Zhang Qingshan, a 28-year-old modern PR director and the undisputed “romance expert” among his friends, dies in a car accident and wakes up in the Northern Song dynasty, during Emperor Huizong’s reign. He has become Bao Bo, a distant descendant of Bao Zheng, a destitute scholar with nothing but four bare walls. From the start, he has a broken bed, mountains of debt, and the descendants of the Pang family breathing down his neck. He plans to use his romantic prowess to win over the famous courtesan Li Shishi as a stepping stone to ingratiate himself with Emperor Huizong and change his fate. He never expects that this plan will break through his defenses.
Using a modern mindset, he establishes himself in Luzhou and wins the people’s hearts with the Bao family’s reputation. He rises all the way to Bianliang, but as he maneuvers around Li Shishi, he is moved by her cool integrity and the sorrow she carries in a chaotic age. When “using her” turns into “protecting her,” and political schemes collide with genuine feelings, he must not only face the plots of powerful villains like the Pang family and Cai Jing, but also use what little power he has to change the fate of the Northern Song beneath the shadow of the Jingkang Incident.
A romance spanning a thousand years, a legend that begins in calculation and ends in deep devotion. See how a modern romance expert finds a way to defy fate for Li Shishi and the people amid the Song dynasty’s romances and national crisis.
