A Laughing Tragedy: The Demonic Chess Game

She, Bai Jinsu, is Qingcheng's foremost talented woman and the eldest daughter of the Bai family, the richest family in Qingcheng. He, Fujiwara Shuichi, is a Japanese nobleman and officer. He was disfigured on the battlefield by Bai Jinsu's older brother, yet he gradually fell for her over a game of chess.

"Don't use cruelty to describe your heart. Your eyes have already betrayed you." Fujiwara Shuichi knows that beneath her icy expression lies a heart in turmoil.

People are not grass or trees. Who can remain without feelings?

Bai Jinsu has always been as calm as still water. She knows he is a devil who takes what he wants by force, yet time and again he reveals his true feelings for her. Though he hurt her, she trampled his heart beneath her feet with even greater ruthlessness... In that age of raging war, Bai Jinsu knows that whatever choice she makes, her love is doomed to end in a lament amid the dust and sorrow of war.

This novel and its characters are entirely fictional. Any resemblance is purely coincidental. Do not imitate.