Gao Peng travels through the Song Dynasty, and all he wants to do is lie down and live in peace, become an idle playboy who makes money and fish, and never gets involved in the disputes in the court.
Forced to show off his talents at the palace banquet, he unexpectedly became the prince's companion, and was dragged into the chess game between Song and Jin Dynasties. Faced with the critical situation of Cai Jing's party controlling the government and the Jin Kingdom pressing harder and harder, he relied on his vision and flexible thinking beyond the times to crack the enemy's conspiracy time and time again and keep the dignity of the Song Dynasty.
Wan Yanping, the national counselor of the Jin Kingdom, also came from another world. He held the power in the northern Xinjiang and planned to encroach on the Central Plains, calculating every step. He wanted to completely suppress the Song Dynasty, but he met a high-ranking official who didn't play his cards according to the ancient methods at all and was good at pretending to be a pig and eating the tiger.
They are tit-for-tat in the court, but gradually develop a tacit understanding of each other in private. The two are lifelong rivals with contradictory stances, and they are also the only compatriots who can understand each other in troubled times.
A gilt sword in parting hides a marriage contract, and a harsh word hides a distant promise.
He was low-key and dormant in Bianliang, gathering strength; she was sitting in northern Xinjiang, waiting to meet again.
With the country as the chessboard and fate as the fetters, the two people in the opposing camp played a long chess game spanning the north and the south between power, family, country and love.
Concept: This work unfolds the story in the setting of two modern time travellers, who are in the Song and Jin countries respectively, and are rivals of each other. It uses the background of court intrigues and diplomatic games in the late Northern Song Dynasty to explore the contradiction between opposing positions and true choices. The protagonist uses his dormant and steadily developing wisdom to fight against the traitors in the court and the dilemma of the times. In the emotional pull of the mission of the country, the opposition between the camps, and the fate of his close friends, he explains what it means to choose, persevere, and take responsibility. At the same time, through the relaxed and humorous plot rhythm, it exposes the chaos of power in the feudal court and conveys a down-to-earth life attitude of accumulating wealth and seeking opportunities in adversity.