Dayan has no owner, and the seven towns are torn apart. The troubled times have been going on for twenty years, but there is still no one who can stand in this world.
Yongan is an isolated city. There were less than 8,000 defenders and few soldiers and supplies. The only valuable thing was a salt railway. On the day when hundreds of thousands of cavalry invaded Beishuo, Shen Yan, the captain of the city guard, was the first to stand up and publicly announced his intention to surrender.
The whole city called him weak.
But no one knows that there is a plate of endgames in his study all year round. Opposite the chessboard, there is an empty chair and a cup of herbal tea, which has been cold for twenty years.
Shen Yan is the game master of Anlou's generation. There is only one rule in the dark building: whoever is strong suppresses whoever is weak, and whoever is weak is supported, so that this chaotic world will remain chaotic forever. Lonely City was the bait he spread out. Opposite him, Beishuo General Xiao Lie, who was regarded as a foolhardy man, had actually been hiding himself for seven years, waiting for someone to put his neck under the knife's edge.
One is pretending to be cowardly, the other is pretending to be reckless.
Caught in the middle, Su Wan carried the medicine box into the city and looked after the wounds of the refugees without taking any money. At the bottom of her medicine box, there was half a burnt military map and a secret order to "kill Shen Yan". She was able to save all the patients in the city, but she couldn't save her younger brother who was held hostage in Beishuo. Every time she got closer to Shen Yan, the knife in her sleeve became colder.
There is also a sixteen-year-old Ah He who works as a helper during the day and delivers letters to Anlou, Beishuo and Linjiang at night. She doesn't listen to anyone's orders.
From an isolated city, down to the whole world, nine seasons, one hundred and eight strategies. Some people pretend to be dead, some pretend to be crazy, some use their lives as bait, some use letters to kill...
