Dead Twigs and Buds

A man who can make people grow old, and a woman who can make all things decay - they are two people bound by the same curse. He couldn't remember why he always walked to that wasteland. She didn't know why the bead on her wrist would get hot when it touched him. The villagers said that approaching her would bring bad luck, and the world said that approaching him would bring good luck. But they happened to walk towards each other again and again in the wasteland that everyone avoided. What they don't know is that forty years ago, a general said something to an orphan girl before he died. From that day on, the orphan girl traveled all over the mountains and rivers, waiting for two generations, just to arrange a game of chess. The chess pieces have fallen. The people on the chessboard don't know yet, but every move they make has been calculated. The first new shoots sprouted on the dry plains. But are those buds growing for others, or are they breaking ground for yourself?