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

Chapter 600 Still in It
“…Yuen?
"Yue En, did you hear me?

"Yue En!!"

"Ahh, I'm here!"

At 3 pm on the evening of March 13th, at the Toyo Chess Institute in Toyo City, the capital of Japan.

The award ceremony for this year's Fan Air Battle will be held here soon.

Jin Youen, who was sitting in the audience in a daze, suddenly realized that someone was calling her. She quickly responded and looked in the direction of the voice.

However, Zhao Libo, the vice president of the South Korean Chess Institute, who led the team to the air battle, was looking at her strangely, and only relaxed his expression when he looked over:

"You En, what's wrong with you?
"You've won the Women's World Championship seven times in a row, and you're still not happy?"

"what……

"G-Glad!"

Jin Youen forced a smile, but her slightly stiff expression still made it seem that she was being insincere.

In fact, the Ice Queen couldn't really say how happy she was at the moment.

Although her journey to the championship this time was relatively smooth, she defeated Jia Feiquan, Sanada Asa, Yang Manjing and Uesaka Rei along the way, and successfully won her eleventh women's world championship.

Such achievements have gradually begun to widen the gap between her and Wu Yueyun back then, and have a unique flavor!

But... for Jin Youen, this seemingly extremely dominant result is somewhat pale and powerless.

——If she didn’t win the Women’s World Championship against the contemporary Chinese champion Zhaojun, would it really have any value or persuasiveness?

The Ice Queen herself couldn't help but question herself.

"As long as you are happy!"

Although it was obvious that Kim Yoo Eun seemed to be a little worried, Zhao Libo saw that his top female star in China didn't seem to be willing to say more, so he just played dumb and went on:

"It's like this, I just got the information from the Dongying Chess Institute!

"In addition to awarding prizes, Japan will also take the opportunity to announce two important news to the public at the award ceremony later!"

"Important... news?"

The queen couldn't help but tilt her head, looking a little confused.

Zhao Libo smiled and continued to explain:
"Hey! Since there's not much time left, I'll just tell you straight out:

"First, the runner-up, Uesaka Rei, will be officially transferred to our Chess Academy and will temporarily become a player under our South Korean Chess Academy!"

"what?!"

Hearing this, Jin Youen couldn't help but exclaimed:
"Is it because she just won the runner-up in this fan-air battle?!"

"Ah no no no, it's not about her good grades this time!"

Zhao Libo quickly explained:
“Although Uesaka performed very well this time and his strength is improving rapidly, this runner-up position is really unexpected.

"She had good luck along the way, and her victory over Liu Yuhong was just a coincidence, which is a low-probability event. You played against her in the finals, so you should have an overall judgment of her strength."

“…She’s actually quite capable.”

After a brief silence, Jin Youen said in a complicated tone:
"Including Yang Manjing too...

"These girls from the Huaxia Pohu team are really motivated..."

"Uh……"

Hearing this, Zhao Libo seemed to understand why Kim Woo-eun was in a bad mood.

But about this... he didn't know how to comfort her.

Although the Queen Zhao will not participate in the women's competition, in theory Jin Youen can, like some extreme remarks in China, think that Rui Zhao has been defeated by her own team for three consecutive women's world championships and has been beaten into a cowardice!
But... Zhao Libo knows that this is completely self-deception!

Hua Xia Zhaojun's "pink miracle" in the Nongshim Cup and her team's reversal in the Chinese Weiqi League relegation battle are all real!

We won’t mention the comeback she led in the Chinese Weiqi League relegation battle. The pink miracle in the Nongshim Cup alone is enough to make the Ice Queen, who once won the world runner-up, dare not be careless at all!

After all... she has never won any game against the world's number one player, let alone in the Nongshim Cup where Liu Shixian is like a god!
To say that such a chess player who has been making such outstanding performances continuously would be afraid of Kim Woo-eun...I'm afraid no one would believe it.

“…Ahem!”

Seeing that the atmosphere was not right, Zhao Libo quickly coughed and brought the topic back to the topic and continued:

"In fact, Japan contacted us a month ago about Uesaka Rei's transfer to our chess academy. The purpose is naturally to allow their rising star to get as much training as possible in high-level competitions.

"The Chinese Chess Association is quite sensitive about Japanese people joining its ranks, so naturally they came to us!

"After recent discussions, the top management of the chess academy felt that this was a great opportunity to attract traffic!

"[A once-in-four-hundred-years Japanese Go genius girl lands in South Korea] - This topic sounds very eye-catching!

"Our country is not like China where there is Rui Zhao who has a huge amount of attention. We have to create some gimmicks to attract the public... uh..."

As he spoke, Zhao Libo's voice became awkward again.

...Oh no, why are we talking about Rui Zhao again!

There is really no way around it!

The vice president of the South Korean Chess Institute stopped talking immediately after noticing something was wrong and began to summarize:
“…Anyway!

"Now that both sides have reached an agreement, Japan plans to take advantage of the opportunity when Uesaka Rei just won the Women's World Championship to announce the news to the public and build momentum!"

"I see."

The Ice Queen breathed a sigh of relief and said:

“I will be looking forward to meeting her in domestic competitions.

"And...what's the other important news?"

"Ah! That's great news!"

