[This article will involve discussions on court etiquette, architectural aesthetics, and important historical figures of the Song Dynasty. Later, it will explore the issue of male-female balance from the perspective of guiding the awakening of women in the Song Dynasty]
The first year of Jingkang, leap November. Snow has fallen in Bianliang City for three days, and the banners of the Jin army have blocked the sky in the north.
A bronze mirror was awakened by a hand after sleeping for thousands of years. The lotus pattern on the back of the mirror is still clear, and the word "Yifu" on the edge is soaked in patina, like a forgotten seal.
He passed through the mirror and fell into a body that was not his own.
Sixteen years old, girl, Emperor Ji. There are only four words left for her in the history books: missing.
He remembered everything - the city still had seventy hours to breathe, the 300,000 Jin army outside the city were sharpening their swords, the Supreme Emperor in Longde Palace was still copying Wang Xizhi, and his fingers could not even tighten their grip.
This is not a heroic story. There is no system, no golden fingers, and no "traveler halo". There is only a historical researcher's complete foreknowledge of the tragedy, and an ordinary person's most primitive fear when facing death.
He wanted to escape. But he discovered that the original owner of this body—the sixteen-year-old girl—her memory, her concern, and the last bit of warmth she left in the world were like a transparent film covering him, making it impossible for him to just be a cold-eyed bystander.
Seventy hours, the countdown passed silently.
Two faces are reflected in the bronze mirror: one belongs to the researcher a thousand years later, and the other belongs to the Emperor Ji who is about to disappear.
He doesn't know which one is him, he only knows——
Before the city is broken, he must lead some people out of the city.
The sky is far away, the earth is far away, thousands of rivers and mountains. Know where his Forbidden City is.
