Five years in prison, in exchange for a chessboard.
Before Chen Fan was imprisoned, he was an abandoned son of the Chen family in Linshi who was stepped on by everyone. On the day he was released from prison, the rain soaked his shirt, his fiancée threw the divorce agreement on his chest, and his uncle's family forced him to sign a document giving up his inheritance. He took the agreement in silence, folded it and put it in his pocket. The rainwater flowed down the old scar on his brow bone - no one saw the slight curve at the corner of his mouth.
Coming out of prison is the peak.
He took over the authority given to him by the four major families. In his left hand, he inherited the Taoist tradition and drew talismans to determine life and death, and in his right hand, the hidden conglomerate changed everything. He never said a second word to his enemies. Zhao Tianlong jumped off the building, Song Zhengqing Shuanggui, and Gu Changgeng were annihilated in the sea of stars - every knife struck seven inches, without any sloppiness. But for his sister Chen Xiaowan, he was the brother who squatted down to tie her shoelaces; for Lin Qianqian, he spent eight years turning letters from prison into wedding vows; for Ayi, he said "I will show you the sea" and he actually took her to the beach.
There are only two stages in his life: before going to prison, he was imprisoned by others; after he was released from prison, he was imprisoned by others.
When his father disappeared in the Tianmen, he demolished the Tianmen and rebuilt it into a laboratory; Gu Changgeng said that immortality was the privilege of the elite, so he disclosed the Guidance Technique to one billion people around the world for free. He doesn't believe in God or fate, he only believes in one thing - people who have been imprisoned know best what freedom is.
In the last sentence of the book, he said to Lin Qianqian: "Go home."
The world once locked him behind bars, but he personally tore down the door and built a bigger yard for everyone.
