Arrogant and domineering because of his good looks: His Majesty always pretends to be righteous

Xia Zhishu, seeing Xia Rongliu looking incredibly bored, laughed and said, "You can play with Yuanxiao. Isn't Yuanxiao sitting alone now? Didn't you used to beg your mother for a younger brother or sister?"

"..." Xia Rongliu is relatively calm now, but how to play? Play house? Hide and seek? Xia Zhanxin might be interested, but she is more resistant. After all, he has the soul of an adult, and playing with two people would only be more boring.

Xia Zhanxin shrank back weakly. Although he really wanted to play with Xia Rongliu, he didn't know what state Xia Rongliu was in right now, and she didn't seem to be in a good mood.

Xia Zhishu got up and took out two boxes and a piece of paper from the cabinet in the small room. "You know how to play Gomoku, right? Why don't you play Gomoku with Yuanxiao?" Xia Zhishu placed the boxes and paper next to Xia Rongliu.

There are two boxes, one containing white stones and the other containing black stones, along with a picture.

Xia Rongliu got up and spread the paper out on the small table next to her. The paper and chess pieces were for playing Go, but Xia Rongliu didn't know how to play Go, let alone Xia Zhanxin.

"Yuanxiao, come here. I'll teach you first, and then you can play with me." Xia Rongliu said to Xia Zhanxin, and Xia Zhanxin obediently went over.

Xia Rongliu began her lesson: "Black pieces are black pieces, white pieces are white pieces. White pieces go first, and you can only place one piece at a time. Whoever forms a line of five pieces first wins, understand? You can place them horizontally, vertically, or diagonally."

After explaining the rules, Xia Rongliu played a game with Xia Zhanxin, and unsurprisingly, Xia Rongliu won.

The two started playing, with Xia Rongliu using black pieces and giving white pieces to Xia Zhanxin.

They played two rounds, which didn't take long, when the door opened and Master Zhang walked in. Seeing the three of them already sitting inside, he gave an awkward laugh and said, "Hahaha, you're all here?"

"Yes, they're all here. They've been here for ages," Xia Rongliu said. This teacher always likes to arrive right on time; her father might have already finished half of his work before this teacher arrived.

She was so angry, she hated that her father couldn't be more flexible. She wanted to sleep in this morning, oh wait, she could sleep in, she only got up early to keep Xia Zhanxin company.

Master Zhang smiled awkwardly, glanced at the chessboard between Xia Rongliu and Xia Zhanxin, and said, "Oh dear, playing chess with your younger brother."

“Yes, we play Gomoku.” Xia Rongliu added that Master Zhang knew how to play Go, and that half of the communal items in this small house were bought by Master Zhang and the other half by his father.

Master Zhang bought a Go set because he liked Go. He taught Xia Zhishu how to play because Xia Zhishu didn't know how, and the two would play together in their spare time.

As a result, he didn't teach, because either he was teaching or Xia Zhishu was teaching, and their schedules just happened to be different.

Needless to say, his father would arrive early in the morning to prepare lessons, and he would arrive right on time. So at noon, after lunch, Xia Zhishu would take a nap, while Master Zhang would continue preparing lessons. After school in the afternoon, everyone would go home.

Later, she often brought meals to Xia Zhishu, and Master Zhang's attention shifted to her, saying he wanted to teach her Go, and she agreed.

However, because each teacher taught consecutive classes, the free time was quite long. And since Teacher Zhang's classes were often in the afternoon, she would wait and wait. When the students came to play with her after class, she would decline them all.

Then she went to find Master Zhang, but couldn't find him. Xia Zhishu then told him that while she was making excuses to the group of students, Master Zhang simply stopped waiting and went out to play chess with someone else.

And so it went... Up until now, this Go set has only been used to play Gomoku. The key to Master Zhang's Go skills is that he has never played it here.

He went out to play with others, and Xia Rongliu also learned Gomoku.

Master Zhang awkwardly touched his nose. "Hahaha, I think playing Gomoku is pretty good, really good."

Hahaha.

Master Zhang began the registration process, but since Master Zhang had arrived, it meant that class was about to start, and many students had already arrived at the school.

Sure enough, Master Zhang started class before he had even finished preparing a single page. Fortunately, most of the morning classes were on the Summer Solstice Book, which was why Master Zhang arrived just in time.

Xia Rongliu and Xia Zhanxin went to the school with Xia Zhishu before Master Zhang began the registration process. This was all basic stuff.

In class, Xia Rongliu kept looking out the window. In the past, she would definitely be looking at Xia Zhanxin, and would point out to Xia Zhanxin if she made a mistake. Now, Xia Rongliu was just staring blankly at the green leaves outside the window.

This scene and treatment made Xia Zhanxin feel somewhat uncomfortable, and the ink seeped through the paper, leaving a noticeable blot.

Xia Zhanxin came to her senses, feeling a little uncomfortable. She called out "Sister" a few times and poked Xia Rongliu's waist with the other end of the calligraphy brush. Xia Zhanxin probably, no, definitely didn't know that the waist is one of the most sensitive parts of a woman's body.

Xia Rongliu, who had just relaxed, stiffened and stopped moving. Xia Zhanxin poked her a few more times, and Xia Rongliu could only turn around and ask, "What do you want to do?"

"I can't..." He can, he can. Although Xia Zhanxin was happy to show off in front of Xia Rongliu, he couldn't at this moment because Xia Rongliu wasn't even looking at him.

Xia Rongliu's tone was a bit sharp: "If you don't know, you don't know. Just call me. Why are you poking me?" Doesn't she know it's itchy?

Xia Zhanxin genuinely didn't know, and he innocently said, "I did shout, I shouted several times."

"Really?" How come she didn't hear me? Was she too lost in thought?

The child at the table in front of me came over and said, "I heard everything, Sister Xia. Were you pretending not to hear? Did you two have a fight?"

"I really didn't hear it," Xia Rongliu argued. Although she didn't want to face it, it wasn't that serious. However, she wasn't a child, so she wasn't so carefree. Besides, she had been raised with strict discipline in her previous life.

The child at the table in front nodded, suddenly realizing, "That means they were arguing."

Xia Rongliu was about to say no when Xia Zhanxin spoke first, "How did you know?"

"Sister Xia only refuted the first question, not the second. For someone like Sister Xia, if she didn't refute it, then it must be true."

Xia Rongliu: ...Heh, you really know me well.

"Why are you arguing?" the child at the table in front of her continued to ask. Xia Rongliu replied impatiently, "Why do you have so many questions? Did your parents send you here just so you could eat and chat?"

The kid in front of him felt wronged. He was just curious. The candy in his mouth suddenly didn't taste sweet anymore, and he muttered, "How did Sister Xia know I was eating candy?"

Xia Rongliu chuckled. She had used these little tricks to death in her previous life. Learning to play the zither and composing poetry were essential skills for young ladies from well-to-do families. She found them boring and often slacked off.

Seeing that Xia Rongliu didn't speak, the child at the table in front turned back and then looked back at Xia Rongliu with a wronged expression.