Shen Ce, a modern graduate student of Song history, transmigrated into the body of a defeated soldier in Jiangnan in the second year of Jingkang. Bianliang had fallen, the two emperors had been taken north, the Central Plains had sunk into chaos, and the Jiangnan court was teetering on the brink.
By chance, he learned that he looked exactly like the only son of Lin Jingyuan, a famed Western Army general who had been falsely accused of "colluding with the Jin and betraying the country" and executed along with his entire family. Faced with the desperate struggle to survive amid the turmoil and the humiliation of Jingkang, etched indelibly into the history books, he resolutely took the Lin surname and entered the game as "Lin Ce."
Branded as the son of a traitor and reviled by the whole realm, he began on battlefields piled high with corpses. He forged an iron army, struck down Jin invaders, fought corrupt officials, and reclaimed lost territory. Taking history as his guide, he broke the Northern Song's century-old malaise of favoring civil officials over military ones and ended the ruinous factional infighting at court. Amid the shattered land, he rebuilt the backbone of the Chinese nation.
The humiliation of Jingkang will one day be avenged; the broken land will one day be made whole!
