Lin Yi, the modern Go champion, travels back to the late Northern Song Dynasty due to an accident, just as the Kingdom of Jin is eyeing it and the factions in the court are fiercely fighting. With his superb chess skills and modern knowledge, he was appreciated by Song Huizong, but he was also involved in the whirlpool of power. Faced with the secret obstruction of the traitors in the DPRK and the military threat of the Jin Kingdom, Lin Yi must reverse the national destiny of the Northern Song Dynasty within a limited time, otherwise the Jingkang disaster will come as expected and countless lives will be ruined. In the court, he needs to deal with the conservatives and the reformists; in the chess game, he needs to use chess as a sword to break the conspiracy of the hostile forces. As time passed, Lin Yi discovered that he was not only playing against the enemy, but also against history itself. Every step could change the fate of countless people. When he finally stood at the pinnacle of power, he found that the biggest challenge was how to truly change the destiny of the dynasty while preserving himself.
