A Girl from the 80 Factory Area, the Queen of the Chess World

When he was fourteen years old, Xu Zhaoning signed himself up for a Go match without telling his mother. She wanted to win a pen, and she also wanted to know if she could have a chess table of her own outside the factory walls. The father died young, and the mother supported the siblings' home with a pair of rough hands. Being sensible, taking the technical secondary school entrance examination, and earning money early were the stable life plans others had planned for her. But on the day of the finals, she held the chess pieces and did not go home with her mother immediately for the first time. "Mom, wait until I finish this dish." Later, she walked out of the factory. From a little girl who no one noticed, to a female chess player that her opponents dared not look down upon, she won applause from the audience, but also lost to the point where she doubted herself. The name her mother sewed into her collar accompanied her to far away places, and she never dared to live up to it. Chen Wangchuan, a bamboo horse, said that he would come back when he was tired because he could afford to support a family. Lu Zheng, who meets his opponent in chess, understands every move she makes, but he may not know how to retain her outside the chessboard. She has been moved, shed tears, and lost her most cherished feelings when she wanted to win the most. And the wave of the times is crossing the familiar factory walls. The loom that my mother has been keeping for half her life, the job that my brother is looking forward to, and the stable life of the old neighbors will all move towards the unknown. When fate pushes her to a new chess table, whose hand should she hold, and where should she put her dreams? How many times does she have to win in this life before she dares to believe that even if she loses, there will be someone waiting for her to go home?