In the second year of Chenghua, Shen Yan, the son of a guilty minister, stepped into the gate of Jinyiwei just to replace his father Zhaoxue, who died unjustly. He started as a low-level captain, worked step by step in the darkness of the imperial prison and the strife of the court, uncovered the shocking shady secrets of the earthen fort, kept the bottom line of loyalty, and finally became a unique legend of a wise commander in the history of the Ming Dynasty Imperial Guard.
