Chen Jun, a graduate student in history, dies suddenly in a library and wakes up as Chen Zhao, the son of a powerful local family near Liangshan Marsh. Though he knows Water Margin and the History of Song inside out, he discovers that his “foresight” is useless against the realities of the Song dynasty’s bureaucracy. History never told him just how corrupt this particular prefect was, or how vicious this particular conspiracy could be.
To stay alive, he is forced to join forces with the not-yet-famous Song Jiang and Chao Gai. But his real weapon is not reciting poetry or making gunpowder. It is the understanding of Northern Song factional politics and organizational behavior that his past-life research etched into his bones: he can spot the fatal pressure point in any organization at a glance.
