Shen Shuwan, the most talented woman in Dayong, was once the most dazzling pearl in the divine capital. Once her family was overthrown, and all the loyalists in the family were slandered as traitors to the party, she suffered injustice and hatred in the snow, and her soul died in the execution ground.
When she opened her eyes again, she became Su Yunqi, the daughter of a minor official, a sick and orphan girl who was forgotten by her family in another courtyard and was about to be sent to marry the tyrannical powerful man.
The former pearl of the divine capital is now a piece of dust and dirt. Enemies are still in high positions and laugh about the situation; former close friends have either found new careers or become silent. And the truth of that heinous injustice was buried under three feet of loess.
In this life, she is no longer the daughter of a harem who only knows poetry and songs. Relying on the uncanny ability to see traces of the past by touching old objects, she works step by step, using her role as a chess player, vowing to tear apart the hypocrisy of the prosperous age and send those black hands who pushed the Shen family into the abyss one by one to hell.
But she never expected that the rumored King of Jingan, Gu Yanci, who was terminally ill and indifferent to worldly affairs, would reach out to her at her most embarrassing moment. His eyes were warm, but there was ice and fire similar to hers.
He said: "Your chess game lacks a chess player. I wonder if you are qualified to do so?"
She smiled: "Your Majesty, in this game of chess, I will not give up on anyone who puts my life into the game."
He also smiled, held her hand, and clasped their fingers together: "Very good, my life is no longer my own."
