In Los Angeles.
Inside a multimillion-dollar mansion atop Beverly Hills.
Wang Yi, dressed in a tank top, baggy shorts, and slippers, took off his gaming helmet and kept shaking his head with sighs.
Just then, Nicole entered the room.
Her footsteps were as light as a nimble cat's.
Wang Yi turned to look. Sunlight slanted in through the window at a 45-degree angle, falling across Nicole's perfect face.
The fine fuzz on her face glowed in the sunlight.
It seemed to give Nicole a golden outline.
Nicole's familiar voice came over.
"Time to eat."
Wang Yi sighed. "Sigh."
Nicole asked, "Lost again?"
Wang Yi set the gaming helmet on the table and pointed at the image on the monitor.
"I simulated the game from my retirement match in Wang's Game. I've run twenty-three simulations already, and I couldn't win a single one.
"This one came the closest, but I still missed the game-winning shot at the end. Sigh..."
Nicole sat beside Wang Yi and put an arm around his shoulders.
"Many data companies entered your information into computers for simulations long ago. The results showed that your chance of winning that game was only one in 14.4 million."
A smile curled at the corner of Wang Yi's mouth.
"Out of 14.4 million paths, I chose the only right one."
Nicole nodded.
"Ever since you finished that game two months ago, Wang's Game launched this retirement-game simulation challenge.
"Two months have passed, and the challenge has been attempted 3.7 billion times in the game. Yet not a single person has succeeded.
"You haven't had much contact with the outside world these past two months aside from playing games, so you don't know how everyone has been discussing that game from your retirement match."
Wang Yi smiled and asked, "Oh? How have