Fell in love with Xu Ziqin, so what?

Yu Shao fell silent at once.

He... could probably guess.

"Fang Xin said that the reason he resigned was because it wasn't a fair game. If the komi had been ten and a half points, Black would have had the advantage. So, when he was about to win the game, he chose to resign."

Zhou De sighed deeply. "Fang Xin actually gave up the chance to make his name known throughout the world just like that. I can't really understand it, but I'm absolutely stunned."

"In short, it was precisely after that game between Shen Yi and Fang Xin that the rule of seven and a half points of komi began to be used in Go, and it has continued to this day."

"After that game ended, Shen Yi never again played a game with ten and a half points of komi. He simply kept waiting for a player who could beat him with seven and a half points of komi."

"But he never found one in his entire life."

"He sought a single defeat all his life but could never obtain one. In the end, at the age of thirty-three, he fell ill from his pent-up frustrations and died young."

At this point, Zhou De looked at Yu Shao and said, "Old Yu, do you know what's most amazing?"

"What?"

Yu Shao was genuinely a little curious. He humored Zhou De, satisfying his vanity.

"The most amazing thing was that, before Shen Yi died, he said his greatest regret in life was that his Go skills had advanced too quickly when he was young, to the point that he now didn't even have a single opponent!"

Zhou De suddenly slapped the table. "Holy crap! The way he showed off there—I give him a perfect score! Is that something a human can say? He was really too good at boasting!"

"Zhou De!"

At that moment, the study monitor in the front row finally couldn't stand it anymore and shouted, "Could you keep your voice down? Even if you don't want to study, there are still other students who do! If you keep making noise, I'll report you to the homeroom teacher!"

Zhou De gave an awkward laugh, raised both hands, and performed a French military salute.

"Anyway, now you know how amazing Shen Yi was, right?"

Zhou De lowered his voice a little and said, "And I'm the next Shen Yi."

Yu Shao suddenly found it hard not to cringe.

Poor Zhou De. He was so young, yet he had already gone insane.

Yu Shao thought for a moment and said, "First of all, you can't possibly be the next Shen Yi. Secondly, even if it were Shen Yi, he might not necessarily be that strong if he were placed in the present day."

"Bullshit!"

Hearing this, Zhou De immediately lost his temper. He didn't even refute the first sentence and directly began arguing against the second. "He was the Go Saint! He never lost after his Go skills had reached their peak. How dare you say he wasn't strong?"

"Perhaps in his era, he truly had few rivals. But this is no longer the era he lived in."

Yu Shao shook his head and said, "Go has continued to improve with the times. Reality isn't a fantasy novel. How could someone be more powerful just because they're older?"

"What if Shen Yi were a modern man?" Zhou De refused to give up and continued questioning him.

Yu Shao thought about it and said, "Then I don't know. But if he really was as you described, I can only say that if he had been born in the modern era, he would probably still have been an extraordinary player."

Satisfied with this answer, Zhou De continued reading his copy of 38 Lectures on Go Fundamentals.

Seeing this, Yu Shao couldn't help shaking his head and laughing.

Based on his understanding of Zhou De, despite how confidently Zhou De had boasted just now, he would last at most until the end of this week before giving up for all sorts of reasons.

As for Zhou De actually learning to play Go...

Absolutely impossible.

The odds of Zhou De being a human being were higher than the odds of Zhou De learning to play Go.

After the morning self-study period ended, Yu Shao prepared to go to the bathroom, even though he hadn't really needed to go.

Yu Shao realized that he was becoming more and more accustomed to his identity as a high school student. After class, whether he needed to use the bathroom or not, he always felt like heading there.

Then, once he reached the bathroom, even if he hadn't wanted to go before, he would want to go. After all, the atmosphere had already brought him to that point. As the saying went—since you're already here.

"Old Zhou, going to the bathroom?"

Yu Shao called out to Zhou De.

"Let's go!"

As a permanent fixture in the bathroom, Zhou De agreed immediately.

The two of them began making their way to the bathroom together. When they passed by Cheng Mengjie, Yu Shao keenly noticed that she had actually ignored him!

A cause for celebration. Keep it up!

Just as Yu Shao was about to continue walking, he suddenly realized that Zhou De had stopped where he was.

Yu Shao turned his head and saw Zhou De standing beside Cheng Mengjie, winking and gesturing at him repeatedly.

Seeing this, Yu Shao immediately got a headache. He ignored Zhou De and walked out of the classroom without looking back.

Zhou De was stunned. Only after Yu Shao had left the classroom did he finally come to his senses and hurry after him.

"Old Yu, what do you mean by that? Your bro is acting as your wingman and creating an opportunity for you, and you don't even take it?"

After catching up with Yu Shao in the corridor, Zhou De asked with a baffled expression, "You're not pursuing Cheng Mengjie anymore?"

"I'm not."

Yu Shao answered frankly.

Zhou De was shocked. "Brother, have you fallen for someone else?"

"I never fell for anyone in the first place."

Yu Shao corrected the mistake in Zhou De's words and said, "I was only pursuing her for fun back then."

"You can fool other people if you want, but you're trying to fool your own brother?"

Zhou De gave Yu Shao a strange look. "Who was it that shouted to me back then that he would love Cheng Mengjie for the rest of his life? A ghost?"

Yu Shao was momentarily speechless. The mess his former self had created really did have to be cleaned up by him.

"Brother, just tell me the truth. Who did you fall for instead? You're still hiding it from me? I can be your wingman! I'm a professional!" Zhou De continued pressing him, with no intention of stopping until he got an answer.

In Zhou De's extremely simple view of love, if someone suddenly stopped liking a person, the only possible answer was that they had fallen for someone else.

"Old Yu, you're even hiding it from your brother? Just tell me. I'll help you check her out."

Annoyed by the questioning, Yu Shao brushed him off. "I did fall for someone else. I fell for Xu Ziqin. What about it?"

"Hiss!"

Zhou De sucked in a cold breath and looked at Yu Shao worriedly. "Good brother, your overall conditions definitely aren't bad. But seriously, do you want to set a small goal first? For example, earning a hundred million?"

The bullet Yu Shao had fired at Zhou De earlier had now struck Yu Shao right between the eyebrows.

Yu Shao was just about to speak when he suddenly noticed that Zhou De's expression seemed a little off.

Yu Shao looked in the direction Zhou De was staring, and then he saw the person he least wanted to see at that moment.

Xu Ziqin had tied her hair in a low ponytail today. She stood by the window near the corridor, holding a stack of exercise books. She seemed to have been about to collect the assignments from the students sitting by the windows.

She quietly watched Yu Shao and Zhou De, her gaze clear, as if it could see straight through a person's heart.

Although Xu Ziqin didn't say a word, Yu Shao somehow realized—

She had heard what he had just said.

What was this supposed to be?!

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