The six jade chess pieces in my palm were all icy cold.

She had an extremely strong presence, so strong that she couldn't ignore her at all.

Lin Zhiyao could only carefully curl up her body and clench her hands tightly.

Try your best not to let any piece fall out.

Tears silently slid down her cheeks, dripping onto the brocade quilt and leaving a small, dark stain.

The hall returned to silence.

The only sound was the soft rustling of Shen Jin placing a piece when he was playing chess against himself at the board.

One step at a time, neither too fast nor too slow.

Each sound felt like a hammer blow to Lin Zhiyao's heart, making her heart beat faster and faster, more and more erratically.

She felt the fragrance inside the hall had become even stronger.

The heat not only failed to subside, but intensified.

In her dazed state, Lin Zhiyao seemed to be hallucinating due to the high fever in her body.

Before her eyes stretched an endless desert.

The sun was blazing overhead.

Lin Zhiyao quickly looked around, trying to find a cool place, but all around was yellow sand, and there was nowhere to shelter her.

In a panic.

Lin Zhiyao suddenly realized that she had something in her palm that could cool her down.

Those six chess pieces.

The chess pieces felt cool and slippery to the touch, and at this moment, they felt exceptionally...comfortable.

For some reason, she should have been happy, since she had been thrown into the desert for some unknown reason, but at this moment, this realization made Lin Zhiyao so ashamed that she almost fainted.

She closed her eyes, took a deep breath, and tried to calm the turmoil in her heart.

But when I close my eyes, in the darkness, my other senses become even clearer, and the more I try not to think about it, the clearer they become.

It was so clear that she had nowhere to escape and nowhere to hide her shame.

Lin Zhiyao opened her eyes again, and subconsciously, she clenched the chess piece in her hand even tighter. Perhaps she knew that this was the only thing that could bring coolness in the desert, or perhaps it was a subconscious reminder.

Lin Zhiyao only knew that she couldn't lose the chess pieces.

She was going to find an oasis.

Time passed little by little.

Lin Zhiyao searched arduously in the desert, not knowing how much time had passed, but feeling that every second was as long as a year.

Just then.

Lin Zhiyao suddenly discovered that there really was an oasis in front of her, with a lake of moderate size. Above the lake was a pavilion, where a handsome, ethereal figure was sitting.

The immortal was playing chess with himself.

The distance was too great for Lin Zhiyao to see the face clearly, but she instinctively felt she shouldn't get closer.

She wanted to turn around and leave.

But it was too hot in the desert. Where else could she go?

Lin Zhiyao could only move forward.

She walked towards the oasis, but as the saying goes, "looking at a mountain makes a horse run itself to death," even though the oasis and lake looked very close, Lin Zhiyao walked for a long time but still couldn't reach them.

Lin Zhiyao dared not relax in the slightest.

But the situation is getting worse and worse.

Perhaps she had a fever, or perhaps the sun overhead was just too intense, so the feeling of heat in her body grew stronger and stronger, to the point that she could barely control her body.

The Go stones in my palm seemed to be slowly warming up, no longer cold.

Instead, it carried her warmth and sweat.

Lin Zhiyao's almond-shaped eyes were blurred due to the high fever, and her fingertips gradually became weaker and weaker. Suddenly, she felt a wave of fatigue and powerlessness, and her body subconsciously relaxed.

next second.

She suddenly came to her senses and desperately tried to grab the chess piece.

But it was too late.

A chess piece slid out.

Lin Zhiyao's almond-shaped eyes widened suddenly, and she subconsciously reached out to catch it, but the chess piece had already fallen out.

The chess piece should have been stuck in the yellow sand.

But before they knew it, an incomparably luxurious brocade rug appeared before them, and chess pieces were placed on it.

It made a very soft "click".

A small damp stain appeared on the brocade quilt.

The sound of the chess piece falling was so soft that it was almost inaudible.

But in the quiet, empty desert, the sound was like thunder to Lin Zhiyao's ears.

She froze, too afraid to move.

Lin Zhiyao was in a daze.

Looking up again, she realized that she had somehow ended up in the pavilion in the middle of the oasis lake.

The immortal is right before my eyes.

Lin Zhiyao remembered.

His name is Shen Jin.

Then, Lin Zhiyao heard Shen Jin's voice.

"One."

Her clear, crisp voice seemed to contain a hint of amusement.

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