Jia Yun transmigrates into the body of a concubine-born son of the Ningguo Mansion. His mother was an opera singer, so the whole household looks down on him. After Jia Zhen beats him and chases him with a broom, causing a scene that rocks Ningrong Street, Matriarch Jia decides to send him to the frontier. With the northern border of the Great Qian Dynasty engulfed in flames, he rises through the ranks on the strength of his military achievements, from common soldier to company commander in the vanguard camp. When he returns to the capital and attends an audience at Wuying Hall, the eminent Gao takes his silver and lays down the rules. In this Red Chamber world, there is no domestic scheming or romantic intrigue: the iron hooves of the frontier army will smash the old chessboard of the Four Kings and Eight Dukes.
