While retaining the essence of the original text, the book uses plain language to rephrase the plot in several little stories that roughly cover the major part of the novel.Water Margin is the first classical novel written in vernacular Chinese and among the Four Great Classical Novels in Chinese history.The book tells of how a group of 108 outlaws gather at Mount Liang (or Liangshan Marsh) to form a sizable army before they are eventually granted amnesty by the government and sent on campaigns to resist foreign invaders and suppress rebel forces.There are an array of characters of distinct personalities:the resourceful Wu Yong, the rash but loyal Li Kui and the valiant Wu Song...stand vividly revealed on the paper.