All three groups are dead, Wu Zhu delivers the fourth group, and the powerful ministers form an alliance to rebel against the imperial power!
In that cup of tea on a snowy day, at first Pei Nanjun only wanted to "find a way to survive", and Wu Qingyi only wanted to "break a dead game" - this was the purest original intention of the two of them.
The case of the Taifu's embezzlement of ink had not yet cooled down, and strangulation in the court was imminent. He went from "keeping oneself" to calculating people's hearts, and she went from "choosing the path" to crushing the bottom line. The heat of the cup of tea has long since dissipated, and the only things left in their hands are each other's lives.
"We won, but the one we wanted to protect in the first place was long gone."
Purpose: Use chess as a metaphor for the world, stay true to your heart and find your confidant in the whirlpool of power and intrigue.