Zhao Ji, a modern researcher who has been deeply involved in the history of the Song Dynasty for 20 years, spent half his life researching classics and copying the "Auspicious Crane Picture", retracing the eternal tragedy of the collapse of Jingkang and the sinking of mountains, rivers and land again and again.
The world reviled Zhao Ji, Emperor Huizong of the Song Dynasty. He had unrivaled calligraphy and painting talents and held a high position as an emperor, but he indulged in elegance and neglected government affairs. He personally ruined the prosperous age of the Northern Song Dynasty, leaving the two emperors hunting in the north and the Central Plains covered with dust for a hundred years. He became a faint king crucified in the history books.
Only Zhao Ji knew that Zhao Ji was a peerless art master and a prisoner of fate. He is good at writing and elegant, but he is not qualified to control thousands of miles of rivers and mountains and carry the country of thousands of people.
A resonance of words and ink that spans thousands of years, tearing apart the shackles of time and space. As his soul wandered and the years passed, Zhao Ji suddenly woke up in the winter of the third year of Yuanfu in the Northern Song Dynasty.
He transformed into the seventeen-year-old Duan Wang Zhao Ji, standing at the crossroads of the fate of the Song Dynasty.
At this moment, Zhezong is dying, the country is in danger, and murderous intentions are hidden in both the government and the public. The powerful Prime Minister Zhang Dun said "Prince Duan is frivolous and cannot rule the world", which sealed his fate as an eternal emperor in advance. The old and new parties are fighting fiercely. The kings of the clan are eyeing the throne. There are checks and balances in the palace and conflicts in the court. Every step is a desperate situation and every inch is a chess game.
In the eyes of everyone, the young and idle King Duan had no ambitions and was obsessed with poetry and painting. He was a playboy who could be manipulated at will and a loser destined to defeat the country. No one knows that under this elegant skin, there is a thousand-year-old soul that has experienced ups and downs, blood and tears. In his previous life, Zhao Ji followed his instincts and drifted with the tide, ruining the beauty of the Song Dynasty. In this life, Zhao Ji went against the will of heaven and changed his destiny to hide the front and guard the clumsiness to control the world. The Song Dynasty strengthened its army, opened up new territories, and maintained civil and military checks and balances. Thank you, dear.