Let's start over, Your Majesty.

Chapter 69 The Showdown with the Princess
I had prepared my apology to Xia, but I didn't have a chance to approach her all morning.

It's lunchtime, time for lunch break.

"Come on, Caesar, let's go to the cafeteria for lunch," Leon said with a smile.

"No need, you can go ahead. I have a bento box prepared for me at home." Caesar took out the bento box that Yumilia had prepared.

"Is it a love-filled bento box? Can I have some?" Leon leaned closer expectantly.

Caesar held the lunchbox and watched him warily.

"Never mind if it doesn't work out," Leon muttered, then turned to Tess with a fawning smile.

"Young Miss, could you give me some more money?"

"Go cool off somewhere else." Tess waved him away dismissively and went out with a few other girls.

"Don't say that, just give me some, even leftovers are fine, I'm really strapped for cash lately." Leon followed.

Caesar carried his lunchbox outside the teaching building and found a quiet bench by the woods. Although the cafeteria offered a service to heat up lunchboxes, it was completely unnecessary for him.

He placed his hands on the lunchbox, gathered a little fire element magic, and soon opened the lunchbox, releasing a burst of hot steam and aroma.

Today's meal consists of three pork chop sandwiches, minced meat and mashed potatoes, baked eggs with mushrooms, and a cold food lunchbox with vegetable salad and fruit for dessert.

A small smiley face was drawn on the sandwich with ketchup.

Yumilia has always paid great attention to a balanced diet and had been thinking of ways to prepare lunches for him.

The taste is also very good.

As Caesar ate his lunch, he was still thinking about how to communicate with Sia.

Then, glancing over, I noticed a familiar figure sitting on a bench behind some bushes not far away.

That was clearly Xia's back view; she was sitting there alone, a lunchbox on her lap, eating by herself.

"Sia? Why is she eating alone too?" Caesar asked in surprise.

But this was indeed an opportunity. Caesar quickly finished his lunch, packed up his lunchbox, and after a moment's thought, walked towards her.

As Sia took a bite of the soft meat sauce pie, she noticed someone had come up beside her.

Looking up, she saw Caesar's handsome, dark-haired face, smiling at her.

Good afternoon, Xia Ya. Are you having lunch alone too?

Sia's azure eyes immediately revealed a look of disgust.

"What are you doing here?"

They displayed sufficient hostility from the very beginning.

"Just passing by, um, and saying hello to you," Caesar said.

Xia closed her eyes and turned her head away.

"Can you move away from me? I can't eat anything with you here."

“Alright.” Caesar sighed helplessly, “Actually, I didn’t just pass by; I came here specifically to find you.”

Sia frowned as she looked at him: "You followed me?"

“I just wanted to apologize to you,” Caesar said.

“Apologize,” Sia sneered. “Yesterday you were insisting that you acted out of good intentions when you attacked me. Why are you changing your tune today?”

"Yesterday I did act impulsively and attacked you without understanding the situation. It was my fault, and apologizing is my responsibility."

Caesar tried to make his expression more genuine:
"So, I'm sorry, Xia, my recklessness yesterday caused you a bad influence."

Sia stared at him for a moment, then said coldly, "Your apology is like completing a task."

Caesar's lips twitched, but he still managed a forced smile.

"Then tell me, what should we do?"

"You humiliated me, you humiliated me in front of everyone, do you understand what that means?" Sia said coldly.

Caesar was silent for a moment, then said, "So, you want to pounce on me in public and humiliate me?" "Who wants to pounce on you!" Sia retorted angrily.
She raised her hand and pointed directly at Caesar.

"I don't think your apology was sincere enough, so I will take back my dignity myself. I will defeat you in front of everyone and make you submit to me willingly, kneeling before me!"

Caesar, gazing at her spirited and determined appearance, paused for a moment, then tentatively asked:

"You want to fight me?"

"Put away your barbaric ideas; there are more civilized ways to fight back," Sia said.

"What is it?"

"Chess."

"?"

For some reason, after accepting Sia's challenge, Caesar inexplicably attracted the attention of a large group of people. Now he was sitting at a desk in the classroom, with a chessboard in front of him, Sia across from him with a cold expression, and a noisy crowd around him, filling an entire class.

"What's going on? Why is he sitting with Sia?"

"Shh, can't you see? They're having a chess match."

"Really? Doesn't he know that Sia is a sixth-dan chess player and won the Kingdom Junior Chess Championship?"

Surprised voices continued around him, and Caesar, still sitting there, was somewhat unable to understand Sia's thought process.

He apologized, but Xia felt it wasn't sincere enough. So, to get back at him, she challenged him to a chess match, hoping to make him accept his defeat and apologize to her in return.
Sigh, she truly lives up to her arrogant princess reputation.
"Can you do it?" Xia asked, patting the chessboard in front of her.

"A little bit, occasionally."

Xia gave a cold laugh, "Then don't say I'm bullying you. Since you're a newbie, I'll give you three pieces. You can choose for yourself."

"Then, how about the Marshal?" Caesar pointed to the chess piece in the center of the chessboard and smiled.

Sia's expression darkened.
“Just kidding,” Caesar shrugged.

"No need, I still have some confidence in myself, I'll just start normally."

"I gave you a chance."

Xia snorted and began to place her chess pieces.

Caesar touched the chess pieces and sighed inwardly.

Although this game looks like Western chess, it actually uses the rules of Chinese chess.

Of all the choices, she had to pick chess.

But Xia certainly couldn't have imagined that the person sitting opposite her was the one who set the rules for chess today.

Yes, chess in this world was invented by Rean.

In the past, during a moment of boredom, he occasionally discovered a square stone with a crack in the middle. He immediately thought of a world-class game from his previous life, chess, and thus recreated it in this world, using the same rules as in his previous life.

Although it is still called Chinese chess and the rules are the same, the types of pieces have changed.

For example, cannons became heavy crossbows, horses became knights, and chariots became dragoons.

However, the general rules remain unchanged.

He taught this set of rules to everyone around him. When they were bored, they would take out that big stone slab and play a few rounds with their buddies. It was a great way to kill time and strengthen relationships.

After his resurrection, he discovered that chess had been passed down to this day, with no changes to the rules, and had even become a major chess competition in the world.

At this moment, Xia suggested that they compete with each other in this.
Even if she is a genius of the sect, with a cultivation body that is one in ten thousand, she still has no choice but to sit opposite the Ancestor Hongjun.

Forget it, I'll just play along with her. She's just trying to get revenge on me.

"Then it's settled. If you lose the match, you'll have to kneel down and apologize to me in public. Of course, I won't bully you. If I lose..." Xia paused for a moment, then said:
"You can do whatever you want with me."

Caesar paused for a moment, then smiled faintly and said, "Girls shouldn't use such agreements as stakes."

"Mind your own business! Who do you think you are to me!" Xia said irritably.

(End of this chapter)