By a strange twist of fate, a killer's soul transmigrates to the body of a scholar in the late Northern Song, and he suddenly finds himself with a young wife. The Northern Song is on the brink of collapse: at home, petty villains hold sway and the court is rotten with corruption; abroad, the Jurchen are rising, with powerful enemies closing in.
Should he make his way through the officialdom and engage in political machinations?
Or retreat to a mountain hut and keep himself safe by doing nothing?
