This comes as a minor annoyance to their friends Soo and John, along with Chen's parents, as Chen and Shaun are capable of much more than parking cars. In 2024, Shang-Chi (now going by 'Shaun') and his best friend Katy Chen work as hotel valets in San Francisco. Li retells this story to her young son Shang-Chi, while also giving him a green pendant to find his way back home. The two lock eyes on multiple instances, and while Li manages to defeat him, they quickly fell for each other. Wenwu refuses to back down, leading them to fight. In 1996, he ventures into a bamboo maze and comes across Ying Li, a woman guarding the entrance to Ta Lo, who decrees that he is unwelcome in their village. Still, Wenwu was not satisfied- having heard of the ancient village of Ta Lo, he sought to enter the realm for its mythical creatures. Founding the Ten Rings organization, the terrorist syndicate would spread to nearly every corner of the world over the millennia. These artifacts blessed him with immortality and unmatched power, allowing him to become a dominating conqueror. In ancient times, a man named Xu Wenwu discovered ten mystical rings.
Shang-Chi must confront the past he thought he left behind when he is drawn into the web of the mysterious Ten Rings organization.
