Chapter 81: World Two [51] Part 2

So all twenty of them knew who Jing Ke was. Upon discovering an unexpected situation on the island, they chose to report to her immediately.

Hearing the report, Jing Ke couldn’t help but press her eyebrows together. She quickly asked the guard for a pen and paper, wrote down a string of numbers, and then gave a few more quiet instructions.

After finishing her conversation with the guard, Jing Ke turned her personal microphone back on and returned to her fishing spot.

“What’s up?” Shao Qing asked, having kept an eye on her girlfriend’s movements.

“Nothing much. Just caught some people trying to exploit a loophole. It’s been dealt with now,” Jing Ke said, gesturing to her own microphone. “If you want to hear the details, I’ll tell you tonight.”

“Okay.” Shao Qing agreed immediately. She had one hundred percent trust in Jing Ke.

Since Jing Ke said it was handled, then it was definitely fine. All she had to do was focus on fishing.

–

Time flew by quickly, and soon it was noon. The June sun was harsh. By around eleven, no one was fishing out on the deck anymore.

With that blazing sun, even under a parasol, you still felt like you were going to get a sunburn.

Although the morning had some minor mishaps, all six guests had decent hauls.

Liu Chang and Xu Yi got the seafood risotto provided by the production team—a big, full bowl, enough to stuff them.

The four who hadn’t gone diving, including Jing Ke, were busy preparing their own freshly caught fish: there was soup, steamed fish, grilled, and even straight-up sashimi.

After Shao Qing successfully tasted the grilled fish, Jing Ke, standing beside her, didn’t forget to pose that familiar question: ‘Between me and Chef Yu, whose cooking is better?’

Only after Shao Qing continuously affirmed her cooking and declared Jing Ke’s culinary skills superior did Jing Ke finally start eating, satisfied.

–

The early afternoon heat was intense, especially with limited shade, and not one of the six was willing to go outside and work.

Director Qin glanced at the livestream’s viewer count. Seeing it had dropped significantly, she had no choice but to issue a cheesy, classic task: the six guests were to play Truth or Dare.

The rules were simple: a standard dice roll. The person with the highest number could ask the lowest roller a question. If the person questioned refused to answer, they had to do a dare.

The specific dares were exactly the ones from last night’s punishment tasks, which essentially tied team members together.

[Nice. Cheesy, yes, but I’m a sucker for it. I just love watching them play this.]

[Hahaha, the moment they heard the dares, Liu Chang and Xu Yi’s faces went dark. Seems last night left a very memorable impression.]

[But for Boss Jing and Shao Qing, those tasks are just nothing special, right? Considering how often they just casually smooch~]

As the livestream’s online viewer count steadily rose again, the dice-rolling version of Truth or Dare officially began.

There were five dice. With only six people rolling, the probability of hitting the absolute highest and lowest rolls simultaneously was quite slim.

Jing Ke held back a little, only rolling a 25. But the five others clearly weren’t great at dice; one roll was lower than the next. The smallest was Yao Lan, with a measly 8.

“Question for Teacher Yao: Do you like Teacher Qin?” Jing Ke asked rather casually.

Yao Lan blinked, not expecting such a direct question from Jing Ke. Fortunately, it wasn’t a hard one to answer, and she responded quickly.

Yao Lan: “This is my first collaboration with Teacher Qin. We got along fairly well yesterday, but I wouldn’t say I like her. Just a little favorable impression. For now, we’re just friends.”

On the second dice roll, Shao Qing had unremarkable luck, getting a 12, the lowest among the five so far.

Jing Ke didn’t hesitate, either. She promptly rolled a 5, becoming the one Xu Yi would question.

A flicker of regret crossed Xu Yi’s eyes, but he quickly suppressed it. “Question for Boss Jing: Through what opportunity did you become the Specially-Appointed Advisor?”

As his words fell, most eyes in the cabin landed on Xu Yi. Some thought him very bold, but more thought this question was stupid and would only offend Jing Ke.

“Because I invest in the entertainment industry. I am someone who truly engages with this circle, so I can, relatively speaking, gain deeper insight into certain matters and provide necessary information and reference opinions to the General Administration.”

Jing Ke herself didn’t seem to find it a particularly sharp question. She answered with official, measured politeness.

Third round. This time, the lowest roll was Xu Yi. Jing Ke didn’t even bother hiding it anymore; she directly rolled five sixes.

“I’d like to ask you, how do you view your former nickname ‘Little Xu Yin’?” Jing Ke questioned.

Her previous question might not have been sharp, but that didn’t mean Xu Yi’s question hadn’t offended her.

