After setting sail, Huai Shi had hardly seen any other passengers on board.
Why sit opposite me?
However, he didn't mind having someone to chat with during the trip.
After putting down his phone, Huai Shi nodded and gestured, "Please, help yourself."
"Thank you."
The husky and deep voice sounded particularly distant.
Huai Shi felt something wasn't quite right but couldn't pinpoint it. He just had the feeling... that this mature and dignified woman in front of him was somehow similar to that wild captain steering the ship.
But where the similarity lay, he simply couldn't say.
Huai Shi was certain he had never met her before.
One should be able to firmly remember such a mysterious woman from even a single encounter, yet he had no impression of her whatsoever.
But one thing was certain—he must have heard her voice somewhere before; it was just that Huai Shi couldn't recall it at the moment.
It felt as though a light mist was enveloping him, yet it didn't seem that important, not worth worrying about.
No need to be concerned.
It's just a bit strange, isn't it? These days, doesn't everyone go about like this when they travel?
"Hello, Huai Shi."
He extended his hand politely. "May I ask your name?"
The lady pondered for a moment. "...Just call me by the name that fellow liked best," she said. Then, shaking Huai Shi's hand, she added, "Sophie."
She introduced herself, "You can call me Sophie Tilton."
Huai Shi nodded. "Is Madam Tilton traveling as well?"
"I suppose you could say, it's my daughter's first journey, and I'm a little uneasy. I want to keep an eye on her. Her uncles probably feel the same," Sophie said, her lips curving slightly into a semblance of a smile, making her appear even more mysterious.
She suddenly asked, "Since the journey is long, I wonder if you'd be interested in playing a game, Huai Shi?"
"A game?"
Huai Shi was puzzled, but after a moment's thought, decided it didn't really matter; he was idle anyway.
Then he saw Lady Sophie unbelievably take out a rather large wooden box from her small handbag and place it on the table.
It looked somewhat like a chessboard.
As she slowly opened it, an exaggerated interior space was revealed, completely disproportionate to its exterior. Within lay a multitude of neatly arranged cards.
Ever since the Card of the Ages was issued, more than two thousand card packs were all laid out here,
including over sixteen hundred limited-edition, out-of-print, flash gold, diamond, and origin tin cards—
It made Huai Shi's inner whale ache with envy.
He couldn't help but tactically lean .
Where did this unparalleled tycoon come from!
Observing his shocked expression, Madam Sophie asked with a mysterious smile, "How about a game of Card of the Ages?"
Her words held an unbelievable Magic Power, convincing and engaging.
It made one unable to resist agreeing with her.
It's just a card game, right?
Bring it on!
And with that, Huai Shi fell into a stupor.
The instant he nodded, a faint mist engulfed the entire cruise ship, wrapping everything within the framework set by the Creator.
Gazing at the young man now engrossed in the card game, Sophie slowly raised her eyes.
"Mr. Huai Shi, as that child's guardian, I'm not as lax or kind-hearted as KP, thinking that as long as you make it to Canberra, you'll have passed," she said earnestly.
"Unless you can win a game against me, otherwise...
"You can just go back where you came from."