In the late years of Daliang Dynasty and the eighth year of Xuanzong's reign, a bloody palace coup tore apart the imperial capital of Shangjing.
Previous life. Shen Yunzhao, the daughter of the Minister of Rites, was born taciturn and not good at words. Therefore, her father Shen Heting was particularly cold towards her. Everyone in the world knew that she was "not good enough to enter the chess game", but no one knew that every trick that Shen Heting made that was praised by the government and the public, and every political plan that made political opponents fearful, were all made by this eldest daughter. Using a pen as a sword, she "played" chess for her father for twelve years. She was in charge of the Ministry of Rites, Officials, Households, Punishments, War, and Industry. The world respected her father as a "six-department chess player," but no one knew that the person who wrote the pen was just a shadow behind him.
Shen Yunzhao also played chess for the royal family. In the last years of the late emperor's reign, the fourth prince took over the throne. She worked behind the scenes to lay a trap for the fourth prince Yin Heng to help him ascend the throne. She thought the chess game was over, but Yin Heng's first case after taking the throne was "Shen's collusion with the enemy and treason." She did not wait for the trial - someone sneaked into the prison, cut off her ten fingers with a knife, severed her hand and hamstrings, and threw her into a cripple into the dirtiest culvert in Beijing. She heard the leader whisper in the darkness: "Miss Shen, His Majesty said that all the credit in the world cannot be given to one woman. You are too out of line."
Until her death, Shen Yunzhao had never seen the decree that destroyed her whole family. She only knew that her father, Shen Heting, was cut in half in the city, her mother hung herself from a beam, and her four-year-old brother, Shen Yanzhou, was thrown from the city wall and was bloody when he landed on the ground.
All nine clans were put to death. Three hundred and seventy-two lives.
When she took her last breath in the culvert, she finally understood that she had never won. She was just an abandoned piece that had been left on the chessboard for too long and was deemed too much of an eyesore by the general.
This life. Opening her eyes, Shen Yunzhao returned to the first year of Xuanzheng, after the autumn when she was eighteen years old. Her father, Shen Heting, had just been promoted to Minister of Rites, and was not as famous as the "Six-Min chess player"; the fourth prince, Yin Heng, was still a gentle and idle prince; and she had just signed the first impeachment memorial for her father, the censor of Zuodu.
In this life, she will no longer play chess for anyone.
She wants to serve herself - pin everyone to death on the chessboard.
Purpose: Only when you have the capital to settle down and make a living can you be able to calmly decide who to leave and who to stay.