Character Relationship Map: Black Mask

Characters

• Tsui Chik / Black Mask (played by Jet Li) — protagonist

  Protagonist and former super-soldier recruit. After his project is canceled, he leads a quiet life as a librarian before taking on the mantle of Black Mask to fight gangland crimes. In the sequel, he...

• Librarian (played by Chan Suk-Yee) — supporting

  Former supersoldier living quietly, later hunts his rogue former squad.

Canonical Relationships

Family, romantic, and professional connections based on plot evidence.

• Tsui Chik / Black Mask → Librarian (Professional Civilian Cover) — His civilian occupation serves as a deliberate facade to hide his true identity and mission.

  The plot states he tries to lead a quiet life as a librarian while secretly operating as a masked vigilante.

Story Analysis

A former Project 701 soldier tries to leave violence behind, but the program's surviving members and a stolen-files scheme draw him into an unresolved confrontation.

Plot Progression

1. The Project's Dangerous Promise — Project 701 uses a brain-targeting serum to create unusually strong commandos, but the experiment leaves some recruits mentally unstable. Commander Hung Guk questions the program and helps one soldier...
2. A Fragile Quiet Life — The fugitive adopts a new identity and takes a quiet library job, keeping his distance from Tracy Lee. Violence and threats eventually break the peace he has tried to build.
3. The Past Reasserts Itself — An encounter with a woman from his past forces the fugitive to face the lasting consequences of the 701 program. He insists that its recruits can choose not to kill, while Rock investigates drug-trade...
4. Loyalties Under Pressure — Hung and surviving 701 members plan to steal Crime Watch files to pressure the government for an antidote and distribute copies to criminal allies. The woman's assignment to approach the fugitive comp...
5. An Unresolved Counterattack — After officers are killed, Rock identifies the 701 group as the source of the threat. He and the fugitive try to stop the file transfer with a computer virus, but the available account ends while the...