After ten years of hard work and being humiliated, the poor scholar Su Changqing unexpectedly awakened his "transparent literary mind" and was able to see through the logical context and human calculations behind the article. From the provincial examination to being named on the gold medal list, he shocked the world with a policy essay, but was thrown into the center of the whirlpool of power struggle. Faced with a deadly situation in which the treacherous prime minister has his own hands, the princes have their own agendas, and the aristocratic families are intertwined, he uses his body as a chess player and the world as his chess game to fight wits and courage with the entire court. In the end, he changes from a chess piece to a chess player, creating a prosperous Qingming era that belongs to all people.
