Chapter 288: Good Girl

Chapter 288: Good Girl

Five minutes later, X walked out of the basement to the small pier on the side of the villa, where a few jet skis were.

X jumped onto the first one. “Come on. Let’s go to the volleyball court.”

Of course, he didn’t forget to pat on the backseat and turned to Chen Ying, not hiding his ulterior motive at all. “We’re partners now, Miss Chen. Shall we take this chance to get to know each other?”

“That won’t be necessary.” Chen Ying didn’t even spare him a glance before getting onto another jet ski and turned to the others. “Who’s with me?”

White Rabbit jumped onto her jet ski and put an arm around her waist, raising her other hand to point forward. “Let’s go.”

X and Chen Ying set out. New novel chapters are published on

Green Tea and Joker took one jet ski, while Ronnie and Scarlet Fox shared the ride. Then Vermilion Bird, Qing Ling, and Wu Dahai each took one.

That left Gao Yang and Can with the only jet ski.

Gao Yang got on and started it, turning around to look at Can.

Can paused and hurriedly followed suit, but she was rigid, scared to put her arms around his waist.

Gao Yang had noticed some time ago that Can wasn’t as hyper as usual, and was holding herself quite timidly.

She was probably the classic slow-warmer. Although she was a shameless, mischievous gremlin when she was with friends, she was timid to the point of unsociable when facing people she didn’t know.

Now that she and Gao Yang were on their own, though, what was she acting coy for?

“You’ll only have yourself to blame if you get thrown into the water this way,” Gao Yang said.

Can nervously stuttered, “Then...I’ll hold onto you, Captain?”

“Put your hands on my shoulders and hold on tight.”

“Oh oh oh, right.” Can blushed and knocked on her head. “What, what was I thinking! Haha!”

Her hands fell on his shoulders and slowly tightened. Gao Yang started the jet ski, catching up to the others.

The wind was so strong that Can couldn’t keep her eyes open. She took cover behind Gao Yang’s wide back.

“You’ve been acting strange, Can.” Gao Yang’s voice was buried in the swoosh of the wind.

“Huh? Is, is that so?”

“Is there something bothering you?” As the captain, Gao Yang paid attention to every teammate’s mental state.

“Nothing! What could I be bothered about? Haha!”

Can lied.

She was bothered by something, but it wasn’t anything worth mentioning.

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The twelve of them made it to the uninhabited island on jet skis and reached a beach that was smaller than a football field, covered in soft, milky-white sand.

At the center of the beach was a volleyball court. On one side was a line of six parasols and a few beach loungers, as well as a box of bottled water and a few colorful beach volleyballs—effectively the audience seats.

X picked up a volleyball and entered the court, raising his voice as he said, “I’ll repeat the rules. First, no Talent allowed. Second, the volleyball must remain intact. Whoever has the volleyball when it breaks loses.”

X then thought of something. “Oh, and the ball can’t fly over the ocean, or it’ll count as a loss as well.”

Gao Yang made a rough calculation. The free zones around the volleyball court are about six meters in length. Another three meters, and it was the shoreline.

This was a rule to address an awakener’s power too.

At full strength, they could break the ball or hit it too far away from the court, both of which would disturb the match.

“Any question?” X turned to them.

“I do.”

White Rabbit raised her hand. “My Talent is Jump, which allows me to jump as high as I can. To what extent would I be considered having used my Talent? I can’t just not jump, can I?”

“You’re free to jump all you want, pretty girl. No foul will be called.” X gave her a confident smile.

“I’ll hold you to that, cute guy.” White Rabbit responded with a harmless smile, but there was a fierce look in her eyes.

Gao Yang started getting ideas too. It seemed that the actual rule wasn’t against them using any Talent, but Talents outside of those granting strength or explosive power.

A few examples being Element-type Talents, or Support or Time-Space Talents that would obviously break the rules and fun of a volleyball game.

It was something that could be exploited.

X lifted the ball with one hand and twisted his wrist, making the ball rotate on the tip of his middle finger. He got into the nitty-gritty of the match.

“This is a single-elimination tournament. When six groups are reduced to three, the two winning teams with lower scores will have another match. Then the winner will play the team with the highest score.”

“As long as my team doesn’t win top place, I’ll consider it your win.”

“Every match is decided by only three plays.”

When he finished, the ball on his finger had also stopped spinning. “Any other question?”

“Who’ll decide the order of the matches?” asked Vermilion Bird.

“I do,” X said. “Pairing up the high and the low, Team Ace against Team 9, King against 10, and Queen against Jack. Since our cards are selected by random, this should be fair.”

“I’m good with it.” Vermilion Bird shrugged.

No one said anything else.

X looked up at the sky with a half smile. “Then let us begin. It seems that it’ll rain soon. We’ll finish as quickly as possible.”