She handed him a knife and asked him to cut off her shackles with his own hands.
Little did he know that this was a step in her chess game.
Liu Yushu has two secrets.
First, she is an orphan from the previous dynasty, who infiltrated the enemy's house and vowed to overthrow the empire.
Second, she fell in love with the man she was supposed to take advantage of - Gu Chengyue, a "fake" young man who broke free from the mud.
She formed an alliance with the imperial concubine Jin Lizhen and staged the most dangerous drama beside the dragon throne. They packaged the great cause of national restoration into a harmless fairy tale and made it public. Everyone laughed at them for their wishful thinking, but they used this to quietly plot a murderous plot under the sun.
However, at the end of the chess game, they discovered that they were not the chess players, but...
A gorgeous and tragic chess piece on the chessboard of destiny.
She thought she was playing the game in the world, but little did she know that the world had already written a prophecy for her.
Liu Yushu × Gu Chengyue: redemption and healing, soul mates hiding shocking secrets.
Yoo Ok-soo × Kim Yeo-jung: fatal confidants, dangerous allies who conspire to create the world.
Chen Jingan × Gu Chengyue: The ultimate sadomasochism, the dark bond of destructive possession and unyielding struggle.
Concept: The core dilemma that runs through all the main characters: Gu Chengyue (Li Muliang): struggling between slave and son, true self and mask. Liu Yushu (Jiang Yu): Looking for the true heart under the multiple masks of a subjugated princess, a businessman, a wife, and a strategist. Gu Yunzhi: His identity is torn to the extreme, symbolizing the tragedy of a person being torn apart by the three forces of family, politics and hatred at the same time. The story asks through them: Who am I after stripping away all the names and identities given by society?
