364: Chapter 364 The only thing she couldn't calculate was him.

A monster with such heaven-defying talent, coupled with the blind support of Master Zhuge Jinyu, was enough to make any aristocratic family soar into the sky and completely take off, provided they could recruit this child.

Several quick-witted family heads could not wait to step forward. They prepared to propose marriage to the Prime Minister, intending to offer their most beautiful legitimate daughters to Su Chen.

However, before they could even say a word, high upon the platform, Zhuge Jinyu suddenly waved her vermilion bird feather fan. Her cold eyes, sharp as knives, swept across those aristocratic family heads with their varied intentions.

Amidst the fearful kowtowing of ten thousand officials, she extended her slender, jade-like hand and pulled over Su Chen, who had just stepped off the competition field. She forcefully pressed him down onto the exclusive seat beside her that symbolized the prime ministerial power of the Great Qian Immortal Dynasty.

Zhuge Jinyu stood tall and graceful, her white robes dancing wildly in the wind. Her voice echoed throughout the entire imperial city.

"This Prime Minister's array core is the lifeline of this Great Qian."

"Today, it has gained one more master."

"Su Chen is someone I, Zhuge Jinyu, protect."

"Whoever dares to harbor any thoughts regarding him will be an enemy of the billions upon billions of fortune of my Great Qian."

"Don't even talk about marriage; if anyone even dares to take another look at him, This Prime Minister will have their entire family executed, down to the ninth degree!"

As soon as this resounding and overbearing declaration was made, everyone present understood completely at that moment.

Damn it.

If you want to raise a child husband, just raise one. Why invent all this nonsense about a closed-door disciple and some bullshit master? Are we just pawns in your little romantic games? With this possessive attitude, how could you possibly tolerate even the slightest grain of sand?

Looking at the two sitting side by side on the high platform, like a pair of divine lovers, a hair-raising thought could not help but surface in everyone's minds.

If it came to the day when Su Chen reached the age of eighteen and became an adult, perhaps this Female Prime Minister would not only hand over the Great Qian's empire to him, but she would also, without hesitation, give her own flawless body to him as well.

In the days that followed, bolstered by the resounding might of suppressing the nine great Transformation God prodigies single-handedly at the sacrificial ceremony, and with the protective Female Prime Minister backing him up, Su Chen completely became an invincible figure who could walk sideways in the Great Qian Immortal Dynasty.

No matter where he went, those formerly arrogant aristocratic disciples would detour like they were avoiding venomous snakes and scorpions the moment they saw his figure from afar. No one dared to provoke him ever again.

The nine great aristocratic disciples led by Long Tian'ao would have their faces turn green the instant they saw Su Chen, as if they had eaten a pile of excrement.

Without the clamor of others, the bored Su Chen would not give these guys any face. He cast his gaze once again toward the nine-story Cangshu Pavilion behind the Great Qian Imperial Academy. Thus, the most despairing nightmare in the Great Qian Imperial Academy descended once again.

Taking advantage of this free time, Su Chen, like a swarm of locusts passing through, "studied" the ancient books in the Cangshu Pavilion—the ones that the array masters had painstakingly nurtured back to life with spiritual text—from beginning to end, thoroughly!

"Ahhh—my 'Great Wilderness Array Canon'! I just saved up a year's worth of contribution points yesterday, how did it turn into a book without words as soon as I exchanged for it today?!"

"Damn that Su Chen! That bastard is just fleecing our Great Qian Imperial Academy to death! Is he not going to let anyone live?!"

"Don't exchange for books for a while... I heard this guy is only staying in Great Qian for a year, let's just endure it."

Listening to the wails rising and falling within the Imperial Academy, sounding like pigs being slaughtered, the culprit, Su Chen, was just lying leisurely on a grand master chair in the Prime Minister's back garden, hiding his merit and fame.

In the blink of an eye, the one-year deadline had come to an end. This year of time had been very short for both Su Chen and Zhuge Jinyu. Of course, the unlucky ones who were prepared to borrow books from the Cangshu Pavilion were excluded. It was also time to bid farewell to Zhuge Jinyu and head to the place where the next Phoenix Girl, the successor to the Sword Qi Great Wall Sword Chief, Ye Jingjun, was located.

The night before the departure, Zhuge Jinyu did not make a big fuss like she did when she welcomed him into the city, with nine phoenix carriages and hundreds of officials seeing him off. In the back courtyard of the Prime Minister's residence, everything was silent. On the bluestone table under the tree, a game of Go that had not yet been finished was laid out.

Yes. On the night before the departure, the two just sat in the courtyard. As usual. Just playing a game of chess.

Zhuge Jinyu's white hair was draped casually over her shoulders. She was just like every ordinary night in the past year, sitting opposite Su Chen. Her plain hand held the black pieces.

She seemed somewhat unusual tonight. This heaven-favored daughter, famous throughout the world for her infallible calculations, seemed finally to stop letting Su Chen have his way and instead exerted her full strength.

Even though Su Chen had been studying in the Great Qian for a year, Zhuge Jinyu could still accurately capture every flaw of Su Chen on the chessboard. Step by step, she pressed him, forcing Su Chen to retreat steadily.

However, at the very last moment when Su Chen's white pieces were about to fall into a desperate situation and lose the whole game, Zhuge Jinyu quietly and nonchalantly brushed her wide cloud sleeves across the table, silently hiding one of her own key black pieces, allowing him to find a chance of survival in a desperate situation and turn defeat into victory.

But Zhuge Jinyu's behavior was simply too obvious.

"Master, you've gone easy on me again."

Su Chen held a white piece between his long fingers, his clear eyes staring at the stunning woman in front of him, mercilessly exposing her little trick.

"There was originally a black piece here; you hid it in your sleeve."

Being exposed on the spot, Zhuge Jinyu did not show the slightest panic. She put down the chess piece in her hand and gently waved that vermilion bird feather fan.

The night breeze brushed past, and a few crimson petals drifted down, dotting her snow-white hair. It set off her cold and stunning face, adding a touch of poignant beauty. She raised her fox-like eyes. As her gaze drifted.

"Chen'er."

Zhuge Jinyu smiled gently.

"The operation of all things in this world, the changing of dynasties, and even the trajectories of the stars above the nine heavens, I, Zhuge Jinyu, can calculate them clearly and infallibly."

She extended her slender, jade-like hand and gently covered the back of Su Chen's hand.

"But regarding matters about you, I have never been able to calculate them accurately."

"Later... I thought about it."

"It must be that my heart, the moment it touches you, becomes completely chaotic."

"All reason, all deductions, are completely invalid."

"Letting you win..."

"Is the only variable in my life that I cannot calculate."

Upon hearing this, Su Chen was momentarily stunned. At this time, he only possessed the mind of an adult, but had lost all memories of his past life. No matter what, he could not comprehend what Zhuge Jinyu meant by these words. What she said she could not calculate was not just this game of chess.