Su Wantang, twenty-two years old, was the concubine of Suhou Mansion and the widow of former minister Lu Mingda. On the day Su Yi entered the capital, everyone thought she was a poor widow who had come to seek refuge with her relatives - the Queen Mother wanted to use her as a pawn, Prime Minister Gao Yu regarded her as a bird in a cage, and the civil and military officials in the court only thought she was lucky.
No one knows that she is the daughter of the last head of the former secret spy agency "Feng Ling". She smiled softly, spoke softly, and never defended herself when someone was being scorned—she turned around and overturned the opponent's chess game.
Her husband Lu Mingda did not die of illness. Blood letters, account books, arms smuggling, collaboration with the enemy and treason, the clues step by step point to the current Prime Minister Gao Yu. At the same time, the regent Pei Heng watched with cold eyes, secretly clearing the way forward for her again and again, but still refused to admit it. From face-to-face confrontations to long talks on snowy nights, from being each other's chess pieces to playing chess side by side, the two get closer and closer in the whirlpool of power and intrigue.
When troops in the Northern Desert approached the city, the Queen Mother turned against her, her identity was exposed, and she was imprisoned. When everyone thought she had no way out, a net that had been hidden for several years quietly tightened. She doesn't rely on luck or rely on others. Every retreat is to lure the enemy deeper, and every show of weakness is a precise layout.
From a chess piece that entered the capital alone to a chess player who determined the world, she completed a counterattack in fifty moves. History books will not record her name, but when storytellers are stunned, they will always talk about the widow who came from nowhere——
"She was originally a disaster, but she saved the world."
