Miss Su, Long Time No See

[Republican-era suspense + fantasy mysteries + duty to the nation + devoted couple]

Seventeen-year-old Su Nian'an thought she was just a student, until a jade pendant she had worn since childhood dragged her into a bloody game of chess spanning eighteen years.

Who is she, really?

A wealthy merchant’s daughter, the orphan of a powerful family, or… the only “living key” to an ancient secret capable of overturning the balance between north and south?

From being taken hostage by the mysterious “Special Commissioner Jiang,” to being imprisoned in the palm of the fanatical young marshal Huo Tanzhou, to the successive appearances of various people claiming to be her “older brother” and “fiancé”… Everyone who draws near wears a false mask. Do they mean to take her or protect her? Are their promises salvation or a deeper abyss?

When the truth behind the “assassination of the military governor” intertwines with the treasure of the imperial mausoleum of a former dynasty, and everyone wants to use her as a pawn to tip the game, she finally realizes: in this deadly game where no one can be trusted, trust is the shortest path to hell.

“If you all want to play chess, then I’ll be the one who flips the board!”

To survive, she plans each step carefully, using herself as bait as she navigates between opposing forces. She tears away the pretense of family ties with her own hands, exposes old wounds of sisterly rivalry, and rises from the ashes again and again amid betrayal and exploitation.

When all the clues point to a forbidden place called the Hall of Eternal Life, she discovers that what everyone is fighting over is no treasure, but a terrifying curse capable of plunging all of Huaxia into endless ruin…