When Normans and Eveleigh were eating, Kanter walked in. Today, he was covered in injuries and even had a cane.
âMr. Chen, Iâm here to pay you back.â
He finally learned that it wasnât easy to owe Chen Zhao money. His biggest mistake wasnât owing the money but being unwilling to accept the fate and cause a bunch of trouble for himself.
He couldnât even stay in L.A. anymore. Sieli had announced that if Kanter appeared in L.A. anymore, Sieli would chop him up to feed the sharks.
After Kanter left, Eveleigh and Normans looked at Chen Zhao with strange eyes.
âYou beat him up?â
âNonsense. I donât do that kind of thing. Iâm a pacifist.â
The girls rolled their eyes in unison. Pacifist? If this *sshole was a pacifist, then Kim Jong-un could get the Nobel Peace Prize.
After drinking, eating, and resting enough, the two stood up again to keep training.
âOkay. Normans, you first, 50-meter freestyle. Your record yesterday was 24.12 seconds.â
âMy best record is actually 23.98.â
âThen put on your best performance. If your result isnât good today, Iâll have you train more.â Chen Zhao clapped his hands. âGo now.â
Chen Zhao and Eveleigh both held up stopwatches. One person recording might not be accurate enough.
âReady!â
Splash!
Normans dove into the water, creating a pretty splash.
She reached the end!
Eveleigh looked at the stopwatch, her expression changing slightly.
âTwenty-three point nine seconds,â Chen Zhao said. âHow about you?â
âTwenty-three point ninety-one.â Eveleigh couldnât believe this.
With this speed, Normans could attend the Olympics with the national team. If she was lucky, she could even win gold.
Of course, they were using manual stopwatches, so mistakes were possible. However, the error couldnât be more than 0.01 seconds.
Normans slowly swam back to the starting point. âHow was it? Whatâs my time?â
âYour final time, 23.90 seconds.â
âI improved that much?â Normans was shocked. She knew that Chen Zhaoâs training was effective, but she didnât think it could be so obvious in only a day.
âCome up. Eveleigh, go down. You take a break and try the 100-meter later.â
Eveleigh took a deep breath and went to the diving platform. âIâm ready.â
âReady!â
Splash!
Eveleigh didnât like Chen Zhao, but she was still serious about swimming.
One lap, two laps, three lapsâŠ
Seven, eight!
Chen Zhao and Normans stopped the watch at the same time. âEight minutes, 25 seconds.â
âHow much?â Eveleigh just got out of the water and couldnât hear clearly.
âEight minutes and 25 seconds.â
Eveleigh gasped. She was at eight minutes and 40 seconds yesterday. Her best time was eight minutes 38 seconds. She kept wavering around this time without any changes.
But in one day, she actually reached 25 seconds.
This was a miracle! Or was she just performing exceptionally well today? It was possible for athletes to perform extraordinarily, but the possibility was too small.
This kind of speed was a professional athleteâs level.
âYou didnât give me any steroids, right?â
âIf you want to think that, I donât care.â Chen Zhao shrugged. âNormans, are you done resting?â
âYes.â
Next, Normans tested her 100-meter freestyle. It was better than yesterday.
Yesterday, her time had been 54 seconds. Today, it was 53.90 seconds. The improvement wasnât as big, but sheâd just done the 50-meter freestyle and hadnât recovered fully yet.
âOkay. Next, start training.â Chen Zhao started giving out instructions again. âNormans, practice kicking in place for 20 minutes. Eveleigh, swim at a regular pace for 20 minutes.â
The two had different events, so their training was different too.
Eveleigh was much more cooperative in the following training. Chen Zhao also planned more things for them today. The training lasted for five hours.
He didnât leave the pool until the medical class that Wright arranged for him in the afternoon.
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Chen Zhao didnât prepare any material. After all, he was only the substitute. When he walked into the classroom, there were only a dozen students there.
âSir, did you walk into the wrong room?â a student asked when Chen Zhao got onto the lecture podium.
âNo, Iâm the substitute today,â Chen Zhao said. âYour professor is sick, so Iâm here in his place. Itâs about time, so letâs start class. Let me introduce myself first. My name is Chen Zhao. You can call me Chen. Iâm Chinese and Iâm mainly responsible for Traditional Chinese Medicine and Acupuncture classes. This is my first time lecturing. If youâre not interested, you can sleep. Just donât make any noise.â
Normans and Eveleigh were both sitting in the classroom. They knew that Chen Zhao would teach here.
Normans had already graduated. She wasnât even a med student.
âCompared to other times,â Normans whispered. âHe doesnât seem that confident on the podium.â
âI doubt heâs qualified to even stand there,â Eveleigh replied.
âThe two ladies in the back, if youâre here for class, please keep quiet.â Chen Zhao directly called Normans and Eveleigh out.
The two girls glared at him and fell silent.
âIn Chinese medicine, we focus on the yin, yang, and five elements. It sounds like magic. Of course, in the east, itâs referred to as mystical studies. But Chinese medicine has a history of thousands of years. Yin and yang are actually the veins and arteries. The five elements refer to the heart, lungs, spleen, liver, and kidneyâŠâ
âTeacher,â Eveleigh called out. âAre you sure this isnât a magic class? You should go to Hogwarts instead of UCLA.â
âEveleigh, perhaps your swimming training is too easy. Iâll multiply your intensity tomorrow and cut down your meal.â
âAre you threatening me about another major?â
âThis is my authority. You can be angry, but you canât do anything about it.â
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âThis just shows your unprofessionalism. Look at the other students in the classroom. Some are playing on their laptops, some reading books about other fields or just sleepingâŠâ
Thud.
The student sleeping on the table suddenly slid onto the ground.