Traveling to the country of Dali, Duan Lingxiao woke up and faced a bad hand - the Gao family in the court was in power, and he, the King of Zhennan, was just a puppet. All the civil and military officials in the dynasty were waiting to see his joke, and all forces were waiting for Dali to change hands.
But no one knew that the body of this dandy prince had been replaced by a modern soul.
In the chess game between Song, Liao and Dali, Duan Lingxiao started from the end of the game where he was killed. A female general of the Forbidden Army, a swordsman from the Jianghu, a young tribal leader, a special envoy from the Northern Song Dynasty, a noblewoman from the Liao Kingdom - nine women from different camps and with their own purposes entered his chess game one after another. They are not his vassals, but fellow travelers who choose and achieve each other's achievements with him in the game of power.
From the neglected prince to the powerful prime minister in charge of Dali, every step Duan Lingxiao takes is on the edge of a knife. And when the secrets deep in Cangshan Mountain were revealed layer by layer, he discovered that this game of chess was far bigger than he had imagined.
