The Wang Family's Chessboard: She Is a Sacrificial Pawn and the Blood of His Heart

Name: The Wang Family's Chessboard: She Is a Sacrificial Pawn and the Blood of His Heart
Author: Jing Yu

汪家棋盘，她是弃子，也是心尖血

by Jing Yu (静玗)

Status: Completed
Length: 717k Words
Genre: Mystery
Subgenre: Female-Channel Mystery
Updated: 1y ago
English: Request a translation

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Synopsis

She knelt in the blood-soaked ancestral hall of the Wang family, clutching the bone fragment of the last opponent she had defeated. Of the twenty-seven candidates, she was the only one left alive. Three ribs were broken, her left eye was temporarily blind, and the flesh on her back hung in bloody strips, as if chewed by a wild dog. This was the price of becoming the young clan leader. The Wang family never kept dead weight.

She met Zhang Qiling again in an ancient tomb while pursuing the Snake-Browed Bronze Fish. She led the attack, only to have a mechanism’s hidden arrow pierce her shoulder. When the smoke cleared, he stood before her, the cold gleam of his Black Gold Ancient Blade reflected in her bloodied face.

She thought he would deliver the fatal blow, but instead he tossed her a packet of medicine wrapped in oiled paper.

“...” She froze, her fingertips brushing the warm powder.

He turned to leave, but she heard her own hoarse voice: “Zhang Qiling, do you know who I am?”

He didn’t look back. He left her only the sight of his cold, unyielding back.

Only later did she understand that what he gave her had never been pity. Just as she had climbed over corpses in the Wang family, it wasn’t for power. She only wanted to stand before him one day without having to hide her trembling hands behind her scabbard.

But fate had already written the ending. She became the young leader of the Wang family, and also the person closest to him, yet the one who could never approach him.

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183Chapters

532Reads · 30 days

54.2kReads · all time

104Shelf adds, last 14 days

6.3Score

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