In the winter of 1985, five-year-old Chen Mo became an orphan. In this era when the world is not about swords, but rules and calculations, he started in the county orphanage, learned to "make a game" from the old ghost, and made his first pot of gold in the sand and gravel business. In his early twenties, he replaced King Zhao Yan and became the new underground king. Brother Tiezhu, military advisor Siyan Liu, and lover Sister Hong - he wins people's hearts in setting up a trap, and also sows the seeds of betrayal in setting up a trap.
A millennium later, Chen Mo marched into the provincial capital, only to find that he was a pawn in a larger chess game. When the truth about his father's death was revealed, his brothers turned against each other, and his lover left, he fell from his peak. In 2008, he returned as a real estate upstart "Chen Mo" and set up the most dangerous situation in his life: using himself as bait, he pulled down the mastermind behind the scenes and took the initiative to go to jail in exchange for redemption.
After being released from prison in 2015, 35-year-old Chen Mo had nothing. He opened a teahouse in the old place of Xincheng and named it "Jianghu Years". Someone asked him if it was worth it. He said: "There is no question of whether it is worth it or not. There is only whether you have lived or not."
A Jianghu epic of making and breaking situations - not a martial arts show that flies over the walls, but a real underground order in the era of transition. It tells the story of how an orphan transformed from a chess piece to a chess player in twenty years, and finally jumped out of the chess game.
The world is far away, but the rules will always remain.
