Gu Yan is the eldest son of the Gu family - at least in name.
For twenty years, he has lived as a shadow: blocking knives, bullets, and all disasters that should have happened to others for Master Zhen. He is the target kept in the open by the patriarch's father, a chess piece that can be sacrificed at any time.
Until a mint appeared on the coffee table in his apartment. There is a line hidden in the candy wrapper: "The first time is not an accident."
Starting from this candy, a secret spanning twenty years was slowly opened. The iron box under the textile factory, the ward registration form deep in the air-raid shelter, a list of numbered children - there were at least four substitutes before him. Some people are dead, some are still alive, some are waiting for a piece of cloth to go home in London, and some have been waiting at the station for ten years just for an answer.
He doesn't run away, he doesn't retreat, he doesn't roar. He attended every wedding banquet dressed appropriately, pushing old account books in front of his enemies while drinking and drinking, turning every signature into a hook for his arrest.
"Use your body as bait and your wisdom as your blade."
While the chess players were still planning their next move, the chess piece had already reached the center of the chess board. Not only does he want to win, he wants to overturn the entire chessboard.
