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­ Gu Hai

At the Capital City, in the Han Hai Mansion

The land in the capital city was too costly, even if it was the suburbs few people could afford it, and in the suburbs of this capital city, several hundred acres of land was occupied by a mansion, few people would think in this seemingly exorbitant city, a mansion would occupy such a large piece of land. Not to mention the scenery here was quite beautiful. If someone wanted to take a vacation, this place fit the description.

But this villa was rarely known to the outsiders, and it was not even reported by anyone before. It was somewhat unusually different to others.

“Hidden wealthy and powerful people!” In this world, there is always some people who, for a variety of reasons, don’t want to appear in public, and what’s more amazing is that their wealth is not known by the public.

Han Hai villa was owned by Gu Hai, and today was his thirtieth birthday, but Gu Hai did not like to celebrate his birthday like other rich people or any other kind of events. This was also the characteristic of the ‘hidden wealthy and powerful people’——————- they are very low key!

Wearing an azure gown, Gu Hai was quietly sitting in the library, and placed in front him was one unfinished Weiqi board, but this board wasn’t a standard Weiqi board with 19 checkered lines, this board had checkered lines, and although it’s just a difference of one line but this Weiqi had infinite number of variations.

Gu Hai was holding a black piece, but still didn’t place it on the board, he was contemplating about how to finish this endgame.

This endgame didn’t belong to this era, in fact, in this era no one was more capable than Gu Hai in standard Weiqi with nineteen checkered lines.

Gu Hai had challenged world-cla.s.s top players but till now he had not been defeated, not even once. He even sought some hidden masters and national players, but he was still able to win against them, so for now it could be said that in this world there was no one who was above him in Weiqi.

Gu Hai also once stood at the peak in the world of Weiqi. He haply obtained an unfinished chess board and due this he was completely excited. This chess board was the previous chess board with 20 horizontal and vertical lines, and it was an ancient endgame which up till now it had several hundreds or maybe thousands of years of history.

When he saw this Weiqi board he was also secretly scared, as the layout above this board was clever and breathtaking. The main intricacy about this Weiqi board was that it was not in anyway ordinary. If it was standard Weiqi board with 19 horizontal and vertical lines, then naturally Gu Hai would not fear it, but this Weiqi board had an extra line. This meant that there were countless more possibilities, so temporarily, Gu Hai had no way of solving it.

But Gu Hai was certain that whoever created this Weiqi board, his Weiqi skills is above his, however Gu Hai’s Weiqi skills were naturally not bad either, as he had been studying this Weiqi board for several months, and now he had finally understood the general direction, but a trace of inspiration was needed to finish it.

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The door was quietly opened, and one elder dressed in traditional clothes came in. He was the steward of this Han Hai Villa, and he had worked here for nearly thirty years. He had been this villa steward from Gu Hai’s parents time, and he had also watched over Gu Hai while he was growing up!

The old steward didn’t understood other people’s skills, but he knew that Gu Hai’s level of skills could be called as absolutely legendary.

From the time Gu Hai was young, he was fond of Weiqi, to point that it became an obsession. Moreover, Gu Hai was extremely talented in Weiqi, as his comprehension skills of Weiqi were extremely terrifying, because after Gu Hai leaves after defeating all the Weiqi masters, if not for him not liking to be high-profiled, he wouldn’t know how many Weiqi awards Gu Hai would have collected!

But due to Gu Hai’s parents both dying in an accident, another talent of Gu Hai was revealed, and this was the talent in business. At that time Gu Hai was only twenty years old, and his parents left him not only this villa, but also left their business organisation which was in a great deal of mess.

But Gu Hai was like a natural born businessman, full of business sense, as well as with adequate and decisive means, and through a series of measures, he not only was successful in solving the mess left by his parents, but also made his personal a.s.sets grow over by many times.

In only three years, Gu Hai already made it such that the business could keep running on its own without him personally managing it, and then Gu Hai could hide in the background. Now that 10 years have pa.s.sed, Gu Hai himself wasn’t clear how much wealth he had acc.u.mulated.