[In the spring of the seventh year of Yongchang, a cold corpse froze to death in front of the household door, tearing apart the bloodiest chess game in the Liang Dynasty.
Censor Xie Yanzhi stroked the "Yongchang Tongbao" secretly engraved on the palm of the corpse, and the coughed up cinnabar condensed into blood plums on the snow - the taboo money pattern privately cast by the late emperor twenty years ago reappeared in the world, and it actually implicated the ulterior life experience of the regent Xiao Jingheng.
Above the court, the violent and powerful ministers criticize the red to determine life and death; in the dark alley, the sick and weak censor folds his fan to hide his murderous intent. The two have been fighting openly for ten years, but they don't know that the medicine the other party drank was planted by himself. The poisonous needle to protect the forehead and the jade belt to prove the crime have long been double-edged swords in the secret competition.
When a money-making case exposes the deepest secrets of the imperial power, the two mortal enemies are forced to join forces. In this bloody chess game, the one who holds the pieces will eventually become the pieces...
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