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Chen Xiaojun led his team out of the preparation room. At the end of the passage, Bo Saixi and Yan Nanfei stood side by side beside the doorway.
Seeing Chen Xiaojun and Xiao Yi emerge at the head of the group, the two raised their hands and exchanged light high fives with them.
"Good luck." Bo Saixi's voice was calm. As her gaze settled on Chen Xiaojun and Xiao Yi walking shoulder to shoulder, a barely perceptible complexity flickered deep in her eyes. Perhaps there was a trace of envy in it, too subtle to discern, gone in an instant.
Yes, she had already met with Chen Xiaojun and Xiao Yi, starting on that evening two days earlier-June twentieth, Chen Xiaojun's fourteenth birthday.
Under Elder Shi's supervision, everything had been prepared at the Chen residence that day.
The residence had been quite lively that night. Team members and coaches from several academies in Fasinuo Province, including everyone from the Five Mountains Team staying with the Chen Clan, had come to celebrate his birthday.
Amid the cheerful chatter and laughter, they had made a memory worth cherishing.
Of course, everyone had consciously kept the revelry within bounds. They still had a match the following day, after all.
What stood out was how unusually relaxed and happy Xiao Yi had seemed that night. Sitting beside Bo Saixi, she had been full of conversation.
Later, she and Bo Saixi had found a quieter corner to sit in and talked softly for a long time. No one else knew what they had discussed.
And beginning with yesterday's matches, Bo Saixi had quietly taken on another role-she had begun participating in Chen Xiaojun and the others' tactical discussions as an adviser to the Chang'an Team, while also learning