Chapter Three: The Price of Match Four

The third match did not reassure Jianxia. It made her prepare two game plans. One was for the team. The other was designed to deceive the computer. She wrote the real training plan on paper, left her phone in the changing room, and covered the warehouse cameras with towels. At the last moment, she promoted Chen Sui to the starting five, replaced Plan Twelve with a low rotation, and told the players to choose their attacking side according to how many times Qiao Ran tied her shoes after entering the arena. “Are we playing football or robbing a bank?” Xiaoman asked. “A bank would have money in it,” Wei Lan said, flexing her taped knee. Qiao Ran tied her shoes twice. The Falcons attacked from the right.