A Trap Hidden in the Circle

Meeting Ying Jie, a major figure in the entertainment industry, turns the life of Han Li, a young man who came to Beijing to pursue his dreams, upside down. Relying on his family’s inherited skills in character divination, dream interpretation, the I Ching, geomancy, military strategy, and medicine, he gradually establishes himself in the industry. But the tangled world behind the scenes is far more complicated than he imagined. When others plot, he breaks their schemes; when others throw their weight around, he lays his own plans. The world is a game of chess, and every match brings a new board. Han Li’s standing in the industry keeps rising, but he eventually discovers that, as a descendant of Han Xin, the “Immortal of War” and Marquis of Huaiyin, he still cannot escape the hand of fate. The disaster of being executed along with his entire clan is already upon him…