The Way of the Blind Girl Chess Saint

Next came the private farewell.

Standing next to Ji Yingting, Liu Tongtong, an ordinary-looking girl, touched her nose somewhat shyly. After hesitating for a moment, she suddenly waved and said, "Yufei, come here for a second."

"Ah!" Xin Yufei, whose name was called, suddenly froze. After hesitating for a moment, she walked through the crowd somewhat embarrassed.

"Thank you for the honor you brought to the school... If it were me, I probably wouldn't have won even one round. You won all the rounds, right? You tried your best... You've become stronger. You deserved the spot in the competition," Liu Tongtong said sadly.

"Waaaaah, Senior Liu Tongtong! I was wrong!"

Xin Yufei burst into tears. The inner demon that Ji Yingting had forcibly suppressed in her heart for so long had finally disappeared completely. She rushed forward and hugged Liu Tongtong, crying uncontrollably.

Wang Xi looked at the scene before her with emotion, and nodded with satisfaction. "That's great... But it's time for us to leave... Sakuraba, what do you think of my Go club?"

Ji Yingting had only joined the Go club less than a month ago and wasn't very familiar with the other members, but...

She touched her long, bluish-green hair and said softly, "Yes, it's not bad..."

After everyone said goodbye, it was time to leave school. The sun gradually set, and a red sunset illuminated the earth.

The snowflakes falling from the sky disappeared completely, and the weather changed from winter back to spring. Only a layer of beautiful white snow remained on the ground, gradually melting away.

The weather gets warmer at night, and it's a bit too hot to wear a cotton-padded coat...

Ji Yingting quickly took off her white padded jacket and then put on the schoolbag that was in the closet.

"Hey you two, wait a minute!"

"Ok?"

Just as Ji Yingting and Xin Yufei were about to leave the school gate to take the school bus, a familiar voice suddenly called out to them from behind. Xin Yufei turned around with some confusion.

"Teacher Chen Xiao, are you calling us? Is there something important?" Xin Yufei asked in confusion. Standing in front of her was Chen Xiao, the club advisor with brown curly hair.

Chen Xiao straightened his posture slightly, nodded, and said seriously, "I heard from Wang Xi that you two want to become professional Go players, right? Do you actually have that idea?"

"Yes, that's right," Ji Yingting nodded, tossing her long, light green hair.

“Hmm…” Xin Yufei was still a little hesitant, but after seeing Ji Yingting nod decisively, she followed suit.

Hearing their agreement, Chen Xiao breathed a sigh of relief and slowly said...

"Ji Yingting, with your chess skills, it's perfectly normal for you to want to become a professional. Xin Yufei, your chess skills have also improved a lot recently. Perhaps you could try to go pro next year or the year after."

"If you two are really willing, then accept this..." Chen Xiao handed over two intact envelopes.

Chen Xiao explained with a smile, "You two both had a perfect record in the junior high school league, right? Consider this a reward for you."

"What is this?" Ji Yingting and Xin Yufei reached out and took the envelope. Ji Yingting tilted her head in confusion.

"This is a seminar on the Moon's 10-dan Go player, Lin Hong, a 10-dan player [10-dan: one of the seven major Go titles, similar to the throne match in the protagonist's previous life]... These two letters are, of course, letters of recommendation; he was once my teacher."

Ji Yingting was suddenly stunned. Lin Hong, a 10-dan professional Go player with a title... She had heard of him. He was a professional Go player who stood on the top of the moon and held the 10-dan title.

Xin Yufei was also stunned by Chen Xiao's words. She could go too? She actually had the qualifications to attend such a high-profile seminar? Really? By the way, is Lin Hong, the 10th Dan, Chen Xiao's teacher?

Chen Xiao was clearly satisfied with their reaction. He continued, "Of course, you should also understand... attending the seminar is equivalent to becoming my students."

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Quick fact: The top three of the seven Go titles are: Kisei, Honinbo, and Meijin; the middle three are Tengen, Oza, and Judan; and the bottom one is Kosei (or Gosei).

Chapter 49: Dad's here?

Goodbye, Sakuraba-senpai!

Goodbye, Sakuraba!

"Okay, see you tomorrow," Ji Yingting waved goodbye to Wang Murou and Xin Yufei.

After stepping off the school bus with a "whoosh," Ji Yingting pushed open the front door of her home.

Um?

In an instant, she frowned, her crescent-shaped eyebrows furrowing together. A faint sound came from her room, indicating that someone was home.

After a moment of silence, Ji Yingting lightly touched the ground with her toes, and sure enough... her toes tentatively touched a pair of boots at the doorway, but they weren't her own boots.

popping.

She bent down, picked up two boots, her long, light green hair wrapped around her, and casually tossed them out the door. The boots flew out in an arc.

"Wow!" Ji Yingting exclaimed softly, feeling that she must have thrown the boots very far.

"Hey...you child," a helpless female voice came from inside the house at that moment. The woman was wearing slippers. She quickly walked past Ji Yingting and picked up her boots that had been thrown on the main road.

Ji Yingting didn't wait for her to come back. She went into the house, threw her schoolbag on the table, put on her headphones, and started lying on the sofa to listen to music, raising her two jade-like legs, which were covered by white stockings, and letting them hang in the air.

