Locked Coffin. Human Chess Game
锁灵棺.人间棋局
by Ye Wangshu (野望舒)
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- Ongoing
- Length
- 116k Words
- Chapters
- 31
- Genre
- Multi-Orientation
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- 1mo ago
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- JJWXC
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Ling'er's husband treats her very well. A bowl of hand-made wontons every morning, with different fillings and flavors every day, never the same. He combed her hair and made flowers, played the piano and painted, never leaving her. The Qin family's lintel is unremarkable, but it is extremely luxurious inside. The inner and outer houses are strictly separated and guarded at all levels, making the people in the town very envious. But Ling'er always felt that something was wrong. Her memory is incomplete. She couldn't remember the last time she went out. She didn't know why - every night, a shrill female voice would pierce her eardrums, screaming for her to kill him. Countless blood-colored eyes stared at her quietly in the darkness. Fingernails scraped against the wood, and whines came and went. She tried desperately to search for a name or a face in her blank mind, but found nothing. Husband Qin Xuanye said it was a nightmare. He spent three days and two nights behind closed doors, reading medical books, and personally prepared medicine for her to drink. The medicine is sweet. But after drinking, she fell asleep longer and longer. There are fewer and fewer waking hours. Memory is getting thinner. Something she couldn't explain began to appear in the house. After Dr. Zhou, who treated her, left the Qin family, no one in the town had seen him again. It's just that there is an extra peony picture in the flower hall. The peonies are painted with bright red paint, and their smell is fishy, with a faint smell of rust. Qin Xuanye said that this kind of ink will change color - it will bloom bright red at first, then fade to dark red after a few days, and then turn dark red and turn black over time. Just like a real flower, it slowly fades after blooming. Su'e, a girl in the town who originally abided by etiquette, covered her face with a gauze veil. After meeting Qin Mingqi, the eldest son of the Qin family, for some reason she obsessed over her husband and tried to replace him as the head wife. Later it was said that she eloped with Langshan. The Lee family fell into decline overnight and everyone was exiled. Only his elder brother Lee Kuan Yew entered the official career. Qin Xuanye caught a dead leaf butterfly and put it in a glass vase for her to play with. She said casually: "The Dead Leaf Butterfly likes to eat carrion, blood, water and animal corpses. It is very dirty." The butterfly never moved again. But every night, there is another shrill scream: Why, why, those should be mine. In the Yongning mine case, the Pei brothers were ordered to investigate and accept bribes. A few days later, more than a dozen corrupt officials had their homes confiscated and executed. The Wen family, which had nothing to do with the Yongning case, had been a prominent family for a century and was in charge of the Ministry of Household Affairs, the Ministry of Rites, and Water Transport. They were uprooted within a few months. But the most inconspicuous members of the expropriated family quietly rose up at the same time and held important positions. Her husband told her about the painting book and asked her for her opinion. Every time she answered, life was quietly lost. She didn't know if what she said was right or wrong. She only knows—— In this mansion, all the disappeared people, all the tragic deaths, and all the uprooted families are all related to her "deleted" memories. Then she finally remembered something. He was once a chess player. And those she loves, and those who love her, are sacrificing her with their own hands. She is locked in a chess game. And she is the sacrifice in the coffin of the game. ——Locked Coffin·Human Chess Game·Opening the Book Purpose: It tells the story of a heroine who is trapped in layers of illusions and endless reincarnations, constantly exploring the truth in the maze woven by fate, exploring shackles, sacrifice and self-awakening, and thinking about how people should face an inescapable fate.