Kai sped out of the house after he shoved a piece of toast in his mouth.
Grandma Bingbing looked at him with wide eyes.
"Sit down, will you?" she exclaid. "You're going to get appendicitis if you run while eating."
Kai stopped for a mont and turned around.
"That's a myth, Grandma! There isn't any scientific basis behind it," he said.
Grandma Bingbing clicked her tongue.
"What do you know about Science?" she muttered.
Kai chuckled as he continued chewing on the bread.
"I need to go. I'm going to be late," he said before finally leaving their house.
The old woman shook her head and sat on the dining table to eat breakfast all alone.
"Of course, he would be late," she said. "Why was he running around the neighborhood so early in the morning?"
Kai arrived at their classroom, breathless but on ti.
He imdiately went to his seat and looked at his progress bar.
Days passed after he read the life-changing book, and it seed like the main protagonist wasn't lying when he said that exercising was the best way to improve one's skills!
His progress bar had increased by 15 in the past week! It was usually difficult to get points for his own hard work, so Kai felt that it was a great achievent. Find exclusive stories on empire
On top of his usual progression, he increased a total of 35 this week.
[Current level: Proficient (86)]
With that, he listened to Sir Muchen's lecture.
***
Kai arrived at the court and frowned when he saw that the team wasn't dressed in their jersey.
Lina, too, wasn't in her usual tracksuit.
Instead, she wore her skirt uniform with so jogging pants.
As Kai arrived, the team couldn't help but laugh when they saw him already wearing his basketball attire.
Jet clapped loudly before placing one hand on Shang for support.
Shang clicked his tongue and pushed him away.
"I'm still injured!" he exclaid.
Jet ignored him and continued teasing Kai.
"It seems like little Kai wants to play basketball," he exclaid.
Kai's frown deepened. "Aren't we going to train today?" he asked, ignoring Jet and turning to Yuze.
Yuze shook his head.
"We're going to watch the ga between the Xing Stars and the Feng Foxes," Yuze said.
Kai's eyebrows raised in surprise.
"It's today?" he asked.
Lina chuckled and went beside him. Lina felt her cheeks reddening as she stood next to Kai.
She was a tall girl, around 166 cm, but standing next to Kai made her feel pretty small.
"The semi-finals start today," she said. "The ga between the Huishi Alligators and the Yin Yang Knights has already comnced. We might be able to catch the last quarter if we're lucky."
Kai clicked his tongue. "Let get changed then."
He was about to go to the bathroom when Yuze and Kun held onto both of his arms.
"Nope! Let's just go," Kun happily exclaid, helping Yuze drag Kai to Shang's dad's truck.
The kind, the old man looked at them joyously as they went up his truck. He glanced at Kai with a aningful smile, rembering he was the one who comforted Shang while he was in the hospital.
"Let's go, boys!" he exclaid before stepping on the engine.
Fortunately, there wasn't any traffic, so they arrived at the court relatively fast.
However, even then, it seed like the ga between the Yin Yang Knights and the Huishi Alligators was about to end.
The Shizi Dogs entered through the audience's entrance, with Lina being the first one to enter.
She looked around and frowned when she saw that there weren't any seats to cater to all of them. There were so empty seats here and there, but they needed an entire row just for their team.
Lina clicked her tongue. "It looks like we have to wait for the ga to finish."
Yuze shrugged, nodding toward the scoreboard.
"The ga is about to finish."
"We have one minute left on the clock!" Mark Li exclaid, his voice still in good shape.
It was as if he had been relaxed the entire ga.
Kai looked at the scoreboard and saw the large gap between the Alligators and the Knights.
So, that was why.
"Max Zhou, our star player, is going in for a finishing dunk!"
"...and he dunks it!" Mark Li exclaid.
The buzzer is heard all around the court.
"It seems like the Yin Yang Knights will continue their journey in the Winter Cup! With over a hundred points, they are now the leading team with the most points in the league!"
As soon as the ga was finished, Max Zhou was bombarded with fans and dia alike.
Kai smirked and shook his head.
Well, it seed like the Elite Five mber deserved his title. He had once again proven that he was the best high school player in the entire city.
So people started leaving, so Lina was able to find good seats for them.
"There!" she exclaid. "Let's go."
The Shizi Dogs walked to the empty seats. However, they didn't go unnoticed.
"Is that the Shizi Dogs? They actually ca to watch!"
"A lot of teams ca to watch, but I wasn't expecting the Shizi Dogs. They never ca last year."
"I think they did. We just didn't recognize them."
"What's that? Is Kai Guo wearing his uniform?"
Kai looked down at the ground as he heard chuckles directed toward him. He clicked his tongue.
They should have let him change before they went!
Jinping went beside him and patted his shoulder.
"Good luck on the ga, bud," he said, making Kai shake his head.
"He's that funny guy who went viral, right?"
"I loved watching his funny plays!"
"Kai!"
Kai turned around as he heard his na being called.
There, he saw so young students wearing Yin Yang's jerseys.
Then, not knowing what to do, he waved his hand, causing them to smile and exclaim in excitent.
Kai was taken aback.
anwhile, Jet went beside him and patted his back.
"Well, it looks like we have Mr. Famous over here!"
Kai pushed him away. "Stop it," he said, his cheeks reddening from embarrassnt.
This didn't go past Jet since he started teasing Kai even more.
"Are you feeling shy?" he asked, poking Kai's cheek.
Then, he stopped as he looked at his finger.
"Hey, your cheeks are surprisingly supple."
Kai clicked his tongue and dragged him to their seats.
"You're really weird," he said.
Jet shrugged and sat next to him, and then, on the other side was Shang.
Fortunately, the two didn't tease him further and instead talked about their respective love lives—or the lack of it.
Kai stared into the distance for a mont. However, he snapped back to reality when squeals were heard around him.
Jet and Shang stopped talking and lifted their heads, so Kai did the sa.
His eyebrows imdiately raised as soon as he saw the people hovering above them.
Max Zhou, with a smirk playing on his lips, gestured to the empty seats beside them.
"Care if we sit down?"
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