The legitimate princess Ying Zhaoyang mourned for herself with her own hands, then turned around and sneaked into Shuming Academy, the center of the world's think tanks.
The fragile peace of the four countries is on the verge of being shattered due to a black iron mine. The last buffer place is this place where scholars give lectures and talents gather.
She kept her name anonymous, hoping to earn a way out for herself on the eve of troubled times, and to find a glimmer of light for the common people to break the situation.
Here, she met Cui Lingyi, the first son of the Chen Kingdom, a man of extraordinary beauty and unparalleled intelligence. He turned bamboo into a soldier and revealed her pretense with one sentence: "Your acting is good, but the blood is real."
Classmates are friends, and chess is an opponent. When the topic of "Yunque's Twelve Seats" becomes a preview of the world's chess game, when friendship and attitude collide fiercely——
Are they rivals destined to kill each other, or can they play chess side by side and create a new possibility for this era that is destined to be divided?
The idea: The princess fakes her death and enters the arena to play the best chess game in the world.