The work of the Go master

No girl can resist delicious sweets, especially when she doesn't have to pay for them herself.

That's right, this meal was treated by the vice president, as a consolation for a vacation that ended inconclusively.

"Really? Then I won't be polite... Wait, I already ate a piece yesterday. I made a rule for myself that I can only eat one piece of cake a week at most, otherwise I'll gain weight." Bai Meng settled down with great self-control.

"Really? Then I'll have this piece too, ooh!" The vice president took a bite of the white chocolate cake before finishing the Black Forest cake.

"Hey! If you eat this much cake every day, you're definitely going to gain weight. Don't you care about your figure?"

"I'm not like you. I don't have any weird romantic desires. Of course, I can eat and drink whatever I want." The vice president continued to drool over the cake, it looked absolutely delicious.

“A vicious woman…” Bai Meng bit her handkerchief, staring intently at the other woman.

"I later carefully analyzed the situation for you and found that your chances of winning against Harushima Kashima are actually very slim," the vice president calmly analyzed.

"Does that kind of petite girl really qualify to be my competitor?" Bai Meng leaned back in her chair with ease, her long legs causing the chair to bounce slightly.

The vice president took a sip of his sugary carbonated drink and said in a detached tone, "Well, if you just want to date Ke Zhiguang, then you seem to be fine. But if you want to reach the final hurdle and win the ultimate victory of marriage, you can take a break now."

"Huh? I can win at love, but not at marriage?"

"Think about what will happen next and you'll understand. After graduating from high school, you'll go on to higher education, while Koji Mitsuaki is going to become a professional Go player and is expected to achieve great things. As for Harushima Shika, he'll not only be in the same profession, but he'll also likely be a good match for her. It feels so difficult for you to win under such hellish difficulty."

Hearing this, Bai Meng looked troubled and muttered under her breath, "Isn't there a more romantic ending? Look, in comics, it's common for two people of very different social standing to end up together..."

"You know it's a comic book. The formula for comic books is to create a protagonist that readers can relate to, and then have the protagonist do things that viewers would never normally encounter. In other words, we often don't learn what to do from comic books, but rather what not to do."

"So what do we do now?!"

"What should we do? Let me think... First, prepare a small notebook."

"Mmm, and then what?"

"Write more of the names of the deer on it, remember to use red ink, and try to write them in a messy and crooked handwriting to create a scary feeling."

"This...this is the behavior of a loser! No, it's even worse than a loser!"

"Then, let's buy a little scarecrow too, and put a picture of a deer on it..."

"I get it, Xingyue, you're just here to make fun of me."

"Then let me suggest something more serious..." The vice president stopped joking and started seriously thinking of a solution.

After thinking it over, the small light bulb turned on.

"I've got an idea! You can grow your hair a little longer!"

"Oh? You mean I should grow my hair longer and start by changing my image?" Bai Meng touched her long hair, which reached her back; it wasn't short at all.

The vice president put his hand on the other person's shoulder: "Wake up. What I mean is, if you ever break up with someone in the future, you can cut your hair for fun. It can help ease your heartbreak... Don't worry, I'll grow my hair long too. If yours isn't long enough, I'll cut mine for you."

Bai Meng choked, and the iron block on her head turned into a 10T.

The door to the cake shop was pushed open with a jingle, and a new customer entered the shop.

"Shuicheng, you're way too late! Now we can skip the afternoon shopping and go straight to dinner," the vice president said.

"I'm so sorry, there's a lot of work at the store today, and my mom needs me to stay and help out." Shuicheng folded up the umbrella and hung it aside.

"You've come at just the right time. Help me talk some sense into Bai Meng."

"Is the president facing any difficulties?"

"It's not exactly confusion, it's just about love... Ouch!" The vice president was secretly pinched by Bai Meng.

The vice president immediately changed his tune: "It's just that I've recently become very interested in Ke Zhiguang and want to do 'you know' with him, but right now Qingdaolu is too powerful. How can I compete with her for Ke Zhiguang?"

Shuicheng was taken aback: "Vice President, do you...do you like Hikaru?"

"Yes, let's assume that's how it is? Do you have any good countermeasures?"

Shuicheng's surprised gaze swept over the vice president's expressionless face, then he stared at Bai Meng, who was standing to the side with an unusually serious expression, and suddenly he understood something.

"Then it's alright, Vice President. You can rest assured. Neither Harujima nor Hikaru are people who aren't interested in romance. If you can make good use of your time at school, Vice President, you'll definitely be able to win them over." Mizuki smiled brightly.

"I can understand if you say that Ke Zhiguang isn't interested in romance, but I don't quite believe that Harushima Kaoru doesn't have any feelings about it," the vice president said, recalling his few memories of Harushima Kaoru.

"Don't worry about that. At least for now, Xiao Qingdao still sees Xiao Guang more as a rival."

"You... know her that well?" the vice president asked in a strange voice.

Shuicheng touched his chin with his index finger and said thoughtfully, "I don't know why, but when I look at Xiaoqingdao, I always feel like I can understand her true thoughts at a glance. To give an inappropriate example, it's like a mother interacting with her daughter."

As she finished speaking, Shuicheng smiled to the side, and the braid draped over her shoulder moved slightly.

