If I don't have money to go to college, I can only go to slay the dragon.

"But you have to know who the other party is. What if it's a liar?" The agent sitting in the back of the nanny car was still very worried. One phone call could deceive their Spanish living national treasure into going abroad, and then the other party would play tricks again. She couldn't even imagine what the consequences would be if she tried some trick!

"Listen to the voice on the phone, the other party may be a handsome Chinese guy about the same age as me!" Mandy lay in the back row and stretched hard, with the waistcoat line of her lower abdomen exposed from under her sweater.

She straightened her body, tilted her head and gestured to the agent next to her to make a phone call, and playfully said to her mother-in-law, "My dear Maria, you can stop me from playing chess, but you can't stop me from talking. Let’s have a love affair!”

"Is there really a boy you can fall in love with? In fact, I want to stop these two things, but to be honest, you have made up your mind now, right? Mandy Gonzalez, who has made up his mind, and Who can stop it?" The agent spread his hands helplessly.

"so?"

"The plane will leave in two hours, so let's go. My Excellency, the 'Invincible Goddess', as you wish, go to China."

"Okay!" Mandy hugged her manager like a cat and rubbed him like a cat.

"But you have to promise me something." The agent tried hard to get rid of the entanglement of this annoying little goblin. "If the opponent's purpose is to play a game, then you have to win, and win beautifully. I have a hunch that this will It may be a deliberate ambush by the Chinese chess community. They were very dissatisfied with the fact that you defeated their seed player in the last super competition, so if you lose, they will definitely publicize us a lot! The impact!”

"Who do you think I am?" Mandy put her hands on the back of her head and turned her head to look at her agent. A touch of gold flashed across her eyes, and she chuckled with that familiar pride and confidence.

"No matter who the opponent is or what their purpose is, I will always win! I am Mandy Gonzalez! The uncrowned queen of chess!"

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"Checkmate."

"You lost." Lin Nian moved the promoted queen and looked up at the dull blonde girl across the coffee table and the equally dull big wave manager behind her.

"Huh?" Mandy Gonzalez held the cup of cappuccino with only a little bit of coffee left in her hand. She tilted her head in confusion and made a sound like a duck being squeezed by its neck. .

China, coastal city, second floor of coffee shop.

"you lose."

Lin Nian crossed his hands on the table and looked down at the chess board. "My pawns have been in the lead since the middle game. Once you are restrained, that is, after my subsequent layout is successful, you will have no time." Now that you have taken care of the two pawns in the hinterland, it will be too late for you to return to defense after the exchange. After being promoted to queen, it will be a devastating blow to the entire chess game. It is basically impossible for you to win again, unless you You started forcing a draw from the middle game, but it was obvious that you didn’t want to draw with me, you wanted to beat me, so you lost.”

".?"

Mandy Gonzalez's eyes were still full of doubts, and she was just doubtful. The agent behind her was already panicking. He kept turning his head and looking around frantically, as if he was worried that something might happen in this mediocrely decorated coffee shop. A group of Chinese journalists with weak guns will not suddenly appear and report wildly on the unexpected defeat of the Spanish chess queen, the rupture of the undefeated golden body, and the changing of the throne of the king!

"Is there anything else you don't understand? We can review the game and tell you where you lost." Lin Nian put the chess pieces back to their original positions, and the chess pieces that had been killed in the past twenty minutes were as if they were on a real battlefield. A restoration, those fierce murderous intentions, mutual game plots and plots have been dismantled, the solemn and dull atmosphere in the air has also dissipated, and the reappearance can make people's attention return to the aroma of coffee beans in the cafe. .

There is no doubt that the quality of the chess game just now was top-notch, and it was enough to be featured on a TV show, allowing chess fans around the world to refer to, learn, review, and even record the game. In this game of chess, Mandy Gonzalez almost exhausted herself, pouring into it the experiences she had learned in the past twenty years and the essence of the thousands of chess records she had memorized. In the end, she was still defeated by her opponent. chinese boy.