Xu Yi’s expression visibly stiffened. He badly wanted to dodge the question but was afraid Jing Ke would use her position to make things difficult for him.

[LMAO, does Xu Yi think Boss Jing is a pushover? What on earth was he thinking?!]

[Let me analyze. Maybe because Boss Jing acts so considerate and virtuous in front of the cameras, coming across like a mild-mannered, amiable person?]

[I’m dying. That mild-mannered, amiable persona is for Wife Qingqing! Does Xu Yi actually think he compares to Wife Qingqing?]

“Teacher Xu Yin achieved good results before. Although I… strayed down the wrong path, the title ‘Little Xu Yin’ was, to a certain extent, a form of recognition for me…” Xu Yi forced himself to say.

“Oh.” Jing Ke’s response was noncommittal.

With Xu Yi serving as the cautionary tale, the other guests behaved quite sensibly when they rolled the highest numbers, only asking some innocuous questions.

Shao Qing thought playing like this felt a bit too restrained. She decided to forgo Truth and voluntarily chose a Dare, drawing a card from the penalty box.

“Sit on your teammate’s lap for no less than ten minutes?” Shao Qing raised an eyebrow, waving the card at Jing Ke.

Jing Ke smiled, adjusted her posture, and patted her thighs.

Not one to be shy, Shao Qing immediately used Jing Ke as a human chair, plopping down. She even took Jing Ke’s now-idle left hand and placed it on her own waist.

After this proactive display of affection, the atmosphere in the cabin relaxed again. Some creative but non-offensive questions were tossed around.

Everyone except for Xu Yi and Liu Chang, who were deeply traumatized and stubbornly refused to pick Dare no matter what, tried their luck.

Jing Ke drew “Kiss for three seconds.” Just as she finished reading the card and was about to demonstrate it to everyone, Shao Qing, already on her lap, grabbed her collar and kissed her for a solid five seconds, if not more.

“Okay, mission accomplished~” Seeing the smudge of her lipstick now on the corner of Jing Ke’s mouth, Shao Qing contentedly released her collar and even tidied it up a bit.

Qin Zheng and Yao Lan were both female. Affectionate gestures like that were common between close female friends. So when they drew dares like prolonged eye contact or hugging, they completed them very smoothly.

By the time three o’clock in the afternoon rolled around, the sun outside had finally weakened a little.

Having fished all morning and knowing very well there were no sharks nearby, Jing Ke and Shao Qing changed into their wetsuits together. Escorted by six divers and two security guards, they got to experience the true underwater world.

[Damn it, I want to see the seabed too! The production team is so cruel!]

[Why did those two handsome security guards go down this time too? Worried Boss Jing might get mischievous and tug on a fishing line? [Doge]]

[Probably to be safe. The precedent is right there. Being cautious is only normal.]

The real underwater world was indeed beautiful. But as the diving depth increased, a suffocating sense of being engulfed by the deep, dark expanse gradually crept in.

As someone with almost no experience, Shao Qing, if not for Jing Ke constantly holding her hand, probably wouldn’t have lasted long before fear took over.

But once she adapted to that feeling, Shao Qing could appreciate the beauty of the seabed again. The occasional passing schools of fish even brought surprise and delight to her face.

Jing Ke guessed what Shao Qing was thinking. She gestured to one of the security guards, who quickly pulled out an underwater camera from his pocket to take photos for his boss and the boss’s wife.

Shao Qing was pleasantly surprised. Her earlier lingering fear completely vanished. She happily spent the better part of an hour taking photos, only reluctantly leaving when her oxygen tank alarm went off.

But it didn’t matter; this island was her girlfriend’s. She’d just wait until the filming crew left, then she could really enjoy herself. Maybe try some shallow water shore diving and beachcombing closer to the coast!

–

Having reaped sufficient buzz and attention from the yachting trip, the production team didn’t make dinner difficult for the group. After a token ballon-stomping game, a luxury feast was laid out.

The production team had prepared a gourmet meal cooked by professional chefs. The six guests just had to sit down and enjoy. They even provided decent quality red wine.

To maintain some mystery for the final cut, the livestream had already been cut off while they were heading back. So the viewers and production crew once again missed a chance to uncover Jing Ke’s identity.

Excusing herself from the dinner table on the pretext of using the restroom, Jing Ke met the captain of the security guards, who had long been waiting not far away.

“Boss, the person we caught has already gone through three rounds of interrogation. He confessed how he snuck in and revealed his objective,” the security captain said.

The island’s head of security, the overall person in charge, was personally selected by Jing Ke from a pile of resumes.

The captain was a tall, imposing white woman. Her neat, short hair and explosively powerful muscles made her look like a drawn, razor-sharp blade.