Chapter Twelve: One Advantage Is Enough

  When Su Yifan saw Oola again on the weekend, he felt that his legs were pierced by countless thin needles.

  The duration of muscle soreness is actually more than two days, not just one day.

  Ou La looked at Su Yi Fan, her face still expressionless.

  "Did you ever practice that set of movements I taught you?"

  "There isn't." Su Yifan replied honestly.

  "Since you don't have one, your legs are trembling now, must be overexerted from recent exercise and the muscles can't take it?"

  "Yes" Su Yifan continued to answer honestly.

  "So are you confident in completing today's training?"

  Su Yifan knew Euler's requirement and immediately raised his head loudly: "Yes!"

  A faint smile appeared on Euler's icy face, but unfortunately it was a cold laugh.

  "Confidence is useless, come on."

  Su Yifan turned his head and took a glance at Su Xiaqing, who was sitting far away, surfing the internet on her laptop. Su Xiaqing wore a black and grey denim suit today, which made her look refreshing and mysterious.

  Su Yifan guessed that Su Xiaqing was probably dealing with company affairs, her expression was more focused, and occasionally she would glance over.

  The training venue was a rented stadium, and there were only three of them in the entire stadium, which gave Su Yifan a sense of guilt similar to that of a public servant wasting resources.

  Ouyang stood up straight: "Modern exercise methods mainly rely on technology, including electrical stimulation and taking specific drugs. But these exercise methods all have a common disadvantage, do you know what it is?"

  Su Yifan, as an otaku who often goes online, has some insight into this.

  "Side effects?"

  "Yes," Eula said, "Forced training with external forces will cause irreversible permanent damage to the body. My goal in training you is to make you healthier, so we won't be using any extreme methods."

  "Today's first stage lesson is to follow me and complete the entire set of # movements."

  After finishing speaking, Oola started to slowly pose in a yoga-like posture and let Su Yifan imitate.

  Su Yifan didn't ask much either and followed Ora's movements step by step.

  An hour passed quickly, and Oola did ten sets of movements, each set lasting five minutes, with almost no stops in between.

  Su Yifan followed Ora's movements and practiced ten sets, after finishing all of them, the sweat on his face almost blinded his eyes.

  In contrast, Ora only had a faint trace of sweat on the tip of her nose, which didn't seem like she had just done a series of strange movements.

  Su Yifan thought to himself, "Is this woman hiding a cosmic monster in her body? Her physique is simply invincible." Compared to Oola, those seemingly robust and muscular young men on the school team looked like kindergarten kids.

  After a set of movements, Su Yifan panted heavily. Oola didn't even look at the young man and turned to sit down on the resting chair beside him.

  "Take a ten-minute break and continue."

  Su Xiaqing closed her laptop and walked over to hand him a towel. Su Yifan smiled awkwardly, wiping the sweat from his forehead.

  "How is it?" Su Xiaoqing twisted open a bottle of sports drink and placed it in Su Yifan's hand.

  "It's okay."

  Eula closed her eyes in a non-working state, as if she was taking a nap, but more like she was thinking about something. Su Yifan could feel some unique things from this woman who exuded an aura of coldness and charm, he thought Eula must be a person with many stories.

  Even Su Xiaoqing's life is definitely more enriching than she imagined, only those aspects that Su Yifan has not had the opportunity to understand, and cannot infer.

  Ten minutes of rest, Su Xiaoqing didn't say anything, just sat beside Su Yifan accompanying him. Su Yifan was very curious to ask some questions, but felt that asking might not be good, so he didn't open his mouth in the end.

  Ou La walked up to Su Yifan, who was drenched in sweat as if he had just been pulled out of the water, and said: "Now stand for me with your most natural posture."

  Su Yifan recalled the image of the giant ape in the mirror, making an effort to stand up straight with his head held high and shoulders back, using his eyes to ask Oola for inspection.

  Ou La took a look and punched Su Yifan in the chest.

  This punch was neither light nor heavy, and Su Yifan's chest tightened his abdomen and held his breath for a moment, so Su Yifan immediately took shape - not only did his shoulders droop, but his chest also didn't hold up like before, and the unnatural movement of holding his abdomen also disappeared.

  Oola said coldly: "I let you be natural, where is this natural?"

  Su Yifan didn't dare resist and could only re-adjust his stance and stand up straight again.

  This time Oola didn't raise her fist again, but instead used her hand to correct Su Yifan's movements. After a series of corrections, Oola picked up a mirror again.

  Su Yifan sighed in his heart, indeed a woman, wherever she goes, she can't be without a mirror.

  In the huge dressing mirror, Su Yifan saw himself.

  Hey, I feel like it's not the same anymore...I think my figure is more upright and my spirit has improved a lot. The most important thing is that those gorilla-like physical characteristics are gone, now Su Yifan looks like a normal person, the kind of boy you often see on Taobao and various print ads.

  Um, apart from being drenched in sweat and a bit disheveled.

  "It's not something that can be corrected overnight." Ora said after correcting Su Yifan, "I've trained dozens of young people, but only a handful have truly met my expectations. I hope you won't disappoint your sister."

  Su Yifan, who had been corrected for his posture, felt uncomfortable all over and, upon hearing Oula's last sentence, his face suddenly turned serious and he nodded solemnly.

  Seeing Su Yifan's attitude, Oola responded with a barely audible "uh-huh" and then announced: "Maintain this posture for half an hour first, get familiar with it."

  The cruel military training in high school was like yesterday, and now being forced to stand still is simply a perverted version of reliving youth. Su Yifan, however, didn't utter a single complaint, maintaining this posture standing still on the spot, letting sweat drip from his forehead.

