Shen Qinghe, the concubine of the Zhenyuan Marquis Mansion, was forced to kneel in the snow for a night by her biological mother and almost died. She secretly recorded the background of everyone in the manor since she was twelve years old, and stayed dormant for three years just to protect her mother and brother.
Lu Hengzhi, the eldest son of Marquis Wenyuan and the youngest editor of the Hanlin Academy, has a bottomless city hidden under his skin as gentle as jade. A letter from the Yellow River embankment indicating that the silver liang did not match made him break the larger chess game under the court.
One is the concubine of the Hou family, and the other is the legitimate son of the chief minister. They belong to two opposing families, but they are pushed onto the chessboard by the same hands.
She holds the secret map of the whole government, and he holds the hidden clues of the court. From testing each other to secretly forming alliances, from fighting independently to joining forces to break the game - when they finally saw the whole chessboard, they discovered that the real player had been sitting on the dragon's throne.
