The Go friendly match was broadcast live in full. Fans who had been waiting all night had their feet numb from squatting. Since they couldn't understand it anyway, they just did their homework while waiting to see the results. Then they heard a commotion in the live broadcast room.
Mr. Zhao Qi stood up, unable to hold himself together, and smiled with a mixture of regret and relief: "I lost."
If he were twenty years younger, he would definitely be able to spend a whole day and a night with her!
Inside the live broadcast room, fans were furious, and the comments were filled with question marks.
Li Changsi won? How is that possible? The opponent is a 9th-dan national champion? A national champion! Not some random person on the street!
——Oh shit, it’s definitely on the hot search list, so Li Changsi is not just playing around, he is really a great chess player!
——To be honest, Li Changsi’s Go skills were not weak to begin with. He could sit and play Go for more than ten hours at a time. Even young people couldn’t handle it, let alone an old gentleman. This line of work requires not only talent but also physical fitness.
——The hot searches have started to explode, and I can already foresee that the entertainment industry will fall flat again, hahahaha.
In the live broadcast room, Li Changsi stood up and saluted the old man, saying, "If you were ten years younger, I would have lost today. I won by being young."
Old Mr. Zhao Qi burst into laughter, then his body swayed and he almost fainted.
Bai Zhuo on the side quickly stepped forward to support him and signaled for medical staff to come up and check. The teacher was already at the end of his strength after playing this game.
Zhao Qi shook his head and said exhaustedly, "It's okay. I'm old now, and I can't help but admit defeat. Thank you for your all-out effort today. Your chess skills have improved compared to before, and your moves aren't as ferocious as before, but have you gained any insights?"
The old gentleman was puzzled. Li Changsi's chess style was always strong, but how come it changed after just one month's absence? It was like the gentle spring rain that moistened everything silently. The pattern became bigger and the strategy was deeper.
Li Changsi said calmly, "Thank you, sir."
She was imitating Lan Jingxing's chess moves. It turned out that she could do it if she calmed down. She eventually became the person he expected her to be. It was ridiculous.
"Young people are formidable, young people are formidable." The old man laughed with relief. This time he really couldn't hold on any longer and was helped to the infirmary by everyone.
Bai Zhuo looked at the media reporters who were stopped outside with a deep gaze: "Changsi, there are reporters outside. Let me take you back."
Li Changsi looked at the assistant outside and said lightly: "My assistant is here."
She couldn't explicitly refuse Bai Zhuo, so she could only deal with it vaguely and walk out of the battle room.
In the live broadcast room, all the fans were excited.
—Fuck, Bai Zhuo said he was sending Li Changsi home? Did I hear that wrong?
——No!! The whole country heard it, ow, ow, this is probably the most explosive news in the entertainment industry, Bai Zhuo and Li Changsi?
— I have to say that the fan chat for Bai Zhuo and Li Changsi's couple has already reached over 100,000 followers. If you want to see more sweet moments, go to the chat. The fans are really into it. There have been subtle hints about their relationship for a long time, so there's a lot of sweet moments.
——Cuntong.com, I'm torn. Three months ago, their two fans were fighting each other. No, it was Bai Zhuo's fans who cyberbullied Li Changsi. Now the real protagonists are together?
— I'm a different person! Is this the first time the actor has been involved in a scandal, or am I just hammering myself? Oh my god, please tell me how much trauma his fans are feeling.
——Bai Zhuo’s fans can also accept it, except for the toxic fans. Last time, the two groups of fans joined forces to tear up the official Weibo of the variety show, and Li Changsi and Bai Zhuo joined forces to escape. The fans know what happened, but they just need time to slowly accept it.
——Li Changsi is absolutely amazing! His looks are top notch, his luck in wilderness survival is amazing, his skills are off the charts, live streaming is like learning, and now he has even defeated a national 9th dan Go player. The Go world has been shaken up, and he is completely worthy of the Best Actor award!
——The previous negative information was probably bought by the rivals. Fortunately, the young lady appeared on the variety show and showed her true self.
——It’s trending, sisters!
The friendly match ended and the live broadcast room was closed. Fans all flocked to Weibo, and saw #李长思白灼# ranked first on the hot search list, followed by #李长思赢了友情赛#, and third was #Go世界震震#.
