Urban imagination + historical echo
The biggest dream of Song Xian, a graduate student in the Department of History, is to live in peace with the world, until he accidentally touches a strange bronze fish charm while sorting out ancient books, and wakes up to become a low-ranking official during the Tianxi period of the Northern Song Dynasty. He originally wanted to rely on his historical knowledge to stock up on some calligraphy and painting and wait until death, but unexpectedly, the strategy he wrote casually was targeted by the prince of the dynasty, the wine recipe he brewed fascinated the envoys of the Liao Kingdom, and even his trash talk about the government was compiled into nursery rhymes and spread throughout Bianjing. When he discovers that his time travel may be a civilization's self-rescue operation that spans thousands of years, the crazy criticizing prince who always climbs over the wall late at night to discuss "weird theories of governing the country" with him is holding a sword and preparing to bloodbath the court for their absurd ideals...