Severed Longing [Go]

Professional Go player × algorithm engineer

National Go player Yu Xingzhi has won so many second-place finishes at international tournaments that people have come to describe her with the same phrase: a domestic-match goddess.

Some say she's unlucky. Others are waiting for her to hit rock bottom.

But only Yu Xingzhi knows that her mindset is the problem.

So she returns to the city where she lived as a child. She studies Go records, plays, does problems, and attends classes, just as she did before becoming a national player.

It's also here that she learns a long-buried story.

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The day Su Zeyun gave up Go, it rained heavily.

Yu Xingzhi stubbornly chased him to the entrance of the Go academy and asked him why.

The rain soaked both his body and his heart. He couldn't bring himself to speak, couldn't answer.

Many years later, Yu Xingzhi finds herself cursed with the same title of "genius."

After circling through the years, they meet again.

He stays by her side, and she heals him.

Though parted, the longing lingers; where the thread is cut, a strand remains.

[Severed Connection] is a Go tactic: though it is called a separation, its true aim is connection.

What cannot be severed is not only the bond between lovers, but also the heroine's love for Go.

[Read Before You Start]

1. Modern alternate universe, no real-life inspiration.

2. 1v1, both are each other's only partner.

3. It should be a healing, sweet little story. I hope you enjoy it.

Upcoming novel: Snow-Slaying Chaos. Please bookmark it. Here's the blurb:

Jiang Zaiyue is bitten on the neck by a zombie in the apocalypse. The next moment, she transmigrates into the body of her namesake, a feared general of the Yong Dynasty.

The general was carrying a secret letter to rescue her commander, but the enemy intercepts her along the way.

She is poisoned and has little time left.

Jiang Zaiyue accepts her new circumstances in zero seconds.

As the saying goes, if you take someone's money, you must solve their problems. Now that she has transmigrated into General Jiang's body, naturally she must fulfill the general's wish.

So she doesn't retreat when the enemy threatens and tempts her, nor when she is struck by several arrows.

Snow sweeps across the sky. One by one, the people beside her fall, but she doesn't retreat.

Driven to the edge of a cliff, she is buried at its foot when an avalanche sends her tumbling down with the snow.

Dying like this isn't so bad. At least she won't turn into a zombie and harm her own people.

She closes her eyes.

But she doesn't die. Someone saves her.

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At thirteen, Yu Wenchan left Mingyun Manor. After wandering the world for three years, he settled in a mountain village.

When the fighting grew severe, he carried his medicine chest from place to place, treating people for free.

On one of his trips, he found someone near death in the woods on his way home.

He carried her home.

She was badly injured and might not survive.

But he carefully cleaned her wounds, drew out the poison, applied medicine, set her broken bones, and stitched up the skin cut by a blade.

He nursed her back to health, just as he once raised medicinal herbs in a valley.

The difference was that raising her required watering her with blood.

She could wield a sword again.

She said she still had something to finish.

Then she left.

When she went, his heart felt empty.

Only then did he realize that when he had stitched the scar on her chest, he might have sewn his own heart into it too.

From then on, she controlled the beating of his heart.

How can anyone live when their heart has left them?

Upcoming novel: Water Travels Blue. Please bookmark it. Here's the blurb:

Water Youlan's mother dies, and the burden of looking after her half-brother falls on her.

But her brother is already an adult and has gotten into university. It seems he doesn't need her to look after him, just to pay his tuition and occasionally give him somewhere to stay during breaks.

So why is her brother looking at her more and more strangely?

Message: Pursue what you love, chase your ideals, and fear nothing on the road ahead.