He played another couple of games of Chinese chess against Lu Man, euphemistically calling it teaching a junior some theory and philosophy. Lu Man sighed to himself: since he was Lingyi’s father and his future father-in-law, he had to go along with it and stroke his ego.
Game after game, he lost, and game after game, he played...
On the television, the progress of the final unfolded exactly as he remembered: Zinedine Zidane was sent off with a red card, and it went to penalties. After Lu Man had lost who knows how many games, a whistle sounded, the final concluded, and the score was fixed at 5-3.
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