When the white piece fell on the 124th move, Osa found that his black dragon was surrounded.
Xiao Zhen was not in a hurry to slay the dragon, but instead sat in a corner: "Many years ago in Paris, your cousins and uncles were attacked, and your mother took the bullet only two centimeters away from her heart."
The chess piece "snapped" and landed at the Tianyuan position. Osa was surprised to find that the dead chess piece in the southeast corner suddenly became alive.
My father twisted the olive wood chess pieces Jordan had brought him. "That year, your mother said that if this game survived, she would help you ascend to the throne."
The sound of rain in the corridor suddenly became louder, and the young man found that the fight for the ko on the chessboard coincided perfectly with the timing of Lin Shirley's appearance.
Late at night, the study was filled with sandalwood fragrance as Xiao Zhen unfolded the yellowed letter.
Osa saw clearly that it was the last handwriting of the old butler Lao Zhang who taught him since childhood: "Children must know that those who want to wear the crown must hide their true heart under the ice armor."
The water lilies outside the window swayed in the rain. My father's fingertips traced a framed photo of a group of people in military uniforms: "Before they left, your uncles and cousins told your mother to remember that roses in the desert never bloom for passersby."
The next day, Osa followed Xiao Zhen for morning exercises at Xixi Manor. After the two finished their breakfast, Xiao Zhen brewed a cup of tea for Osa and gestured with his hand to offer him tea. "Son, the victor of power is always lonely. This has been the case in China for five thousand years, from ancient times to the present. Your goal hasn't changed, has it?"
Osa finished the tea in the teacup and said, "Dad, nothing has changed!"
"What does love mean to me? Son, you're obsessed with pure blood and only want to find someone of Chinese descent.
But this is what happens when you come from a merchant family. People who come from a political family, like Qin Mingyue before, are better at judging the situation.
Love is the greatest and most useless luxury for the powerful!" Xiao Zhen finished drinking his newly arrived tea and asked again, "Love is a small path. The path to the supreme chair is never smooth."
"Dad, I understand!" Osa said with his eyes brightened.
"You're young, so everyone goes through it. My dad was divorced by Zhenxi and Weiyi when he was 18, and their mom broke up with them for no reason. It's the same as yours. Women sometimes have different brain cells than ordinary people!" Xiao Zhen said self-deprecatingly.
After having tea with Osa that day, Xiao Zhen and his son drove the "Zhennan" out to sea for two days.
On the afternoon of the last day they returned to Jordan, Xiao Zhen took Osa on a sightseeing elevator to the rooftop of their home building, the Pudong Americas International Finance Center.
"Son, can you see farther from the rooftop of the Americas Building? Because we are standing higher!" Xiao Zhen said loudly to his third son.
"Dad, I will move forward according to the set goal!"
"Son, shout out loud, like this..." Xiao Zhen opened his arms and shouted loudly, not looking like a great scientist at all.
Osa also opened his arms and yelled, mixed in words like "Fuck you, Lin Xueli"...
Under the spotlight of the Paris Olympic Committee, Osa handed the Jordanian flag to the flag bearer Aisha.
This rising track and field star from the Sara Complex was still learning to write his own name at Skynet Engineering’s night school three months ago.
As the young athlete stood on tiptoe to adjust his ribbon, reporters were frantically trying to capture the Prince's rare gentle smile.
At the training base on the banks of the Seine, Osa squatted down to help a wheelchair fencer adjust his sword: "Adjusting the air pressure valve like this can increase the thrust speed by 0.3 seconds."
Amid the sound of metal instruments clashing, he suddenly remembered the night when he taught Lin Shirley how to disassemble a pistol.
But now, what the palm of his hand touches is the cocoon of the motherland's warriors, not the soft hand of the schemer.
On the evening of the opening ceremony, Osa stood at the athletes' tunnel. As the melody of "Desert Moonlight" sounded, a 3D holographic projection designed by his eldest brother Zhennan unfolded at the Stade de France, depicting the ancient city of Petra.
In a global live broadcast, the young prince gave a speech in fluent French: "This is the light of civilization from the Fertile Crescent."
Xiao Zhen, sitting in the VIP seat, looked at his son and seemed to see himself standing at the Nobel Prize award ceremony many years ago.
At the celebration banquet after the closing ceremony, Osa leaned on the railing of the hotel terrace.
The neon lights of the Champs-Élysées were reflected in the champagne glass. Behind him came Aisha's excited chirping: "Your Highness! My women's 100m time made it to the finals!"
The elevator door dinged open, and the familiar scent of orange blossom wafted in with the wind.
Osa held the wine glass tightly and watched the figure in the mirror reflection gradually become clearer.
The voice that once broke his heart rang out with a smile: "Your Highness, won't you treat me to a glass of victory champagne?"
"Fatima, let's go!" Osa said to the girl who had discussed with him all night with a drawing board without looking back.
"Ms. Lin, please respect yourself!" Housekeeper Fatima said after she stepped forward to block Lin Shirley from getting any closer to their honorable Prince. The royal bodyguard next to her had already put his hand behind his waist.
Lin Xueli looked at the receding figure. That figure once brought the two young people very close to each other, but now she felt it was so far away.
But things are unpredictable, and thinking of the poor performance of the famous Genting Group in Southeast Asia in various markets around the world, he sighed and left this famous hotel in a depressed mood.
Behind the pillars, a member of the Quantum Security Elite Commando team, part of the outer protective layer, reported into the bone microphone, "The VIP left without stopping!"
"Implement protection according to the original plan!" The instructions for the next action came from the headset.
Xiao Zhen was already at the Palma Cliff Manor, holding bird food and teasing the parrot, "Has Xiao San'er gone home?"
Sun Chengze hung up the satellite phone and replied, "Prince Osa is calm. Shall we begin the second phase of the hunting plan?"
"Of course, you fooled my mistress and thought I could get by so cheaply? What a joke!
Let Zhenbei and Niu Yuesheng move. Xiao Zhen said softly.
"Okay, Academician, I'll notify everyone right away!" Sun Chengze responded.
Even though he had been with the Xiao family for nearly 22 years, Sun Chengze only realized at this time that for Xiao Zhen, the dignity of each of his children could not be trampled upon. Anyone who crossed the bottom line would end up in divorce, no matter how much he loved his ex-wife Xie Chengrun.
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