Before class began, Shan Kaiquan, Ma Shicheng, and the others entered the classroom together.
Shan Kaiquan carried a black bag containing the Chinese chess set he had just bought.
After lunch, he called Ma Shicheng to the dorm.
Ma Shicheng held his phone and played games while Shan Kaiquan played Chinese chess. He had crushed Guo Kunnan and Hu Jun all afternoon without losing a single game. He was brimming with confidence, convinced that he was the Chess King of the world.
He stood in the aisle and struck up a conversation with Chen Siyu.
On the surface, Shan Kaiquan was talking to Chen Siyu, but Bai Yuxia was his real target.
Sometimes Shan Kaiquan approached Chen Siyu, sometimes Jiang Ning. In any case, he never approached Bai Yuxia directly, so no one would see through his intentions. He thought he had hidden them perfectly.
He was often smug about it. When it came to concealing his feelings, he was far ahead of everyone else.
Shan Kaiquan did not talk to Chen Siyu just to make conversation. On the contrary, he always found a new topic every time.
Today, he had brought Chinese chess, but he did not immediately use it to start a conversation.
To Shan Kaiquan, conversation topics fell into two categories. One was long-term topics that never went out of date and could be brought up anytime, such as hobbies like Chinese chess.
The other was more like news reports, where you had to ride the trends. Once the moment passed, those topics lost their heat and could no longer catch Bai Yuxia's attention.
For that, Shan Kaiquan had specifically sought advice from Ma Ge and learned a method.
Every morning, noon, and evening, he browsed Yuzhou No.4 Middle School's Tieba, the school's big QQ groups, and