The traffic was split into two parts. One was Bai Zhuo's comments in the live broadcast room, which directly confirmed that he was pursuing Li Changsi without any hesitation. The other was Li Changsi's victory over Mr. Zhao Qi, a national 9th dan player, in a friendly match, which not only shook the domestic Go community but also attracted huge attention abroad.
Mr. Zhao is old, and his physical strength and energy cannot be compared with those of young people, and he has long been unable to participate in international competitions. However, to be able to defeat the old man, Li Changsi is at least at the level of a ninth dan. There will be an international Go competition next year, and she will be the opponent that everyone needs to pay the most attention to, because she was previously unknown and no one has studied her.
The most terrifying thing is that you have no idea how strong your opponent is.
The hot searches were going viral all night, but in the end the popularity of the top stream overwhelmed Go. The scandal between Li Changsi and Bai Zhuo lingered all night, with over 500 million comments. The real protagonists personally added some sweet content, which was a carnival for CP fans and the end of the girlfriend fans. The entertainment industry was shaken.
Outside the fighting room were media reporters. Bai Zhuo came out a step late and saw Li Changsi slipping away. Thinking that she should go back to the suite on the top floor of the hotel to rest and get her luggage, Bai Zhuo walked aside and answered Bai Mu's call.
Bai Mu: "Azhuo, what's going on with the trending searches? The family group has exploded, and my parents and uncles have all called me. My family has no objection to you entering the entertainment industry, but your marriage is no small matter, and the Bai family can't afford to have you cause a scandal."
Bai Mu has been having bad luck recently. Ever since he accidentally offended Lu Qi at the Xuan family's birthday party last time, he has felt that everything is not going well for the past half month. Afterwards, he directly cut off contact with Ying Jing, completely, and then called Song Mao, preparing to go to the mountaintop manor to apologize, but was rejected.
The other party said that Mr. Lu does not see guests in winter.
Bai Mu had also heard of this rule. It was a miracle that Lu Qi could meet guests for one month out of the four seasons. This man was a man who rarely went out, but he held great power. He had a lot of say not only domestically but also internationally, which forced people to be cautious.
Fortunately, what Song Mao meant was that Mr. Lu did not blame him, but just wanted to be more careful when looking for a female companion next time.
Now Bai Mu finally understood that Ying Jing would not be able to make any waves in the circle. It was just her bad luck that she had to offend Lu Qi when she could have offended anyone else.
It took several days for Bai Mu to recover from this incident, but then the Bai Zhuo scandal happened again. It really is not peaceful at all.
Bai Zhuo lowered his eyes: "Brother, Grandpa also agrees with this."
"What?" Bai Mu was stunned for a moment. "Even Grandpa knows about this? Didn't that little celebrity have a lot of negative news that you couldn't get rid of before?"
"It was Li Changsi who came to visit Grandpa and the teacher on the variety show set earlier. She just played a friendly game with the teacher and she beat him."
Bai Mu cursed, speechless with shock. To win against Zhao Qi in Go, he must be an international champion. Grandpa loved Go, so it was no wonder he agreed.
Grandpa agreed, so this little star with a lot of scandals was already halfway to success in entering the Bai family.
Bai Mu was internally conflicted and took a deep breath. "Are you serious? She's been plagued by negative news. Even if she's talented at Go, are you sure she won't bring shame to the Bai family if she joins them?"
In his mind, even Ying Jing was not qualified to marry into the Bai family. Ying Jing was a double-awarded actress, while Li Changsi was just an 18th-tier unknown star. They were not a good match. If he married into the Bai family in the future, who knows how many jokes he would make in the wealthy circle.
Bai Zhuo narrowed his eyes: "Brother, she is different."
His brother probably never looks at trending searches or variety shows. He's either on a business trip or something every day. This is fine. He doesn't have to change his opinion of Li Changsi because he's afraid that people who know her will be attracted to her.
"Then find some time to take it home and have a look, and we'll talk about it later."
Bai Zhuo hung up the phone and walked through the crowd to find Li Changsi, only to be told that Li Changsi had checked out of the hotel a minute ago.
Bai Zhuo walked out of the hotel and looked at Cullinan who was leaving, his face darkening.
Li Changsi took the hotel's special passage and boarded the Cullinan directly from the back door. As soon as she got in, she saw Lu Qi there. The man was sitting in the back seat reading a book. When he saw her get in, he took the small blanket covering his knees and asked gently, "Are you tired?"
