Twenty-one Damn, he actually pretended to be there!
"Cunning boy!"
Gao Cheng, who cursed secretly in his heart again, was already very energetic at this time, as if the person sitting opposite him was a professional chess player.
In Gao Cheng's life, apart from his dedication to acting, his only hobby is Go, and his talent in the game is indeed very impressive.
It's a pity that he was already an adult when he became interested in Go and could no longer become a professional chess player. However, his ninth-dan amateur skills allowed him to dominate the amateur chess world.
Even Gao Cheng would sometimes meet with those low-level professional chess players, but it was not a complete defeat. Winning one or two games out of ten was common.
With such chess skills, Gao Cheng would naturally not take seriously a young man who graduated from the directing department.
The previous game also gave him an intuitive understanding of Shen Mu's chess prowess.
Unexpectedly, this kid pretended to be a pig and ate the tiger, put on a good show for himself, and actually brought a fatal game back to life. This ignited a raging fighting spirit in Gao Cheng's heart.
In a sense, the opponent was looking down on his sincere chess skills.
It's really abominable that we didn't show our strength earlier and had to wait until the desperate situation to strike back with force.
And Gao Cheng would never admit that he was worse than Shen Mu. He just felt that he had been caught by surprise just now.
Gao Cheng made his moves casually with a casual attitude, but was taken advantage of by Shen Mu, a guy who pretended to be a pig and eats the tiger. Gao Cheng felt that he was careless.
As long as you take it seriously, there won't be any surprises in the outcome of this game.
"My dad is getting serious!"
Gao Yuning on the side saw Gao Cheng's actions and said something serious, which made Ye Lan start to worry again.
After all, the term "amateur 9th Dan" put a lot of pressure on her.
Ye Lan asked herself that she already knew Shen Mu very well, and it was deeply ingrained in her mind that Shen Mu should not be proficient in Go. Those few moves just now were not a mistake, right?
Snap!
Gao Cheng's move sounded, making Shen Mu raise his eyebrows. There was undoubtedly a change in the opponent's chess game. This was the result of Gao Cheng's seriousness.
But palace-level chess skills are no small matter. Shen Mu and Gao Cheng are playing chess now, just like Gao Cheng and Shen Mu were playing chess just now. There is no comparability between the two.
If it weren't for the previous game that gave Gao Cheng numerous advantages, Shen Mu would have killed the opponent and forced him to give up.
Although it is a little more troublesome now, no matter how Gao Cheng changes, it is within Shen Mu's expectation, and all changes in this game are inseparable from his calculations.
Bang! Bang! Bang!
The sound of chess pieces falling on the board kept ringing, and as time went by, Shen Mu's playing speed remained the same, but Gao Cheng became slower and slower, and even drops of sweat broke out on his forehead.
"This this……"
Although Gao Yuning's chess skills are not as good as Nai's father, he can still see the situation somewhat. At this time, he doesn't know what to say.
"It seems like there are more and more white ones!"
Ye Lan is a novice at Go, but she doesn't know the rules, but she can still count the number of black and white stones.
Isn’t it said that whoever has more pieces will win?
The situation of white pieces on the chessboard has now been completely reversed by Shen Mu.
From just a few stones at the beginning, it became equal to that of Heizi, and now it has overtaken Heizi.
By this time, neither Gao Cheng nor Gao Yuning had doubts about Shen Mu's chess ability.
This guy really showed off his skills and deceived them all.
It is definitely much harder to come back from a desperate situation than to start from the beginning.
This could even be said to be a one-sided endgame, but Shen Mu turned it over completely.
Thinking about how at the beginning, he had said that he wanted to give the other party a few lives, Gao Cheng felt that his old face was a bit unbearable.
This would be even more of a slap in the face than if the other party directly asked him to give him twenty-four pieces.
"I lost!"
Gao Cheng was not as shameless as Shen Mu, and he would not persist in stalking. Seeing that there was no way to save the day, he simply gave in and looked at the young man opposite with an extremely complicated expression.
"Concession!"
At this time, Shen Mu looked very graceful. He held a white piece between his index fingers and responded to the opponent with standard etiquette in the Go world, which made Gao Cheng feel even more weird.
Obviously at the beginning, this kid's posture when holding chess was not standard, but now he was so polite and completely different, which made his mood even more complicated.
After eliminating all possibilities, there was only one answer left. Thinking of his amateur 9-dan chess skills, Gao Cheng suddenly felt that he had discovered the truth.
"Shen Mu, are you a professional chess player?"
Gao Cheng asked this question with a complicated face, making the two people next to him stunned.
Ye Lan, in particular, looked at her roommate who had been living together for a year with disbelief.
Even if Ye Lan doesn't understand Go, she still knows how rare it is to be a professional chess player.
For directing or other professions, as long as you work hard and study professional courses seriously, you will have a certain chance of passing the exam. The key is whether you work hard or not.
But even if Ye Lan is a layman, he has heard the saying "If you don't become a national player at the age of twenty, you will have no hope for life."
