No one wants to be in the sun, exposing all they have.

Whether it is a success, a loser, or a mediocre person, most of them will be like Uncle Li under the sun, inadvertently hiding the past they don't want to recall.

What is the reality?

Reality is mostly silent, and reality is mostly painful.

But what about real people?

Not only are they not silent, but they are still smiling, they will hold their heads high, they will bow their heads, and they will swallow the indescribable pain for them in one gulp between talking and laughing.

……

"Do you know why young people nowadays are reluctant to learn chess?"

"Because, chess itself is painful."

Although Uncle Li only played one game of chess with Aji, Uncle Li, who has rich experience in actual combat, still saw that Aji was hiding in the conservative playing method of the chess academy faction, and his original personality was his own chess move.

He leaned back in his chair and said to himself, "Because, chess is not only about keeping scores, but also about others, and even more about yourself." ”

"Calculate yourself?" Aji pondered these four words repeatedly, full of doubts.

"Well, you just have to calculate yourself."

Uncle Li lit a cigarette and said:

"This calculation of oneself not only means to understand oneself and understand the enemy."

"This calculation of oneself is more about having the courage and wisdom to break the traditional rules."

"Breaking with tradition... Propriety? ”

"Do you know why there are fewer and fewer people practicing martial arts now?"

"That's just because, martial arts have been too disciplined since ancient times, if martial arts can break the rules, and the disciple master doesn't leave a hand, presumably martial arts will be like the 01-year-old "Plum Blossom Spring" in your hand, in the continuous efforts of future generations, it will become a book that will never go out of style."

"Chess, although it is more unruly than martial arts."

"But chess is not following the rules, creating too many rules!"

After Uncle Li said this, the appearance of a chess nerd inexplicably appeared in front of him.

He couldn't help but shake his head again.

If this woman could be unruly, maybe chess wouldn't have become a street plaything like it is now, right?

"So what does it mean to be unruly?" Aji looked at Uncle Li, who had been in his life, and couldn't help but ask his last question.

"As for what counts as unruly, it depends on whether you have a heart to move forward."

……

Uncle Li's words deeply touched Aji.

He looked at his remnants on the chessboard, and he seemed to remember that since he came to Huaxia, his chess seemed to have suddenly become a little more sophisticated.

Whether it's a competition between colleges and universities, or a competition with a chess club instructor.

His chess seems to be getting more and more sleek.

Especially the "and" word chess, he seems to be playing more and more easily.

Someone praised him, it was growth.

Some people also praised him for learning reality so quickly.

But now he feels like it's his own grave.

Because, chess is all he has, and it is also the only key to change his fate.

He should have held the key tightly to open the door on the other side, full of unknowns, instead of hanging the key around his waist.

"Can I continue to play chess with you?"

Aji was silent for a long time, and the thousands of emotions that had been brewing in his throat finally turned into this sentence.

Uncle Li looked at Aji with a sincere face, and he smiled.

"Absolutely. I'm still waiting to see your plum blossom score! ”

……

Aji walked on the road, he didn't think about the so-called financial freedom, nor did he think about the absurd truths that he always saw and heard from the mouths of major Chinese media.

He seemed to be playing chess with Uncle Li and suddenly understood that in this world, there is actually no truth that can make people feel enlightened after listening to it.

There is no language that can make people wake up from a dream.

What makes people see through life can only be a personal experience of the past.

……

Uncle Li cleaned up the chess game and walked home humming a little song.

Halfway through, he seemed to see a chess nerd who had just come out of school.

He didn't take the initiative to go up to say hello as usual, he just looked at the chess nerd and laughed again after his face became a little more angry.

It seems that the person she introduced to the chess nerd should have broken a lot of her rules.

Indeed, even he can't break the many rules of a chess nerd.

Then no one might be able to break her rules.

After all, when two people who abide by different rules get together, there will inevitably be one person who can't help but break the rules between the two people first.

This has been the case since ancient times.

Especially when two people have a common love.

The rules will change from a wall that a person sticks to to as fragile as a piece of paper that can be torn with a single stab.

……

A chess nerd is a person who rarely puts his emotions on his face.

Because she is a professional chess player, the master who taught her once said that the most important thing for a professional chess player is to hide your emotions so that the opponent will never be able to figure out your next move.

She listened to her master very much, so she kept her emotions in her heart all along.

Because of this, she is also known in the industry as the silent and most unlikable professional chess player.

Although her chess skills are not low, her appearance is also good. But people seem to favor those who are "close to the people" and "interesting", and even the media like to focus on those who are active and expressive.

Especially in the past few years, this atmosphere that I don't know how to describe has intensified, and many active athletes look at their peers who have earned a lot of money under the packaging of the media and companies, and they are also very envious, and they all want to squeeze their heads to lean on the entertainment industry.

In the past few years, many athletes who should have had better results have announced their retirement ahead of schedule because of this wave of entertainment.

A friend that the chess nerd knows is one of them, she was originally only three or four thousand a month, but since she got into the entertainment industry, participated in several online dramas, and accumulated hundreds of thousands of fans, she has never gone to the chess academy to play chess.

However, she left chess and lived better than before, not only did she buy a car and get a new house in just a few years, but she would often be recognized by fans when she went out, sending that sentence of sincere blessings and likes.

These are experiences that you can't experience at all when playing chess.

It is also a recognition that you can't get in your whole life playing chess.

These experiences and recognitions also made the friends of chess nerds look at the chess nerds who are running for life every day, and take the initiative to invite her to go to the entertainment industry with them.

However, the chess nerd finally refused.

Because she didn't know if the wave was good or bad.

And the chess nerd still knows in her heart that it may be difficult for her to integrate into that complex entertainment circle, and her temperament is only suitable for staying in the small circle of chess forever.

After all, she is a professional chess player, a professional chess player who wants to keep winning.

Therefore, she has to keep improving her chess skills as others expect.

But now she doesn't seem to have to improve her chess skills.

Because, there are fewer and fewer chess games now, and because there are not many people willing to play chess now.

In order to make a living, she had no choice but to take over the family business and re-run the family's chess club.

But how can the chess club be so easy to run?

Especially since she doesn't lie.

This also led to the fact that she did not recruit any students in the more than half a year that she ran the chess club.

This made her seem to regret it.

I regret that I should have listened to my friend and stepped into that complicated circle.

But, when she regretted it the most, Yang Zheng came.

Not only Yang Zheng, but also Wang Fugui came.

These two people with different personalities have just supported this half-dead chess club.

Although Yang Zheng seems to be as stubborn as himself and is not suitable for this era, and although Wang Fugui also seems to be unsuitable for the times, and even he is still eliminated by the times, the combination of the two of them has made this dull chess club grow shoots.

Later, Wang Qi also came.

This person who is suitable for the times does not seem to be suitable for the three of them.

But in reality, it's too difficult to find someone with the same personality.

What's more, young shoots also have to go through wind and rain before they can grow into big trees, don't they?