After waking up from a drunken stupor, he discovered that he had become Zhao Gou, the ninth son of the Northern Song emperor, the cowardly ruler who was historically faster than a rabbit to flee, wrongfully had Yue Fei killed, and submitted to the Jin Dynasty.
And to make matters worse, he knew next to nothing about history.
He had no idea what the Jingkang Incident or the Mud Horse Crossing the River was. All he knew was this: His imperial father was an artist, his elder brother was useless, and the Jin army was sharpening its weapons on the opposite bank of the Yellow River.
No System? No problem.
No golden finger? Doesn't matter.
No knowledge of history? All the better. What you don't know can't scare you!
And so the Song court welcomed the eccentric Prince Kang:
When he first met Li Gang, he blurted out, "Lord Li, I don't have many virtues, but I'm especially good at causing trouble. How about you take me under your wing?"
When he went to seek out Yue Fei, he threw his arms around him. "Brother Yue, come work for me! I'll feed you, house you, and even help you find a wife!"
Confronted with the peace faction, he said with complete sincerity, "Cede land? Pay reparations? Submit? I'll beat the crap out of anyone who suggests it."
With his shameless, devil-may-care nature, he had the whole court eating out of his hand. His spendthrift playboy ways helped him gather a large following of heroes from the martial world. And with the attitude of "I'm royalty, who am I supposed to be afraid of?" he made a Jin envoy so furious that the man spat blood on the spot.
But beneath all the joking and mischief, he was clearer-eyed than anyone. He didn't want to become an emperor on the run, didn't want Yue Fei to die at Wind-Wave Pavilion, and didn't want the humiliation of Jingkang to happen again.
"History? What's that supposed to be? I'm here to rewrite it!"
Watch as an ignorant modern rich kid does the most serious things in the most irreverent way: recruiting famous officials, training elite troops, reclaiming lost lands, and tearing the cowardly Song Dynasty's script to shreds!