"No, it's not that I don't understand the chess game." Mandy Gonzalez said. She stared at the young and handsome Chinese boy in front of her inexplicably, who looked like her Windows system, "I don't understand you. "

"What do you mean you don't understand me?" Lin Nian stopped reviewing the game and looked up at Mandy Gonzalez, the specious and world-famous Spanish chess queen.

"You beat me. This is a fact. I won't quibble. And this is the first time I have lost to a peer in chess. In the middle game, when you castled the king's rook inexplicably, I still didn't understand your intention. Twelve moves later, when the foreshadowing of your castling was exposed, I gradually realized your layout." Mandy paused a few more times as she spoke, then looked at Lin Nian with great pleasure, "You have studied me, right? ?”

Lin Nian and his manager both paused. The latter was panicked, while the former smiled in relief.

Mandy said confidently, "Those layouts are aimed at me! I always have a feeling when I play chess with you, as if you know my moves well, and you know exactly what I will be fooled by and what traps I will subconsciously ignore. I feel that you are indeed good at chess, but not that good. You are not good at playing chess, but at playing chess with me. You know me very well! But have we met? Or did you memorize all the chess games I played and study me specifically?"

She talked a lot, pausing and thinking as she spoke, and her expression became more and more strange when she looked at Lin Nian in front of her.

"We haven't met." Lin Nian said, "but I do know you."

"Forget it. No matter what, you win." Mandy Gonzalez patted her forehead and suddenly let out a sigh of relief.

"Great! Lin Nian, this is the name you introduced yourself just now, right? You can go out and announce that you have defeated Mandy Gonzalez. If you want, I will also post an official tweet on 'X' to prove the authenticity of this matter!"

"Mandy!" The agent spoke subconsciously, but Mandy Gonzalez immediately raised her hand to signal her not to speak. The look in her eyes when she looked back at her was very calm and stubborn.

"My goal is not to defeat you. I just want to take the opportunity to play a game of chess with you and sit here and chat with you." Lin Nian said.

"Are you some kind of crazy fan of mine? There are people like you who are willing to beat their idols first in order to chase their idols!" Mandy stared at Lin Nian as if she saw an alien and sighed, "Your level is good enough to participate in international competitions, right? Why are you still hiding in such a small place? I give you an official certification. Your chess skills are enough to defeat many famous players. The next Mandy Gonzalez is you. You deserve it."

Very generous, many people thought that if Mandy Gonzalez really lost the game, she would collapse, get angry, and cry like a child or a shrew, but what they didn't expect was that when this really happened, her reaction was to enthusiastically send the person who beat her to the chess world.

Just like a child who was tired of playing with all the toys suddenly found a new and fresh thing, and couldn't wait to announce his existence to the world.

"Become the next Mandy Gonzalez?" Lin Nian chewed on the other person's words, lowered his head and suddenly smiled, "Master Mandy, have you been playing chess all these years?"

"Yes, what would I do if I didn't play chess? Go to the street to be a pickpocket?" Mandy picked up the biscuits on the plate beside the chessboard and chewed them up and said vaguely.

The agent patted her forehead and became more anxious, because she knew that Mandy had really been a pickpocket before, which was a black history that she had covered up. At that time, Mandy was still young. Every day in the park, besides playing chess with the old men, she would steal tourists' wallets and sell them. In addition to spending on food, the money from the sales was used to buy chess manuals and gamble on chess.

"Have you ever not thought about playing chess?"

"Maybe, sometimes I may not have thought about it? But at this moment, I am indeed thinking about things related to playing chess, such as where did you learn chess from, why your chess style is so similar to mine, and even better than mine. I can remember more than 10,000 historical games, and not a single step is wrong, but I think you can probably remember more than me. You should be the kind of genius among geniuses."

Mandy stared at Lin Nian across the chess game on the table, with great interest, and her eyes were about to burst into sparks when she looked at the boy, "Lin Nian, seriously, are you interested in coming to Spain to play chess with me? I will pay you a salary, or I will take you on the road to becoming a professional chess player! You are born to do this!"

"No, senior sister, you are born to do this." Lin Nian said, looking into her eyes.

He looked up at the agent who kept walking back and forth behind Mandy Gonzalez, muttering what to do, and said, "Can I be alone with Ms. Gonzalez for a while? I have something I want to talk to her about alone."