Silly Bride Chapter 180
Chapter 180
“Hah.” Seeing how calm Winnie appeared, Yndamented with disdain, “You seem pretty
confident!”“Is that so?” Winnie was indeed confident.In fact, she was even more confident when she
said that.From Ynda’s point of view, however, she felt like Winnie was taunting her.Her eyes
narrowed. “Then do you know overconfidence is actually just arrogance? “Winnie was still smiling
nonchntly. “Arrogance doesn’t exist in my dictionary.”That pissed Ynda off so much that she
laughed in disbelief. “You’re so full of yourself!”“Am I?” Winnie cocked an eyebrow. “Isn’t it more
appropriate to say I’m full of myself if I challenge you in the field in which you excel at?”“Preposterous!
You wouldn’t dare challenge me like that.” An expression of pride was visible on Ynda’s face. “If this
news gets out, people will say I’m bullying you!”Winnie’s tone remained calm. “Since you want to have
apetition with me in an open manner, I don’t think you’ll bully me. So, tell me what it’s going to be.
I’m good with anything.”Ynda furrowed her eyebrows. This woman sure is arrogant!“To make things
fair, we’ll let a third party decide what we shouldpete on!” she suggested.“Sure! I can agree with
that.” Winnie promptly turned to Sebastian. “How about we let Old Mr. Xander decide that?”The old
man nced at his own granddaughter and then at Winnie.In reality, he didn’t really want to use that
method to decide if he should take Winnie in as a disciple. However, he understood that youngsters
were fiercelypetitive, and since things had turned out that way, he decided to go along with it.“I
know Ynda pretty well, so I think I’ll be subconsciously biased if I do that. How about this? I’ll let my
monkey randomly decide what thepetition will be about to prevent any perceived
unfairness.”“Sounds good to me.” Winnie nodded. This sounds interesting and challenging.Ynda
nodded in agreement, too.“Very well.” Sebastian exined, “I’ll let the monkey pick three random items
from the building. Then, we’lle up with topics based on those items. Thepetition will conclude
when someone achieves three wins. If a topic is unfamiliar to either of you, I’ll give you two some time
to prepare. You’ll learn andpete on the spot. Any disagreements?”“No!” the women eximed in
unison.Hearing that, Sebastian nodded, turned around, and called for the monkey.Monkeys were
intelligent animals with developed brains. After the years of training the Xander family gave the
monkey, it was able to understand human speech, more or less.Sebastian only needed to tell the
monkey what to do a single time before it went into the house and grabbed something.Soon, it revealed
the first item, which was two chess pieces.The pieces were respectively the white and ck king
pieces. Before thepetition even started, the rivalry between the women was already quite
intense.Sebastian took the pieces and turned to the women. “So, the first round will be chess. Do you
two have any objections to that?”“Nope!” Ynda spoke first as she gazed at Winnie. “If you’re afraid of
embarrassing yourself, there’s still time for you to quit.”The old man frowned. In the end, it wasn’t a
truly fairpetition because anything the monkey took out of the house would be something he was
interested in.And if he liked something, he would teach his descendants at least a little bit of it. He
knew Ynda’s chess skills were pretty good, but he wasn’t sure if Winnie knew how to y.There
wasn’t a hint of fear in Winnie’s voice when she answered, “I’m fine with it, too! It’s rare for me to
lose.”“Hah!” Ynda couldn’t help but roll her eyes. “Your head is so far up your butt that it went all the
back to its original position!”On the other hand, Winnie smiled silently.Without dy, Sebastian asked
the monkey to grab a second item, which was a traditional painting.He announced, “For the second
round, you two willpete in a traditional drawing contest. Are you two okay with that?”Winnie didn’t
even blink when she responded, “Yes.”However, Ynda paused for a second before asking, “What’s
the theme?”“We’ll decideter on.” That question prompted Sebastian to think about it. “Maybe the
competition will test your improv skills.”“Sure, I’m good with that. What will the third round be
about?”Soon, the monkey decided on the topic for the third round ofpetition.It was holding a bow
and even performed a shooting motion while aiming in Josiah’s direction.He red at the monkey.
“When are you going to return my briefcase, huh?”Ignoring the human, the monkey shot an arrow
toward him.Thankfully, the arrow didn’t have an arrowhead. Otherwise, Josiah’s other leg would’ve
been rendered useless.Sebastian didn’t expect the monkey to treat his guests that rudely. Thus, after
he reprimanded it, he chased it away.Since Winnie didn’t want to waste too much time, she directly
asked Ynda, “When do you n to start thepetition?”After studying her, Ynda uttered coldly,
“I’ll give you three days at most.”“Three days?” Winnie frowned.“What, you think the time is too short?