After nine rounds of competition, plus the final high-intensity match lasting seven or eight hours, even the strongest person would tire. She had been able to hold on, but at the sound of his voice, all the fatigue washed over her. She reached out and hugged his arm, as if hugging a large pillow, and said hoarsely, "Tired~"
I feel tired even if I say one more word.
"Yeah." Lu Qi reached out and touched her head, letting her rest her head on his knees with her eyes closed. "Go to sleep. I'll call you when we get home."
His voice was warm and low, like a cello in winter, slow and gentle, and extremely reassuring.
Li Changsi fell asleep quickly.
Song Mao turned off the music in the car and looked at Li Changsi sleeping on her husband's lap, wanting to say something but stopping himself. Her husband had an old knee injury and was in a wheelchair in the rainy weather. Was he going to let her sleep on his head like this?
But Song Mao didn't dare make a sound. What was wrong with just resting his head on his knees? The gentleman had been waiting outside the hotel for five hours. Li Changsi and Zhao Qi's game lasted even longer than they expected, lasting until ten o'clock.
At this time, the gentleman should usually go to bed, but instead of sending Li Changsi home and then returning to the mountaintop manor, it would probably be early morning by the time he got home.
Song Mao was numb.
The car drove all the way to the apartment. Because he was afraid of waking up Li Changsi, Song Mao drove slower and more steadily than usual. When they arrived at Li Changsi's apartment, it was already 11:30.
Song Mao was about to speak, but when he saw the cold gaze of his master, he swallowed his words back and said, "Forget it, I'll wait." The sadness of migrant workers.
"What time is it?" Li Changsi suddenly woke up with an unknown amount of sleep. She looked at the dazzling street lights and realized that she had arrived at the downstairs of the apartment building. She had been pressing down on Lu Qi's knees, and he was also resting with his eyes closed. His face was handsome and as bright as a jade tree.
Seeing her wake up, Lu Qi opened his eyes and said in a low voice, "It should be just after midnight."
Li Changsi looked at the dark circles under his eyes and said, "It's too late to go back. Sleep here with me tonight."
Lu Qi's eyes darkened and he came to his senses.
Song Mao's expression was already tense. "Mr. lives here? Is there any security in this apartment?" "No, she hasn't been home for nine days. Is there anyone cleaning the apartment?" "Mr. is a mysophobe."
"Auntie comes to clean regularly." Li Changsi yawned. She was still very sleepy, but with Lu Qi by her side, she slept soundly.
"Okay." Lu Qi nodded and moved her legs that were numb from her pillow. She thought about asking Song Mao to bring some daily necessities and clothes over tomorrow, as they might be useful in the future.
Because it was early in the morning, Li Changsi returned to the apartment, took a shower and went to sleep. In a daze, the man came up to the bed, his body full of the fragrance after the shower, like a small stove.
She reached out and hugged him, touched his lean waist and abdominal muscles through his silk robe, and fell asleep contentedly.
That night, although he was extremely tired, Li Changsi still fell into a dream of the past, this time the dream was about that night in April.
She was seventeen years old and had already grown into a young and beautiful princess of the Great Zhou Dynasty, full of ambition.
Two years ago, her father wanted to arrange a marriage for her. The person he chose was the legitimate son of the Minister of the Central Secretariat, the top scholar of the current dynasty and a talented young man in the Great Zhou Dynasty. She had met that young man, and he was as handsome as a green bamboo and a good jade, a child of a noble family with good character.
When the news came out, her seventh sister and twelfth sister cried and threw a tantrum, smashing everything in the house. She sneered twice when she heard it.
The Minister of the Central Secretariat held great power. She had traveled with that young man twice, watching the lotus blossom for ten miles, rowing a pleasure boat to pick lotus flowers deep in the lotus field. She leaned against the side of the boat, her bare hands waving the clear water of the lake, and said lazily, "My dear, do you know what I have long thought of?"
"What is your wish, Your Highness?"
"One, I wish that the Great Zhou will perish within a hundred years. Two, I wish that women can also become kings. Three, I wish that all lovers in the world can meet each other year after year." She looked at the shocked expression of the man across from her and smiled lazily, "How many of Changsi's wishes do you think can be fulfilled?"
