In the winter of the third year of Yongchang in Daliang, General Shen Yuan of Zhenguo was thrown into death row. The crime was based on the prophecy of Qin Tianjian - regicide at the age of thirty.
The young emperor Xiao Yu came to the trial in person. He had read the "Chronicles of the Kingdom", which recorded the fate of the dynasty, and knew that the man in front of him was the number one villain in the book, and that he would surely wipe out the palace with blood in three years.
He thought he had the script and was sure to win.
Until the prisoner on death row raised his head and smiled at him.
"Your Majesty," Shen Yuan said, "the script you got is a pirated version."
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That night, Xiao Yu began to doubt for the first time: Is the "secret" he has relied on for survival in the past three years a book of prophecy or a trap written by others?
And Shen Yuan opened his eyes in the darkness and looked at the corner of the cell.
Someone is waiting there, and has been waiting for a long time.
"Send a message to the capital," he whispered, "it's time to make a move."
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In the court, someone secretly investigated Shen Yuan's old department.
Deep in the palace, a woman who had been dead for three years quietly returned.
When the war broke out in northern Xinjiang, the young emperor received an unsigned secret letter in the royal study thousands of miles away.
He didn't know that this was the first stone to fall on the chessboard.
He didn't even know that the person he imprisoned on death row was the real chess player.
——
This is not a palace fight.
This is the ultimate game between "author" and "reader".
He wants to rewrite the fate that has been written.
He wants to expose the tampered script.
And when the two people finally saw the cards in each other's hands, they discovered at the same time——
At the end of this chess game, the real opponent is never the other party.
Purpose: Resist the defined destiny and write to rewrite your own life. The real creator always has the final right of interpretation