The Way of the Blind Girl Chess Saint

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Under everyone's gaze, Shang Gongying and Luo Zhuyu's pupils gradually became dull and lifeless. Several black lines appeared on Shang Gongying's forehead, and the corners of her mouth, which was filled with French fries, twitched slightly.

Meanwhile, Ji Yingting's right hand was still holding the purple fries, relentlessly going in and out, making smacking noises.

*Smack!* In the next instant, Shang Gongying, with an angry expression, slapped the purple fries away. After the purple fries fell to the ground, she immediately picked up a napkin from the table and wiped away the drool that Ji Yingting had left on her lips.

"Hmm." Feeling the fries in her hand disappear, Ji Yingting suddenly lowered her green bangs to cover her green eyebrows, looking somewhat aggrieved. She didn't want to eat them, so why waste food... What a bad person.

"You...you're insulting me."

Shang Gongying's bright orange eyebrows gradually furrowed, and her face began to reveal a murderous aura. Her beige pupils glared angrily at Ji Yingting.

"I just wanted you to eat fries, why are you so angry?" Ji Yingting poked her two slender hands like a wronged little lamb, her green hair silently drooping down her cheeks, revealing a pitiful look that would make anyone who heard it feel sad and want to cry.

"You're insulting me! You're insulting me, you're insulting me, waaaaaaah, waaaaaah!" she repeated angrily three times.

But... in the next second, Shang Gongying suddenly burst into tears, two lines of clear tears overflowing from her beige pupils.

She wiped away the tears from the corners of her eyes with her two fair arms, and after her crimson Taoist robe was lifted up, she knelt on the ground in a duck-like position and cried loudly.

"Waaaaaah, you're insulting me! You just want me to eat your leftovers! You're insulting me! Why won't you admit it? Waaaaah!"

"I...I was wrong, don't cry, I...I'll just go buy you another pack." Ji Yingting squinted her pale purple starry eyes and scratched her long, light green hair, looking somewhat lost. Actually, she wasn't quite sure what had happened.

But...seeing her crying so bitterly, I must have done something wrong, right? Ji Yingting tapped her long, bluish-green hair and thought to herself...

Chapter 161: Dripping Water Wears Away a Stone

"Waaaaaah, you're insulting me! You just want me to eat your leftovers! You're insulting me!"

"I...I was wrong, don't cry, I...I'll just go buy you another pack." Ji Yingting squinted her pale purple starry eyes and scratched her long, light green hair, looking somewhat lost. Actually, she wasn't quite sure what had happened.

But... seeing how badly she's crying, I must have done something wrong, right? Ji Yingting tapped her long, light green hair and thought to herself.

"Go to sleep..." In an instant, Shang Gongying, who was wailing, suddenly stopped crying. A few tear tracks still slid down her cheeks, but the source of the tears disappeared instantly.

After her pupils rolled slightly, the girl with the orange-yellow low ponytail gently placed her hands on the table, burying her long orange-yellow hair in them.

"Phew, finally stopped crying." Ji Yingting tossed her long, bluish-green hair and breathed a sigh of relief. In front of her, Gong Shangying, a girl with a low orange ponytail, was sleeping on the sofa...

Only then did Ji Yingting realize that she hadn't cried because she wanted to eat.

She cried and screamed because she was accidentally fed by herself. How fragile is her heart? Ji Yingting helplessly stroked Gong Shangying's head with her slender jade hand for a while before she calmed down. Her orange head trembled slightly.

"Good baby, good baby, don't cry, don't cry."

"Crunch, crunch, crunch," Luo Zhuyu chewed on her fries, shaking her light green hair and pretending to be nonchalant as she stared at Gong Shangying, who was being stroked by Ji Yingting. Ah... she was so embarrassed.

Unexpectedly, the chess player she had been so wary of turned out to be a somewhat willful little girl. Luo Zhuyu's confidence swelled up instantly, and her light green eyes blinked a few times.

Hmm... If we calculate it the original way, there are three people I might not be able to beat. But looking at her like this... Thinking about it carefully, I still have a good chance of beating Gong Shangying... Luo Zhuyu frantically set a goal for herself.

The lunch break ended quickly. Luo Zhuyu had just washed her hands and came out of the toilet when she was slightly stunned. She saw Gong Shangying suddenly raise her head from the table, her orange low ponytail hanging down her cheeks... staring at Ji Yingting with expressionless eyes.

"W-what's wrong?" Ji Yingting raised her green eyebrows. Suddenly, she felt as if someone was staring at her in the pitch black... Shang Gongying...

