When Li Ma poked her head out of the kitchen, Yi Yi was already gone.

Yi ran out of the hall, then suddenly stopped.

So Mumu hasn't gone to the company yet.

Mu Nanxun and the old man were sitting in the courtyard, playing chess in a relaxed manner.

Meanwhile, Xiao Fang was sparring with a man in black on the lawn.

This scene is actually quite harmonious.

Mu Nanxun's slender fingers twirled a white chess piece, a faint smile playing on his lips. Judging from his composed demeanor, he seemed confident of victory.

After the old man placed his black piece, Mu Nanxun slowly placed his white piece, making a crisp sound, and looked at the old man.

"I won again~ Can I go now?"

To everyone's surprise, the old man, as if cheating, scrambled all the chess pieces on the board and replied defiantly,

"No, no, let's do it again! I was careless just now. If my black pieces hadn't moved like that, I would have won for sure!"

"Old man, no matter how you play your black pieces, you're doomed to lose! Do you understand the ambush from all sides?"

Mu Nanxun bluntly pointed out the flaws in the old man's chess game.

This old man is getting more and more childish as he gets older. These past few days he's been saying he joined some kind of Go club, learned a few moves, and now he insists on playing Go with me first thing in the morning.

Although Mu Nanxun had never formally studied chess, he had at least seen how it works, so as long as he mastered the rules, it was a simple matter.

The old man insisted on playing chess with him; wasn't he just asking for humiliation?! They had initially agreed on a best-of-three format, and if he won, he could go to work. Except for the first game, which he lost to the old man because he wasn't familiar with the rules, he won the next two games easily.

However, after the three games were over, the old man regretted it and insisted on a "best of five" game, refusing to let him leave.

Having no other choice, Mu Nanxun reluctantly played two more games with him, and each won once after that, giving Mu Nanxun a three-win streak.

"I don't care, I'm not convinced, let's go again! Best of seven, you can only leave if you win, otherwise, don't even think about leaving this yard!"

"Old man, I'm not trying to discourage you, but with your chess skills, you can't even beat an elementary school student. Don't humiliate yourself in front of me. No matter how many games you play, you'll never beat me."

Having his chess skills thoroughly criticized by Mu Nanxun, the old man immediately lost face! He jumped up from his stool, slammed one foot heavily on the chessboard, and roared indignantly,

"You dare trample on my dignity! I was careless just now and didn't show my true skill! No way, I said best of seven and it has to be best of seven, otherwise, you're not leaving this yard today!"

Judging from the old man's angry expression, he must be really upset!

After a long silence, Mu Nanxun finally gave in and nodded with a stern face.

"Okay, best of seven, this is the last time! If you cheat again, I'm moving out."

"Alright, alright, I won't let you win this round. Come on."

"..."

Yi Yi was torn between going over to say hello, but worried that it would spoil the old man's enjoyment of playing chess and upset him.

At this moment, Mu Nanxun had already seen her. After placing a white chess piece, he beckoned to Yi Yi, "Come here."

Yi Yi walked over with her head down, not daring to look at the old man's gaze. When she reached Mu Nanxun, she complained softly, "Mu Mu, why didn't you wake me up when you got up? I slept until now."