Did I Win or Not!

The National Master slumped back into his chair, his vision hazy. He vaguely saw Chu Lu solemnly put away a wooden stick and say, "See? It's easy to get hit without a helmet."

National Master: "??"

She wanted to speak, but couldn't even open her mouth.

At this moment, Chu Lu placed a stone and said, "Alright, your turn."

The National Master looked bewildered again.

"What do you mean, my turn? You hit me! You hit me!"

"Huh? Why aren't you playing? Can't think of your next move? Oh dear, then you're over time. Let's skip it. It's my turn again." Chu Lu placed another stone.

The National Master immediately grew anxious. She ignored everything else and struggled to reach for a stone. But if she didn't even have the strength to speak, how could she reach out?

She could only watch helplessly as time slipped away, watching Chu Lu pick up a stone again.

"You're over time again? Sigh, it's my turn again."

"Over again?"

"Still over?"

"Are you really going to play Go?"

"Are you letting me win?"

"Oh my, that's too embarrassing."

Tap, tap, tap. Stones were placed one by one, and the initially disadvantageous situation suddenly reversed.

Finally, Chu Lu placed a stone, looked at the Go board, and feigned surprise. "Huh? I won."

Hearing this, a string in the National Master's mind snapped. In her extreme anger, she briefly overcame the hindrance of her injuries and slammed the table with her fist. "Stop!"

"Huh? What's wrong?" Chu Lu asked innocently.

"What's wrong? What's wrong?!" the National Master berated. "You hit me with a stick! How could you hit me with a stick! We're playing Go! What is this? What did you win?!"

The moment the National Master finished speaking, Chu Lu's expression turned stern.

"You're not convinced?" he said.

"Of course, I'm not convinced!" the National Master roared.

"I see. You can't accept being hit with a wooden stick." Chu Lu showed a look of surprise and admiration. "As expected of the number one National Master in the world today. Although you're young, you place great importance on rules. You despise heretical ways like using a wooden stick!"

"Nonsense!" the National Master yelled with all her might. She thought to herself: What Go player could accept something like this!

"Since that's the case," Chu Lu said with a serious expression, "then let me follow the old rules."

"It should have been..."

Before the National Master could finish, Chu Lu roared and violently overturned the Go board.

The stones on the board scattered, hitting the National Master's face like raindrops.

Chu Lu sprang up, stomped on the stone table, and held the Go board high above his head. "It's only proper to use the Go board for Go, isn't it?!"

National Master: "Eh?"

Bang!

Chu Lu slammed the Go board down forcefully, smashing it onto the National Master's head.

A strong tremor immediately traveled from her scalp down to her entire body.

A loud ringing filled the National Master's ears.

Chu Lu didn't stop, raising the board again and smashing it down again, hitting her more than ten times in a row.

As he smashed it, he cursed.

"Are you convinced now?"

"Convinced?!"

"Did I win or not? Tell me if I won or not!"

"Damn it, I wanted to let you off easy. You insisted on seeking death! You insisted on seeking death!"

"Number one in the world, huh? I'll beat up the number one in the world!"

Bang bang bang bang bang bang bang!

At this moment, the only sound in the pavilion was the incessant thudding.

Liu Jin'er, watching from the side, felt her legs tremble. The smugness she had felt earlier vanished from her face.

Chu Lu's sudden, unexpected strike with the stick had already stunned her.

And now, the insane, deranged scene before her made her wonder if she was having a nightmare.

Thud.

The National Master finally couldn't bear it any longer and collapsed from her chair, unable to get up, having lost the Go match.

Chu Lu put down the Go board and began to pant.

Playing Go was such a strenuous activity, and for his still very weak body, the burden was simply too heavy.

However, he knew things weren't over yet, so he didn't rush to rest. Instead, he turned his head to look at Liu Jin'er, who was beside him.

When Chu Lu glared at her, Liu Jin'er was so startled that she immediately knelt on the ground.

"I've already won, so it's your turn to fulfill the bet," Chu Lu said. "Tell me your sister's weakness."

"Huh? This, that..." Liu Jin'er's mind was still a mess, and she didn't know what to say.

"What do you mean?" Chu Lu narrowed his eyes and reached out to touch the blood-stained Go board again. "You think I didn't win?"

Liu Jin'er was startled. Driven by her survival instinct, she shouted, "You won, you won! You won!"

"Very good. Then what is the Empress's weakness?"

A few drops of sweat immediately trickled down Liu Jin'er's forehead.

In reality, she had no idea what the Empress's weakness was.

The reason she dared to use it as a bet was because she had thought that since she had found the current top National Master to play against Chu Lu, how could she possibly lose?

But she hadn't expected Go to have such a playing style.

She had intended to make up something random to fool him, but at that moment, Chu Lu seemed to see through her thoughts and said, "Don't you dare lie. You can't afford the consequences."

Liu Jin'er trembled instantly, too scared to dare, and could only brace herself and say, "I, I don't know..."

"Really?" Chu Lu asked.

"Really! I'm not lying to you," Liu Jin'er said with a crestfallen face.

"I figured as much," Chu Lu said, not surprised. This Liu Jin'er looked like she had a screw loose; it was normal for her not to know such secrets.

"Then an eye for an eye," Chu Lu said indifferently. "You'll spin around and bark like a dog too."

"Huh?" Liu Jin'er's face turned pale. How could she, a daughter of the Liu Family, do something so humiliating? She was unwilling a million times over in her heart.

"You refuse?" Chu Lu reached out to touch the Go board again.

"I will!" Liu Jin'er immediately stood up. "I will!"

Her life was more important than her dignity.

Liu Jin'er gritted her teeth, spun around three times, and barked like a dog three times. Her face was already a mixture of green and white. She lowered her head and said with difficulty, "I'm done, can I go now?"

"No rush. You still have four more times," Chu Lu said leisurely.

"Huh?!"

A moment later, Liu Jin'er left the garden in a daze.

She honestly completed the remaining four times, and after Chu Lu warned her not to speak of today's events, she felt like she had lost all her dignity as a person and just wanted to find a place to cry.

Meanwhile, in the pavilion, Chu Lu called Xiao Lizi to clean up the corpses and continued to admire the flowers.

In his mind, Xu Liniang finally calmed down from the shock of Chu Lu's astonishing Go skills and said worriedly, "Chu Lu, you've caused such a big scene. The Empress won't just stand by and do nothing. Although you warned her, she won't truly obey obediently. This matter won't be kept secret for long."

"It doesn't matter, if it's exposed, it's exposed," Chu Lu said. "She didn't dare to show her true colors even after I killed her cousin. What's killing a Go player who is a subordinate of her sister?"

"That's true..."