Lin Yan's life began with two time travels that subverted his cognition.
When he opened his eyes for the first time, he became a "foreigner" in the Ming Dynasty's Go world. In that era where winning was determined by playing chess, he started out as a miserable loser who was repeatedly crushed by the young Jiang Liu'er, and suffered defeats in the past ten years - he was ridiculed by Jin Weiyuan as a "flower shelf", and Heimu criticized him as "tangible and soulless". In the cold winter, he huddled in a ruined temple and replayed games until his fingertips froze. In the end, he became the "Master of Ming Dynasty" with the fierceness of "quenching chess in defeat".
Before Zhenre could get the plaque of Chess Saint, the mysterious system threw him into the modern world of "Chess Soul". This time, he is a Chinese teenager studying in Tokyo. In front of him are unfamiliar rules that adhere to the goal system. His opponent is Shindo Hikaru, who holds the obsession of "God's Hand", and Taya Ryo, whose layout is as precise as a scalpel. There is also the cold reality shrouded in the hegemony of Japanese and Korean Go.
From the chess master of the Ming Dynasty to the foreign "invader", his chess game contains the killing power of ancient music and the calmness of modern times. His goal is straightforward and hot: to crush the halo of Japanese and Korean Go and make Chinese Go stand on top of the world. When he won consecutive titles in the Japanese professional arena, defeated Lee Chang-ho in the Yingshi Cup, and when Shindo Hikaru's chess piece stopped in front of the chessboard for him for the first time - everyone finally understood: this "villain" is not here to win or lose, but to earn a visible future for Chinese Go.
