Daliang has been a country for a hundred years, but under the prosperous times there are turbulent undercurrents. The imperial power and the clans, the new party and the old party, and even the three-year imperial examination have become a chess game played by all parties.
Between the east and west parts of the capital, a Zhuque Street separates the honor and disgrace of the aristocratic families and the nouveau riche. In the Beihou Mansion in Xicheng Town, three generations of Northern Territory Cavalrymen were in charge, and their achievements were so great that they were already a thorn in the emperor's side.
The whole family's loyalty cannot bring them a happy death. When the imperial edict to punish the nine tribes came down, they realized that the so-called emperor's grace was just a long-planned purge.
Someone wakes up from a pool of blood and returns to the age of sixteen before anything happened. The smoke lingering in the incense burner is no longer just elegant - it can kill people invisible and send messages silently. The black and white pieces on the chessboard are no longer just a game - every drop is the rise and fall of a head in the court.
She starts from the most inconspicuous corner, burns some incense, and changes a sudden death; dials a penny, changes a life or death. Step by step, peeling off the cocoon layer by layer, let those who watched the Shen family's destruction with cold eyes in their previous lives reap the consequences one by one.
But killing all the enemies is not the end. When the chess game gradually unfolded, she was shocked to realize that behind the imperial edict to destroy the family in her previous life, there was a shadow that was deeper and older than the imperial power.
That shadow has been falling since the founding of Daliang.
