Life is like a chess game, who is whose chess piece, and who is the chess player?
He fell into her game, whose pawn is she?
She came with a purpose, transformed into an oiran, approached him, bewitched him, used love as a web and love as a thread to lock him into the trap she had set.
In this game, I thought everything was going well, but who held her hand affectionately again and again, made the promise of "taking only one scoop of a weak water", overcoming all obstacles for her, risking his own life, just to make her his only wife.
Who has lost his or her heart in the everlasting love that is as deep as the sea?
There are only three fates for chess pieces: birth, abandonment and death. No matter what character he is, he is always the one being taken advantage of and ends up miserable.
She works step by step and plans carefully. Can she escape the fate of the chess pieces and find an ending for them?
If I could do it all over again, I would rather not have met you.
————Zhi Hong
"Looking for Him in a Dream Ends Like a Dream" was renamed "Chess Game". The editor said that my book title was too literary and artistic, so I wanted to make the title and introduction more down-to-earth, but... You know, Ben Lian's copywriting is incompetent, so just make do with it!