Liuniang never asked about her father. When she first learned to read, she happened to find a tiny inscription…
Liuniang never asked about her father. When she first learned to read, she happened to find a tiny inscription under the rosewood chessboard: "Liu Cheng'en of Jiangbei, a gift to my wife Shui'er." From bits and pieces of her mother's dreams, she also learned that ten years ago, beneath the bright moon by Bright Moon Pavilion in Yangzhou, a young scholar in blue courted a woman with chess. Slowly and carefully, he won her heart—but no one knew his true goal was the Shen family's treasured chess manual.