Lin Xiao, a researcher at the Academy of Social Sciences, and Shen Yu, the captain of the special police, were both involved in a car accident and became the sons of their sworn enemies - a civil servant's soul trapped in the body of a general, and a military general's heart locked in the prime minister's palace.
The old salt tax case is full of shady secrets, and snow disasters in the north have caused starvation and death everywhere.
When Lin Xiao unearthed clues to the unjust case in the pile of old papers, and Shen Yu discovered blood-sucking borers in the ordnance accounts, the two couples formed a life-or-death alliance amid suspicion and temptation.
In the blood feast of Kowloon to seize the heir, in the collision between the New Deal and the old system, they chose to overturn the chessboard. From "walking in the cardinal's office" to "the world's chess player".
Use modern thinking to rewrite the laws of the dynasty - not to proclaim emperor, but to establish a constitution; not to be dictatorial, but to be a republic.
The bones of a civil servant, the soul of a general, the red blade, and the heart of an emperor.
In this chess game where no one is innocent, the pieces and the players are just one thought away.