  Su Yifan's attitude was quite decent, so Oola nodded and said: "Pay attention to your current muscle and skeletal state, get familiar with this feeling as soon as possible."

  Su Yifan slowly lowered his gaze without a word, he felt that standing like this was extremely uncomfortable. The requirement of keeping an upright posture had been a torture for young people since ancient times.

  Euler glanced at his watch: "Don't worry, this half hour won't be counted as work time."

  “……”

  Su Yifan couldn't say a word. Su Xiaqing, who was beside him, seemed to be unable to bear seeing Su Yifan suffer so much and ran back to the laptop to busy herself.

  Ou La said to Su Yifan, "Concentrate your mind," but he didn't stop talking: "Physical strength is one aspect, quick and accurate reactions are also very important. Under the same physical conditions, the more agile person is stronger, can you understand that?"

  Three hours, which is less than the time it takes to watch two movies. Su Yifan felt like he had been tortured for a lifetime.

  Ou La's training method is quite simple, not magical at all. Apart from the movements that Su Yifan does every day, the rest of the training is no different from military training. The only difference is probably that the instructor in front of him is beautiful and has a good figure, which gives people some motivation to continue.

  When the entire training was over, Su Yifan felt that his body was about to fall apart. Compared to the three hours of torture Oula had put him through, doing only three sets of push-ups and thirty squats a day seemed like heaven.

  "Stay tense, don't slack off." Aura continued to shout after the announcement, "To keep this state good, I want to see your actual change next week."

  In the indoor sports stadium, there is a public bathroom. Su Yifan was scolded by Oola and then rolled in to take a shower. Oola said to Su Xiaoqing who closed her laptop: "Miss Su, today's training has ended."

  Su Xiao nodded slightly and said with some self-mockery: "Seeing such a cruel training, I'm starting to regret it."

  "You can terminate the contract with me at any time." Oola said in a serious tone, "However, I personally think that Su Yifan has a very important advantage, an advantage that is enough for him to complete all the training courses."

  "What is it?" Su Xiaoqing's tone was more like she already knew the answer.

  "He's a man of perseverance." Oola finally said a word of praise for him after Su Yifan left, "For young people today, all the advantages may not be as useful as this one."

  "His advantages are not just this one." Su Xiao sighed lightly, "However, you're right, having this one point is enough."

  Ora didn't say anything, she had some understanding of Su Xiaoxiao, knowing that beneath her polite and gentle exterior was a very proud heart. Seeing Su Xiaoxiao repeatedly praising Su Yifan, Ora felt that the prospects for this student of hers seemed to be getting interesting.

  "There's nothing else, I'll take my leave first." Oola took out her travel bag from the locker and bid farewell to Su Xiaoqing.

  "Alright, you can contact Su Yifan directly next week." Su Xiaqing instructed, "I won't be coming anymore."

  Ou La didn't ask why, she knew that Su Xiao Qing seemed easy-going but was actually a very principled person.

  After seeing Aura off, Su Xiao Lei sat alone in front of the computer and wrote an email. Then she closed the computer, turned off her international roaming mobile phone, put on a pair of not very good-looking black headphones, closed her eyes and started listening to music.

  If Su Yifan had come out of the bathroom a little earlier, he would have seen a simple and lonely Su Xiaqing, completely different from her usual sunny and mature image.

  Su Yifan came out of the bath when Su Xiaqing had already put away her earphones and was reading a book. She was reading an English version of "Moby Dick".

  This is a book that distills the essence of translation, and Su Yifan has read some of it before, knowing that it is an ode to human conquest of nature. It's precisely because of this that the book has been popular for over a hundred years without fading.

  Upon seeing this book, Su Yifan casually said: "Conquest is a byproduct of survival."

  Su Xiaoqing's eyes lit up, but she didn't discuss this issue with Su Yifan any further. Instead, she asked: "How do you feel?"

  Su Yifan has recovered from that exhausted sorrow and forced a smile: "It's okay, did Teacher Oula leave?"

  "Uh-huh, she's actually very busy." Su Xiaoqing put the book back in her bag, "You must be hungry, go eat something."

  Su Yifan felt that in front of Su Xiaqing he was almost turning into a pig, eating all the time. But his body was absolutely honest, and now he was really hungry.

  "Okay, today it should be my turn to treat Qing Jie."

  Su Xiaoqing smiled: "What would you like to treat me to?"

  "Let's go eat some hand-held pizza." Su Yifan knew his own family's affairs, and he was too embarrassed to invite Hai Shang Mingyue, but something simpler would be no problem.

  "Alright, you lead the way."

  In the underground first floor of Wanhui Plaza where they once bought Apple computers, they bought four handheld pizzas for a total consumption of less than 70 yuan. Su Yifan was in charge of eliminating three, and Su Xiaqing only ate one enough.

  Su Xiaqing hesitated a bit about eating in public, but seeing Su Yifan take a big bite of pizza, she also took a bite.

  "Next week I won't go to school to find you."

  Su Yifan was taken aback: "Huh? Why?"

  Su Xiaoqing gently wiped the cheese from the boy's mouth with a napkin and said softly, "I've gone too far, your classmates will gossip about you, saying things like you're hiding behind your sister. I hope you're happy, I don't want to bring you trouble."

  Can't help but say, Su Xiaoqing's meticulousness makes people dare not move. Su Yifan immediately lost the thought of eating, and sincerely said: "Qing sister, thank..."

  "I told you, don't say that," Su Xiaoqing interrupted, "where do you want to go after eating?"

  Su Yifan scratched his head in embarrassment: "Internet cafe... I promised Zhang Chao to accompany him to play DotA."

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