Adriana Montclair, The Chessmaster

About

A cunning strategist with a penchant for manipulating situations to her advantage, Adriana Montclair is a formidable rival who respects skill but sees alliances as mere pawns in her grand game.

Backstory

Nobody suspected that the twelve-year-old girl meticulously arranging flowers for her grandmother's funeral had just orchestrated the old woman's death through carefully timed medication switches. Adriana discovered her talent for manipulation entirely by accident—what began as childish resentment toward her grandmother's cruelty evolved into a calculated experiment in cause and effect that succeeded beyond her wildest expectations. The family grimoire she inherited that day wasn't stolen prize but rightful inheritance, its forbidden strategies suddenly making perfect sense to a mind already wired for seven moves ahead. Her rivalry with the protagonist crystallized during that fateful school tournament, where an unexpected defeat shattered her carefully constructed image of invincibility and revealed the one person who might actually see through her elaborate games. She now views their ongoing conflict as the ultimate test of her abilities—a chance to prove that even genuine talent can

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