The brief weekend passed in the blink of an eye.
After finally enjoying two days of sleeping until he woke naturally, Yu Shao once again had no choice but to crawl out of bed at six-thirty in the morning. He got dressed, washed up, slung his schoolbag over his shoulder, and left home.
He bought four beef buns and a bottle of yogurt from the breakfast shop downstairs. After hastily finishing breakfast, Yu Shao hurried toward school.
The moment he reached the classroom and arrived at his seat, Yu Shao was stunned.
There was only one reason: for some unknown reason, Zhou De had actually picked up that copy of 38 Lectures on Go Fundamentals again!
At first, Zhou De had wanted to learn Go for the Conduct Points. Later, he had kept at it for several days just to spite Yu Shao. But now he had started studying again. That was a little terrifying!
After all, today was the day the school was holding its Go lecture. Even if Zhou De was cramming at the last minute for the Conduct Points, this was still far too last-minute. Besides, the participants for today's simultaneous exhibition had already been decided.
Therefore, after some meticulous reasoning, Yu Shao could reach only one conclusion about Zhou De starting to study Go again—
The world was about to end.
"Old Zhou, is the world about to end?" Yu Shao couldn't help asking.
"What are you talking about?" Zhou De clearly didn't understand what Yu Shao meant. He glanced at Yu Shao in confusion.
"Then why are you reading a Go book again?" Yu Shao asked.
Zhou De flew into a rage. "Old Yu, what do you mean? Can't your bro rise above the heavens by half a stone anymore?!"
Yu Shao had discovered that "rise above the heavens by half a stone" had recently become Zhou De's catchphrase.
Yu Shao thought for a moment, then spoke in the tone one might use to comfort a son. "No, Old Zhou. What exactly happened to you? Tell me properly."
"I've fallen in love."
Zhou De hesitated for a moment before speaking.
Yu Shao was instantly shocked.
Impossible.
Absolutely impossible!
The world ending was more believable than Zhou De falling in love!
So Yu Shao calmly thought it over before asking, "Bro, when you say you've fallen in love... do you mean you've developed feelings for someone, or that you're actually dating someone?"
"I've developed feelings for someone," Zhou De answered.
Hearing this, Yu Shao let out a sigh of relief. As he took his English textbook from his schoolbag, he asked, "Aren't you in love every day, then? Who is it this time? And besides..."
Yu Shao looked puzzled. "What does this have to do with you reading a Go book?"
"You don't know?"
Zhou De spoke mysteriously. "Senior Wu Shuheng already came to our school this morning."
Yu Shao's pupils shook violently. He hurriedly shifted his chair away from Zhou De. "You fell for him?"
"Ptui, ptui, ptui! Old Yu, I've realized that you can't say a single nice thing. I'm a straight man who could punch through a steel plate! Do you understand what straight means?"
Zhou De roared, "It's his younger sister. His younger sister came with him!"
"Oh."
Yu Shao instantly lost interest. As he flipped through his book, he asked, "She's very pretty?"
"What do you mean, 'very pretty'? She's exceptionally pretty!"
"How pretty?"
"She can hold her own against Xu Ziqin."
Yu Shao immediately looked solemn. "Then she really is pretty."
"Besides, she has a great personality. Xu Ziqin is certainly beautiful, but she always feels a little like the Mona Lisa. You can only look at her, not touch her."
Zhou De wore a lecherous grin. "But this girl is different. When she saw me, she even smiled and greeted me."
A girl who could smile and greet Zhou De?
Yu Shao thought about it. If Zhou De hadn't been lying, then Senior Wu Shuheng's younger sister really did seem to have a good personality.
"So you're planning to learn Go to curry favor with her brother?" Yu Shao asked.
"That's not it."
Zhou De shook his head. "She's a professional Go player herself. She's just a 1-dan, though."
"Bro, how about we forget it?" Yu Shao thought it over and advised him earnestly.
"Why?"
Zhou De looked baffled. "It wasn't easy for me to feel my heart stir for once. Why should I give up?"
"Maybe she really does have a good personality, but having a good personality is one thing."
Yu Shao spoke with utmost sincerity. "You have to understand that no woman who becomes a professional Go player is a fool. She's not stupid."
"Yu Shao, I'm going to fight you!"
Zhou De was enraged and immediately prepared to battle Yu Shao for three hundred rounds.
After morning self-study ended, before the classroom had even had time to grow lively, Li Kang walked in carrying his thermos.
Li Kang stood on the lectern and swept his gaze across the room. His eyes were like silencers: wherever they landed, that area fell utterly silent. By the time he had scanned the entire classroom, not a sound remained.
Only after the classroom had become completely quiet did Li Kang clear his throat and say, "In a moment, your senior, the current professional Go player Wu Shuheng 3-dan, will be holding a Go lecture in the multimedia classroom to promote Go culture."
"Oh!"
The students below instantly erupted into an uproar, and everyone grew excited. Even Li Kang's imposing presence failed to suppress their enthusiasm.
After all, not having lessons for an entire morning was more than enough to send these high school students jumping for joy.
"Quiet!"
Li Kang frowned. Once the classroom had quieted down again, he said, "Anyone who needs to use the restroom, go now. Afterward, gather in the multimedia classroom."
Having said that, Li Kang left the classroom with his thermos.
The moment Li Kang was gone, the classroom erupted again. A group of boys rushed out and sprinted toward the multimedia classroom at a hundred-meter pace.
But when the boys reached the entrance to the multimedia classroom, they all slowed down in unison.
A beautiful girl was sitting in the first row of the multimedia classroom.
She had long, jet-black hair that reached her waist. Her petite face was fair and flawless, and her eyes were lively and limpid. She wore a simple white shirt, whose hem was tied in a knot and tucked into her pale-blue, cropped jeans.
She wasn't the kind of girl like Xu Ziqin, whose breathtaking beauty struck people the instant they saw her.
She belonged to the type who, at first glance, made you think she was pretty; at second glance, even prettier; and at third glance, made you think, Holy crap, I'm in love.
On the desk in front of her was a nameplate introducing her name and identity—Wu Zhixuan 1-dan.
When she saw the boys from Class Seven appear at the entrance to the multimedia classroom, she smiled, revealing two sweet dimples, and waved to them in greeting.
That smile was so radiant it defied reason. Just seeing it made people feel that there was no obstacle in life they couldn't overcome.
Thus, in that instant, although the boys from Class Seven didn't say a word to one another, they all reached the same decision in perfect understanding—
They would enter the multimedia classroom as slowly as they possibly could.
"What should I do? Bro, this is urgent."
Zhou De lowered his voice and whispered to Yu Shao beside him, "If she and Xu Ziqin fell into the river at the same time, whom should I save?"
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