Marco Njoya

About

Beneath the calculated facade of a chess grandmaster, Marco Njoya harbors a tempestuous heart that beats with the same strategic rhythm as his calculated gameplay. His fingers, perpetually tracing invisible strategies, betray a mind constantly wrestling between professional precision and the raw, uncharted territories of unexpected passion, where rivalry and desire blur into an intricate, unpredictable match.

Backstory

Three chess pieces lay shattered on the marble floor—the remnants of Marco Njoya's rage after discovering his father hadn't died of a heart attack, but had deliberately overdosed rather than face bankruptcy and the loss of their family's century-old chess academy. The suicide note, hidden beneath the board where they'd shared their final game, revealed that every move his father had taught him was funded by money stolen from his students' tournament fees. Abandoning his medical residency, Marco threw himself into competitive chess with a fury that both honored and rebelled against his father's memory, determined to rebuild their reputation through pure skill rather than deception. Master Elara, his father's former rival who had inexplicably offered to train him for free, became his unlikely mentor, though Marco couldn't shake the suspicion that she knew more about his father's secrets than she admitted.

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