Shen Qingwan, the daughter of a criminal official in the Dasheng Dynasty, concealed her identity and entered the court with her peerless chess skills in order to clear the grievances of the Xue family and became a "chess candidate". She doesn't have a golden finger, only her precise calculation of people's hearts and her chess game thinking of seeing ten moves after one move. When she first entered the palace, she was a plaything in the eyes of the ladies of the palace and a tool for the emperor's entertainment. She used the palace as a chessboard and the concubines and powerful officials as pawns, trying to survive in the cracks.
From the initial role of serving as a chess player in front of the emperor, to being involved in a harem battle and being forced to serve as a chess player, to taking the initiative to fight for the phoenix position. She took advantage of Emperor Xiao Jingheng's suspicion and weighing to counterattack in desperate situations again and again. The two used each other and tested their defenses, until the emperor fell in love and the heroine fell. In the end, after the heroine found out the truth, in order to protect herself and the world, she had to have a final game with the man who loved her deeply on the lonely road at the pinnacle of power, and finally reached the legend of "co-governance by the emperor and the empress".
