Gu Qing praised her. "Credit where it's due, being able to do a muscle-up as a girl is seriously impressive."
Xia Shuran let go of the bar, dropped down, and walked up to Gu Qing, saying playfully:
"Senior, if you want to learn, I can teach you."
"For free."
"You just have to treat me to a meal afterward."
She still had that meal Gu Qing had mentioned on her mind, so she deliberately reminded him.
Gu Qing walked straight beneath the horizontal bar, hopped lightly, and grabbed it with both hands, asking with a smile:
"Your turn to guess. Think I can do a muscle-up?"
"Probably... not?"
Xia Shuran hesitated before answering.
The taller someone was and the longer their arms, the difficulty of a muscle-up doubled.
Gu Qing was over six feet tall, so Xia Shuran figured he probably couldn't do one.
But just as Xia Shuran was thinking that.
Gu Qing exerted a little strength through his back, and the next second, his entire body shot up above the bar.
So fast!
That was... an even harder explosive muscle-up!
Xia Shuran looked astonished. "Senior, you can actually do explosive muscle-ups? Are you into street workouts?"
Gu Qing let go with both hands and dropped down. "No, I just like doing pull-ups now and then. After enough practice, explosive muscle-ups unlocked on their own."
I'm a sports student who's practiced martial arts since childhood. How could I lose to a foreign languages student?
Xia Shuran's competitive streak flared up, and a hint of challenge crept into her voice:
"Senior, there's one move you definitely can't do."
"What move?"
"A planche."
Xia Shuran pronounced the word crisply.
A planche was harder than a muscle-up.
The requirements for performing it were:
Support yourself on the ground with both hands.
Keep both feet off the ground.
Keep your body parallel to the ground.
Simply put, it was supporting yourself with both hands without letting your feet touch the ground.
Just how difficult was this move?
Put it this way.
Across all of Haicheng University, there were definitely no more than ten people who could perform a proper planche.
"Senior, watch closely."
With that, Xia Shuran stepped back, bent over, and planted her hands on the ground.
Then she tightened her core slightly and lifted her straight legs behind her, holding her entire body rigid in a straight line, perfectly parallel to the ground.
"Senior, this move, the planche... you definitely can't do it!"
As she said this, the veins on Xia Shuran's forehead stood out, and her expression showed considerable strain.
That alone showed just how difficult a planche was.
As for why Xia Shuran was so certain Gu Qing couldn't do it.
It was the same reason.
Gu Qing was too tall.
If the difficulty of a planche for Xia Shuran, who was only 1.6 meters tall, was 1.
Then for Gu Qing, who was 1.8 meters tall, the difficulty would shoot straight up to 100.
She didn't believe Gu Qing could beat her this time.
Yet Gu Qing's next actions delivered a resounding slap to her pretty face.
The moment she got up off the ground.
Gu Qing immediately bent down, planted his hands, and raised his feet, effortlessly performing an impeccably executed planche.
"Uh..."
Xia Shuran was stunned, her little mouth hanging open in disbelief.
But something even more shocking was still to come.
Not only did Gu Qing hold the planche steady, he smoothly began doing planche push-ups.
His feet remained suspended the entire time as his body pumped up and down like a pile driver, staying perfectly parallel to the ground throughout. He did several in succession before stopping.
"Senior, you..."
Xia Shuran was utterly shocked and wondered whether she was dreaming.
Only after Gu Qing had gotten up off the ground.
Did she snap out of it, pull out her phone, and open the video recorder, saying excitedly:
"Senior, that was incredible!"
"In all my life, I've never seen someone so tall do planche push-ups so easily!"
"Senior, you're practically a god!"
"Senior, could you show me one more time?"
"I want to record it and post it on TikTok. It'll definitely shock loads of people!"
A chorus of "Senior" rang in Gu Qing's ears until he felt they were growing calluses.
He leaned over and glanced at Xia Shuran's TikTok account.
She was even a minor internet celebrity.
She had tens of thousands of followers.
Her account was full of videos of her practicing martial arts and working out, averaging several hundred likes each.
After looking through her TikTok account, Gu Qing shook his head and declined:
"Better not. I don't want to put myself in the public eye."
"All right, then."
Xia Shuran thought it was a shame, but she chose to respect Gu Qing's wishes and didn't try to persuade him.
That evening.
The counselor posted an announcement in the class group chat.
An outstanding graduate was coming back to give a talk.
The entire class had to attend.
Qian Duole and Chen Zijie couldn't be bothered to go and wanted to stay in the dorm playing games.
Both were seasoned juniors now. Unlike back in their first year, they weren't about to foolishly run over to fill seats whenever the counselor called.
Gu Qing and Gao Fei chose to attend.
The former wanted to work through practice questions in the audience with a female classmate preparing for the postgraduate entrance exam and grind his learning ability stat.
The latter was going because his girlfriend from the external relations department was organizing the talk, and he needed to keep her company.
Upon arriving at the venue.
Gu Qing saw the outstanding graduate.
He was an alumnus who looked to be in his early thirties.
A conspicuous label floated above his head:
-[Tycoon]
Gu Qing merely glanced at him before turning his attention away and quietly working through practice questions with the female classmate preparing for the postgraduate entrance exam.
Before long, the alumnus onstage began talking about his entrepreneurial achievements and experiences, claiming that he ran overseas online stores with annual revenue in the tens of millions.
He went on for over an hour.
Meanwhile, Gu Qing also studied on and off in the audience for over an hour.
[You have studied with your classmate Yang Yuntong for over one hour] [Focus +1] [Learning ability +1] [Accumulate 100 points in learning ability to obtain the attribute-exceptional comprehension] [Points currently obtained: 4]
Nice, another point in learning ability. Feels like I've gained some more brains.
Gu Qing glanced at the text that had popped up, feeling satisfied.
Another ten-odd minutes passed.
The torturous talk finally ended.
Gu Qing was just about to leave.
When, for some reason, the alumnus who had given the talk suddenly came down from the stage to find him in person.
"Got a minute to chat?"
"About what?"
Gu Qing looked surprised.
He didn't know this alumnus at all, nor had he interacted with him during the question-and-answer session.
Why had the man suddenly approached him out of nowhere?
The alumnus smiled. "About making you money, of course."
"Sorry, Senior, but I'm not looking for a part-time job right now."
Gu Qing waved a hand and declined.
The alumnus urged him, "Let's just talk. It'll only take a minute or two."
Seeing how insistent he was, Gu Qing found himself growing a little curious.
Figuring it wouldn't take much time anyway, he followed him backstage to hear him out.
P.S. Holding out my bowl, begging for monthly votes and recommendation votes!
9, suspected transmigration
They arrived in the deserted backstage area.
After changing locations, the alumnus seemed to become a completely different person, opening with a bombshell:
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