When I was thirteen years old, I was sold by my stepmother into the eldest princess's mansion and became a "gift" dedicated to a mysterious man.
Deep inside the curtain, his face was as handsome as a god, but his fingertips were as cold as frost.
When he saw my trembling eyebrows, he suddenly stopped.
"Wait until you grow up."
In the past two years, I studied piano, chess, calligraphy and painting at the Princess Mansion, and grew into the most perfect chess piece. I also learned his secret - the puppet emperor who was controlled by powerful ministers.
Later, he never appeared again.
I thought he had forgotten me a long time ago and spent his days leisurely in his house. He even exchanged poems under the moonlight with the young Marquis Wei, who was famous in the capital, and exchanged wishes.
Until he wiped out the court with blood and truly took charge of the world.
An imperial edict summoned me into the deep palace, and the imperial study room's red door was tightly closed. He tore off the disguise of gentleness and imprisoned me in front of him.
"If the guard takes one step forward, I will kill him."
From then on, there was endless love on the dragon bed, and the chess game of life and death under the palace wall.
After seven years of ups and downs, he defied all opinions and put the Phoenix Seal into my palm.
When the historian was tremblingly recording, he turned around and looked at the palace full of courtiers, and his words were like iron.
"Here is the book: The daughter of the common people, Ji Shi, is treasured by me at the age of thirteen, and she will share the world with me at the age of twenty."
Then he held my hand and shouted throughout the palace:
"The pen of history is like a sword. After all eternity, your name will be ranked with mine."
From gift to queen, from chess piece to chess player.
This is a chess game that started as a plunder, but ended up as a complicity in the world.
