The nineteen-year-old eldest princess Chu Li lowered her eyes in front of Emperor Qian Ming with a gentle expression, but there was a poison-quenching short blade hidden in her sleeve. On a snowy night when she was seven years old, she knelt down to beg her father to no avail. After her mother passed away, she secretly stocked up on food and grass in Youzhou, moved into seclusion, and turned her gentle skin into the sharpest knife. Xiao Yichen, a 21-year-old general who conquered the West, rose from the murderous murder of the Dingbei Army and used the army to tame tigers and wolves in the northwest. The swords and silver bells concealed the liaison code of the old army. He approached Chu Li, originally hoping to use his identity as the eldest princess to revive the deadlock, but he struck a chord with her as a chess piece.
In the court, she secretly communicated with his "Tuntian Order" by "retreating to the fields"; in the harem, he borrowed her Youzhou caravan to transport weapons. They knew they were using each other, but they gradually fell into each other as they calculated. He fell in love with the unquenched fire in her eyes, and she coveted the same wound in his palm. When the candlelight in the Jinluan Palace reflects the overlapping shadows, and the golden threads of the broken hairpin are tightly entangled, are they the shackles of conspiracy or a sign of a heartbeat?
The red wall collapsed, the dragon's chair tilted, and the two people whose childhood was crushed by the imperial power became each other's most dangerous pawns in the game of power. What she wanted to subvert was her father's indifference, and what he wanted to repay was the blood debt all over the family. However, in the midst of the ups and downs, she found that what was more difficult to let go than the country was the reflection of themselves in each other's eyes.
Concept: On the bloody chessboard constructed by power, there are no pure winners, only survivors. The story is based on the idea that "soft bones can be turned into blades, and resourcefulness can be used as armor". Through the counterattack of the eldest princess Chu Li in the imperial power strangulation, it reveals the complex game of human nature in the power whirlpool of the feudal dynasty - everyone is a chess player and a chess piece. The so-called "intentional evil" is not a label of evil, but the instinctive drive of survival and desire. Chu Li's "narrow victory" is essentially a painful balance between "absolute rationality" and "emotional fetters": she not only needs to use strategy to dismantle the enemy's swords and shadows, but also needs to hold on to the last glimmer of humanity amid the betrayal of her loved ones and the schemes of her lover.