Bai Meng and the vice president relaxed their chins slightly, both looking up at Shui Cheng with the same admiring gaze one would give a high-level player.

Could this be the saying, "No one knows a daughter better than her mother"?

this......

Shuicheng's skill level is way too high!

Could she be the most well-hidden person among our group?

Regardless, after listening to Shui Cheng's insightful remarks, Bai Meng breathed a sigh of relief. From now on, she really needed to make good use of her status as a classmate to create opportunities.

"Let's go play the claw machine next. Let's use my best claw machine skills to end this Golden Week holiday," Bai Meng suggested.

"No problem, let me play the claw machine too, I'm really good at it lately." A voice suddenly popped out from the side.

"Okay, then I'll take you—ah! Hikaru-kun, when did you arrive!"

"I saw you all as soon as I walked in," Ke Zhiguang said, leaning against the side.

The cake shop was right across from Saito's small study. He just followed the smell of cakes to find his way here, but he didn't expect to run into someone he knew.

"Were you talking about something serious just now?" Ke Zhiguang looked around and noticed that the three people in front of him looked very tense, as if... as if they were worried that their conversation had been overheard.

"It's nothing, it's nothing! Good thing you didn't hear it. Let's go find a place with claw machines now!"

“I happen to know a place like that, it’s nearby.”

Chapter Twenty-Six: Carefully Flipping the Coin to Determine Fate

Upon arriving at the women's dormitory, I found that the claw machines inside had been refilled, indicating that the restocking efficiency was quite high.

However, there was a small note on the machine, which was basically asking claw machine experts to spare its life, and to stop after winning a few prizes.

Hmm...

Thinking about it, I really went too far yesterday. I emptied the entire computer case. If this happened in China, the boss would probably come after me with a knife.

Never mind, let's have some fun first!

"Let's use this one. I'll try it out first." Ke Zhiguang inserted a coin into it and then gripped the joystick.

A skillful maneuver, and a brand new doll fell into the hole.

"Wow, that's amazing skill! Hikaru-kun, did you play this often before?"

"I don't play much, just practice occasionally."

How can I politely imply that I learned my claw machine skills from you?

With his superb and skillful operating techniques, Ke Zhiguang successfully gave each of the three girls next to him a doll.

"You're being a little too skilled at this, aren't you?" the vice president said, his eyes twitching as he held the doll in his hand.

Why are you, a guy, so good at catching these things?

"This is... I practiced while helping my younger brother win prizes."

"So it's your younger brother who likes this?"

"That's right, that's exactly it."

Public opinion is something that harms fellow Daoists but not this poor Daoist.

Just as they were about to continue their pursuit, a sudden clap of thunder struck the sky, followed by a torrential downpour, and the outside world was instantly shrouded in white mist.

Ke Zhiguang was startled.

At that moment, a thunderclap suddenly sounded, as if saying... You're going to be punished by heaven if you keep trying to grab those dolls!

Consider that the heavens of this world have the function of divination; this is an evil belief, and those who should believe it should believe it.

Cough cough, I'm not going to fish anymore.

"Hikaru-kun, aren't you going to catch them anymore? You've already put all your coins in..."

"Let's leave it to those who come after us," Ke Zhiguang said.

The rain outside shrouded the city in a hazy mist. Pedestrians fled in the sudden downpour, while crows and birds perched under the eaves, waiting for the rain to end.

Actually, he is still in class. He only came out for a short break during class. He planned to relax and go back, but judging from the rain, he will have to stay for a long time.

This is an unavoidable situation, so Saito probably won't cause him any trouble.

The brief relaxation of the chess game, and the brief relaxation of the situation in room 336, all allowed for a moment of respite in the tranquility of the rain.

But after relaxing, the same old questions still surfaced: what to do next in life.

Should I become a true Go player?

Once you embark on this path, your relationships with other friends will inevitably become weaker and thinner, just like these three people in front of you.

Out of consideration for "seriously flipping the coin that determines fate," Ke Zhiguang decided to tell them about this matter as a reference.

"Gentlemen, I am facing a very serious problem..." he said solemnly to those around him.

He laid out his plans, saying that he would be leaving school to focus on the path of Go, but everyone shouldn't worry because the locations are very close, and they can still hang out and have fun together... and so on.

After hearing these words, the three people in front of him turned pale and stared blankly at each other like a fool.

Although they had anticipated that Ke Zhiguang might make a decision to reduce his academic workload soon, they did not expect it to happen so quickly.

Suddenly it's been moved up to tomorrow, who can stand that?

“I agree with Xiaoguang.” Shuicheng raised his hand, his expression both sad and resolute. “Although as your classmate, I really don’t want you to leave the class and school, it concerns your future. And you also said that you can come and play with us anytime… So I think that whatever choice you make, I will support you.”

“I disagree,” Bai Meng said, raising her hand to give the opposite answer.

"President, please try to see things from Hikaru's perspective and consider things from his point of view," Mizuki said.

“At any other time, I will stand by Guangjun’s side and think from his perspective, but this time I cannot back down. The reason... there is no reason, only romance and emotion. That is my answer.” Bai Meng’s voice and profile were also very resolute.