The Way of the Blind Girl Chess Saint

"Ah...ah, ah," Shang Sisi gasped for breath and burrowed into Ji Yingting's arms. Feeling the gentle embrace, she seemed to be redeemed and stopped crying.

Holding Shang Sisi in his arms, Ji Yingting stretched out a slender arm and gently stroked her long orange hair, letting her face rest on his shoulder.

"It's alright... don't be afraid," Ji Yingting said gently, which made the light green-haired woman standing to the side a little embarrassed.

She realized she had really gone too far, and raised her hand to scratch her light green short hair in embarrassment.

"Auntie? What are you doing here?" Just then, a slightly questioning, childish voice came from the entrance of the coffee shop. Luo Zhuyu looked at the green-haired woman and asked in confusion.

"Auntie?" A greenish-blue ahoge (cowlick) stood up from Ji Yingting's head. Could the woman who exuded a terrifying aura just now be Xiaoyu's relative?

"Ah...it's Xiaoyu, long time no see...it's Xiaochan, she needs something from me." The green-haired woman's expression suddenly brightened, and she picked up the green-haired little girl standing not far away.

However... Luo Zhuyu's expression wasn't particularly happy. She said aggrievedly, "Auntie, you have to help me persuade Dad this time. Do you know what she's been doing here?"

Um… Upon hearing the word "father," the woman's expression stiffened slightly. She slowly said, "I… I'll give it a try."

"Hmph, you're such a coward." After hearing the short, light green-haired woman's reply, Luo Zhuyu pouted in dissatisfaction and jumped off the green-haired woman's embrace.

"Oh right, Sakuraba-nee, let me introduce you, she's my aunt!"

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At the same time, a middle-aged man with long white hair arrived at the entrance of the professional chess academy, and all the chess players who saw him widened their eyes in surprise.

Tenth Dan! Lin Hong!

"I hope she doesn't cause any trouble..." Lin Hong walked into the professional chess academy with a headache, his black Taoist robe fluttering even without wind.

If anyone thinks that because he has a 10th Dan rank while the green-haired woman doesn't, he can treat her like a senior, they are sorely mistaken.

Because... apart from Ji Xuehuang, the current chess saint of the moon, there is no other super chess player on the entire moon with a title who dares to say that their chance of beating her is more than fifty percent!

Although she is a professional Go player from the Luo family, she is not Luo Zhanye, the current celebrity of the Moon.

However... it is said that her actual chess skills have far surpassed Luo Zhanye's.

Lin Hong knew very well who the green-haired woman was.

She is the next head of the Luo family and the absolute successor to the next celebrity on the moon.

Because... all the professional Go players who want to challenge for the title of Meijin will lose to her in the final round of the knockout stage... and then watch helplessly as this green-haired woman gives up competing for the title of Luo Zhanye in order to preserve Luo Zhanye's status as Meijin.

She is... the sleeping mad lion of the Luo family! Professional ninth dan, Luo is about to awaken.

Chapter 238: Scream! Ji Yingting [4000 words, this chapter features the "forgive me" character]

The sleeping mad lion of the Luo family, a professional ninth-dan, is about to awaken.

Lin Hong knew very well the identity of the green-haired woman. At just over thirty years old, she had already qualified for the finals of the Celebrity Title Battle three times in a row, but had given up each time.

Of course, it's a well-known fact that she's stronger than Luo Zhanye. She probably won't forfeit in the next Celebrity Tournament in six months, and it's time for the Luo family to change its head.

Because Luo Zhanye is getting old; he is approaching fifty years old, which is close to the age limit for active professional Go players.

As a player ages, their judgment and calculation abilities decline significantly, unless they possess a chess style like that of Wangzuo Liutianmen that allows them to remain youthful.

So the current "celebrity" Luo Zhanye... is not the Luo Zhanye of twenty years ago, although he might have been stronger than Luo Jiangxing in his prime.

Unfortunately... he's gotten old and useless, just like me. The man who was once known as the strongest male Go player on the moon now needs his daughter to help him retain his Meijin title.

