[Crime Investigation × Mystery × Mentor and Student × Two Male Leads × Deduction]
A crystal pawn rests on the victim’s chest. Red letters bleed across the wall: “This side of the Chu River. The pawn makes the first move.”
Detective Jiang Yi recognizes the handwriting. It belongs to his mentor, Lu Chen, who “disappeared in disgrace” after a tunnel collapse three years ago.
Wanted posters cover the city, but late one night, his mentor calls:
“Xiao Yi, will you take over this game?”
A string of locked-room murders across two cities. Every chess piece recreates the wronged souls of three years ago.
Seventeen victims whose names were erased. Seventeen crystal chess pieces engraved with numbers.
The closer Jiang Yi gets, the more he realizes:
His mentor isn’t the killer. He’s the one who set the game in motion.
And the killer isn’t one person. It’s an entire city’s protective umbrella.
Some truths are like underground rivers.
You can’t see them, but they’re always flowing.
Just when you think they’ve disappeared, they surge up somewhere else, with a vengeance.
