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"Shi Ning'an and Tang Chutong were having a go at the chess game. They didn't seem to be at odds with each other at all. Instead, they looked like old friends having a casual game."

"Seeing that Shi Ning'an made her moves in quite a regular pattern, Tang Chutong couldn't help smiling. "Ning'an, who's your teacher?""

"Shi Ning'an shrugged. "I don't have a teacher. However, I once accidentally came across a rare book from the previous dynasty, a rare book by Zen - Spirit Hermit. I learned this chess skill from it.""

"In her previous life, after she got married, Wei Hongmiao still cajoled her at first and accompanied her from time to time. But after Shi Qingmei entered the mansion, he thought her vulgar and didn't even want to look at her. On the contrary, she watched Wei Hongmiao and Shi Qingmei composing poems, playing the zither, playing chess and painting pictures. They looked so carefree. It was then that she began to learn these things. Without anyone to teach her, she picked up bit by bit on her own."