Chapter 95: Love Variety Show Strategy System (13)

"There are quite a lot of oysters here, oh, and little crabs too."

Xie Yang climbed onto the reef, flipped over a small rock, and saw a sea crab the size of a child's palm, but it scurried away quickly.

She felt immense regret: "It's a pity I didn't bring tools, otherwise I could have done some beachcombing."

Fu Yichen had never experienced beachcombing before, and hearing this, he asked with great interest: "You've been beachcombing?"

"That's right, back in the day..."

Perhaps it was because the sea breeze was so pleasant, but Xie Yang almost started to elaborate.

After all, she was very familiar with beachcombing; in one life before her ascension, she had been the daughter of a coastal fisherman, so beachcombing was as routine as a home-cooked meal.

She suddenly remembered that the original body had never been beachcombing.

Before the age of 15, she lived in M City with Xu Yiyun, and after 15, she was brought back to the Xie Family Mansion in Beijing by her father.

No matter which home it was, it was far away from the sea.

Fortunately, her reaction was quick enough to brake in time and change her words: "When I went to the seaside to play with classmates in the past, we would carry a small bucket to pick up some shells, crabs, and things like that."

Only then did Fu Yichen remember she hadn't graduated yet: "I heard from the director that you're a senior this year?"

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Never mind him, even Xie Yang herself had forgotten she was still a student.

Fortunately, there were no classes in the final semester, and the art school itself wasn't very strict with management.

Many students started taking roles and filming in their sophomore or junior years, or guest-starring on stages; compared to class attendance, the school cared more about employment rates.

But she still had to go once; she hadn't received her diploma yet.

As for the diploma, whether one has it is one thing, and whether one can use it is another.

She didn't feel there was anything to hide about this, so she said truthfully: "Yes, after finishing this program, I'll just happen to return to school to get my diploma."

"What are your plans after graduation?"

After asking this, Fu Yichen laughed at himself; why was he rambling on like an elder?

Xie Yang smiled and opened her arms to the sea breeze: "I don't have any plans for now; perhaps I'll find a job completely unrelated to my major."

"Why? You don't like your current major?" Fu Yichen asked curiously, "Since you don't like it, why did you study it in the first place?"

Xie Yang tilted her head and glanced at him: "You must have been a Scholar in your student days, right? I'm different; I was a poor student. When I chose my major back then, I only cared about whether my scores were enough; I didn't care if I liked it or not."

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【Pfft—is Xie Yang really this authentic?】

【Wuwu... I have the same bitterness as Sister Xie! I barely scraped into my major by the admission line during the College Entrance Examination back then; it's truly painful to study a major you don't like!】

【My Sister Xie is just the most authentic person in the world!】

At this moment, Fu Yichen also felt that Xie Yang was incredibly authentic—at the very least, she was more vivid, real, and unpretentious than any female artist he had ever encountered before.

He suddenly felt that being able to go on a date with her today was quite nice.

"Are you hungry? I'll take you to eat."

He raised his wrist to check the time; it was almost eleven o'clock.

There was only one restaurant of any quality on Shazhou Island, and it was a bit of a distance away; it would take about half an hour to walk there.

Although Xie Yang wasn't hungry yet, Fu Yichen's suggestion suited her wishes: walking along the coastline while enjoying the sea view and slowly heading toward the restaurant; by the time they arrived, it would be just about mealtime.

But unexpectedly, halfway there, while passing through a stretch of Golden Beach with extremely fine sand, they saw a group of young men and women in athletic swimwear playing beach volleyball.

Xie Yang instantly remembered: "Is that the National Team training? Should we take a detour?"

But what detour could they take here? There was simply no second path for them to choose.

"We'll walk a bit higher up, as long as we don't get too close to the beach," Fu Yichen suggested.

The filming PD naturally followed along with them.

Just as the group was about to avoid the beach and walk along the coconut grove right next to it, suddenly, a volleyball flew toward them.

"Watch out—"

Following the ball, there was also a worried shout.

Fu Yichen's heart tightened; he pulled Xie Yang away with one hand, signaling her to dodge, and tried to swat the volleyball away with the other, but he saw that Xie Yang didn't dodge at all; instead, she met the ball head-on—"Boom," and hit the ball back.

The speed at which it flew back was faster and more ferocious than when it came.

Finally, it landed straight on the court opposite, smashing a deep pit into the sand and even rebounding a few times after landing.

This was beach volleyball!

A beach volleyball could still rebound after hitting a sand pit?

How much force must that have been?

Everyone present was dumbfounded.

Also dumbfounded were the netizens in the live stream:

【Holy cow! My Sister Xie's power is impressive! A natural-born Spiker!】

【Sister Xie always catches my heart off guard!】

【Ahhh! I'm a fan of Liu Ying; I love watching my Sister Ying play beach volleyball, so lucky! I didn't expect to see the National Team training in this live stream.】

【I can even see the National Team while visiting another stream; I'm not moving from this live stream today!】

【Sorry, Best Actor Lu! It's not that I don't want to watch your date, it's just that the temptation here is greater!】

【Lao Guo, what a great talent! Aren't you tempted?】

Guo Zhengtao, who was jokingly called "Lao Guo" by the netizens, wasn't old at all; he was only in his early forties this year and had just been transferred to the women's team as an assistant coach. Scouting for great talent was his most important Task at the moment.

After all, the women's team had seen many retirements and injuries in recent years, falling into a situation where the new generation couldn't keep up with the old.

Beach volleyball was not a strong suit for China; their best result was first in Asia, but that was before Australia was incorporated into Asia for sports competitions.

After being incorporated into Asia, the trophy for first in Asia had never once failed to be snatched up by Australia.

As for world rankings, the China beach volleyball team has never even squeezed into the top eight; their best result to date is ninth.

Therefore, the General Administration of Sport has never set overly lofty goals for the beach volleyball team; if they can make it into the top eight in Olympic events, it is considered a successfully completed Task.

Yet since he took over, even this goal has been out of reach and difficult to attain.

It is not that the team members are not working hard enough, but that their strength is just at that level.

The Youth Team did discover two good prospects this year, but unfortunately, they are still too young.

When it comes down to it, it is still a case of the older generation retiring before the new one can take over.

Thus, seeing Xie Yang's powerful spike-style return hit right to the heart of what he wanted.

The seemingly soft reception of the ball actually returned with such great force that a group of professional athletes had no power to fight back.

Of course, the reason they didn't fight back might also be—

They recognized Xie Yang and Fu Yichen!

"Ahhh! It's Fu Yichen!"

"Is that the guest from Romantic Cabin? Are they really filming here?"

"The one returning the ball is the female guest number 5, right? I really couldn't tell, she looks so fair and delicate, but her strength is something!"

"That's right! Number 5 Xie Yang! Sister Xie, Sister Xie, I'm your fan! Although I just became a fan yesterday..."

"Hahahaha, Xiaoying, you could have left out that last part."

Watching his own team members hopping and skipping as they ran toward Fu Yichen and Xie Yang, surrounding the two of them to ask for photos and autographs, Coach Guo felt incredibly stifled; they really were a bunch of troublesome brats!

While he despised his own team members' unbearable, silly behavior while chasing stars in his heart, his actions were not a bit slower than theirs—

He quickly ran up to Xie Yang and looked at her eagerly: "Is it Xiao Xie? Are you interested in playing beach volleyball?"

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