Modern economics PhD Luo Bi unexpectedly transmigrates to a parallel timeline on the eve of the Jingkang Incident. He finds himself in the body of a low-ranking seventh-grade official in Bianjing, disgraced and demoted for speaking out, stripped of his family’s property, gravely ill, and on the verge of dying in poverty and sickness. It’s hell from the start: he has no money, creditors are at the door, and he is blacklisted at court for “recklessly criticizing the new policies.” Worse still, this country, known as the Great Song, is about to relive the impending catastrophe from his history textbooks. The treasury is empty, the military is in disrepair, factional strife is fierce, and the Jin cavalry to the north is sharpening its blades. Land seizures and financial collapse have pushed society to the brink.
