She wrote three hundred letters to Kurama, the god of chess, and drew a bird at the end of each letter.
Later, she was forced to marry into the Pei family. On their wedding night, the sickly husband handed her a cup of tea. His fingertips rested on the rim of the cup, which was exactly the same as the line on the letter: "This round is acceptable, try again."
Everyone in the capital knows that the legitimate son of the Pei family is a good-for-nothing. She only wanted to live a happy life when she got married. The person she hides in her heart is the chess genius "Kurama" who has never shown up.
Until one day she found a stack of chess records in her husband's study, and the title page was signed - Kurama.
Her hands shook, and a low laugh came from behind her: "Madam, have you seen enough?"
He listened to the tune she hummed while feeding the birds for a whole year in the chess room.
He used three hundred games of chess to send her from the street bird stall to the four-chess club arena, then turned around and sat down in the audience as his fiancé, watching her say "I want to see you" to the empty seat of "Kurama".
He held up the tea cup to cover half of his face. What was pressed at the bottom of the cup was the 400th letter she had just sent this morning.
Concept: A fantasy about ancient love stories