He was the Ninth Five Supreme Being, the emperor of the Great Xia Dynasty, but he was also a puppet of the powerful officials. In the splendid palace, he played the role of a hedonistic king who was addicted to pleasure. Under the dragon robe, there are his sharp claws that are dormant and a pair of eyes that watch the chess game coldly. The country is the prey that he must recapture.
She was the daughter of a guilty minister, burdened with the blood feud of her family, and was sent to the palace as the sharpest chess piece, becoming a stunning beauty dedicated to the "faint king". Underneath the buoyaohuanpei is her hidden murderous intention, and a heart struggling between hatred and wavering. Love is the poison that she should not touch in this life.
An encounter that began with calculation, and repeated temptations on the edge of a knife. He and she are enemies, chess pieces, and each other's only way to break the game. When the layers of disguise peel off, and when it becomes difficult to distinguish between sincerity and pretense, they realize that the rest of their lives have already been staked on this world-shaking gamble.
Is it the emperor's career that makes him the overlord, or is it the Nirvana that leads to his rebirth? Or, work hand in hand to control the mountains and rivers together in this treacherous battle for imperial power.
