# Tsin Lung — Kai Lung’s Golden Hours character guide

> Tsin Lung in Kai Lung’s Golden Hours by Ernest Bramah.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** the mercenary Tsin Lung, the malignant Tsin Lung, imperious Tsin Lung, hereditary right Tsin Lung

**First appearance:** 0001-kai-lung-s-golden-hours

## Snapshot

The mercenary and malignant Tsin Lung presses hereditary claims with imperious confidence, treating Kai Lung's wit as an obstacle to be removed.

## Who they are

Tsin Lung enters the narrative as a man of hereditary right and mercenary habit, one whose imperious manner brooks little resistance from a wandering storyteller. Where Kai Lung deflects with courtesy and indirection, Tsin Lung advances with the blunt assurance of someone accustomed to being obeyed. His malignancy gives the early arc its pressure, forcing Kai Lung to rely on narrative ingenuity rather than force or status.

## In the story

### [The Story of Hien and the Chief Examiner](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/kai_lung_s_golden_hours_se/chapters/the-story-of-hien-and-the-chief-examiner)

A scholarly suitor of Fa Fei; discovers and memorizes one of the poems from Fa Fei's hidden package; competes in the examination against Hien.

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