Pony Reactions · Pre-Race Strategy Meeting

After leaving the meeting room at Fengxing Group's branch office, Zhang Jun, driven by curiosity, took the printed character design sheets over to the training center.

When Zhang Jun arrived, Shadow Hunter was training with Flying Cloud Colt, River Moon, Forest Hero, and Mountain Patrol Leopard, running laps around the track.

Since they were all horses under Zhang Jun's ownership, and Zheng Xing was Lin Zhi's apprentice, the young horses now came to the training center at the same time. The five colts trained together, though the three three-year-olds used one track and the two four-year-olds another. The newly stabled fillies trained together, while Cloudstream Flying Shadow trained at the same time as them but alone.

Once training ended and the five young horses had been led over by the exercise riders, Shan Yao, and Ning Fei, Zhang Jun pulled out Shadow Hunter's character design sheet and waved it in front of him.

"Look, this is you. Can you recognize yourself?"

Zhang Jun wore a thoroughly punchable grin as he looked at Shadow Hunter with a smug, cheeky expression.

Shadow Hunter stared at the picture for a while, cocking his head and swiveling his ears back and forth. After thinking over what Zhang Jun had just said and looking at the expression on Zhang Jun's face, his eyes suddenly widened. He immediately raised a foreleg and let out an angry neigh, pinning his ears flat against the back of his head.

When he came back down, he rammed his head straight into Zhang Jun's chest, knocking him back a step. He stretched his mouth toward the A4 sheet in Zhang Jun's hand, trying to tear apart the paper that depicted him as a feminized character.

Zhang Jun staggered backward from the impact and waved his arms. "Hey, hey, hey! Don't—calm