During the Yuanfu era of the Great Song, the painter Wu Hao arrived in the flourishing realm of the Zhao dynasty.
Walking through the bustling streets of Bianliang, as lively as a scene from Along the River During the Qingming Festival, Wu Hao couldn't help thinking about what would happen 29 years later. The Jurchen cavalry would sweep south, completely destroying this magnificent age of prosperity.
But as an ordinary commoner, even if he knew the great empire was about to fall, what power did he have to save it?
Wu Hao had only planned to look after himself amid the coming disaster, but in the streets of Bianliang, he encountered the cultured young man Zhao Ji, who would one day become emperor...
And so the great merchants of the realm rose with the tide. From now on, the rise and fall of the world would be ruled by the capital of merchants!
