“…Hey, Dad.

"Did you call specifically for something?"

"Ah...nothing!
"Son! Congratulations on winning the main battle again!"

November 11th, two days after the Chinese Celebrity Tournament ended.

Dongjiang Garden Community, Dongjiang City, China.

Lei Jingming, who had just seen Lei Qi walk out of the home game room on the live broadcast, immediately called his son and hurriedly congratulated him:

"You haven't lost a single game in this season's Weiqi League. I feel like your Dajing team has a chance to win the regular season title again this year!"

"Ah...you're talking about this?!"

The young voice coming from the hands-free phone sounded very relaxed. From the tone of his voice, it seemed that the captain of the Dajing team, who had just won, was in a very good mood:
"It depends on whether they can beat Ruizhao at home in the 14th round, right? I just saw that they have a good chance of getting all three points today - now their Pohu team is ranked second!"

“Ah, t-that’s right!”

Lei Jingming glanced at the live broadcast projection screen, which had just changed the channel and was showing the main battle scene of Pohu team away challenging Suhu team. At this moment, the result that Rui Zhao won by two and a half points in the endgame was almost unshakable. It all depended on when Monkey King would choose to resign.

However, Lei Jingming was very cautious about his son's initiative to mention his complacent student. Seeing that the direction was not right, he immediately began to think about what topic to bring up to change the conversation.

Unexpectedly, at this moment, the leader named Qin at the side suddenly interrupted:

"...Yeah! Rui Zhao is indeed in very good condition!

"It looks like we'll have another perfect victory today!"

"Uh, no! Wife, you..."

Seeing that Qin Xiaoxue was talking about things that were not relevant, Lao Lei Jiudan hurriedly whispered to his wife to stop, as if he was afraid of irritating his son in any way.

But Lei Qi didn't seem to have any grudges about this. Instead, he said with some emotion:
“…That’s it!
"She rarely has a bad time! Unlike me, I always have problems every other day!

"I think she will be very difficult to deal with in this LIG Cup!"

"It's okay. It's good to have a strong rival of the same age! We can communicate and encourage each other!"

Qin Xiaoxue immediately encouraged:
“What’s more, she is in great shape and my son is also very, very good!

"If I meet her again in the LIG Cup that's about to start, I can definitely impress her by showing my abilities!"

“Well, thanks, Mom.

"This time I will definitely try my best to beat her and Liu Shixian and prove that I am the best chess player in the world!"

Lei Qi on the opposite side responded naturally:
“Ah, that…

"I have to hurry up and go to the interview! I won't talk too much!
"If you want to beat Rui Zhao, you have to work hard! She really works hard..."

"Yeah, take care of your own business! Your dad and I are fine, don't worry!"

After a brief farewell, Qin Xiaoxue hung up the phone. However, at that moment, Leader Qin was rarely criticized by his subordinates:
"Wife! What are you doing?

"Don't you know that your son seems to be a little unusual recently?!"

"……Eh?"

Qin Xiaoxue looked at her husband in surprise. It was as if she had seen a knot sprouting.
"You actually noticed all of this?"

Lei Jingming laughed angrily when he heard this, and hit his left palm several times with the back of his right hand: "I am a father after all, how could I not know!"

“Is that so…?
"That's true! My son's condition has been too abnormal recently. It's not surprising that you noticed..."

Qin Xiaoxue seemed to be thinking about what he said, but then she began to investigate the crime of disrespect committed by her subordinates:
"But why are you so anxious with me?
"I was just guiding my son's mentality!"

"Then why are you still talking to your son about Rui Zhao?!"

Lei Jingming couldn't help but said anxiously:

"Don't you think about it? This time, it seemed like your son had a perfect chance to win the 'Full Title', but in the end, it was destroyed by two consecutive flying knives from Rui Zhao. I think he must be feeling very upset!

"Especially, he and Rui Zhao didn't get along well in the first place. I heard Wen Jie say that he had been competing with Rui Zhao openly and secretly. You can imagine how upset he felt after being defeated head-on like this!

"Didn't you see that when your son reviewed the final game that day, he clearly regretted not being able to choose the simple winning method of holding back and eating, so he went straight to red warm!"

"……what?!"

Hearing this, Qin Xiaoxue seemed to sense that something was wrong:

"Hong, Hong Wen?"

"Yup!"

Lei Jingming didn't think there was anything wrong with what he said:
"You saw how red my son's face was during the review after the game! It was red all the way to his neck! It was obvious that he got a little angry during the review!
"After the game, I asked him what happened but he was hesitant and refused to tell me the details. It's obvious how upset he was!
"You know, this celebrity fight has attracted worldwide attention! Didn't you see how many trolls online were pointing fingers at him after he lost?
"Don't think that he looks fine now, he must be very sad! So don't mention Rui Zhao in front of him... uh...

"That, that wife..." "Why are you rolling your eyes at me?"

Looking at the extremely speechless expression on Qin Xiaoxue's face, Lei Jingming seemed to feel that something was wrong with the atmosphere. His instinctive desire to survive began to sound alarm bells, making him stop immediately and ask about the situation.

