🏹 Jinshi x Maomao Shorts 💖

CONCEALED PLAYER

(Maomao's P.O.V)

*smirks* I will definitely win that first-place prize. It's too good to pass up, heheheh.

I looked at my opponent and could see that he was sizing me up, then smirked as if he'd already won the game.

The game is simple.

It's the best out of 3. Players will participate in a game of Weiqi (or GO), and whoever wins will advance to the next round. 

Simple, right?

Wrong.

It wasn't your regular game of Weiqi, where, when you win 2 out of 3, you get to advance. The catch of it all was that in every round there will be 3 cups of tea placed on the side of a players' board.

One of them will be laced with poison. Just enough to make the one who drinks it forfeit the game and request an emetic agent.

The winner of the round will get to choose a cup of their choice first before letting their opponent pick one for themselves.

Which means it's a game based on pure luck.

You may have the advantage of choosing a cup first if you win the round, but there's no guarantee that the cup you'll choose will NOT be laced with poison, especially in a best-of-three game.

That's where I come in. Poison is my specialty, if there's anybody who can handle it best, it would be me.

Now, back to my still-smirking opponent, who doesn't seem to understand the situation he's putting himself in.

He may be good at this game, but he is surely not good at guessing. 

On the 1st round of my first opponent, I purposely lost against him, and you will soon know why....

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“I FORFEIT! CALL A DOCTOR!” He started to look nauseous and on the verge of collapsing.

Apparently, the man thought that the clearer the tea, the less likely it was poisoned. 

He even confidently chugged it down and made it look like it was some kind of liquor meant to be drunk as a shot.

What a conceited man, and that led to his downfall.

The faster he drinks it, the greater the effects it'll have. Good thing he made the right choice by quitting this game rather than losing his life, at least.

I continued winning for three more games after that.

The second opponent was not smart in the slightest, but he was crafty.

On the second round, he won and took a cup, but then proceeded to cheat by knocking down another cup on purpose, so I had no choice but to get the last cup that was most likely to have been laced with poison.

And it was; unfortunately, it didn't affect me that much, and I pretended that it wasn't the poisoned cup, even though I could really use an emetic agent right now.

That seemed to make him furious, as he was sure that it was the poisoned cup. He then suddenly pulled out a knife and lunged at me.

Thankfully, I dodged in time, but my sleeve was slightly grazed. That's why we had to take a slight break before I advanced to the next round.

My opponent was restrained and is going to get punishment for harming his fellow competitor. 

I was declared the winner for that round.