Ji Baichang, a Water Margin content creator, dies suddenly after staying up all night to meet a deadline.
When he opens his eyes, he has become Ximen Qing.
Pan Jinlian is by his side, Granny Wang is downstairs, and outside the window, Wu the Elder is approaching with his basket of baked flatbreads.
It is the thirteenth day of the first lunar month. The countdown has begun to Ximen Qing's death in the original story: he kicks Wu the Elder, conspires to poison her husband, and meets his end in a bloodbath at Lion Tower.
Run? Too late.
Fight? When Wu Song returns, he's as good as dead.
Then he won't run.
He takes a deep breath, pushes open the teahouse door, and bows deeply to Wu the Elder in full view of the people filling the street.
“Brother Wu, I, Ximen Qing, have come to apologize to you today.”
That single bow changes the fate of the short-legged man, Pan Jinlian, and the tiger-slaying hero.
But can he change the fate of Water Margin itself?
Yunge is heading for Liangshan, Qian Gui is sharpening his knife in the shadows, and Li Kui's axes are pointed at Yanggu County.
And a man named Song Jiang stands at the crossroads of fate, watching him coldly.
The first man to transmigrate into the role of a villain begins in a deadly predicament on the thirteenth day of the first lunar month.
