The novel is divided into four volumes. The first volume tells the story of the second half of Su Shi's life from the eighth year of Yuanfeng (1085) to the first year of Chongning (1102), when Su Shi, one of the Eight Great Masters of the Tang and Song Dynasties, returned to the court. He was sent to Hangzhou, then demoted to Huizhou, Guangdong, and finally to Danzhou, Hainan. The novels in Volumes 2 to 4 sublimate the plot of the characters and tell the story of Su Guo, Su Shi's son, who remembered Su Shi's teachings, inherited Su Shi's legacy, passed the imperial examination, and became a general and a marquis. By constantly accumulating and summarizing Su Shi's past experience as an official, with his superb wisdom and mercurial approach to life, he organically combined Wang Anshi's reforms and Sima Guang's reforms, learned from each other's strengths, and constantly innovated the development of culture, military, agriculture, commerce, etc., Which brought the Song Dynasty to a new height and created a prosperous Song Dynasty after the Tang Dynasty.
