A man spent three years cursing the Jingkang Humiliation, only to transmigrate into the emperor who signed the surrender. He tore up the edict, defended the city, reformed the army, reclaimed the Yan and Yun regions, and destroyed the Jin dynasty. But he could never make this court worthy of ensuring that the Jingkang Humiliation would never happen again. Meanwhile, north of the Yellow River, a young Jurchen general named Wanyan Zongbi was pushed by war, through the gaps left by the passing of the old commanders, into becoming the person he would have become in another life. Then Li Ming changed that.