"Sakura Ting?" The woman glanced helplessly at Ji Sakura Ting lying on the sofa after returning.

"You're so annoying, get out!" Ji Yingting took off the mini earphones she was wearing and complained impatiently.

"What was the matter when you asked me for money a while ago?" the woman continued to ask, sitting down on the small sofa opposite Ji Yingting.

Ji Yingting still didn't answer; she lay on the sofa with her eyes closed, pretending to be asleep.

“I…I’ve thought of a way to bring you back into the family…you know…the Ji family,” the woman said hesitantly.

"Go to hell," Ji Yingting said coldly, interrupting the woman without hesitation.

"How could you talk to my father like that? You actually want him to die? Are you still my daughter? You bad daughter!" The woman's voice suddenly turned angry.

Ji Yingting remained silent for a long time. She slowly stood up from the sofa, walked slowly to the woman, and extended her hand.

In an instant, her arm touched a huge, soft mass, as smooth as jelly, and she began to rub it haphazardly.

"Then tell me, besides this filthy blob of face wash, what else do you have to be proud of? Tell me."

"..."

The woman's face flushed slightly, and she said excitedly but timidly, "How could you do this to your father? I'm your father!"

"Masochist, go to hell," Ji Yingting said as she released the woman's breasts. She silently walked back to her room, not wanting to see this person again.

"...Mom said she misses you."

The woman sitting on the sofa suddenly spoke, and Ji Yingting, who was about to enter the room, froze for a moment. However, after pausing for a few seconds, she still pushed open the door.

boom!

Ji Yingting slammed the door shut.

"Sigh," the woman sighed helplessly, and sat down on the sofa, lost in thought.

The Ji family is a ruthless clan... If a son-in-law hasn't achieved anything by the age of eighteen, he's not qualified to stay in the main family...

Of course, this doesn't mean that someone who doesn't achieve anything will be expelled from the family; it just means they won't be allowed to live in the Ji family for an extended period.

Ji Yingting was sent away by the Ji family when she was very young because... she was blind and destined to never achieve anything special in her life, especially in Go, which the Ji family valued most.

At that time... Ji Yingting was not even five years old...

Neither she nor her wife objected, because it was the family's choice.

Of course, the two of them also thought that they could visit Ji Yingting every now and then, so they didn't think that sending her out of the family was a big deal.

But they never expected that... Ji Yingting harbored immense hatred towards them because of this incident from their childhood.

The woman lowered her head, feeling a pang of sadness in her heart.

Sakuraba hadn't seen her mother for over ten years... and she only visited her once every six months, but her mother treated her like a stranger, even with hostility.

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"Sakura, aren't you asleep yet?" Half an hour later, the woman mustered up her courage and pushed open Ji Sakura's door.

But... when her gaze swept across the room, the woman's red pupils narrowed slightly, and she froze instantly.

Pat, pat, pat, pat.

Her long, light green hair cascaded down her chest, draped over her cute beige pajamas. Ji Yingting was kneeling on the carpet in a duck-like position, studying chess games on a chessboard made of star jade wood.

Pat, pat, pat, pat.

Black pieces, white pieces, black pieces, white pieces.

Ji Yingting moved the chess pieces between her left and right hands, placing them on the jade-colored chessboard.

So that's how it is... Sakuraba borrowed money to buy this Hoshimama wood Go board? Did she only recently start playing Go? But she shouldn't be able to see it, right?

The woman felt a lump in her throat. Was Sakuraba working very hard to learn Go?

"Sakuraba... are you transcribing a musical score?"

"Dad, what level are you now?" Ji Yingting heard the woman's voice. She raised her head and asked calmly, her purple starry eyes slightly open. She stared at the woman with her beautiful pupils that could not see clearly.

"Me... I officially reached the professional eighth dan level in the past six months," the woman said softly, not understanding why Ji Yingting was asking this.

"A professional eighth dan, is that so..." Ji Yingting nodded silently, her jade-like hand that was rubbing her bluish-green hair suddenly stopped.

Ji Yingting was silent for a few seconds, then beckoned to her, "Come sit here."

"Huh?" The woman looked somewhat surprised, but she still obediently sat down next to Ji Yingting.

"Not here, sit across from me." Ji Yingting raised her slender jade foot and kicked the woman's buttocks hard with her white stockings.

"Ugh!" The woman blushed and panicked as she crawled to the opposite side of Ji Yingting, kneeling down in front of the chessboard.

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This is the first time I've ever seen my father. Ji Yingting's expression froze for a moment, and her purple eyes narrowed unconsciously. So, this is her... father?

Sitting in front of her was an extremely beautiful woman with short, fiery red hair. Her voluptuous body was clad in a black, traditional Hanfu that trailed on the ground, embroidered with an eerie, icy blue lotus flower.

The woman had a beauty mark at the corner of her eye, just like her own, and their faces were somewhat similar.

"How about we play a game of nine-in-a-row? You give me a nine-in-a-row handicap..." Ji Yingting said slowly after she came to her senses.

P.S.: I recommend a friend's book, "The Life of a Master".

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Regarding the extra chapters, I feel that I definitely can't squeeze in two chapters a day, so I've decided to start tomorrow with 3000 words per chapter and change "extra" to "extra word count" until I've made up for the missing word count.