At the hour of Xu, after finishing their meal, the two slowly walked into the bedroom.
"Your Highness, it's still early. How about we play a game of chess?" Su Jingyao asked softly with a smile on her face and a slight raise of the corner of her mouth.
Jun Zechen nodded slightly. He seldom played chess nowadays. Ever since he won against his father a year ago, he believed that no one in the palace could be his opponent.
However, it is still early today, and playing chess is a good way to pass the time.
The two of them sat down gently on either side of the soft couch. Miaoyun carefully brought out her master's beloved Hetian jade Go set and gently placed it on the table in the middle.
Su Jingyao smiled and waved her hand, and Miaoyun and the other palace maids in the hall tiptoed out of the hall.
At this moment, only Su Jingyao and Jun Zechen were left in the bedroom.
Jun Zechen stretched out his hand and gently picked up a black piece, with a hint of surprise in his eyes. He was a person obsessed with chess, so he could naturally tell at a glance that the black piece was the best Hetian black jade.
He slowly picked up another white piece, and it was indeed top-grade mutton-fat white jade.
"Where did you get this Go?" Jun Zechen raised his head, stared at Su Jingyao, and asked softly.
"My elder brother knew that I loved Go, so he gave it to me when I was fifteen and had my coming-of-age ceremony."
"These black pieces are made of 181 pieces of Hetian black jade, and the white pieces are made of 180 pieces of mutton-fat white jade. Each one is delicate and smooth to the touch, without any flaws. I have always regarded them as treasures." Su Jingyao smiled slightly, her eyes full of joy.
"Your brother really loves you. Hetian jade is very rare in the Jun Kingdom. To polish such a flawless chess piece, I'm afraid it would take dozens of kilograms of Hetian jade. I also have a Hetian jade Go set in my private vault, but it's not as good as yours."
As Jun Zechen spoke, he unconsciously rubbed the chess piece in his hand.
"If Your Highness likes it, I would like to give this chess piece to Your Highness." Su Jingyao said softly.
"This is your brother's birthday gift to you. How could I take away someone else's good thing? I just said it casually."
"Let's start playing chess."
Su Jingyao nodded slightly.
"I like white pieces, Your Highness, how about playing black?"
Su Jingyao's eyes moved, she looked at Jun Zechen with a smile and asked softly.
"Okay." Jun Zechen smiled slightly and calmly took out the black piece from the chess box.
Both of them were ready. The black piece fell first, and Su Jingyao's white piece followed immediately.
At first, both of them made moves quite gently, especially Jun Zechen.
After all, his usual chess style tends to be offensive, but he was worried that Su Jingyao's chess skills might be mediocre. If he ended the game hastily in a quarter of an hour, how could he spend his free time well?
So at the beginning of the game, Jun Zechen made his moves casually and gently. However, as more and more pieces were placed on the board, he became more serious, his expression became more solemn, and his style of play gradually turned to fierce attack.
Su Jingyao keenly noticed his change.
Because of playing chess, she relaxed completely, and her voice unconsciously took on a hint of coquettishness.
"Your Highness plays 'Flying Chess' with such exquisite skill that I am almost unable to avoid him."
Su Jingyao pouted, and a hint of dissatisfaction flashed in her beautiful eyes.
In Go, "flying chess" means attacking, but just now it was clearly a clever back-and-forth exchange of moves.
"I never expected your chess skills to be so superb."
Jun Zechen stared at the chessboard. Su Jingyao's white pieces were showing an attitude of tolerance. If he didn't take the initiative to attack, the white pieces would unknowingly destroy every inch of his territory.
"Then I have no choice but to jump now, humph." Su Jingyao said coquettishly, and as she spoke, she cleverly jumped the white piece out of the encirclement of the black pieces, which means "escaping".
Jun Zechen is always taciturn when playing chess, but whenever Su Jingyao looks embarrassed because of his attack, she will unconsciously become coquettish and act like a spoiled child.
"Your Highness, my concubine's son Baizi is about to have no home."
Seeing that Heizi was about to launch another attack, Su Jingyao couldn't help but try to distract Jun Zechen by acting coquettishly.
Jun Zechen felt a tingling sensation in his heart as he listened to her coquettish complaints, and the intensity of his attack unconsciously weakened.
The two continued to play chess back and forth. Although Su Jingyao showed signs of anger and joy on the surface, she was staring at the chessboard, with clear thoughts and decisive moves.
Gradually, the smile on Su Jingyao's lips became deeper and deeper, and she looked at her own layout with satisfaction.
She is going to win.
His eyes were full of the cunning of a little fox.
Jun Zechen frowned slightly, lowered his head and stared at the black pieces on the chessboard, then looked up at the woman with a sweet smile.
The woman tilted her head playfully and smiled at him even more seductively.
Jun Zechen sighed softly: "She is quite a clever woman."
He never expected that he would lose.
Jun Zechen stared at the chessboard again, and became more and more impressed with the young woman's chess skills.
Each of her moves is as smooth as flowing water, her style is elegant and agile, her chess skills are exquisite and profound, her chess paths are crisscrossed, and her chess skills are superb.
Jun Zechen couldn't help but reveal a hint of astonishment in his eyes when he looked at her.
Su Jingyao, on the other hand, became modest. "I am not a conventional chess player. If I hadn't been interrupting Your Highness, I wouldn't have been able to win this game. Your Highness's chess skills are far inferior to mine."
"Except for the one I lost to my father, I have never lost to anyone else. I underestimated my opponent today. I will definitely win next time."
Jun Zechen was actually aroused by this little girl's competitive spirit.
"Yes, as long as Your Highness doesn't mind me talking too much while I'm playing chess."
Jun Zechen actually didn't like noisy conversations while playing chess, but today the young lady's words were humorous and her voice was melodious and pleasant, so he didn't feel disgusted at all, and even felt quite comfortable during the game.
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