Ye Qing finds himself in Ancient China, and, at first, everything is fine. People identify him as the brother of a general and claim that a magistrate is his distant cousin, and life is pretty good… for a while. Then he discovers the Song Dynasty is at war with the Jin Dynasty, his ‘brother’ is killed in battle, and the magistrate is forced into exile. Will he manage to not only survive, but potentially change the future of the Song Dynasty?