You need more to prepare?” Ynda smiled.The edges of Winnie’s lips curved upward. “I think you’re
underestimating your opponent, Ms. Xander. How about we just do it today? Although, you’ll have to
wait until after my husband’s acupuncture session is over. I don’t want ourpetition to affect his
treatment. I hope you’ll understand.”“Are you sure?” Ynda’s eyebrows furrowed. It had been a long
time since she drew a traditional painting, so she needed some time to practice.“I’m very sure. Is that a
problem for you, Ms. Xander?”That came off as an insult to Ynda, so she subconsciously tightened
her fists and gritted her teeth. “Not at all.”After that, Sebastian started teaching Winnie how to prepare
the medicine.To avoid humiliating herself, Ynda sneaked back to her room to prepare.During that
period, not only did the old man teach Winnie how to prepare medicine, but he also taught her many
foundational lessons about the field.She was able to understand everything thoroughly. Not only that,
she only needed him to tell her everything once. In addition, she inferred even more things as a result
of her newfound knowledge.Sebastian didn’t hesitate to shower her with praise.Even Ynda couldn’t
help but admit Winnie was an excellent learner.As she stared at Winnie, aplicated feeling surfaced
in her heart. Why couldn’t she show up earlier? If she did, she would’ve be Grandpa’s favorite
student. My brother and I wouldn’t have ended up the way we are today.A few minutes passed, and
Xavier’s acupuncture session finally came to an end.Winnie followed Sebastian inside and saw Xavier
lying on the bed, unmoving.Initially, she thought something bad had happened to him.When she got
closer and heard his snores, she realized he was just asleep. No wonder he didn’t say anything when I
was talking about thepetition with Ynda earlier.Seeing how he was sleeping peacefully, Winnie
let out a sigh of relief. “He didn’t sleep well for the past few days. Even with sedatives, he could only
sleep for about an hour, and it was never peaceful. I didn’t expect the effects of acupuncture to be that
effective. He looks tranquil. There really is a big difference between traditional medicine and western
medicine. It seems like the side effects of traditional medicine are not as severe as western medicine. If
traditional medicine can be widely used in clinical practice in the future, it’ll benefit all of the humankind
greatly.” When she said that, she was speaking from the bottom of her heart.Sebastian could sense
that she was being sincere.It further solidified his desire to take Winnie in as a disciple. Even if she
loses to my granddaughter during thepetition, I’ll still take her in. I know Winnie didn’t say it willy-
nilly. I’m not an old man cut off from the rest of society. When I first saw her and heard her name, she
seemed familiar to me because I had seen her on the news before. However, I only cared about her
watch back then, so I didn’t pay attention to her. When I had some free time afterward, I investigated
her and found out she was the famous Ms. Gand, who was loved on the inte. Theizens
referred to her as a principal because she had helped build hundreds of primary schools in poor
communities. That number only increased as time passed.Additionally, she also set up a few
foundations for disabled children and adults. If no one had intentionally talked about her nationality, her
good deeds might’ve never been exposed. It’s so rare to see a noble youngster like her anywhere
who’s willing to contribute so much to charity without asking for anything in return. So, if she really does
want to learn traditional medicine, be it to save her husband or to help out even more patients in the
future, I’m willing to teach her everything I know without asking for anything in return.When his train of
thought ended there, he was touched.Sebastian carefully removed the needles from Xavier’s head and
spoke to Winnie. “He may still need to sleep for a few hours. Just let him rest here for now.”“Okay!”
Winnie was fine with it since it meant she could focus on her match with Ynda.The first match was
chess.Ynda was confident she could win because she had been ying it with her brother since
they were children.Sebastian loved chess, so the siblings started learning from him when they were
seven or eight years old.Her brother, Harrison Xander, was much more talented at chess than her.
When he was sixteen, he won the national championship for chess.While her chess skills weren’t as
great, it was far from bad.So, she decided to let Winnie have the white pieces.In chess, those with
white pieces went first.Winnie went along with it and moved the bishop first. It was a standard opening
move.Seeing that, Ynda thought her opponent was an amateur and was confident she would win
easily.It was as though Winnie had no clue about the bigger picture as she put her pieces randomly on
the board. Soon, many of her pieces were taken out.As Ynda observed her opponent’s awful skills,
she sneered, “This round will only take at most five minutes to conclude.”Winnie lifted her rook and
chatted calmly, “I like to cut to the chase when ites to real life. However, I prefer to start out weak
before making aeback when I’m ying chess.”“Aeback?” Disdain was present on Ynda’s
face. “You already lost! Take this!”“Is that so?” Winnie intentionally lost a pawn so her rook could take
out Ynda’s bishop. “Check!”“You’re too careless!” That prompted Ynda to move her queen to
block the rook’s path.To her surprise, Winnie moved another pawn and cornered the king.
