Realm of Mirrored Words

Translator's note: A whole bunch of side stories in one go. Took longer than I expected to translate them, but they're out now. XP Enjoy! 1. Tang Yi-Bai's feat in conquering the summit in winning the 100-metre freestyle in the World Championships had already stirred up the Chinese audience into a frenzy. And then, when the images of him kissing a female reporter was broadcasted on live TV, the hosts and commentators were left at a loss for words, let alone the regular audience members. On top of that, he then responded to the provocation of a foreign reporter with a classic "love"... Very well, he had triggered a hurricane-level of discussion all on his own. The hurricane swept through the entire nation of China, pulling all its citizens into discussion surrounding him. They went wild over his dominance and wisdom, but were also insanely curious about the relationship between him and that female reporter. As if in response to the desires of the people of h

Qi Rui-Feng adopted a black and white bunny rabbit from the resort and brought it back with him to the team. He summoned the dp-boys along with Tang Yi-Bai to brainstorm a name for the bunny together. Zheng Ling-Ye: "Rabbit." Ming Tian: "Wang Dachui." {王大锤: A fictional character from the TV series《万万没想到》or 'Unexpectedness'. The actor who plays the character kinda looks like a rabbit? Other than that, I can't comment since I haven't actually watched the show. Here's a pic for your consideration: } Xiang Yang-Yang: "Little Blossom." Qi Rui-Feng: "Milk Cow." Xiang Yang-Yang huffed, "What the hell is up with Milk Cow? It's obviously a rabbit." Qi Rui-Feng had a defense ready: "But it has black and white patches, like a milk cow." And so the two began to quarrel over the issue; Ming Tian and Zheng Ling-Ye did not want to become cannon fodder in this battle, so they temporarily withdrew from th

Madam Lu wanted to bring Yun Duo along to look at a house. It was only at this time that Yun Duo found out Tang Yi-Bai had already asked his mother to help look for a marriage home. She was rather moved, and when she actually saw the house, she was also extremely surprised. "A, a villa?" "Yes, Doudou specifically told me that he wanted a villa with a swimming pool," said Madam Lu, glancing at her with a half-smile. "Cough." Yun Duo felt a little embarrassed. This was an upscale villa within a high-end neighbourhood in the suburbs. It wasn't too far from Tang Yi-Bai's training base, and it was close to a highway so travelling would be very convenient. The previous owner had loss everything from trading in stocks but refused to declare bankruptcy. Now that his company required funds, he had no choice but to sell this property. As he needed the money urgently, the quoted price was very reasonable... with the condition that payment had to be in

Tang Yi-Bai washed up and went to bed after posting on Weibo, completely unaware of the uproar caused by his simple sentences. The fans first reaction was denial. They did not believe it! They did not, they did not! We are your wives! Where did this wife of yours come from? There had been no news at all before this, and suddenly you are no longer single? Could it be that the previous rumours were true, that he already had a girlfriend? Boo hoo hoo, it couldn't be true! It couldn't be! Harsh truths were always difficult to accept. Some people even speculated that Tang Yi-Bai's phone might have been picked up by that young cook in the cafeteria. Only that young cook would publish such a unamusing Weibo post like this. And then, someone suddenly discovered that the cell phone model used to publish this Weibo post did not match Tang Yi-Bai's phone, though it was consistent with Qi Rui-Feng's model. Heavens, could Qi Rui-Feng be declaring his ownership of Young

Yun Duo was pretty much visiting the training base daily these days. If she had interviews to conduct during the day, she would rush over as soon as she was done with her task list. If she was just working at the office, she would shamelessly request to leave early. Since she was now considered a 'big shot' at the agency, even Director Liu turned a blind eye to this, so no one else was going to say anything about it. She did all this because Coach Wu had mentioned that Tang Yi-Bai trained better when she was around. So she hoped she could accompany him as much as possible since she could not help in any other way. Qi Rui-Feng was away during this time, so Tang Yi-Bai would always passionately invite her to rest at his dorm room. However, Yun Duo felt that if she kept running off with him to the dorm room to do this and that, he would just end up overexerting himself and this would affect his training. His training was already so tough and demanding, draining a lot of his