In the first season of the year, the Qing Emperor played a big game of chess.

In the first season of the Qing Dynasty, the Qing Emperor played a big game of chess. He had arranged for Fan Xian to escort Si Lili and Xiao En to Northern Qi through a plan he had laid out for many years to obtain the secrets Xiao En knew. The Qing Emperor also used Xiao En's illegitimate son that Chen Pingping had brought back to nurture him into a Qing soldier who hated Northern Qi to the bone. He also passed on bits of information to Xiao En, allowing him to maintain hope of survival and plant a chess piece to inherit the secret. The Qing Emperor had also used the method of testing Chen Pingping and letting Gong Dian follow her to show his suspicion of Chen Pingping. The Qing Emperor's plans and schemes made him the biggest winner in this situation.