After Maya left, the situation on the chessboard gradually became clearer.
It didn’t take long before the winner was clear.
"Ah la." Miao Jie clapped her hands.
"Oh?" Li En made a surprised voice, "I didn't expect it to end like this."
After much calculation, in the end, it turned out to be a tie.
Black and white each occupy half of the country, and they are evenly matched.
Miao Jie stared at the chessboard and looked at it carefully: "It's a draw. Instructor Li En won't be angry, right? He couldn't beat his students."
"What's there to be angry about?" Li En said with a smile, "I just said before the game started that I only know a little bit about Go."
Miao Jie also laughed: "I also said that I only know a little bit - is this a different kind of chess match?"
"That seems to be true." At this point, Li En suddenly stopped smiling and asked, "But do you really only know a little bit?"
"The instructor is the one." Miao Jie did not answer, but asked, "Did you deliberately seek peace and compromise because I am a student?"
The black pupils and purple eyes faced each other, and at the same time there was an imperceptible edge.
Immediately, he smiled again.
"Hehehehe."
"Hahahaha."
"It's getting late, it's almost time to go back to the dormitory."
"Instructor, go back first, I need to tidy up."
"Don't forget the files over there."
"I will never forget it. The instructor really loves to worry."
Amid Miao Jie's muttering, Li En left the tea ceremony club and walked out of the school gate.
Only then did he exhale slightly and rub his cheeks vigorously to soothe his muscles that were stiff from smiling.
"What a terrifying control. I always feel that every step I take is being seen through by her. The more I think about it, the scarier it becomes... How should I showdown with her next? I always feel that if I am too proactive, I will be blackmailed by her, or I won't wait for her to come.
I show my cards?"
While walking, I fell into deep thoughts.
On the other side, Miao Jie is also thinking.
Of course she wasn't lying to Li En when she said she wanted to sort it out, but before sorting it out, she had to review the chess game first.
I saw her taking out another set of chessboard pieces and placing them next to the first set of chessboards. She held white in one hand and black in the other, working with her hands in succession.
If Rean was still here, he would definitely be able to see that the order of her moves was exactly the same as when the two of them played against each other.
In such a fierce game, she still had the energy to memorize the entire chess game - it was a complex chess game involving hundreds of moves.
When it was almost fifty moves, Miao Jie paused and sighed with some annoyance:
"I didn't take the bait at all, but was led into his rhythm... so stupid, like a clown."
At this moment, the door of the tea ceremony club was pushed open again.
Miao Jie raised her head in a panic, subconsciously trying to explain: "Instructor Li En, I——"
"Unfortunately, I am not Instructor Rean." A rich female voice was accompanied by the sound of boots hitting the ground.
"It's the general." Miao Jie breathed a sigh of relief.
"What are you talking about? Is it me, not Rean, who makes you disappointed?"
There is only one person in the entire school who can be called a general, Branch Principal Alleria Le Guin.
"No, it's better to say it was a big help." Miao Jie fell down on the tatami a little tiredly, "If it were Instructor Li En, I wouldn't even want to give him an explanation."
"What... happened between you two?" Alleria walked over curiously without taking off her boots.
Miao Jie didn't pay attention. She squinted her eyes and yawned loudly: "I asked him to be the instructor of the tea ceremony club and played a game of chess with him."
"That's it?" Alleria disagreed.
"Don't underestimate the skill of chess, General. Warriors can recognize a person through the battle of weapons, and the same can be said for playing chess. Especially this kind of Go, among all the chess games I have learned, it can best reflect a person's personality.
Style."
"Then do you see anything?"
"It's very powerful, very powerful, even more powerful than you said, General."
"What else?"
"I don't know."
"I don't know!!!" Alleria was really shocked.
She knows exactly who Miao Jie is and what abilities she has.
So far, her judgment has not been wrong, whether it is about people or things.
Now he actually says he doesn’t know! And it’s in a field that Miao Jie is extremely good at.
In other words, Li En is already superior to Miao Jie in this aspect, or at least he is evenly matched.
"I only know that he must have hidden a lot of things, and his chess skills must be more than that. He had no intention of winning from the beginning."
Miao Jie moved her body and put her head on Alleria's lap.
Only in front of Alleria, Miao Jie didn't have to hide and could vent her troubles and frustrations to her heart's content.
Alleria helped her trim her hair and continued to ask: "What about you? Didn't you hide it?"
"Yes, but my concealment... I'm afraid he has seen through it. If Instructor Li En stayed a little longer, I might not be able to help but surrender - it's really a complete defeat."
This game of chess was originally a test, to test the depth of the opponent. Rean's depth was tested by Li En, but Li En's depth was never exposed.
This is the source of Miao Jie's loss.
"Really? I don't think so."
Alleria flicked Miao Jie's forehead.
Miao Jie opened her eyes and looked at Alleria - of course, she failed because there were two mountain peaks blocking her, so she couldn't see each other when she opened her eyes.
"Why do you say that."
Alleria smiled slightly and continued:
"The temptation between you is not only inside the chessboard, but also outside the chessboard. Through me, you know that Rean has understood the truth. It was also because of his contact with me that Rean guessed that my allegiance was not to the former Duke Kane.
But there is someone else. Before the chess game, you have already started investigating each other.
To be honest, compared to Rean, your disguise is not very good. Except for a trace of his failure to adapt to the new realm at the beginning, there are basically no flaws.
And your disguise cannot be hidden from anyone who is interested. Whether it is Yigret's surname, Miao Jie's pseudonym, or the resume of studying at a women's college, it is not difficult to check. Moreover, his sister already knows you.
true identity.
In this game, you were at a disadvantage from the beginning, and it doesn’t count as a loss if you didn’t turn it into an advantage in the end. You don’t know what he wants, does he know what you want? For a duke, are you really that?
Care?"
Miao Jie's pupils shrank instantly, and soon the corners of her mouth turned up, and the arc became wider and wider, and finally she raised her head suddenly and hugged Alleria.
"Thank you. You are worthy of being a general, someone who can defeat even Instructor Li En. You are right, there is a draw inside the game, and there is no winner outside the game."
"You're welcome. To use your Go terminology, this is called the authorities who are obsessed with it, but the bystanders are clear."
Alleria ruffled Miao Jie's hair. The girl was both her loyal master and a sister-like existence.
"More important than this, what should we do next? Do we want to have a showdown with him as I said before?"
"There is no rush. If you show your cards too early, you will easily fall into passivity. Just maintain the status quo for the time being and continue to wait and see. Well... the accounting department is still a little inconvenient. I hope to observe him closer."
"I will make arrangements to transfer you to Class VII within this month. Rean has told me more than once that he wants to add more manpower - do you think this is also part of his plan?"
"It doesn't matter whether it's true or not. He didn't make it clear, which means he's not in a hurry, and neither are we. This game is just the beginning, and the real game is yet to come."
Miao Jie left Alleria's arms. At this time, she had completely returned to her usual ease.
"I invited him because I wanted something from him, and he agreed to the invitation because he also wanted something from us. Whoever loses his composure first will lose, and the price he needs to pay will be greater. It's like a love between a man and a woman
——"
"——Whoever confesses first will lose?" Alleria understood.
"That's it."
As Miao Jie spoke, she reached out to the first chessboard, picked up the last few chess pieces, and made a new move, instantly changing the situation.
The girl who is sitting upright is beaming with joy and looks in high spirits.