In the winter of the third year of the Xuanhe era, Lu Junyi, the “Jade Qilin of Hebei,” awakens from a grave illness. His body is unchanged, but his soul has quietly merged with another: Liang Chen, a soul from a thousand years in the future, hardened by betrayal in the business world and the coldness of human nature. His searing pain collides with the body's memories of humiliation: the betrayal and attempted murder by his wife, Jia Shi, and his steward, Li Gu.
The schemes of a past life, the deadly plots of this one. Two shattered illusions ignite not despair, but a bone-deep, icy awakening.
He is no longer “Master Lu,” swept along by fate, nor the ship from the original story destined to sail for Liangshan Marsh. He will kill the treacherous, burn the old contracts, and sail overseas with a fortune and his trusted followers. The road he will take has never been traveled before.
