My Peerless Talent Made Me the Empress's Right-Hand Man

[Genius]+ [The Martial World]+ [The Imperial Court]+ [Multiple Heroines]+ [Nearly Invincible]

“When the people are cast aside, heaven and earth become the board.”

Court intrigue clashes like cold iron, grudges and passions in the martial world thread like silk along a blade, and the joys and sorrows of common folk rise and fall like drifting dust.

Billions of lives are porcelain pieces on a vast scale, moved across a board of deep black and vermilion. Each time jade fingers set a piece down, sparks flare into a prairie fire.

Yun Qianfan had only wanted to steal a quiet moment with his inkstone, yet somehow he drew red sleeves to grind his ink and hidden arrows to tap at his window.

If the world will not let me hide my name, then I will temper my blade in snow, one stroke at a time,

stand atop the highest peak and point at the realm below as if it were a game of chess,

then send iron cavalry crashing through armor, grinding the smoke of war into ten thousand sparks.

Only when the people's lamps shine through the night

will they understand this game

was always mine to play, with heaven itself as my piece!