In the thirteenth year of the founding of the Great Zhou Dynasty, the regent Xiao Jingyuan died in a heavy snowfall in the north. The court convicted him of "treason" and the Xiao family was destroyed.
No one knows that the snow is man-made and that the imperial edict is the emperor's silence.
Xiao Jingyuan's son, Xiao Changye, lived for three years in the name of the deceased. With old wounds and a cold heart, he wandered around to find the hermit Chu Wutuan in the mountains - the former Taishi Ling who was expelled from the temple by the emperor himself, but was said to be able to deduce the world's chess games.
Chu Wutuo only asked him one sentence: "Do you want revenge, or do you want the world?"
Xiao Changye was silent for a moment and replied: "I want every debtor to see with his own eyes how the debt is settled."
From Hangu Pass to the imperial capital Luojing, from the vast rivers and lakes to the palaces and temples, this young man whose name has been erased by the times, uses his sword as his pen and his life as his note, step by step into the chess game that swallowed up his father, and became the most dangerous chess piece in it——
Until the day he overturned the chessboard.
Martial Arts · Machiavellian Strategy · Alternate History The sword can be cut, but the mind cannot be confused. In troubled times, survival itself is a kind of sword skill.
