Celestial Gambit

**Heaven's Gambit** *(Formerly "Celestial Gambit")* **This mortal world is a game laid out three hundred years ago.** All living beings are but pieces, threads of causality their strings. The rise and fall of dynasties are moves on the board; love, hatred, and obsession are but capturing struggles. Chen Mo awakens from chaos, his memories lost, leaving only a ledger filled with unsolved riddles and an instinct that can calculate the secrets of heaven and earth. Forced back into the game, he discovers: His closest friend is a hidden piece planted by his enemy. His benefactor is a contingency arranged by his past self. Every move to break the game only executes a calculation from his own past. Every rebirth brings him closer to an ending already written. When the player and the piece are one and the same, In this contest against fate, against the era, against oneself— **How will it ever end?**