Go: The live broadcast queen launched a gorgeous rebellion against the dog

Chapter 144: Your Own “Chess Saint Battle”

This voice...I've heard it on the phone before!

Rui Zhao was startled and looked over immediately.

The person who came to the temporary studio was a thin old man with gray hair - it was Shang Chaotian, the chairman of the Chinese Chess Association!

"Chairman Shang!" Rui Zhao couldn't help but shout.

Shang Chaotian smiled and walked over quickly:
"Rui Zhao, it's our first meeting. You're even prettier in person than in photos and videos! No wonder your three teachers and Wen Jie all praised you!"

"You, you're too kind!"

Rui Zhao hurriedly said something modest, but for a moment he didn't know what to say next.

In a sense, she and Shang Chaotian have known each other for a long time.

When she became his disciple, Shang Chaotian called her to encourage her immediately; after playing chess with Chaotianque online, Shang Chaotian reviewed the game with her; and Shang Chaotian also described Bai Yinhua's affairs to her in detail over the phone. After several encounters, they had already established a friendship.

However, this was the first time for Rui Zhao to meet in person.

This contrast of being both strange and familiar made her feel a little uncomfortable.

Fortunately, after Shang Chaotian greeted her, he turned his gaze and greeted Huang Baoyang:

"Hello, Mr. Huang! How come you also know Rui Zhao?"

Huang Baoyang said with a smile: "I was eliminated by her in this year's 'Metropolitan Cup' audition!"

"Oh... Yes, I'm sorry, Grandpa Huang!" Seeing that he was being cueed, Rui Zhao apologized subconsciously.

"Oh! What are you saying sorry for?" Huang Baoyang said with a smile: "If you don't beat me, you will be eliminated, right? Who will stop Bai Yinhua then?"

"Yes!"

Rui Zhao finally reacted and smiled embarrassedly:

"Thank you for your advice at that time!"

"Hey! How can I be qualified to give you instructions! Right, Chairman Shang?"

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"Look, son, what did I say at the beginning? This girl is really a naive and innocent girl who has not experienced much of the world! How could she be scheming?"

While the three of them were greeting each other, Zhao Xiao took the opportunity to whisper to her son.

Li Jingzhe's eyebrows twitched, but he had no words to refute for a moment.

Because he saw Rui Zhao again in person, he also felt that the temperament of the girl who once infatuated him had changed!

Different from the superficial and artificial feeling in the past, Rui Zhao now looks clean and fresh, giving people a sense of bright and pure purity that makes people want to get close to him involuntarily.

If Rui Zhao's previous beauty was limited to the skin, then her current beauty penetrates the soul!

Li Jingzhe had this feeling the last time he asked Rui Zhao to pay back the money, but he didn't really notice it.

But now after being scolded by his parents, he, who was already very smart, quickly understood why his mother had spoken so highly of this girl when she watched Rui Zhao's live broadcast.

Hiss... But why couldn’t I feel it even though I had been with Rui Zhao for such a long time?

Is it really because I am blind and there is something wrong with my method of pursuing girls?
Li Jingzhe could not help but remain silent and had to change the subject to ease the embarrassment:

"Dad! How come Grandpa Huang even knows the chairman of the chess association?"

Li Haoming glanced at his son and explained casually:
"Director Huang has donated a lot of money to the Chess Association, hundreds of thousands of dollars over the years!

"With a donation of this amount, and the fact that he was previously a government official, how could the leaders of the chess association not recognize him?
"It's just that Director Huang is usually unwilling to bother the Chess Association, otherwise he wouldn't have asked you to help get to know Rui Zhao!"

"Hundreds of thousands?"

Li Jingzhe was dumbfounded for a moment.

"Grandpa Huang, is it necessary for a game of Go?"

Li Haoming laughed:
"Of course! Go's nickname 'wooden fox' refers to its fascinating and unique charm. Many people are fascinated by it!

"Don't talk about Director Huang, just talk about Rui Zhao, the one you pursued. Some time ago, in order to stop a former professional 7th dan player who retired from the professional world from disrupting amateur competitions, she practiced chess for nearly 18 hours a day!"

"How many hours?!" Li Jingzhe exclaimed in a low voice: "Did you add an extra ten or an extra eight?"

"You heard me right. It's eighteen hours."

Li Jingzhe was stunned for a moment, and felt that the girl in front of him became more and more unfamiliar.

Can the game of Go really make her work so hard? !
But thinking about the fact that humans were able to catch up with the earliest Go AI after being crushed by deep learning AI, Li Jingzhe felt that he seemed to have underestimated the antique that his father was obsessed with...

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After getting to know Rui Zhao, Huang Baoyang exchanged a few simple greetings and then exchanged contact information with Rui Zhao - this was all normal.

But then, he suddenly warned Rui Zhao meaningfully:
"Rui Zhao, I'm an old man who has only met you twice. Logically, I shouldn't mention anything to you. But... I still want to ask you for something:

"No matter what your status or position is in the future, don't forget that your fame comes from Go. Don't forget Go, okay?"

Rui Zhao was puzzled for a moment and asked curiously:

“Grandpa Huang, I’m a chess player, not very smart, and I don’t know anything else besides Go.

