Water Margin: From the Start, Lin Chong Joins the Jurchens to Destroy the Song

I am no great talent, but after ten years in seclusion, poring over the records of the Song, Liao, Jin, and Xia dynasties and listening to storytellers in teahouses and pleasure quarters for three thousand days and nights, I have finally completed this million-word tale, *Water Margin: The Wolf's Flight on a Snowy Night*. Everyone knows how Lin Chong braved the snow at the Mountain God Temple, but what if he had been born three hundred years earlier and witnessed Wu Zixu's fury as he dug up a grave and flogged a corpse? What might he have done? Now, the fate of the Heavenly Hero Star is recast: in ancient times, Wu Zixu joined Wu to attack Chu; now, Lin Chong joins Jin to avenge himself. This is no surrender, but another form of loyalty, repaying blood with blood! This is not simply a story of Lin Chong turning evil. It explores a profound question... Lin Chong's choice is deeply controversial: he allies himself with a foreign people and slaughters his own countrymen, yet he also breaks the shackles of his age. Just as Wu Zixu's legacy is both praised and condemned, history offers no definitive answer. It leaves only a resolute figure walking away.