Water Margin: The Heroic Twin-Spear General, Marquis of Ten Thousand Households

The most despicable character in Water Margin: to seize Prefect Cheng's daughter, he defects to Liangshan, opens the city gates, and massacres the prefect's entire household. In the end, he dies at Dusheng Pass, and no one even claims his body. The words "take the girl" are all that remain; even the woman's name is never recorded. The transmigrator arrives at just the right time: the day Song Jiang sends a letter and Dong Ping is about to execute the messenger. He looks down at the pair of spears in his hands. Dong Ping has killed countless people with them. Their tips are polished bright, reflecting a broad face with thick brows and a cruel, downturned mouth. It isn't his face. But from this moment on, it is. He knows the original story by heart: his marriage proposal is rejected, he holds a grudge, and he slaughters the household when the city falls. One wrong step, and everything is lost. He doesn't want to become a beast, and he doesn't want to die at Dusheng Pass. Song Jiang's twenty-five leaders and ten thousand troops are bearing down on the city. Wu Yong's chain of schemes has yet to unfold, while Shi Jin has already infiltrated the city. Prefect Cheng is three parts cold and seven parts wary of him, while the woman who wrote to ask, "Why?" awaits his reply in her graceful handwriting. Standing in the council hall, he rests the tip of his spear on the ground and says just one thing: "Dongping Prefecture will not surrender." These are Dong Ping's spears. From now on, he is Dong Ping, too. He will defend the city and its people, and keep a woman from being written into a book as nothing more than "spoils of war." He will make sure the name "Dong Ping" appears in the history books as something other than "murdered Prefect Cheng's whole family and took his daughter." What that something will be, he hasn't decided yet. But Song Jiang has arrived.