Heavenly Craft: A Game of Chess Across Mountains and Rivers

Guo Pei, a modern woman studying architectural engineering, transmigrates and becomes Guo Pei, a palace craftswoman banished into exile by the Great Yin Dynasty. The original Guo Pei was framed and sent to the barren Yanluoping in the northwest after taking it upon herself to improve palace implements. Ahead lie a wasteland of raging sandstorms, wandering refugees, and rampant bandits. At the brink of death, Guo Pei unexpectedly activates half of a damaged copy of the original owner’s Heavenly Crafts Secret Manual. When her fingertips brush its yellowed pages, hidden patterns among the ink lines transform into clear modern engineering blueprints. Only then does she realize this is no ordinary ancient text, but a life-or-death game set up by master craftsmen from three hundred years ago. Someone has made the Nine Provinces a chessboard and advanced techniques the bait, hoping to lure someone who truly understands technology into breaking the shackles of the old system. This novel and its characters are entirely fictional. Any resemblance to real people or events is purely coincidental. Do not imitate.