She exposed her ambition unscrupulously at that time, but who would believe it?
A little princess who had crawled out of the corpses of the cold palace and had no foundation at all had the ambition to ascend the throne, but the young man from the Zhongshuling family bowed his head and said respectfully: "Your Highness's wishes will all be fulfilled."
She got engaged to the young man from the Zhongshu Ling family, and then she was busy for half a year. Until April of the new year, when most of the power in the court was in her hands, she made time to go to Guoyun Mountain.
At this time, the marriage was delayed again and again.
In April, peach and plum blossoms are in full bloom in the mountains. She brought two jars of twelve-year-old daughter's red wine. She had written a letter to Guoyun Mountain last year to discuss marriage. Lan Jingxing only replied with two words: very good.
Lan Jingxing was still sitting under the pear tree in the yard, holding his son in his left hand and talking with his right hand. The pear blossoms on the tree were like snow, falling down and landing on his body and sleeves, like a banished immortal who had strayed into the mortal world.
When she grew up, she gradually understood that although Lan Jingxing had a handsome face, he was actually a pure-hearted Taoist priest. He wanted to break through the boundaries of mortals, so he held power and could deduce the situation of the world, but he had no ambition at all and was even cold-hearted.
"My father said the seventh day of the twelfth lunar month is an auspicious day for me to marry the young man from the Minister of the Central Secretariat." She opened a jar of daughter's red wine, the aroma of which was enchanting. "Today I came to drink with you, sir."
After she turned twelve, she stopped going up Mount Guoyun every month. She and Lan Yi Jingxing only met a few times a year, though they still went up the mountain on important occasions. It had been over half a year since they last met.
Lan Jingxing didn't drink a drop of alcohol, but he was in a very good mood that day. He nodded gently, "The young man from the Zhongshu Ling family is a gentleman as gentle as jade, and he is a good match for us."
The corners of her lips curled up into a chilly smile. "I think it's a good idea, too. Could you please tell me, sir, whether our marriage will be happy and have a happy ending?"
She poured two glasses of wine and drank them without hesitation. Lan Jingxing burned incense and cast a fortune. After three pauses, he said, "The fortune is very auspicious. Your Highness, there is no need to worry."
Nonsense! She also knows the art of deduction. Even if she is not proficient, she knows her own affairs without deduction.
She had never thought about getting married. Why should a woman's fate be in the hands of her father and brother? Why should the life of an imperial princess be worthless and become a vassal of a man like an object? She wanted to be in power, to tear off the rotten veil of the royal family and destroy the thousand-year-old dream of the Li Dynasty. She wanted the decadent Zhou Dynasty to perish in her hands and create a new dynasty.
Lan Jingxing asked her about her recent situation and daily life, and then they looked at each other in silence, drinking quietly. Perhaps it was because they hadn't seen each other for a long time, and there was a sense of strangeness and unfamiliarity. Perhaps it was because she was engaged and about to get married.
After drinking two jars of aged daughter's red wine, she dug out two jars of strong liquor that she had secretly buried under a pear tree and drank them until she was drunk.
"The wind is picking up. It's going to rain heavily tonight." Lan Jingxing didn't have a good alcohol tolerance. After downing a jar of strong liquor, his handsome face flushed. He looked at the dark clouds pressing down on the horizon and said hoarsely, "It's hard to walk on a rainy night. Changsi, you should still sleep in the cubicle where you were as a child."
"Drink the last jar of wine." She held the jar tightly.
Dark clouds covered the sky, and soon heavy rain came pouring down, knocking against the window frames. She was drunk, and so was Lan Jingxing. Lan Jingxing carried her to rest, but she refused to go. She didn't know who started the shoving, and they both fell to the ground. Outside the window, the wind was windy and the rain was heavy, and pear blossoms were blown to the ground. She woke up once during the night, and she woke up on the bed. She remembered that she had been on the ground before.
She couldn't bear it any longer, sobbing and whimpering as she pushed him away, but it was no use. Instead, he attacked her even more fiercely, and she finally fell into a deep sleep, her throat dry and dry. That night of decadence and indulgence, which she had initially thought was sugar, gradually transformed into a knife, cutting her bloody wounds.
That night in April was also the beginning of her breakup with Lan Jingxing.
