This is a story about transmigrating into the life of an ordinary person.
By sheer chance, Zhao Xing becomes a man of the Song Dynasty. Among the people he meets are poets whose names endure through the ages, corrupt officials infamous for all time, bandits driven to Liangshan, and peerless beauties renowned far and wide.
This is an era of “when the moon rises above the willow branches, lovers meet after dusk.” Here are true-hearted, romantic men whose names will be remembered for ages; poems and verses that shine through the millennia; dazzling commercial song-and-dance performances and all manner of business rivalries...
In this splendid age, Zhao Xing feels right at home, delighting in the refined pleasures of life.
This book has no court intrigues or official infighting. It portrays only the worldview of ordinary people in the Song Dynasty.
Perhaps the story will overturn your ingrained ideas about the Song Dynasty, but please savor it carefully.