His beige pupils were somewhat deep, and the swirling outline of his face imprinted Ji Yingting's long, turquoise hair deep in his mind.

"I'm leaving, goodbye."

With a hint of red makeup in her eyes, Gong Shangying caught a glimpse of Luo Zhuyu emerging from the restroom. After saying something indifferently, she left McDonald's under Luo Zhuyu's strange gaze.

"What's wrong with her? She must be crazy. She's acting all weird, one minute she's acting childish, the next she's acting all wronged, and then she's scaring people," Luo Zhuyu said speechlessly as she walked over, wiping her hands with a tissue.

"...What a strange child."

As Shang Gongying's footsteps faded into the distance, Ji Yingting tilted her long, light green hair in confusion. The smooth, light green strands cascaded down to her chest.

Her personality has changed so much... But anyway, she'll have to face Shang Gongying sooner or later. Ji Yingting gently stroked her slightly twitching right eyelid with her slender left hand.

In that instant... Shang Gongying's eyes gave him a chilling feeling, a trembling sensation that came with extreme excitement.

Shang Gongying... her chess skills are definitely not as simple as they seem...

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"pat"

With the sound of a bell, the afternoon's matches of the professional exam began.

The snow-white Taoist robe was scattered on the sofa. Luo Qiu'er, who had been restless for a long time, finally saw this move coming. Her white eyebrows furrowed tightly.

With a "whoosh," a water lily-colored Taoist robe appeared before her eyes. Luo Qiu'er watched as Ji Yingting sat down on the sofa, because this woman's last move... she actually stared at the entire chessboard for more than an hour.

"Damn it... I'm so hungry!" Luo Qiu'er helplessly covered her little belly with her small hand on her white Taoist robe.

"Good afternoon..." Ji Yingting covered her white-stockinged legs with the hem of her lotus-colored Taoist robe, and gently sat down on the sofa with her blue cloth boots. Before she could even unfold the starry chessboard in her eyes, Luo Qiu'er gave her a strange glare.

She nodded politely to Luo Qiu'er, her long, bluish-green hair swaying, only to be met with a glare.

Of course... because she sat down a step too late, Ji Yingting couldn't see her movements. Besides, even if she could see the eye roll Luo Qiu'er gave her, Ji Yingting would never understand... why Luo Qiu'er was so nervous about her last move that she didn't leave the chessboard all noon.

Her long white hair swayed gently as Luo Qiu'er's slender right hand held a white chess piece and gently placed it onto the chessboard... *plop*, another sound of water droplets hitting ripples. The small pebble quickly began to spread across the vast ocean of the starry chessboard. Ji Yingting's light green willow eyebrows arched slightly.

With a "thud," Luo Qiu'er slammed a black chess piece into the board with her right hand. Although Luo Qiu'er's shoulder strike was quite impressive, Ji Yingting didn't detect any other intentions.

Although it may not have anything to do with you... I still thank you... for letting you find a sliver of a chance to win from the loopholes in the plan.

Luo Qiu'er's long white hair fluttered gently, and her two ice-blue pupils gleamed with an unusual light.

Also, thank you for letting me study the opening of this game for a whole hour. Unfortunately, I have already figured out all the opening variations of this game.

Although it is very difficult to defeat a player who is much stronger than myself, in this game... I have already generated hundreds of variations of the middle game battle in my mind.

Countless chess game variations were frantically being eliminated in Luo Qiu'er's mind. As a chess player with near-professional chess skills, Luo Qiu'er was already able to calculate the variations up to one hundred moves ahead.

"Let me use the results of my calculations over an hour to break your seemingly unbreakable scheme..." Luo Qiu'er thought to herself as she glanced at Ji Yingting's slightly narrowed, pale purple eyes.

The next instant, Luo Qiu'er slightly raised her slender right hand, and a sea-blue ripple barrier gradually rotated on her right hand.

"The power of chess: Dripping water wears away a stone"

Chapter 162: Counter-Suppression

The next instant, Luo Qiu'er slightly raised her slender right hand, and a sea-blue ripple barrier gradually rotated on her right hand.

"The power of chess: Dripping water wears away a stone"

Although Luo Qiu'er's chess skills were not innate, they were acquired through countless trials and tribulations... Rather than chess skills, this ability was more like chess technique, just like Lin Hong's echoing move.

Plop... A drop of water landed on the chessboard. Her right hand, still damp with the water droplet, gently retracted, and the white chess piece was placed firmly on the board.

A "town" is a move where one player places a piece in the center of the board, one square away from the center of the board (also called a "jump"). A "town" is an important tactic to block the opponent's expansion towards the center, attack their weak points, and reduce their influence.

