Qiao Nian wiped the sweat off of her forehead. Then, before everyone’s disappointed look, she returned back to her seat without the courage to look at anyone.
All the students in the City of Brisk also felt awkward due to this. If it weren’t for their clapping and cheering just now, maybe this wouldn’t have been embarrassing.
But they lost after making a big deal out of everything, and then nobody has won a game yet. That made things a little embarrassing.
Qiao Nian wiped the sweat off of her forehead before everyone’s disappointed gaze.
How proud class 22 was; how humiliated they felt right now.
Luo Chen stuck a lollipop into his mouth and then snuck Qiao Qing one too, “They cheered her on so much I thought she would win one. Who knew…”
Yang Lianfeng glared at him and then patted Qiao Nian’s shoulder. He comforted, “Don’t listen to him. It was great of you to even step out.”
“Exactly!” Xu Ningning chimed in, “Can’t you see who is sitting up there? They’re the top 3 players from UCC!”
“Though Niannian lost, she was up there for 20 minutes. She did far better than everyone else who challenged them.”
Then, she gave Qiao Qing a look and pointed at everyone, “Not like some people here who don’t even know Go and don’t dare to go up… As her friend, you have the guts to laugh at Niannian?”
Luo Chen cursed, “Who are you accusing? Did Qingqing ever do anything to you? Why do you target her with everything?”
“Are you blind? Do you not know how Qiao Nian lasted that 20 minutes? Every time the opponent made a move, she needed 5 to 6 minutes to think. She lost within 10 rounds. She did far worse than Su Qi, okay?”
“Stop.” Yang Lianfeng saw that nobody else was going up there to challenge the three so he tentatively asked, “Is there anyone else from our class who wants to go?”
Jiang Yi stood up, “I’ll go.”
Then, he headed up to the stage.
After the lesson from Qiao Nian, nobody dared to cheer too loud. However, everyone was still hopeful.
After Jiang Yi lost to the first guy, the amount of sighing increased.
Next, it was Qi Rui from class 8, a bunch of honor students from the Eighth High School, and some people led by Si Yu from Nanying High School.
Everyone here, without exception, lost to Zhang Liang. Nobody even got to challenge the second guy.
Everyone’s face turned uglier and uglier, more and more desperate. Though it was past 12pm, nobody went to eat.
Lu Jiahao laid down on the chair and picked at his ear. Lazily, he said, “Is there anyone who can do anything here? We are still waiting to go eat. Now you realize how laughable it is for you all to call this city the City of Go.”
“Nobody won against any one of us? It seems like we overestimated you by showing up together. Zhang Liang alone defeated you all.”
Right after he spoke, the people turned infuriated. All of them were now red in the neck from anger.
Someone breathed out, “Where’s our Go youth? Where did Ye Fan go?”
“Yeah, before, Ye Fan placed first in all the Go competitions. It’s not for sure that he will lose to those three. Where’s he?”
“I’m here, I’m here!” Just then, a handsome young man wearing a backpack rushed out of the crowd, “I don’t know what happened today. My alarm didn’t go off.”
When everyone saw Ye Fan and reacted like they saw their saving grace.
Someone grabbed onto him and shoved him forward, “We have placed all our hope on you. You have to defeat those three people and help us win one!”