Name: A Game of Red and Black
Author: Passerby A on Xijiang Road

Synopsis

What bird flies the farthest in the world?

The albatross.

What bird flies the highest in the world?

The albatross.

What bird flies across the ocean?

The albatross.

Obviously, those aren’t the correct answers, but to Lin Xiaoteng, they are the only answers that matter.

Gray-and-white feathers, broad wings, a beak that looks utterly harmless, an endearingly clumsy build, and a waddle like a duck’s: that’s the best way to describe an albatross.

It has neither the hawk’s sharp instincts nor the seagull’s cruelty. All it has are its unique gliding skills and its talent for raising chicks.

But even the gentlest bird will do its best to glare down its enemies and bare what look like sharp teeth when the family it worked so hard to build is falling apart.

And humans are no different.

He will never forget. Or rather, he cannot forget the story of what happened on the eve of the lies.

His father, framed and driven to a bitter end. His mother, worn down by worry and killed in an accident.

Before him stood an invisible yet tangible wall, keeping him from the truth.

When he was at a loss, a chess match against that old man won him a wish that could never come true.

And he used that impossible wish to trade for a revenge that belonged to him alone.

The outwardly refined and somewhat cold man was not his true self.

Only she, with her clear sapphire eyes that could see nothing but a black-and-white world, understood that he had hidden his real self away in some corner, waiting for someone to save him...

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