The Way of the Blind Girl Chess Saint

Today, her right hand involuntarily made this move... Although she still couldn't remember the game, she felt as if this game was exactly the same as the one from years ago.

"Hey, tell me, is this game the same as that one?" Ma Gongling looked up and asked with a hint of doubt.

With a faint smile on her face, which was covered by a jade mask, Shang Gongying said softly, "Of course it's different... This is a new game of chess. The memory you retain is only of me. As long as the opponent is me, you will have this feeling no matter what kind of game it is."

"Yeah……"

"However, if you're asking about the game itself, it's exactly the same as that game back then."

"Huh?" A hint of confusion appeared in her gray eyes as she looked at the pair of gentle orange eyes opposite her.

"Although the game is the same, we've all changed... We've grown and become stronger. Although our moves are exactly the same as before, the reasons for making those moves have changed, our thoughts have changed, and our hearts... have naturally changed too."

“That’s true…” After a long silence, Ma Gongling twirled her long brown hair with her left hand and responded softly, gently placing the black chess piece in her hand.

"Phew... alright, it's time to wrap up this simple reminiscing."

With a soft sigh, Shang Gongying slowly picked up a white chess piece with her slender right hand, her lazy eyes becoming slightly sharp.

"From now on, I'm going to change my playing style," Shang Gongying said in a low voice, looking at the double-gun opening move that had just been completed on the chessboard.

"Yeah……"

Ma Gongling raised her head slightly, her long brown hair cascading down her back like a coffee-colored waterfall, slowly obscuring the huge golden bow and arrow pattern on the back of her gilded Taoist robe.

"Place your pieces with confidence, that's why I've waited all these years for you!!"

Shouting with all her might in her heart, Ma Gongling also fiercely picked up a black chess piece, her gray eyes, surrounded by red patterns, filled with intense desire.

"You don't need to tell me that... I came here to defeat you, I was born to win!"

………………

"yawn……"

Using her cascading, turquoise hair as a soft cushion in front of her eyes, Ji Yingting gently turned her head, closed her pale purple eyes, and peacefully lay on her soft, turquoise hair.

"........."

It's really a torment to encounter an opponent who plays slow chess. Ji Yingting blinked her pale purple starry eyes a few times and secretly glanced at the silver-haired girl who was still thinking.

Hmm... Shi Shishi's expression was slightly unsettled. Rather than saying she liked playing slow chess, it was more accurate to say that she was in a state of extreme tension at the moment.

"Outside the Eye? I've watched a few of Ji Yingting's games from the first twenty rounds, and she doesn't seem to have used the 'Outside the Eye' move..."

Indeed, although Ji Yingting's best move was the outside-of-the-eye layout, she used the star-small-eye layout 90% of the time in the professional exam, which naturally made Shi Shishi suspicious.

Moreover... Kisaki Tsubaki started this game with a two-eye opening.

“I’m not good at playing outside the corner… Should I just defend the corner? Will I lose this game? But I have to beat Ji Yingting!” Shi Shishi muttered to herself as her silver bangs covered her eyes.

She hadn't realized that her hands had begun to tremble uncontrollably... and the things she saw involuntarily blurred.

This bewildered girl with long silver hair was on the verge of being crushed by the immense pressure of her professional exams... Her blue eyes looked somewhat lifeless.

"Strange... Is my right hand a little sore? How much time do I have left?" However, when Shi Shishi picked up a chess piece, she found that her right hand was almost trembling and numb.

I'm already 19 years old this year, and I'm about to reach the age limit for taking the professional exam... If I can't become a professional Go player this year, I might have to give up Go and become a female anchor, because even if there's a next year, I probably won't be able to achieve such good results as this time.

Yes... those of us who have no talent but have dedicated our entire youth to Go are the truly pathetic ones.

Maybe tomorrow... I'll have to give it my all.

[Xiao Shi, when will you finally become a professional Go player?]

Strange echoes kept coming from her ears, and she suddenly raised her hands to cover them.

It's so noisy... I have to win this game!

But... how can I beat her... beat this Ji Yingting?

If I can't beat her and become a professional Go player, what will happen to my life?

Humans are creatures that will collapse if they cannot withstand high pressure. Some break through the limits and are reborn from the ashes, while others fall into an endless abyss and never recover.

"Huff, huff, huff, huff..."

Just as the silver-haired girl was feeling confused, she suddenly froze, and the echo in her ears vanished in an instant.

Because they were all suppressed by a strange sound.

"Huff, huff, huff, huff"

Soft, turquoise hair cascaded beneath the water lily-colored sleeves of her robe, the turquoise waterfall of hair falling casually behind her. Ji Yingting's beautiful profile was framed by delicately arched, green crescent-shaped eyebrows.

"She actually fell asleep during the game... What a disrespectful child!"

As her thoughts gradually returned to reality, a bitter smile appeared on Shi Shishi's lips.

