Playing Chess with the Gods

The elders often say that it is better to rely on yourself than to ask others for help, and they are right.

Because any wish you make to others will also demand a price from you.

As a gray detective who operated on the fringes of the law, Qi Yizhi could not afford his mother's cancer treatment.

But one commission gave him hope, while also changing his life.

The truth of the world began to unfold: beings that hid among humanity and fed on prayers.

His mother's illness had another cause. What could he do?

Then he would bet everything, gambling his mother's life... and winning it back!