Lin Chong's arc is the definitive
逼上梁山 ('forced onto Mount Liang') story: the imperial marshal Gao Qiu's son covets his wife, so Gao repeatedly frames him until — at the snow-filled Wind-and-Snow Temple (
风雪山神庙) — he kills the hit-men and flees to Liangshan. His slow, grinding fall is the novel's most sympathetic portrait of an honest man broken by a corrupt state.
