Ruan Jingshu transformed into the background lady in the ancient sadistic novel "Elegy of the Great Enemy".
The system said: Save your husband Chen Mo and prevent him from dying on a snowy night one year later, and you can go home.
So she read the file thirty-seven times and tried every means to change his fate.
But he always pushed her away gently and decisively, and walked towards the palace gate where he would die.
The thirty-eighth time she read the file, she was tired and chose the system's plan B - [Abandoning the mission, the hidden plot will be unlocked]
So she saw this sentence in his teenage notes:
"If she can really see this, it means... She is finally willing to be by my side."
It turns out that his "dead game" was a chess game that had been buried for ten years.
Eunuch chaos, crisis in the north, court purges... Behind all dead ends, there is a secret path to death.
What he needs is an accomplice who dares to risk his life with him.
"Zhen Zhen," he coughed up blood, but his eyes were astonishingly bright, "Do you dare to play a game of chess with me?"
"What's the stakes?"
"Your life, my life," he held her hand, "and this vast land."
She smiled: "I bet."
This time, they didn't die.
They want the people who forced them to die—
Kneel down first.
Purpose: I want to write a story about "choice" - Chen Mo's choice to go to the dark side on the road destined to failure is the spiritual swan song of the Confucian scholar-officials; Ruan Jingshu's choice to wait quietly for the rest of his life destined to be lonely is the most affectionate resistance of a classical woman. They complete themselves through constant choices. This may be the meaning of choice: in the face of an invincible fate, people can still choose how to stand, how to love, and how to remember. ——Dedicated to all those who hold candles and walk forward in the dark night.