In the old city of Juzhou, deep in Wutong Lane, there is a chess academy.
Dean Lu Xingchen has been sitting here for twenty years, using his own strength to prop up the "Xingchen Chess Club" brand, surviving restructuring and auditing, but he waited for a report of "loss of state-owned assets".
The system and the market are competing in black and white clouds, and businessmen and politicians are making secret plans outside the chessboard.
Thirteen-year-old Go genius Lin Yichen is faced with whether to stay or leave, and his talent and future are torn apart by his mother's tears and the high salary in the provincial capital; the chess girl Xia Wanting is ordered to be in danger and becomes the last star of the chess academy.
When the special audit team stepped into the gate of the chess academy, when the sponsorship of 300,000 yuan was exchanged for the coveting of "long-term operating rights", when the child with the highest hopes turned around and left -
Lu Xingchen finally understood that the most difficult chess to play is never on the chessboard.
If you don't come to an appointment, the chess pieces will be knocked around. The lights have gone out and it's not yet dawn.
This is a chess game about perseverance, gaming and rebirth, dedicated to everyone who makes moves alone in the long night.
Intention: Persistence of a generation of chess players