The Go Alchemist

[Brooding, brilliant yet tragic, genius Go player × Proud, capricious heiress Wenren]

[Go dynasty family + two equally matched leads + made for each other + rekindled love]

When they first met, she concealed the sharpness of a Wenren heiress, pretending to be an ordinary girl who played Go with him in a quiet neighborhood. He was already a genius who could turn the Go world upside down, his every move deciding victory or defeat. Yet only around her did he shed his cold exterior, his heart beginning to stir over the black-and-white board.

Back then, she thought pure love could overcome anything. But the Duan family's frostily dismissive claim that she was “beneath their station,” and Shao Qingqing's blazing temptation to get her hands on The Go Refiner, proved too much. In the end, her family's schemes crushed their affection. To obtain the Divine Go Manual, they tore the couple apart, snuffing out a love that should have caught fire just as it reached its most passionate moment.

Seven years passed. She shed her youthful timidity and returned home, determined to reclaim the Divine Go Manual. He had long been in charge of Yiqing, becoming the unfathomable master of a Go academy. He kept a firm hold on The Go Refiner and refused to let it go. When they met again, resentment still lingered in her eyes, while he harbored an unspeakable reason.

As she fights to reclaim the manual, she must also stand up to her family across the Go board and unravel the mystery of seven years ago. Did he really bow to the lure of the Divine Go Manual, blinded by greed, or was there something else he had no choice but to hide? Is he still refusing to return it out of ambition in the Go world, or because he's hiding the words, “I want you to stay”?

With every argument and heartfelt confession, their misunderstandings gradually melt away. At last, the two hearts scarred by fate find the courage to love again...