Realm of Mirrored Words

Tang Yi-Bai is here! This was the headline of the general sports section in 'Sports Weekly' the next day. By usual logic, neither the Winter Championships nor Tang Yi-Bai was headliner material, but Tang Yi-Bai just had to have broken a record, bringing forward the Asian record by a whole 0.3 seconds in one go. This was unprecedented, and taken together with the hype over his previous challenge towards Arbussy, Tang Yi-Bai was a very hot topic. And so the newspaper agency published a headline for Tang Yi-Bai on account of 'this person is on a meteoric rise'. Yun Duo was rather disgruntled. Thinking back, just a month ago, her manuscript on Tang Yi-Bai had been scrapped so casually, and now? News on him so easily made the headline! Oh, life! So thrilling in its dramatic ups and downs! Done with her musings, she flipped through her agency's newspaper, very narcissistically admiring the headline article she had written. The news piece not only recorded Tang Y

Sorry for the late chapter! More details here . You all may want to bookmark that linked page since I will be posting any future announcements/status updates there. :3 The discussion surrounding Tang Yi-Bai was still developing. Many people believed that Tang Yi-Bai loved to hype himself despite having no real talent, and so were all eagerly anticipating his failure in the upcoming competition. This was a great opportunity to see the enjoyable act of face-slapping in action — how could they let it pass them by? They felt that this kind of anticipation was not wishful thinking, because Tang Yi-Bai's and Arbussy's results were almost two seconds apart! A 2-second difference in a 100-metre swim was proof enough that this person was indeed quite lame. This point of view distinguished the informed from the laymen. Arbussy's 100-metre world record was 46.90 seconds, while Tang Yi-Bai's last 100-metre results were 48.52 seconds. Just by looking at the numbers, there was a

Tang Yi-Bai sat at his desk, a pen in one hand as he looked at the test paper before him. His posture was very straight and proper, like a primary school student learning how to write in class. He scanned quickly through the reading comprehension text before his eyes, at times using a highlighter pen to mark words and phrases which seemed familiar but were still unknown to him. As for those words and phrases which were not at all familiar nor known, his time was limited so he was going to ignore them for now. This was something Yun Duo had taught him. After he was done with the whole text, he would look up all the marked words and just remember what he could. If he encountered a word a few more times, he should be able to remember it. And so on his desk, other than the test paper, there was also an electronic dictionary. This was a substitute for his handphone's translation software. Qi Rui-Feng had not lied to Yun Duo. Tang Yi-Bai was indeed doing his English reading, and he

The focus of the pre-match press conference still remained on Qi Rui-Feng. This was a very interesting phenomenon. In Chinese sports, although women have earned more world championships in various events than the men, the men were always the ones who received more attention. For example, Qi Rui-Feng was the only one in the Chinese men's swimming team to have achieved an Olympics gold, while the female candidates had obtained 3 gold medals in the last Olympic Games. Moreover, Xiang Yang-Yang had managed to defend their champion status in the female 200 mixed medley. And yet, in the eyes of the common folk, the leader of Chinese swimming was not Xiang Yang-Yang, but Qi Rui-Feng. Right now, Qi Rui-Feng was being besieged on all sides due to his "irresponsibility" —— he had only signed up for one event this time, the men's 100-metre freestyle. A reporter asked, "Why didn't you sign up for an event you're better at, like the 1500-metre free?" Qi R