Chapter 353: Campus Academic System (25)

The Second High School girls' volleyball team admired her so much that Xie Yang found it difficult to "deal a killing blow."

On the premise of keeping the score within her own side's winning margin, she accompanied the other side in a friendly match with a relaxed atmosphere.

In the end, Second High School lost the third set 21:25.

Even though they lost, the Second High School girls' volleyball players were all smiles.

After it ended, they took turns bringing paper and small notebooks to ask Xie Yang for autographs; those who didn't have paper simply had Xie Yang sign their jerseys.

After getting the autographs, they even pulled her in for group photos.

"Xie Yang, with you here, your First High School will definitely be able to reach the official stage of the league this year!"

"Xie Yang, let's add each other! Once the schedule is out, send me a copy, and I'll go cheer for you guys when I'm free!"

"Xie Yang, once I get the photos developed, can I find you to sign them?"

"Xie Yang,..."

Xie Yang was kept extremely busy.

But facing those youthful, radiant, and warm smiles, she really couldn't bring herself to say no.

In the end, Teacher Liu saved her: "The car is here, it's time to go."

In a corner of the stands, a few girls sat quietly watching the match; they were the volleyball players from Wenli High School.

Having suffered the biggest defeat in their history at Xie Yang's hands yesterday, they felt very unreconciled.

Upon learning that First High School was playing Second High School this morning, they had no heart for training and quietly formed a group to watch the match, never expecting to see such a harmonious scene between the First and Second High School girls' volleyball teams.

Even though they both lost, Second High School's score was much better to look at than their own disastrous performance yesterday.

Although this score for Second High School was watered down, the outside world didn't know that; they would only say, "How badly did you guys at Wenli play? Even Second High School played better than you."

The more they thought about it, the more frustrated they became; one tall girl among them pouted: "If we had known, we should have acted cute to her yesterday too. I think she really falls for that."

The captain twitched her mouth and sighed: "The match is already over, why think about this now? For the next few games, we need to cast aside distractions and give it our all to strive for advancement to the City Tournament."

"If we meet her again in the City Tournament, can we learn from that Second High School routine?"

"... We'll see."

Xie Yang knew nothing of this; if she did, she would probably get goosebumps all over.

She certainly didn't want to be surrounded by a group of tall girls with an average height of 170cm acting cute.

"Sister Yang!"

"So cool, my sister! Speaking of which, we've known each other for so many years, I never knew you were so good at volleyball!"

"Yeah, Sister Yang, you could totally go professional!"

After leaving the gymnasium and before getting on the bus, Xie Yang was surrounded by her followers.

"Sister Yang, are you still going to school? Jiang Yinian said his grandmother made a table full of delicious food to celebrate your victory."

Xie Yang was delighted: "Jiang Nainai made us delicious food? Then what are we waiting for? Let's go!"

She told Teacher Liu that she wouldn't take the bus and would instead take a taxi with her followers to Jianglan Mingzhu.

As soon as they entered the door, they smelled the aroma of food.

Jiang Yinian had already helped Jiang Nainai set the dining table.

In the center was the victory cake he had started preparing since last night.

Surrounding it were the signature dishes made by Jiang Nainai; in addition to the Southern Fujian snacks she had made for everyone before, there was Huangjin Yanjiji, ginger duck, satay beef, Zha Cürou, oil-cooked frog, lychee pork, and the final dish was smooth and oily steamed egg with clams.

"Jiang Nainai, we're here!"

"Wow! Jiang Nainai, did you make this whole table of food yourself? Amazing!"

"Jiang Nainai, once our Southern Fujian eatery opens, these few dishes will definitely become our shop's bestsellers!"

"It's just that the cake is a bit ugly and doesn't match Jiang Nainai's craftsmanship." Cheng Zixin disdainfully glanced at the handmade cake with unevenly spread cream, "Which shop is this from? It's too careless. Avoid! Don't buy from this place next time."

Jiang Yinian: "..."

