Author: Dugu Qiuhun
Use the heart as a sword to learn from the Song Dynasty
This is an "anti-routine" time-travel novel that breaks the routine - when Su Xuanhun, a modern psychology doctor, traveled to the Northern Song Dynasty, he did not choose the conventional path of reciting poems, writing lyrics, and taking the imperial examination to become an official. Instead, he relied on a knowledge that transcended the times: psychology to set off a revolution in thinking in the Renzong Dynasty.
Cool core:
- Wisdom in dimensionality reduction: Use modern psychological techniques such as micro-expression analysis, criminal psychological profiling, and hypnotherapy to impress Bao Zheng, frighten the ministers in the court, and achieve intellectual crushing with "insight into people's hearts."
- A new way of playing the power game: instead of relying on machinations and tricks, "cognitive behavioral therapy" is used to relieve the crown prince's mental illness, "group psychology" is used to disintegrate the alliance of political opponents, and psychology is turned into the sharpest political scalpel.
- The depth of the emotional bond: from life and death to soul resonance with Nan Xia's daughter Zhan Ruoyan, and in the story of "One Egg", they realize the original intention of the people; the family bond with their father and brother Su Shi and Su Zhe, showing tenderness and sacrifice in the turmoil of the party; the joy of holding an infant grandson in his later years and the helplessness of fate.
- Sobriety in the historical torrent: He is well aware of the historical trajectory of "Wang Anshi's Reform", but he has been involved in it with the detached identity of "a guest and a criminal", trying to protect the justice in his heart in the wave of change, and interpreting the wisdom and helplessness of a "bystander".
This is not a simple "travel and change history" novel, but a collision experiment between psychology and ancient society, a profound narrative about "power, people's hearts and costs". The Shang Fang sword in Su Xuan's hand has never been unsheathed, but he has insight into people's hearts