Zhao Libo, who had just stepped on landmines one after another, quickly said:

"Youen, your chance to make up for your regrets has come!" The next Asian Games...

“There will still be a Go project!”

...

...

Tsk tsk... I really didn't expect that!
This time, the Dongying Go Institute really kept Go in the Asian Games...

On the evening of March 3, at Samshuang Training Institute in Kyoto, South Korea.

The welcome dinner before this Sanshuang Cup competition is being held in the multi-function hall of the training institute.

However, the world's top player who attended the dinner did not intend to enjoy the banquet at this time. Instead, he found a secluded corner and began to carefully understand the "big news" in the chess world that was just officially announced to the public last night:
After much communication and efforts by the Dongying Go Institute, the 2026th Bluestar Asian Games to be held in Chukyo, Dongying in September 2022 will continue to retain the Go competition event that was previously rumored to be "withdrawn from Asia". The three events of men's team, women's team and men's individual will continue to be set up at the Qiantang Asian Games.

Well……

It seems that Takuya Ichijo's championship and runner-up last year, as well as Uesaka Rei's Chinese Women's Go League [Best Rookie]...

It was not in vain!

Liu Shixian sighed secretly.

The young master of the Liu family knew that one of the important reasons why the Go project, which was previously rumored to be on the verge of withdrawal from Asia, was able to be rescued was that the host country Japan's performance in Go had improved.

If, like in previous years, "reaching the semifinals is considered a success", then the Japanese Go Association will probably not be able to save the Go project from disaster even if it talks its mouth off...

There is no way, the popularity of Go is really too bad!
Not only is Go widely practiced in China, Japan and South Korea, but in recent years even Japan and South Korea have been paying less and less attention to it!

Take the history of Go in the Asian Games for example. In addition to China, the birthplace of Go and the official high regard for it, Go has been listed as an Asian Games event twice, in the 2010 Guangzhou Asian Games and the 2022 Qiantang Asian Games.

None of the other Asian Games held in Japan and South Korea included Go!
Therefore, after the Qiantang Asian Games ended, almost the entire world chess community conceded that the next Asian Games Go competition would be a long way off.

But no one expected that this time there would be a sudden turn of events and he would come back to life!

As the number one person in the world, Liu Shixian was naturally happy to see this news.

You know, although he has completed the world championship "Grand Slam", his honor roll lacks a very unique "Asian Games Go men's individual gold medal".

At the 2022 Qiantang Asian Games, Master Liu performed poorly in the men's individual semi-finals, and ultimately lost by half a point to Xu Lifan, the number one player from China who was in excellent form in that tournament, and only won a bronze medal, which is a big regret in his career so far.

Now that he has the opportunity to make up for it, Young Master Liu is in a good mood.

Oh, by the way...

The Go event was able to be retained in the Asian Games this time...it should be partly due to her contribution, right?
Although she is a Chinese chess player, the noise she has made in the past two years has not only affected China...

However, just as Young Master Liu kept nodding his head with great interest, a young voice with a rather cold tone came over:

"Liu Jiuduan, I finally found you!"

The voice was speaking Chinese. Before Liu Shixian even raised his eyes, he knew who it was:
"Lei Jiuduan, how are you?"

The world's number one showed his signature gentle smile, but unfortunately...

The other party doesn't seem to buy it:

“No, no, no, I wasn’t feeling well after we last met!

"Thanks to someone, my mom is now somewhat suspicious of my sexual orientation..."

"Sexual orientation?"

Liu Shixian suddenly became confused:
"What's happening here?"

“Don’t bother with that!

"I just want to ask: Why did some of the things I said to you privately later appear in your public reports in the South Korean media?"

"……ah?!
"Oh--"

After a brief surprise, Liu Shixian reacted very quickly to what was happening.

Even from the way he blinked his eyes rapidly, he seemed to understand why Lei Qi was suspected of his sexual orientation.

“…So, this matter cannot be discussed?
"I thought there was nothing wrong with such an open and innocent relationship!"

"Of course not!"

Xiao Lei Jiudan suddenly became a little hysterical:

"Otherwise, how could I be suspected by my mother!!!"

"Ah... sorry, sorry. I was careless!"

Liu Shixian waved his hands and tried to suppress his smile and said:
"Lei Qi Jiudan, I apologize to you for this matter! I was inconsiderate!
"In exchange for my apology, you can ask me any private question.

"I will answer this question truthfully and agree that you can publish my answer to the public. Is that ok with you?"

"..."

Hearing this, Lei Qi was speechless for a moment.

He originally wanted to find Liu Shixian to vent his previous depressed mood.

He didn't expect the other party to be so frank and directly expressed his willingness to "harm equally and repay blood with blood", which made him a little overwhelmed.

"…That's not necessary. Just be careful next time!"

After a short silence, Lei Qi said this and prepared to turn around and leave, secretly saying that this young master of the Liu family was really difficult to deal with.

however……

At this time, Xiao Lei had not yet realized that Liu Shixian's real difficulty was still to come...

"... Ouch! Don't be so dismissive of my privacy!"

Liu Shixian said softly:
"Since you don't want to choose, Lei Qi Jiudan, then I will choose the most interesting private information for you..."

"……Eh?"

(End of this chapter)