However, no one would find this ridiculous, since Go families value titles highly.

Hundreds of years ago in the Sakura Empire Federation, the Go world was so fierce that an entire family would spend decades scheming and plotting to win the title of Honinbo, and many people died in the process.

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"As for me... I guess I'm getting old too." Thinking this, Lin Hong silently raised his right hand. It was a bronze arm, an arm that looked more domineering than the slender arms of female chess players.

Countless calluses covered his bronze right hand; his once strong arm had aged prematurely, and he had been playing Go day in and day out for decades.

"I achieved the 10th dan title when I was 35, and now I'm already 45... I'm really getting old."

Lin Hong saw the group of people standing in the coffee shop not far away, and he walked over silently.

From as far back as he can remember, he has spent almost every day learning Go. Of course, without his hard work in his childhood, he would not have been able to reach the level he has today.

If someone were to ask Lin Hong... "You've played Go your whole life, and that's all you've ever played, do you regret it?"

Then he might shake his head sadly and say, "How could I possibly regret it... It's only one lifetime, how can I ever play enough Go? It's never enough..."

I guess all aging professional Go players would say the same thing: they just regret... that their prime as a Go player wasn't long enough!

Young people... what a terrifying creature they are.

Suddenly, Lin Hong understood something; he understood.

Ten years ago, he finally understood why the previous generation's "10th Dan" looked at him with that kind of gaze after the match!

Leaving aside Luo Jiangxing, even the three famous generals of the Ji family are not opponents that these old folks dare to easily accept.

Ji Shihu swallowed the sky in one gulp, Ji Hongyun burned the heavens with fire, and Ji Zitong tore the sky apart with a demonic hand.

The "Chess Saint" Ji Xuehuang, who is only in her early thirties, is a monster among monsters that Lin Hong can only look up to.

Four years ago, she only played one game in her title match against the previous Go master... and she became the new Go master.

Ji Xuehuang, the new chess master of the moon.

Four years ago... after the first round of the Chess Saint title match, the old Chess Saint cried in front of the camera.

She burst into tears and said that she was no match for Ji Xuehuang at all, and even if she played a hundred more games, she would not be able to beat Ji Xuehuang even once.

At the time, a reporter at the scene asked him in shock, "Did you really see the difference in skill between yourself and the new Go master Ji Xuehuang from just one game? Could it be that you weren't in good form?"

The old chess master burst into maniacal laughter, "Hahahaha, see the gap clearly? Ridiculous! Do you think you can see how far you are from the stars just by looking up at the sky?"

The old Go master's words back then were undoubtedly a huge shock to the moon, causing a massive earthquake in the entire Go world on the moon.

[Chess Saint Ji Xuehuang] is invincible. The chess skills of that woman with snow-white hair are just like her incomparably beautiful face; no one can rival her.

It's time to give an account of my nearly forty-year career in Go.

It's time to muster the courage to face those young people... Hehe, I, Lin Hong, am not old yet.

Lin Hong's long, white hair caught everyone's attention as a gust of wind blew through it. He slowly pushed open the door to the coffee shop.

"Luo Jiangxing, I have something to say to you," a deep male voice rang out behind the green-haired woman. She turned around abruptly, still holding Luo Zhuyu.

"Teacher!" Ji Yingting asked in confusion after hearing the familiar voice.

“Tenth Rank… Lin Hong” The woman with short, light green hair frowned slightly, her light green eyes narrowing slightly.

"Sakura, take her and go first. I'll let Kira know later so she can come find you." Lin Hong's white eyebrows furrowed slightly. Just one glance at the orange-haired girl shivering in Ji Sakura's arms made him realize that something had happened.

Her light green short hair fluttered gently. Luo Jiangxing could not be considered a beautiful woman; on the contrary, she appeared somewhat androgynous.

However... there are countless beautiful girls in the professional Go world, but she is the only one named Luo Jiangxing!

She is a special person.

Luo Jiangxing gently placed Luo Zhuyu on the ground. She raised her fair hand and tossed her light green short hair. "Xiaoyu, you go first. I have some things to discuss with this tenth-dan senior."