Xie Yang, however, saw at a glance that the cake didn't look like it was bought, but rather homemade; she looked at Jiang Yinian: "Did you make this yourself?"

"Yeah." Jiang Yinian coughed uncomfortably, "First attempt, it's a bit ugly."

Cheng Zixin and the others looked over in surprise upon hearing this:

"What? You made the cake yourself, buddy?"

"Not bad, brother! You've got heart!"

"If you made it yourself, then it's fine. Let me try, I might not even do as well as this."

"Not might, definitely."

"Hey, who are you looking down on!"

After laughing and joking for a while, everyone sat down to eat.

Cheng Zixin took out a bottle of wine: "Hehe, brothers, we're in luck today. I swiped a bottle of my dad's favorite from home... Don't worry, don't worry, this is to celebrate Sister Yang's victory; even if my dad finds out, he won't scold me."

Lin Zhihan also took a bottle of diamond champagne out of a bundled-up coat: "I brought some too! But I didn't swipe it, my mom sponsored it."

"My mom sponsored cash; we're going out to play this afternoon, my treat!" Xue Qian patted his chest.

Cheng Zixin rubbed his chin and said happily: "I didn't expect that with Sister Yang joining the school volleyball team, we'd be able to benefit from it too, hehe!"

Everyone thought about it, and it was true! In the past, if they swiped a bottle of wine or a pack of cigarettes from home, they would not only get a scolding if caught, but their living expenses would also be deducted.

Now, as long as they say they are going to the Buke Jidi, their parents become exceptionally generous.

"Sister Yang, keep it up! Whether we brothers can live the high life depends on you!"

"..."

Xie Yang was speechless and swept a glance at them: "Let's get this straight: celebration is celebration, but you still have to study properly this afternoon; don't just think about going out to play. Look at your current grades; even a slacker like me can't bear to watch!"

"..."

Amidst the exaggerated wails of her underlings, Xie Yang happily began to feast.

Although the Task in this plane was a bit bizarre, all in all, it was still quite good—

A peaceful modern society, a wealthy family background, open-minded parents who doted on their daughter, and a group of underlings who looked like non-conformists but were essentially silly, cute, and innocent.

Hmm, and a pair of grandparents with excellent culinary skills.

Next, she only needed to accomplish the following steps—

First, cooperate with Jiang Yinian to grind the Task; second, lead the school volleyball team to break into the National League and get a good ranking; third, use her status as a volleyball student athlete to get a sports recommendation to a 985 university.

The difficulty of the second and third items was actually not small, but for her, with her SSS-Grade physical fitness, it was still much simpler than making a high school senior academic underachiever counter-attack into a Scholar.

The plan was launched, and Xie—the physical fitness powerhouse—Yang, who had always liked quick victories, began to exert her strength...

"President Xie, I heard from President Cheng that your daughter joined the First High School volleyball team? And that she led the First High School volleyball team to win the district tournament championship?"

"Old Ming, your information is outdated. The district tournament was a week ago. President Xie's daughter has already led the First High School volleyball team to win the City Tournament championship."

"Really? Oh my, President Xie, I haven't congratulated you yet! You've raised a good daughter!"

"President Xie, when did your daughter join the First High School volleyball team? And she even made it to the Provincial Tournament? How did you raise her? It's truly enviable! Unlike that boy of mine, he's no good at studying and no good at sports; there isn't a single thing he can show off."

"Lao Xie, your daughter is actually a First High School sports student? And on the volleyball team? You never mentioned it before; you are truly low-key! If it were me and I had a daughter who played volleyball all the way to the national competition, I'd be bragging about her every single day!"

Xie Wenteng: "..."

To be honest with you all, I only just found out myself.

He thought his daughter joined the volleyball team to play around because she didn't like studying and couldn't sit still, but who would have thought she actually loved it?

If he had known his daughter had talent in this area, wouldn't he have had to train her to be a world champion?

On second thought: forget it! Which world champion doesn't end up covered in injuries after retiring? He only had this one daughter; how could he bear it!