The weather was clear, and Beijing's winter sky was a brilliant blue.
Night Bureau, Underground C-rank Training Ground.
Because Ming Ling wanted to lose weight—scratch that—wanted to go out and have fun with everyone, they had all gone to a sports center with everyone from The Cabin yesterday.
Although Shui Lianxin meant they could not go anywhere too crowded, everyone still found a private club, the sort of place that was like a sports club.
It had to be said, as long as you had money in Beijing, you could really find any place you wanted.
And so, after The Cabin's volleyball elimination tournament, where the eight of them were divided into pairs and whoever lost the most points had to undergo physical energy training as punishment—
There had been the beautiful sight of Xia Yao and Shui Lianxin, two beauties, on the same team; Fang Ran and Meng Lang going from dragging each other down to switching teams and engaging in an ugly battle focused on knocking each other out; and so on.
Then there had been The Cabin badminton masters' contest, also in pairs with punishments attached. Ming Ling had relied on Gou Yu to win the championship and happily hugged him, while Fang Xiaoran's strength had dropped sharply when facing Shui Lianxin because of Tang Bing, leading to her narrow defeat, among many other events.
And finally, there had been The Cabin's King of Ping-Pong showdown, where Meng Lang secretly added spin beneath the table when facing Gou Yu, Tang Bing started resorting to all kinds of tricks after losing too much but was mercilessly seen through by Fang Ran, and plenty more besides.
They had started around ten in the morning, and aside from stopping for lunch and resting for a while, they had played all