He was the only son of a family of military commanders. When he was twelve, his father's memorial declaring, "Allying with the Jin to destroy the Liao is like inviting wolves and tigers into our home," brought execution to all seventy-three members of their household.
A few years later, a wastrel appeared in Pingjiang Prefecture, Jiangnan. Xiao Beiping, the young master of Tingyu Pavilion, raced horses, fought cocks, and caroused with wine and poetry. Everyone laughed at him for being nothing more than a pretty face.
No one knew that the silver he scattered paid for informants, the banquets he hosted were traps, and the map of the northern frontier spread beneath his lamp each night.
During the Xuanhe era, the Six Bandits held power and the Flower-Stone Tribute ravaged Jiangnan. The Jurchen cavalry drew ever closer from the north, while the Alliance on the Sea was secretly signed. The imperial court teetered on the brink, the martial world ran red with blood, fragments of the True Scripture of Lingxiao appeared, and a celestial being was about to make a move.
The Heavenly Music Saintess, the Wealth Goddess of Jiangnan, the capital's greatest beauty and talent, Princess Yongning, a Jin princess, the Blood River Saintess, and the owner of the Misty Rain Tower: seven beauties, seven trials of love. Overcome each trial, and ascend another level of heaven.
From Jiangnan to Bianjing, from the martial world to the imperial court, from grandmaster to Lingxiao.
"Father, you said a great calamity would come ten years from now. Your son may be unworthy, but I'll change those ten years and show you."
The Great Song is doomed to fall? Then I'll rewrite the Great Song.
