This isn’t a story about how to win a game of Go. It’s about making your opponents believe that the strategies they’ve spent their whole lives studying were wrong from the very beginning.
While the whole world fights to the death over the Go board, a sickly adviser smiles, tips it over, and says, “Let’s play a different game.”
Jiang Yan is a frail, terminally ill adviser to a prince’s household. He seems easygoing, but in truth he’s a “deconstructor” who can see through the essence of any system. He has no interest in carefully maneuvering through the stale games of political intrigue. Instead, he excels at changing the rules outright, and even inventing entirely new games.