That refers to Go talent, which shows that this profession is very particular about talent.
All professional Go players have innate factors. Although they cannot do without acquired efforts, talent is something that no matter how hard you try, you may not be able to do anything about it.
Therefore, although Ye Lan was surprised by the question asked by Gao Cheng, she took it for granted.
It seems that my understanding of Shen Mu is still too little.
"No, I'm just a director!"
However, Shen Mu's answer made all three of them stunned for a moment.
Among them, Gao Cheng curled his lips with disbelief on his face, while Gao Yuning almost cursed. Isn't it addictive to pretend to be a pig and eat the tiger?
"Damn it, he actually tricked me!"
As for Ye Lan, after a brief shock, she suddenly became extremely excited and even a little envious.
As an agent who has been in the entertainment industry for many years, Ye Lan has seen many scripts that focus on fun. Isn't the protagonist in the drama just such a lighthearted and pretentious person?
At this moment, Shen Mu is undoubtedly like one of those cool drama heroes who say "This is just a routine operation" after finishing their pretense. Who wouldn't want to be such a person?
"With such strong chess skills, it would be a pity not to be a professional chess player!"
After receiving Shen Mu's answer, Gao Cheng looked regretful.
Because only he, an amateur 9th-dan chess player, knew what the desperate comeback in the game just now meant.
Gao Cheng is already the ceiling among amateur chess players. If you want to beat him in a normal game, you must be a professional chess player, so he has no doubts about Shen Mu's professional standards.
But precisely because Gao Cheng is extremely accomplished in chess, he clearly understands how shocking it is to be able to make a comeback in a desperate situation like that just now.
Gao Cheng had a guess in his mind, that is, Shen Mu's chess skills were probably much higher than those of low-level professional chess players, and he might even be able to compete with those top professional chess players.
In this case, Shen Mu did not shine in chess, but became a director. This is simply a waste of natural resources.
"Actually, my talent in directing is not necessarily worse than that in chess!"
Shen Mu, who had cheated to win the game, still had a sense of shame and was unwilling to talk more about the chess game, so he brought the topic back to the director.
After hearing this sentence, the Gao family finally came to their senses and remembered that this was not a simple game of chess, but that there were stakes in this game.
Thinking of this, Gao Cheng and Gao Yuning felt extremely complicated.
They never thought that they would lose this game of chess, and the result of losing would be that they would have to agree to Shen Mu's participation in the Wolf Fang List.
"Yes, Mr. Gao, let's talk about the Wolf Fang List first!"
Ye Lan's face was extremely excited. He didn't expect that there would be no way out, and there would be a bright future in another village. This was simply another kind of cool script.
I originally thought that for the sake of his son, it would be impossible for Gao Cheng to participate in the Wolf Fang List again.
The so-called chess and gambling game was just a formality to make Shen Mu leave convinced.
Who would have thought that Shen Mu would be so powerful, and suddenly the chess god would possess him and kill Gao Cheng until he voluntarily surrendered.
Although in Ye Lan's heart, she was still bitter about the fact that Shen Mu had deceived herself, she obviously couldn't fight internally at this time, so she had to decide on the role of the Wolf Fang List first.
"I'm willing to admit defeat, this play... I will take it!"
Gao Cheng was indeed a man of his word, and he did not find any other reasons at this time. Hearing the promise from his mouth, Shen Mu and Ye Lan both looked at each other and smiled.
"Little...Director Shen, just now you said that Yu Ning would play the role of Prince Liang, does it still count?"
Now that he has decided to participate in the show, Gao Cheng has also changed his name to Shen Mu. After hearing his words, Gao Yuning next to him bit his lip and said nothing.
"It depends on whether Brother Gao is willing or not!"
Shen Mu did not make a promise directly. After all, the situation today is very different from before.
He had said this before, and the ultimate goal was Gao Cheng.
But now Gao Cheng can't run away anyway, and Shen Mu doesn't really know Gao Yuning very well. As a strict and fair director, he still needs to be more cautious about some things.
"If Brother Gao is willing, you can make an appointment to try acting. I think with Brother Gao's expertise, he won't let me down, right?"
Shen Mu automatically stepped into the role of director. In fact, this is indeed a routine operation for selecting roles. You can't just show a bunch of certificates and it can really prove that you can act, right?
"Yuning, what do you mean?"
Gao Cheng did not make decisions for his son. He knew his son was like a father. He knew that what his son wanted to do most was to act in movies.
Once you act in a TV series, you will be further and further away from your dream.
"But since you have agreed to Director Shen, the Wang family may have to let it go first. If you really can't let go of your movie dream, you have to be mentally prepared."
In the end, Gao Cheng explained a few more words, and he said with a complicated face: "And... even if I lose my face and go to the Wang family, they may not give me this face!"
After talking about all the possibilities, Gao Yuning's expression finally changed.
We are all adults, so there is no need to say certain things too clearly.