During the early 1500s of the Ming Dynasty, the reckless and foolish Emperor Zheng De ruled the kingdom. But unrest was brewing in the palace as the emperor’s own eunuchs were plotting to gain power and take over the land. Can the four scholars of Jiangnan – Tang Bo Hu (Hawick Lau), Qiu Xiang (Zhang Li), Zhu Zhi Shan (Chi Shuai) and Xu Zheng Qing (Gao Hao) – stop the corrupt eunuchs from carrying out their plan?