Mainline settings:
Protagonist: Mai Xiangshi, whose name can be tentatively named "Chen Mo".
Identity: A time traveler who was a modern fortune teller/numerologist in his previous life, proficient in astronomy, calendar, fortune telling, and fortune telling.
Starting point: an accident of antique cultural relics trading/stargazing and celestial phenomena, traveling back to the late Northern Song Dynasty.
Core clues: Taking historical nodes as the axis, the protagonist relies on physiognomy and modern knowledge to gain a foothold in the Song Dynasty and witness the entire process of the demise of the Northern Song Dynasty, the establishment and decline of the Southern Song Dynasty.
Volume One: The Wind Rises in the Northern Song Dynasty (late Northern Song Dynasty)
Historical nodes:
Emperor Huizong of Song Dynasty reigned (1100-1125)
The Shame of Jingkang (1127)
Plot setting:
Chen Mo traveled back in time to the late Northern Song Dynasty and first arrived in Tokyo (Bianjing), where he traveled around the world under the pseudonym of a Maid fortune teller.
He used physiognomy to predict natural and man-made disasters (the Yellow River bursts, celestial phenomena, signs of national disaster), and got to know scholar-bureaucrats and officials.
Witnessed political corruption, eunuch dictatorship, and social conflicts after Wang Anshi's reform.
On the eve of the fall of the Northern Song Dynasty, Chen Mo helped some people escape the war, and at the same time witnessed the capture of Huizong and the fall of the Northern Song Dynasty.
The plot of "Ma Yi Qi Magic" can be added to the novel, such as rescuing people hunted by Jin soldiers and hinting at the direction of the Song-Jin war.