However, Qin Xiaoxue seemed to have lost all desire to communicate at this time, and only replied coldly:
"……nothing.

"I'm just thankful that my son only has half of your genes, otherwise he would be hopeless!"

After saying this, Boss Qin, who had rarely watched the game with her husband today, went straight back to her study and didn't want to say anything to Lei Jingming anymore.

Uh……

I, what did I say wrong?!

Lao Lei, who thought he had made great progress in caring for his family in recent years, was puzzled for a moment.

Forget it! I'll buy her some cakes and pastries later to make amends. Going now will probably only add fuel to the fire!
Let's finish watching the game first...

However, just as Lao Lei was about to finish watching the main battle between Rui Zhao and Sun Yi, Xu Qinglan in the official live broadcast room suddenly raised her voice and reported the news of the next game in a rather surprised tone:

“…Ah, news just came from the scene that the other two games of this round have also ended.

“Although Zeng Guangwen did not perform well in the first fast chess table today and was defeated by Luo Xi, the girls from the Pohu team performed very well in the other two slow chess games!

"Yang Manjing on the fourth table successfully defeated Ying Yalou. In another match between the 'post-10' players that also attracted a lot of attention, Uesaka Rei, who was completely suppressed, showed better patience and psychological quality in the final fight, and finally successfully reversed Nie Yunyi! She won the first battle between the two..."

"……Eh?"

Hearing this, Lao Lei Jiudan, who was just about to take a sip of tea, almost vomited all over the tea table:

“No… really?!
"Uesaka Rei defeated Nie Yunyi?!

"How long has it been since we defeated those old-timers from Japan?
"How come Xiao Nie is taking history backwards?!!!"

...

...

".Li-chan, you are awesome!

"Congratulations on your direct victory over Nie Yunyi, who is widely regarded as the best of China's post-10 generation!"

At 11:29 pm on November th, in the banquet hall of Nongshim Hotel in Busu, South Korea.

When Xiao Shangsaka, who had just arrived at the Nongshim Hotel in Busu with Rui Zhao, stepped into the banquet hall of the welcome dinner for the second stage of this year's Nongshim Cup, he immediately received the blessing from Lao Xiaoguang.

Rei Uesaka was not on the Japanese team's roster for this year's Nongshim Cup, but as this was a team competition and she was going back to Korea, she followed her team's main player to the Busu Nongshim Hotel to watch the game.

The current leader of Japan, Takuya Ichijo, also had a rosy face at this time, and it can be seen that he was very excited about this victory:

"I don't know how long it took for our rookie to defeat China's top rookie. This time you really made us proud!
"Especially that guy who loves to brag and has looked down on others before. But the day before yesterday, I saw him turn red by the end, and it was really satisfying!"

In fact, to be fair, Nie Yunyi is definitely stronger than Nie Li. But after adapting to the rhythm of the Chinese Go League A, Uesaka Rei has also made rapid progress. It is hard to say that the two are not on the same level at the moment.

In addition, Xiao Nie, the 10th dan, seemed a little careless against the weakest player in the opponent's lineup, which allowed Ko Uesaka to score first in the first official competition between this pair of "post-" stars in the world chess arena.

But no matter what, Uesaka Rei's direct victory over the most outstanding male chess player born after 10 in China and even in the world is undoubtedly extremely exciting news for the entire Japanese chess world that has been carefully nurturing this rising star of their country.

"Hehe, thanks!"

Japan's rising star smiled and responded, with excitement that could not be concealed in his shyness:

“However, this victory has really motivated me a lot - I said, Sister Rui Zhao was able to beat Lei Qi who is the same age as me, there is no reason why I can’t beat that conspicuous bag!
"Even Sister Rui Zhao was very happy when she saw me win!

"She has worked so hard to achieve such good results, and her winning streak on the fast chess table is even more astonishing, but a lot of people on the Internet keep saying things like 'individual cases', 'isolated evidence does not count', and 'an occasional good luck is not representative at all', as if female chess players are born to perform worse than male chess players! It's really infuriating!

"As a result, I beat Nie Yunyi this time, and many media reported that I won the game!

"When I become the first person in the next generation, let's see if these stinky men will still say that I am an 'exception'... Humph!"

"Uh……"

Hearing this, the expressions of the three Japanese chess players who were recognized as the best all looked a little subtle at the same time, and among them, Ueno Torachichiro, who cared the most about his reputation, even began to distort his expression.

After all, the three people who were about to challenge the fast chess Athena would most likely not become another strong argument, but their own rising star gave the three of them a warning first.

The awkward atmosphere quickly made Uesaka Rei realize that something was wrong.

No matter how proud and happy she was, she still had to consider the feelings of the three seniors who had always taken good care of her.

But just as she was trying to say something lighthearted to smooth over her slightly inappropriate words, she saw the oldest one, Shindo Hiroaki, laugh first, and patted the shoulder of Xiao Naofu, who had the biggest reaction, and said:

"Ueno, why are you so worried?

"As professional chess players, we shouldn't be scared in advance by the possibility of losing, right?" (End of this chapter)

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