After she woke up the next day, Lan Jingxing cancelled her engagement with the Minister of the Central Secretariat on the grounds of incompatibility, and ordered her not to go to Guoyun Mountain for half a year.
When they met again in the golden autumn of October, she raised her eyes and asked him if he wanted to kill her.
Li Changsi suddenly woke up, her whole body soaked in cold sweat. She didn't know whether she had dreamed of such a decadent and indulgent night, or dreamed of a breakup in her dream. She looked at the night light beside the bed, and it took her a long time to realize that she was in Jingcheng's apartment.
Those things in her previous life seemed to have happened thousands of years ago. She was young then and never gave in. Even though she liked him, she could not learn to act like her seventh and twelfth sisters and act like a spoiled child or shed tears to pretend to be weak. If she had put away her thorns at that time, perhaps she and Lan Jingxing would not have reached that point later.
"Changsi, did you have a nightmare?" The man was a light sleeper and woke up almost as soon as she moved. He reached out and touched the cold sweat on her forehead, and said in a low, hoarse voice, "Don't be afraid."
"Yeah." There was some moisture in the corners of her eyes. She buried her head in Lu Qi's arms, smelling the soothing scent on him, rubbing his chest, and wiping away the moisture on her eyelashes.
Lu Qi only felt a chill on his chest. His handsome face was gloomy in the darkness. He exerted force with his palms and trapped the person in his arms.
Li Changsi felt his strength, and dreaming of that night again, her blood boiling. She pushed open his nightgown on his chest and rubbed her pink lips against his.
Feeling the incredibly soft touch, Lu Qi's body tensed up, and he groaned in his throat. He gently pushed her away a little, but still maintained the confined posture.
"Tomorrow you're going to participate in the fourth episode of the variety show." The man's voice was unusually hoarse. His eyes, invisible in the darkness, were filled with a surging dark light.
The timing was wrong. She had to go record a variety show after dawn, otherwise it would be really terrible.
Li Changsi also sensed the danger. The coldness in the dream was warmed by the man's lean muscles, and his whole body felt hot.
Why do people have to work? It would be so much better to just be a salted fish!
She sighed with infinite regret: "Lu Qi, when I come back from filming the variety show, let's live together."
"Aren't we already living together?" Lu Qi smiled softly, his chest shaking slightly with laughter. Next time, let's go live in the mountaintop manor. It's quiet there and no one will disturb us.
It seems to be true. Li Changsi curled her lips and reached out to push him away with disdain: "It's hot, why bother to train muscles for no reason!"
Lu Qi was silent. Maybe you will know the benefits of having muscles in the future.
Li Changsi did not dream again in the second half of the night and slept until dawn.
The next day was the fourth episode of the wilderness survival variety show. During these nine days, she was locked in the hotel playing Go and handed her mobile phone to her assistant, completely missing all the messages.
The guest group chat was abuzz with information. Li Changsi didn't bother to scroll through it, only looking at the news from the past day. One was that she and Bai Zhuo were having an affair. It had been trending all night and remained at the top of the list, with a big "Explosion" written behind it. Everyone in the guest group was tagging her and Bai Zhuo.
After all, she just brought a stunningly handsome gigolo to her birthday party, and right after that she started having an affair with the movie star. Ahem, what a scumbag.
Tian Ye: @Li Changsi, did you break up?
Rong Shu: @Li Changsi, the scandal is known to everyone, doesn’t your boyfriend mind?
Mr. Lu doesn't look like someone who doesn't mind.
Lin Lushen: @Li Changsi, is your brother-in-law jealous?
She lay in Lu Qi's arms, typing lazily: We didn't break up, we're not jealous, the rumors are fake!
She thought that Lu Qi didn't even look at the trending searches and didn't know about this at all.
Bai Zhuo remained silent, and Li Changsi ignored him. Li Changsi clarified online that the rumors were false, and then everyone talked about the fourth season of the variety show, Snow Mountain Survival.
This time, the entire seven-day and seven-night program crew has been replaced, and the director and emergency personnel have been comprehensively strengthened. Guests are allowed to bring bodyguards and assistants, and the chosen location is also a mountainous tourist destination. Basically, they climb snow-capped mountains, survive in the wild, and interact with netizens live.
On the afternoon flight, Li Changsi resigned himself to his fate and got up to pack his luggage to record the fourth episode of the variety show.
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