Chapter 229: Jade-Faced Two-Tailed Merchant San San [Second Update]

"From now on, I'm going to change my playing style," Shang Gongying said in a low voice, looking at the double-gun opening move that had just been completed on the chessboard.

Ma Gongling raised her head slightly, her long brown hair cascading down her back like a coffee-colored waterfall, slowly obscuring the huge golden bow and arrow pattern on the back of her gilded Taoist robe.

"Place your pieces with confidence, that's why I've waited all these years for you!!"

Shouting with all her might, Ma Gongling also picked up a black chess piece heavily in her hand, her gray eyes, covered by red patterns, filled with intense desire.

"You don't need to tell me that... I came here to defeat you, I was born to win!"

...........................

"Clap!"

A white chess piece fell from Shang Gongying's slender fingers.

Sure enough... things are different now. That move of hers directly penetrated Black's 3-3 point...

Why did I suddenly remember?

However, regardless of what happened in that game back then, this time she made a shoulder hit, and the fork in the board had already begun.

A beam of jade-green light shot straight into the sky, and the two jade-green fox tails behind Shang Gongying swung wildly as the two arrived in a vast white space.

Of course... I will also greet you with my newfound chess skills a few years from now. You're right, we've both changed.

I... have become stronger.

With her left hand, Ma Gongling forcefully tossed her long brown hair behind her, while her right hand picked up a black chess piece.

...

"Who are you...? Why are you sitting across from me? What are we doing?"

"What...what are you talking about?"

A strange voice came from beside her. The little girl with long brown hair, who was deep in thought, was slightly startled and looked up from the chessboard covered with dense chess pieces.

A cute little girl with long orange hair sat opposite her, looking slightly timid and confused.

"I'm so sleepy, I want to go back and sleep in my sisters' arms... I shouldn't be here, I shouldn't be... yawn." Her orange eyes were filled with drowsiness, and the little girl hugged her soft orange hair, her petite body gradually curling up.

"What are you talking about! Wasn't it you and the teacher who suggested playing chess with me? Now that you can't beat me, you're going to deny it?!" Ma Gongling stood up, slightly angry. The opening moves had only just ended and Black had already gained a huge advantage, so it was rare for her to be so angry.

But... since when did the teacher and the dean disappear without a trace, leaving only two petite-looking girls in the vast white space?

"Playing chess?"

In an instant, the orange-haired girl was stunned upon hearing the word, and her slightly lazy orange eyes shone with a different light than they had a few seconds ago.

"Playing chess? You mean...we're playing chess right now? You and me?"

"No... what else?"

That's right... I'm playing chess with someone right now!

The cute little girl with long orange hair suddenly picked up a white chess piece with some surprise. She pretended to shake her slender and petite arm a few times, and a look of joy appeared on her lovely face.

"If it's a game of chess... you can't beat me."

*Thud...* A white chess piece landed crisply on the chessboard. The girl with long orange hair smiled slightly and said...

"You think you can't beat me?! Are you serious?!"

"Um... I'm serious," the orange-haired girl nodded gently.

"…………Why??" Ma Gongling tilted her long brown hair in confusion. She clearly had the advantage in the opening of this game. Where did her opponent get her confidence from?

"Because that's why I was born... that's the meaning of my existence, so I... we will not lose to anyone."

With her lazy orange eyes lowered slightly, Shang Gongying held a white chess piece between her fingers and said sadly, her tone as helpless as a withered leaf.

Her orange eyes, with a hint of moisture, gazed at the chessboard through the depths of her eyes.

His gray eyes widened slightly in surprise.

Is she...sad? Seriously, why does she...look so sad?

Ma Gongling was still young at the time; she couldn't understand what Shang Gongying said, nor could she understand why Shang Gongying had such a sad expression, but...

With her left hand, Ma Gongling forcefully tossed her long brown hair behind her, while her right hand picked up a black chess piece.

Sitting in a vast, white space, Ma Gongling watched the orange-haired girl whose face was covered by a jade-colored mask. The black chess piece in her hand slowly fell onto the chessboard with a soft thud.

"You say we've grown up, and our hearts have changed... But aren't you still you?! Otherwise... why do you still look so sad, so heartbroken?"

Her grey eyes gradually became moist, and the brown-haired girl asked in a hoarse voice.

"........."

There was something I didn't say to you back then, and now I want to ask you about it!

Staring at the somewhat dazed, fair-faced girl, Ma Gongling wiped away her tears and asked loudly, "You said... you wouldn't lose to anyone, that's the meaning of your existence, is that what you were born for?"

"So... if I defeat you! Will you find the meaning of your existence?! Will you stop being so sad?! Because... I've waited until today just to defeat you!!"

Click.

After a long silence, a small crack suddenly appeared in Shang Gongying's jade mask, and jade-colored dust gradually dispersed into the air, covering the entire white space like cherry blossoms.

Click, click, click.

The crack gradually widened, and the jade mask shattered completely. Long orange hair fell in the wind and landed in front of her, gently intertwining with two jade-colored fox tails.