Chapter 7: Old ties

-"Can we talk?"

-"Sure..."

Zhu Lang takes the energy drink and they seat in a bench near the gym.

Zhu Lang looked at his energy drink with an angry face.

-"I really liked our fight. It was the first time i fell and felt adrenaline in a fight."

-"Look if you're here just to say how good you are i don't wanna hear it..."

Zhu Lang gets up and prepares to leave.

-"It's not like that. Iwas just trying to motivate you. Your speed is amazing. If you overcome your weaknesses you will be like a monsters. The only thing that is holding you back is your confidence."

-"I'm sorry Chen Zhao, i'm just scared to lose the tournament."

Chen Zhao looked at ZhuLang's face and raised his fist at shoulder height.

-"You will win, you just have to be confident."

-"Thanks, i gotta go to work, see you."

The next day he walked to the gym but his trainer was not there, so he went up to Li Mei.

-"Do you know where Yan Jing is?"

-"Oh, he take care of things in his office."

-"Alright, thanks"

Zhu Lang walked to Yan Jing's office and knocked on the door.

*Knock* *knock*

-"Come in."

-"Sir i'm ready for the training."

- Today you gotta train until you can't move a finger, you hear me?"

-"Yes sir"

-"The tournament starts in 1 week. Now get out and start running."

Zhu Lang exited the gym and saw Chen Zhao preparing to run. Chen Zhao noticed Zhu Lang was starting to run and tried to catch up."

-"I didn't know you were going to run. Why didn't you wait for me?"

-"Sorry, i gotta hurry, the tournament is in 1 week and my resistence is still very bad."

-"If you want to get better after the fight you can train resistence with me."

Chen Zhao sprinted so fast, he looked like and arrow. Zhu Lang tried to catch up but after 2 minutes sprinting he got tired and Chen Zhao could hear his breathing when he was near Zhu Lang.

-"Let's go come on! You can do more than that."

Chen Zhao pulled Zhu Lang and forced him to continue running. Zhu Lang felt dizzy and his legs were hurting.

Chen Zhao was starting to get tired and stopped for a while but he noticed Zhu Lang was not feeling good.

-"Are you ok?"

- "i can't talk right now."

Zhu Lang was holding his vomit by letting the saliva fall to the ground but couldn't handle it and puked on the grass.

-"I'll let you rest 5 minutes."

After the train Zhu Lang called his boss to warn him that he couldn't work that day and than went home.

The next morning he woke up and checked his phone and there was a text mensage from his old best friend.

-"Can we meet at the cafe near our old school?"

He had forgotten about his friend for so long but now he had a chance to meet him.

Zhu Lang got dressed and left home as he arrived at the cafe he loiked for his friend, but he hadn't seen his friend in a long time so he didn't know if he would recognize him.

Zhu Lang looked to the left and saw his friend waving at him. His friend seemed a little different from before. Zhu Lang ran to his friend with excitement.

-"Long time no see, Zhu Lang."