"In this nine-layered palace, no one can be alone. If you don't want to be a chess piece in other people's games, you need to have the consciousness and ability to become a chess player."
This sentence will run through the entire growth arc of the heroine Shen Qingyi - from being forced into the game to protect herself, to actively planning and controlling, and finally achieving transcendence of the rules and even the chess game itself.
