When emperor Ming Chongzhen ascended the throne, the grand eunuch Wei Zhongxian and his "eunuch party" were suppressed by Jinyi Wei, but Wei Zhongxian was still on the run, and the "eunuch party" had not yet been completely purged.
Among the Jinyi guards, Lu Jianxing, Shen Lian and Xin Yichuan were the three most courageous and upright brothers. But at the same time, they are all entangled in some things that cannot be solved.
In order to promote the head of the hundred households, the eldest Lu Jianxing redeemed himself for the prostitute Zhou Miaotong, and the third brother, Xinyichuan, wanted to get rid of the entanglement of Ding Xiu, the ronin. The three brothers decided to accept the secret operation of Zhao Jingzhong, the governor of the Eastern Factory, to hunt down and kill Wei Zhongxian.
The three of them soon set out on the road in secret, and caught up with Wei Zhongxian's men and horses who were resting overnight. Just as he was preparing to sneak attack, he was discovered by Wei Zhongxian's righteous daughter Wei Yan.
After a bloody storm, Shen Lian came to Wei Zhongxian's room, and Wei Zhongxian told Shen Lian that the emperor would not kill him, but wanted him to expand the treasury with the wealth he had collected over the years. Shen Lian killed him, and he would not be able to make a difference when he returned, but would be hunted down and killed by Wei Zhongxian's henchmen endlessly.
Wei Zhongxian wanted to exchange money for his life, and Shen Lian could also live a good life. Shen Lian really needs money, he wants to redeem Zhou Miaotong, buy officials for the eldest brother, and help the third brother get rid of the entanglement of the ronin. Therefore, he agreed to Wei Zhongxian's deal.
The house where Wei Zhongxian lived caught fire, Shen Lian came to the courtyard, Wei Zhongxian was dead, and everyone gave up resistance. The three of them pulled the charred body of Wei Zhongxian back to hand it over.
The new cabinet capital, Han Kuang, did not think that the charred body belonged to Wei Zhongxian, which was too strange. However, Zhao Jing tried his best to cover up for Shen Lian, this was Wei Zhongxian, they could not drop the body, and Zhao Jing also had to give credit to the three of them.
After returning home, Shen Lian used the money given by Wei Zhongxian to first send away the ronin who were pestering the third brother, and then bought a hundred household chiefs for the boss, and persuaded them to leave here and go to Nanjing to develop.
Shen Lian originally thought that things had passed like this, but the danger was gradually moving closer to them. Because Wei Zhongxian wanted them to die, only the dead could better keep secrets. And Zhao Jing also wanted them to die, because the emperor gave the order to arrest Wei Zhongxian, but he asked Shen Lian to kill Wei Zhongxian.
It turned out that Zhao Jing was actually Wei Zhongxian's righteous son, and he didn't want Wei Zhongxian to affect his career, so he came up with this plan and killed Wei Zhongxian under false pretenses.
Zhao Jing was injured instead of assassinating Shen Lian, but he was not recognized by them in disguise. He also found Lord Xu and asked him to frame Shen Lian to death in the process of handling the case.
One day, they wanted to arrest Yan Peiwei, the eunuch party, and deliberately let Shen Lian enter the Yan mansion alone, while the other personnel stayed outside the door. When Shen Lian encountered an attack and sent out a distress signal, Lord Xu not only did not save them, but instead sealed the gate on the grounds that he would not let the castration party escape, and wanted to use Yan Peiwei's hand to get rid of them.
Shen Lian, after a hard battle, still completed the task with difficulty.
But this was only the beginning, Zhao Jing used the divisive strategy to try to alienate the three of them and did not succeed.
He also bought Ronin to kill Shinichikawa, who was not Ronin's opponent and was quickly subdued. At this time, Ronin could not kill him, it turned out that Ronin was Shinichikawa's brother, who was expelled from the division for violating the door rules, and if he killed Shinichikawa, he would have no relatives in this world.
Just as the Ronin hesitated, two musketeers came and shot at them. The new heredity pushed away the ronin and blocked the bullet with its body...
Lu Jianxing was pursued and killed by Wei Zhongxian's righteous daughter-in-arms, and was later captured by Lord Xu with his troops. At this time, the emperor already knew that Wei Zhongxian was not dead, Lu Jianxing had taken all the blame for his brothers, and the emperor did not want to kill too many people, so he went to Lu Jianxing.
Shen Lian was redeeming himself for Zhou Miaotong at this time, and Zhao Jingzhong arrived with the killer. Zhao Jingzhong told Shen Lian that he had done all this, and that in order to keep this secret, they must die. Shen Lian and Zhao Jingzhong fought to the death, and finally escaped with Zhou Miaotong.
Two months later, Shen Lian and Ronin found Zhao Jingzhong's whereabouts. Because the matter was revealed, Zhao Jingzhong was preparing to defect to the Jin Kingdom, and just when he was about to cross the border, he was caught up by Shen Lian and The Ronin.
After a fierce battle, Shen Shenlian and the werewolves killEd Zhao Jingzhong and the Jin soldiers who came to meet him, avenging Lu Jianxing and Xinyichuan.
The story ends here, and Shen Lian and his beloved begin a new life in anonymity.
In such an era when life was regarded as a mustard, fate was not in their own hands. But Shen Lian was lucky, although he lost two brothers, but in this battle with fate, he was also a lucky one, because he chose to resist.