"Oh right... Senior Ten, you don't need to be so serious. After all, I only came to Yongyue City for a small family matter." Sensing the terrifying hostility emanating from Lin Hong, Luo Jiangxing slowly opened his light green pupils halfway.

"For family matters? Then what's the deal with this girl?" Lin Hong glanced at Shang Sisi, who was being held in Ji Yingting's arms, and questioned her.

Her long, turquoise hair cascaded down like a soft waterfall into Shang Sisi's arms as Ji Yingting carried her off the sofa.

"Baby, be good, shall we go home now?" Ji Yingting said softly, her pale purple starry eyes narrowing as she walked past Luo Jiangxing.

"Mmm," Shang Sisi buried her long orange hair in Ji Yingting's arms, her two orange eyes tightly closed, looking quite frightened.

"What happened? What exactly happened?" Luo Zhuyu muttered, shaking her light green princess-style hair, sounding somewhat bewildered. She quickly ran to Ji Yingting's side and together they picked up Shang Sisi, tossing her long, green hair back to say, "Auntie, see you later!"

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"Ah... I'm so sorry for accidentally startling this girl. I'm a bit absent-minded sometimes, and I couldn't help but teach her a lesson when I saw how arrogant she was. Of course, I know I was wrong... Please forgive me, Senior Ten." Luo Jiangxing reached out and rubbed his messy light green short hair, blinked his light green pupils, and said earnestly.

"Hmm, good attitude..."

Lin Hong nodded slowly. Chess ethics is the most important quality of a chess player. If a chess player does not even have the most basic chess ethics, it is impossible for him to have such strong chess skills.

Of course... he ignored the two people who were showing their utter lack of decency in front of all the lunar media cameras at noon today.

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"Um, Shang Gongying, what's wrong with you?" Hua Shenxi asked curiously.

"What did you say?! She's Shang Gongying?" Ji Yingting had just finished wiping away the tears and snot from the orange-haired girl in his arms, then threw her onto the bed with a thud!

"Waaaaah!! I'm not Shang Gongying!" The girl with long orange hair cried angrily as Ji Yingting threw her heavily onto the bed.

"I am not Shang Gongying! I am Shang Sisi!"

"Alright, alright, don't cry..." Ji Yingting gently stroked Shang Sisi's hair, and she immediately became docile again, leaning against Ji Yingting's thigh and squinting her eyes.

Come to think of it, even if she really is Shang Gongying, it doesn't really matter, since I have no grudge against her.

"Xiao Xi, how could you lie to me! She said she's not Shang Gongying."

"Hmm... could they be twins or something? Her face looks a little younger than Shang Gongying's." After hearing Shang Sisi's confident tone, Hua Shenxi, also a little uncertain, swung her long pink pear-shaped hair and came closer.

Although Shang Sisi's face does look younger than Shang Gongying's, they are twins after all, and not sisters with a large age gap, so even if she looks younger, it's still limited.

However, due to Hua Shenxi's psychological factors, she also began to doubt whether she had mistaken someone for someone else.

"Hmph, I already said I'm not the eldest sister. I'm much stronger than the eldest sister."

"Big sister?" Ji Yingting, Hua Shenxi, Luo Zhuyu, and the other two were all surprised at the same time. It seemed that this girl named Shang Sisi was indeed not Shang Gongying.

"Sister...hold me..." Lying on Ji Yingting's fair thighs, Shang Sisi shook her long orange hair uncomfortably and rolled over as she spoke.

Ji Yingting's green hair stood up with a helpless green ahoge on top, and she gently hugged Shang Sisi into her arms.

"Ah, this feels so good. I never imagined that being held by a gentle older sister would be such a comfortable thing after I've gained physical form."

Lying in Ji Yingting's arms, Shang Sisi briefly calmed her wicked heart, abandoned her bad thoughts, and gradually closed her orange eyes.

"Whoo, whoo, whoo"

Before long, Shang Sisi slowly fell asleep, her orange eyelashes gently resting on her eyelids.

Hmm...baby is so good.