Shen Yuan is a living chess piece in the quagmire. Pei Yan, the pale palm print of the Supervisor of Ceremonies, personally fished her out of the corpse aura of Beisan Institute and the filth of the washing place. He gave her medicine, taught her to listen, and ordered her to see.
"Your eyes should shine in the dark for me."
She spied on the poison of "Jade Dust Powder", touched the bloody scabs of He Gong's old cases, and struggled to survive in his silent chess game.
They say nine thousand years old is careless, but when he crushed her enemy, the blood leaking between his fingers left a trace of warmth in her palm.
"Shen Yuan," outside the abandoned palace on a snowy night, his breath brushed against her scabbed wounds, "If you hate me, just live like the nail in my chess game that no one can pull out."
It wasn't until Shen Yuan accidentally came across Pei Yan's secret one day that Shen Yuan realized that Pei Yan had already regarded her as his. Only she got a glimpse of Pei Yan's "secret of the fake eunuch".
