in China.
- ch. 52
Hidden in a Dry Well
枯井藏身Imprisoned in a dry well at Gaotang for sheltering a fugitive, he is hauled out by a rope and a mountain's war.
- ch. 112
A Son-in-Law Set to Burn
駙馬臥底He walks into the Fang La court undercover as a son-in-law and burns it from inside.
結局 The ending
He took his rank, went home to his manor, and died in his own bed — the only man on the mountain whose money, in the end, actually did what he had always promised it would.
The book itself: how it ends, and who was left — The ending