"Constant dripping wears away a stone," and through long periods of contemplation, one gains insights that surpass one's own chess skills in a short time... A confident gleam appeared in Luo Qiu'er's pale blue pupils.

Hmm... she probably wanted to create some thickness by suppressing the edges, in preparation for the top left corner?

Luo Qiu'er may think this is a flawless move, but in Ji Yingting's eyes it is nothing more than a matter of course.

With her left hand twirling a strand of her light green ponytail, Ji Yingting blinked her pale purple starry eyes a few times, and slowly raised her slender right arm.

...Wait, why is my right hand trembling? Ji Yingting shook her long, bluish-green hair in surprise, and saw that the black chess piece she was holding in her right hand was trembling slightly.

Yes, all the players I've played against have been weaker than me. Only this time, in the professional exam, were all top-level amateur players.

For some reason, the starry sky in Ji Yingting's eyes changed instantly, and the figure of the chess player sitting near her appeared faintly in her pale purple starry eyes.

My right hand trembled slightly, and Ji Yingting's fair chin was slightly raised... My right hand was actually excited by her move. Yes, that move was only natural, because I could naturally use my full strength to deal with you.

However, thank you for letting me rediscover a long-lost sense of emotion.

A light green ponytail gradually fell away from her face, her long, light green, hee-cut hair gently draped over the water-lily-colored Taoist robe behind Ji Yingting. Her trembling right hand also stopped shaking violently. *Snap*...

With a slightly light echo, Ji Yingting placed the black chess piece in her right hand in the very center of the white pieces.

"Counter-suppression... I didn't expect it to be played like this!" Luo Qiu'er's pale blue pupils contracted slightly. The ripples emanating from the white chess piece that fell from her right hand were suppressed by Ji Yingting's counter-suppression!

"Counter-suppression, naturally... means to suppress the opponent's attack from above." A few drops of sweat slid down Luo Qiu'er's cheeks, and her hands clenched slightly. The counter-suppression successfully stopped the expansion of the white pieces, and even turned one of her pieces into a trapped piece.

Sure enough, her move instantly turned my situation from balanced to disadvantageous. Was my move a mistake? Should I not have played that way? Was it because I didn't anticipate her counterattack?

"My moves... were so easily countered by her..."

With a hint of reluctance, she lowered her hands and placed them on her white Taoist robe on her knees. She closed her pale blue eyes in anguish.

However... this game of chess is not over yet. Luo Qiu'er gritted her teeth and gripped a white chess piece with difficulty in her right hand.

In the starry chessboard, Luo Qiu'er's snow-white hair fluttered gently in Ji Yingting's eyes. Ji Yingting played with the loose, light green hair and whispered, "I don't dislike hardworking children."

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PS: I'm really frustrated because of the time difference with the US lately... I usually write after school in the afternoon and try to finish before 1 pm, but now there's not enough time at all. I can only write 200 words on the spot. But don't worry, the next chapter will be 3000 words. I will try to update earlier in the future.

Chapter 163: Ji Qinghe

With a hint of reluctance, she lowered her hands and placed them on her white Taoist robe on her knees. She closed her pale blue eyes in anguish.

However... this game of chess is not over yet. Luo Qiu'er gritted her teeth and gripped a white chess piece with difficulty in her right hand.

Snap... Although there was a decisive gap between the two in terms of chess skills, Luo Qiu'er still did not give up that faint hope.

“Even if she has professional-level chess skills… I am also climbing that incredibly difficult, endless ladder to heaven… isn’t that right? So what if I’m a professional?” Gritting her teeth, Luo Qiu’er shook her snow-white hair and raised her head again to stare intently at the chessboard in front of her.

"Another rebellion? Is there some ulterior motive?" Ji Yingting frowned slightly on her light green eyebrows... In an instant, her pale purple starry eyes widened.

In that instant, on the starry chessboard... a faint, dazzling blue light appeared on Luo Qiu'er's right hand. This was... a divine move?

Her long, light green, Hime-style hair was tousled by the strong wind. Ji Yingting's small mouth opened slightly in surprise. The move she had made after thinking for so long was easily countered... Instead of being discouraged, she made this move based on her intuition?

Ji Yingting gently lifted the green bangs on her forehead, deeply imprinting Luo Qiu'er's appearance in her mind.

However… with your current skill level, you can't fully utilize this move, what a pity. Ji Yingting gently shook her long, light green hair a few times.

Moreover... my chess skills are at a level that even a god-like move would find difficult to surpass.