“Check.”“Impossible!”“Try, if you dare.”Ynda moved her king. In response, Winnie cornered her once
more.Without any other choice, Ynda moved her queen again, but she was still checkmated by
Winnie’s pawn.“This is impossible! You shouldn’t have won with your crappy moves!” Ynda couldn’t
understand how Winnie had made such aeback, even though thetter’s previous moves
appeared uncoordinated.As she stared at her dead king, she finally realized she had underestimated
Winnie. “This doesn’t count! Again!”“You lost this round, Ynda.” Sebastian immediately dered the
loser when he saw his granddaughter attempting to go against her word.Realizing that she almost
broke the rules, Ynda took in a deep breath and said, “There are two rounds left. I’ll definitely beat
you.”“Then let’s begin the second round. We’ll go through all three rounds in one go,” Winnie
said.“Wait!” The old man stopped her. “Your style is very odd but familiar. Before we start the second
round, can we y a round of chess together first?”“Sure, Old Mr. Xander.”“You want to y chess with
her?” Ynda was shocked.Her brother used to love chess and adventure photography. However, he
was forced to be a doctor in the end.Two years ago, when Harrison and Sebastian had their most
heated argument, the old man destroyed his grandson’s chess championship trophy. After that,
Harrison left for Arcvas Desert in a fit of rage.Since then, Sebastian hadn’t yed chess.That was why
Ynda was surprised when her grandfather said he wanted to y chess. Is Winnie’s chess skills that
incredible? It’s unexpected, but I don’t think it’s that amazing. Or is it because I don’t have an outsider’s
view, so I can’t see what’s so special about it?Winnie and Sebastian swiftly set up another round of
chess.Both were experts taking their time shing against each other.Despite that, Winnie’s style was
still strange. In the first half of the match, both sides were equally matched.However, in the second half,
the old man clearly couldn’t defend himself against her fierce attacks.“You won!” Sebastian admitted
defeat when he was checkmated. “I have a question if you don’t mind.”“Ask away,” Winnie replied.“Who
did you learn chess from?”“A man called Harry. Back then, I unintentionally encountered him when I
was bored. After ying a few rounds with him, I became his disciple. I used many techniques that he
taught me in the match earlier. Is Harry your old friend?”“Not exactly.” The old man suddenly appeared
gloomy. “He’s my grandson, Harrison Xander. Harrison. Harry. They’re the same person. I taught him
all I knew about chess, which he used to win the national championship. However, I wanted him to
focus his attention on studying medicine, so he stopped ying chess as much as he used to after
that. I heard there was a new champion in the national onlinepetition after him. Someone called
‘Great General.’ Is that person you?”Winnie opened her mouth. She couldn’t believe it was such a
coincidence.Her watch belonged to Harrison, and he was also her chess teacher, yet she had never
met him before.Fate truly worked in strange ways.“I stopped using that title after I lost contact with
Harry. It happened suddenly two years ago. It turns out he went to Alendor. I tried to investigate where
he had gone before. He should have a house somewhere in Avenport. However, I was too busy with
other matters back then, so I didn’t follow up my investigation.”“So you’re a champion in a chess
competition, too?” Ynda sneered. “How dare you act like you’re a newbie when ying with me
earlier! Were you messing with me?”“I already told you that I like the thrill of aeback when I’m
ying chess, Ms. Xander. I wasn’t acting as someone else or messing with you. Chess is a game all
about strategy and intelligence. Make a wrong move, and you lose. Are you being a sore loser?”“A sore
loser? Hah, just you wait and see. I’ll win two rounds against you. Let me tell you something about
myself. Before I started studying medicine, I was once the champion of a traditional drawing
competition for teenagers. What about you? If you have any achievements in that field, show them to
me.”“I don’t. I just have an interest in drawing as well as the craft and mindset of the activity. I’ve never
been to a drawingpetition before. Besides, my specialty is oil painting, not traditional
painting.”When Ynda heard that, she smirked. “Then you’re going to lose!”Winnie simply smiled and
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