Twelve Gold Medals: The Empress Shamed the General, Regret Came Too Late

Twelve Gold Medals: The Empress Shamed the General, Regret Came Too Late Plot:

Gu Yan, the general who guarded the kingdom, gave the "Twelve Gold Medals"—which could command the entire army—to Empress Shen Zhao to help her stabilize the court. Unexpectedly, to establish imperial authority, Shen Zhao used the medals to publicly shame him for "overpowering the ruler." Utterly disheartened, Gu Yan spent 20 years of his life to turn white-haired overnight and retired to a mountain village in the northern frontier. Three years later, the Northern Di broke through the pass and the imperial city was on the verge of falling. Shen Zhao found Gu Yan's old secret letter and realized that each medal was a "talisman to protect the empress" he had begged the late emperor for with half his life—every back of the medal wrote "Protect Zhao's safety." She knelt and crawled 300 miles to Gu Yan's door, only to see a sign on the gate: "The one who shamed me then, the one who begs me now—too late." From behind the house came the sound of Gu Yan playing with a farmer's daughter, and his waist, which once wore the general's pendant engraved with the character "Gu," was now empty...

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