[History + Diaosi's Counterattack + Slap in the Face + Chess Game Breaking + Refreshing Articles + Slow Heat]
The chess table in Lin'an City has always been a stage for the powerful.
The chess pieces played by handyman Shen Yan were stones picked up from Caoke Lane. When Su Qingwan, the daughter of a powerful minister, plays chess to attract a bride, tearing open the cracks in the iron curtain of class, he clutches the worn chess pieces and steps into the arena - to play against a crowd of powerful people, and to gamble with fate.
Liu Changgeng, a son of an aristocratic family who hides his adultery with a folding fan, a rebellious noblewoman who plays chess with a silver hairpin, a handyman with a sinister face but a hot bun... The black and white space is the knocking brick for the young people at the bottom, the life and death of female chess players, and the sword that tears apart the solidified class.
From street gambling to imperial duels, from the quagmire to the golden palace, they use chess pieces to carve out their lives on the chessboard: the chess spirit can grow out of the mud, the daughter's family can also determine the future, and the humblest stone can break the ivory chessboard of the powerful.
This game of chess is not about winning or losing, it is about the rules of the world.
