Seven years ago, Xiao Changning, the prince of Zhenbei, fought a bloody battle at Yanmen Pass. What awaited him was not reinforcements, but an imperial edict of "collaboration with the enemy and treason." The entire Zhenbei palace was destroyed, and he was the only one who escaped by falling off a cliff.
Seven years later, he returned to the capital as the son of the richest man in Jiangnan, using the pseudonym "Gu Xichao". The world only knows that he is a guest in white who is good at calculations, but they don't know that every chess piece he lays is pushing the enemy into the abyss.
Prince Jing Zhao Heng is in power and is only one step away from becoming the crown prince; the Marquis of Wu'an has married to protect himself, and his former fiancée has married to another woman; the wolf girl of Beidi is lurking in the dark, and only he can unsheath the sharp blade in her hand.
The chess game has been laid out and the undercurrent is surging. When the truth surfaced, the mountains and rivers trembled - what he wanted was never to overturn the verdict, but to let everyone understand: some justice must be recovered even if it costs one's life!