"I will definitely play Go for the rest of my life! How could I forget it?"

Huang Baoyang was stunned by this answer, and then he smiled and said yes:

"That's good, that's good!" "If you have any difficulties in the future, you can contact me at any time. I will do my best... I guess Chairman Shang feels the same way, right?"
Shang Chaotian was slightly startled, then smiled and said, "Of course.

"Rui Zhao... is the treasure of our entire Go world!"

Huang Baoyang nodded approvingly to Shang Chaotian, then left without stopping.

This surprised Li Haoming, who was waiting on the side: he originally thought that Huang Baoyang would go to such great lengths and would definitely chat with Rui Zhao for a long time.

Who would have thought that after exchanging contact information, these would be the only two sentences!
This made him, who had originally wanted to bring his son up to have a brief chat, feel a little awkward - the protagonist didn't say much, but a supporting actor like him had to take up a lot of the screen time. How could that be appropriate?

After thinking for a while, he quickly stepped forward and handed his business card to Shang Chaotian and Rui Zhao respectively. After briefly introducing himself, he stepped back and glanced at his son: "Jingzhe, why don't you say thank you to Rui Zhao?"

"what……"

Li Jingzhe finally reacted and hurriedly thanked the girl opposite him:

"Rui Zhao, thank you for what happened today!
"If there's anything I can help you with in the future, just let me know!"

But who knew that my thanks would make the other party even more panicked!
"No, no, no! I'm glad I can help. I did a lot of things wrong before!"

Li Jingzhe looked embarrassed: "No, I was immature at that time..."

"No! I was wrong before..."

The two 18-year-olds kept repeating one another, repeatedly stressing that they had problems, which made Shang Chaotian and Huang Baoyang quite puzzled.

At this time Li Haoming felt something was wrong: if this continued, Shang and Huang would probably ask for details, and then they would be embarrassed!

So he quickly found a reason to take his son away, and after saying goodbye, he left the hotel with Huang Baoyang and Zhao Xiao.

...

Shang Chaotian and Rui Zhao were left alone. Shang Chaotian wanted to start a conversation, but Rui Zhao looked at him eagerly first:
"Chairman Shang, do you... have anything else to say?"

Seeing the girl looking so pitiful and aggrieved, Shang Chaotian couldn't help but wonder:
"What? What's the emergency?"

"Yeah." The girl nodded shyly: "The dan tournament is coming up soon, I want to go back and practice more chess."

"Shouldn't it be easy for you to pass the qualifying tournament with your strength? Why do you have to make yourself so nervous?"

“Uh…” The girl looked embarrassed, and after a while she said, “It’s just that I just want to improve my strength a little bit, it’s always good!
"Besides, being promoted to a certain level is not a reason for me to stop making progress!

"I'm already 18 years old. Even if I succeed in getting the job this year, it's already very late! I need to hurry up and keep working hard!
"Not to mention Lei Qi Jiu Duan, even a sixteen-year-old little witch is more powerful than me!"

Shang Chaotian nodded.

Even though it was already pretty good to have this ability at the age of 18, was he still nitpicking about his late entry into the dan realm?

This child... is very good at controlling himself!
Shang Chaotian pursed his lips slightly when he heard this, his eyes full of approval:

"Okay! Some things might be better discussed after you officially enter the professional circle!
"Give my regards to your parents! I have to be busy with some matters related to the Chess Saint Tournament these days, so I may not be able to spare the time to visit you. Once you are promoted, I will come to your house in person!"

"Ok!"

Seeing that Shang Chaotian had no intention of wasting any more time, Rui Zhao quickly agreed and prepared to pack up and return to the Taoist temple.

Although as the qualifying tournament drew closer, she began to feel nervous.

Even some painful memories from his previous life began to surface in his mind from time to time.

But she has to face all of this by herself.

Therefore, Rui Zhao has no choice but to increase the number of his fans and continue to improve his chess skills.

But at this time, Shang Chaotian called her again:

"Rui Zhao!"

"Hmm? Chairman Shang, do you have anything else to say?"

The girl turned around and thought that Shang Chaotian had other plans.

Unexpectedly, Shang Chaotian bowed slightly and said:

"You've worked so hard on so many things over the past two months! Thank you so much!"

Rui Zhao didn't react for a moment as to why Shang Chaotian would do this.

In her opinion, she was just doing her job step by step, and she even felt that...she should be the one to be thanked, right?
After all, Shang Chaotian and the Chess Association have taken care of her in many ways.

Just as the girl was frantically preparing to say something polite, Shang Chaotian had already stood up and added sincerely:
“Come on, qualifying tournament!

"I look forward to teaching you in two weeks!"

Hearing this blessing, the girl's already worried mood rose a little.

Although his psychological shadow about the qualifying tournament essentially comes from himself, the blessings of others can somewhat ease his own tension.

Rui Zhao immediately cheered up and smiled as brightly as possible at Shang Chaotian:
"Yeah, sure!"

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Two days later.

June 6th, the day before the qualifying tournament.

That morning, Rui Zhao boarded the high-speed train to Gezhou and started her own "chess battle".

Well, it always tends to get long as I write. But at least I have written to the finals...

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(End of this chapter)