In the first year of the Jingkang era, a wind carrying the stench of blood swept into a ruined temple. Wang Lun awoke a thousand years in the future and discovered he had become the “White-Clad Scholar” from Water Margin: a narrow-minded man about to be killed by Lin Chong. Instead of joining Liangshan, he clutched the few remaining volumes of books in his arms and walked into the vast night of Bianjing.
It was a far more dangerous path: as a failed scholar, he would retake the imperial examinations and make his way straight into the heart of Song power.
