Screenwriter Lin Feng is hunched over his historical drama, The Jingkang Upheaval, when the next moment he transmigrates into the body of Emperor Qinzong, the last emperor of the Northern Song. A bloodstained sheepskin hangs over his shoulders, a thick rope circles his neck, and the Jin are leading him through the humiliating “sheep-leading” rite...
From the start, he is in a desperate predicament. With his country on the verge of falling and his family facing ruin, the difficulty is nothing short of hellish.
At the brink of life and death, he unexpectedly activates the Seven Emotions, Myriad Phenomena System.
Armed with a modern perspective and the System's support, he reforms the army, promotes agriculture and technology, and strengthens the nation, reversing the Jingkang disaster step by step, avenging a century of humiliation, and restoring the might of the Great Song.
His journey is fraught with danger at every turn: powerful enemies surround him from without, corrupt ministers vie for power within, and a fated rival from the modern era challenges him to a battle to the death.
More astonishingly, the System often malfunctions, sending him bouncing between the Northern Song and the modern world.
Lin Feng decides to seize the opportunities in both worlds: he expands his territory and builds an empire in the past, while rising to the top and winning at life in the modern era.
But the gifts of fate have had their price marked in secret all along.
Lin Feng gradually discovers that each of the seven heaven-defying abilities granted by the System conceals a deadly backlash. Like a pact with the devil, their price was set long ago...
