On the day the country was overthrown, Shen Linghui was an abandoned child in the hands of others.
The father used her to flatter him and survive, the new emperor used her to humiliate the previous dynasty, and the heavenly prison used her to imprison her into a living tablet. No one asked her if she wanted to. She crawled out from the pile of dead people, escaped from the fire, survived from the vast snowy night - she lived like an escape chess piece.
Three years later, she entered the capital as a distant cousin of the Li family. She wants revenge, wants to seize the throne, and wants to eat those who played chess back then one by one from the chessboard. And her first target was the minister whom the new emperor of Beishuo relied on most - Li Shuheng, the young powerful minister of the former dynasty and now the minister of Zhongshu.
On the day he came to visit, he looked at her for a long time, so long that she thought her disguise had been seen through. Then he lowered his eyes and said only one sentence: Since he is a member of the Li family, let him stay.
He didn't expose her. He hid Bei Shuo's eyes for her, paved the way for her to enter the game, and handed the hidden clues in the court to her hands one by one. He handed her the knife to the person she wanted to kill; he filled the holes for her along the road she wanted to take; he had already dug the foundation for the palace she wanted to overthrow.
What she didn't know was that he had already recognized her the day he picked her up in the snow. What he didn't even know was that he had never planned to be a chess player from the beginning.
From abandoning her son to taking charge of the company, she has walked this road for 7 years. Every step she took was on the tip of the knife, and a silent hand was secretly steadying the handle of each knife for her. Until the end, she stepped onto the dragon chair that had been re-burnt by fire, with blood all over the palace. Looking back, she saw that the man had retreated to His Majesty Dan, kneeling upright with his head buried low.
He said: Sir, congratulations to Your Majesty.
Life is like chess, he who knows the game survives, he who breaks the game survives, and he who masters the game wins.
Intention: Life is like a chess game. He who knows the game survives, he who breaks the game survives, and he who masters the game wins.