The prince of Qian Kingdom heard about Xianting. He guarded the border at a young age and was tempered by blood and fire. After returning to Beijing, he was involved in the gold mining mystery and witnessed the powerful minister Jing Anchuan plotting against Zhongliang and evading air power. In order to find out the truth and save his best friend, he stepped into the whirlpool of conspiracy alone, from survival in the swamp to heated debates in the court, from chess games in the imperial court to bloody battles in Luoxia Valley, struggling to survive between the checks and balances of his father and the deep chess game of the wise king and uncle. The war in the north is rekindled, and the Yu Kingdom's cavalry is pressing down on the border, but the real deadly blade comes from an ancient family in the shadow of the empire. Wen Xianting was forced to make a choice between loyalty and betrayal, ideals and survival, and finally understood: in order to survive in this dark chess game, the only way is to enter the game and become a chess player. This is an epic that combines intrigue, war and human torture. It tells the story of how an idealist steps towards the abyss of power and confronts fate in the bloody reality.
Intent: Machiavellian showdown, decisive battle on the battlefield