"Truth or dare... Isn't that the kind of game that's only fun with a big group?"
"The three of us are enough. It's a little small, but we can still play." Xia Qingran looked mysterious.
"Besides, I got my hands on something good. We can use it as a reward for the game."
Seeing her act so secretive piqued Zhou Fan's interest.
"All right, how do we play?"
"No rush. It's roasting here. Let's go somewhere else first. We can play at your villa."
The three of them relocated to the villa.
"I'll give you a quick rundown of the rules first."
"Here's a deck of playing cards. Before each round, we each draw a card. Whoever has the highest card is the king, and whoever has the lowest gets punished. The loser has to answer a truth question. If they don't want to answer, they can choose a dare instead. The king decides what they have to do."
Those were the basic rules.
"Then I've added a tiny extra rule, just for you two." As she spoke, Xia Qingran took out a white glass bottle containing a dozen or so emerald-green pieces shaped and sized like grains of rice.
"This is skyblue stone. It can speed up your cultivation. One piece doubles your cultivation speed for an hour."
"If either of you ends up being punished and successfully answers the king's truth question or completes their dare, you'll get a piece of skyblue stone as a reward."
Lin Qianqian's eyes brightened slightly.
If they were just playing a game, she really wouldn't have been interested.
But now that there were rewards involved, that was a different story.
Zhou Fan said, "Why don't you just give us some if you have this stuff? Why bother playing a game? Isn't that