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Top scholar Shen Zhao enters the palace with "Twelve Rules for Loyal Ministers", determined to remonstrate with the "tyrannical" Emperor Chu Zhao. However, he stumbles upon the emperor secretly checking corrupt officials' ledgers—turns out Chu Zhao is feigning incompetence to lure out traitors. Shen's "death remonstrance" becomes "acting practice", his "frankness" turns into "helping hide evidence", and his "Twelve Rules" are covered with the emperor's notes: "This will get you killed." While putting on a show of "tyrant vs. loyal minister" to deceive the traitors, they secretly investigate the case. But Shen gradually realizes his cherished "loyal minister standards" are just empty theory. The biggest secret: the author of "Twelve Rules" is the emperor's late mother, whose death is linked to the traitors' conspiracy...
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