The Self-Disciplined Director Xia

Everyone has funny or awkward childhood experiences. It seems that only after getting to know someone well is it easy to share them; otherwise, who knows if the other person will treat your troubles as a joke?

Xia Lin understood the principle of not having deep conversations with shallow acquaintances.

However, her relationship with Su Bai had reached a deep enough level that she felt comfortable saying some rather embarrassing things.

This kind of relaxed conversation was what Xia Lin enjoyed the most.

Don't underestimate this relaxation. For a girl with an extraordinary family background, she had received strict education since childhood about what to say to whom, what not to say, and how to adjust her social mask according to the occasion.

Throughout her school years, there were very, very few people who could truly be considered close friends.

Not only did it require being in the same social circle and being familiar within that circle, but the other person's character also couldn't be bad. This was already a very high screening threshold.

As for the opposite sex, it was even more impossible. Given Xia Lin's physical appearance, the men who tried to get close to her usually just wanted to sleep with her, or were occasionally interested in her family background.

Only when she was with Su Bai did she feel a sense of relaxation that she particularly enjoyed.

Therefore, she didn't immediately jump into the anticipated intimate activities with Su Bai. Instead, she let him hold her while they looked at the night view and chatted.

"Elementary school... there were indeed bad kids in elementary school. There was a disabled girl in my class back then," Su Bai said. "A few boys really liked to make fun of her."

"Ah? Wouldn't that make her very sad?"

"Sigh, in that kind of crappy elementary school, the quality of people was just like that. Fifth-grade bosses would even gather people from the streets to extort pocket money from lower-grade students. I was targeted a few times myself. Things like that shouldn't happen anymore; the public security in my hometown has improved a lot in recent years."

Based on Su Bai's observations, elementary school students today are indeed less prone to bullying than before.

It wasn't that human nature had evolved; the fundamental reason was that studying nowadays is just too damn fiercely competitive.

Elementary schoolers can't even finish their homework.

In various residential neighborhoods, the scenes of groups of children playing together after school have become very rare.

Hearing this, Xia Lin didn't know whether to laugh or cry. They chatted randomly for a while longer. Feeling the burning sensation on her body subside a bit, she stood up and suggested, "Let's go work out. The gym in this hotel is pretty good, and I haven't tried it yet."

"Wait, now? Are we really going to work out?"

"Yeah, a pre-match warm-up~"

"..."

Makes perfect sense to me.

"Besides, we won't be able to work out while camping tomorrow. It was supposed to be a training day, so I moved it to today."

"Xia, you're so self-disciplined."

"Hmph, of course I have to be self-disciplined. How else can I keep my figure? Do you think everyone is like you, eating whatever you want every day and not exercising regularly, yet still maintaining such an insane physique?"

"Haha." Su Bai laughed and scratched his head. Xia Lin was actually right about that.

Women who weren't very familiar with him might think that Su Bai's body was the crystallization of sweat and hard work.

But Xia Lin could easily distinguish between what was achieved through training and what was natural.

Regarding her own figure, Xia Lin carried quite a bit of an idol's burden. How should it be put? After all, as someone determined to marry Su Bai and become his primary wife, Xia Lin felt she needed to have peerless strength. At the very least, when it came to her figure, Xia Lin was confident she could beat anyone; her curves and proportions were perfectly balanced.

Since she had this burden of image, she had to work hard!

Not to mention, having Su Bai by her side to assist made working out a joy.

Among the change of clothes she brought for camping, there were already some suitable for the gym. Going for a workout tonight, coming back to wash and dry the clothes... the presidential suite had all these appliances, making it very convenient.

Newly built hotels nowadays are paying more and more attention to these additional facilities.

After all, young people value these things. Since customers like them, businesses must provide them.

...

The hotel gym had excellent privacy, and there was hardly anyone else there at this hour.

The equipment was brand new and shiny, and the air carried a faint, clean scent.

Xia Lin changed into a soft sports tank top and shorts. She sat on a rowing machine nearby but didn't actually start exercising.

She purely watched Su Bai go through a set of bench presses, squats, and curls.

She stared intently, her eyes sparkling, which made Su Bai want to laugh.

"Xia, you look like you want to eat me. If you really can't hold back, we can head back to the room early."

"No way, I want to watch a little longer."

Xia Lin rested her cheeks on her hands, looking completely enthralled.

Then again, liking to look at muscular men didn't seem to be a very mainstream hobby among girls.

In fact, girls generally care more about faces and prefer tall, lean figures with light muscle definition.

Su Bai was tall enough, but unlike those very skinny young idols, Su Bai's body gave off a much greater sense of security.

Watching Su Bai train, Xia Lin couldn't help but marvel, "The weights you're lifting are too ridiculous. Are you even human?"

"I don't know, somehow my strength has just been growing lately," Su Bai said. "Maybe I accidentally unlocked my genetic limit..."

His mid-level physical enhancement was already beginning to touch the limits of human strength.

For example, on the bench press, Su Bai warmed up directly with 200kg.

Without a doubt, even for professional-level athletes, this was far too exaggerated.

Su Bai clearly just looked well-built, and his muscle lines weren't like those of bodybuilders in competitions, yet he could unleash such formidable practical power. It could only be attributed to natural talent.

"That's good. As long as you don't end up juicing to the extreme like them. Those fitness competitors, sigh, I always feel like they've strayed from the original purpose of working out," Xia Lin sighed.

She didn't know if it was a trend brought over from abroad, but it seemed like as long as someone practiced professional bodybuilding, they had to juice to the extreme.

Even at the amateur level, some people would use performance-enhancing drugs just to pursue muscle mass.

Xia Lin felt that the loss outweighed the gain.

Regulating one's health with reasonable supplements was normal, just like how professional doctors assigned to the elderly at home would take targeted measures.

The problem was that some boys her age in her social circle were so obsessed with fitness that they were also juicing heavily, and doing it behind their parents' backs.

They had to hide it, of course. After all, those drugs were definitely harmful to the body. If their parents found out, they certainly wouldn't be happy.

Fortunately, her younger Su Bai was a natural lifter.

Hearing this, Su Bai was amused. "Xia, I think you don't need to worry about this at all. Think about it, if I were juicing heavily, would my academic abilities be so strong?"

"..."

Makes sense!

Reminded by Su Bai, Xia Lin realized she was purely overthinking it. After all, she had firsthand experience with Su Bai's "academic abilities."

As the saying goes, care leads to confusion; if you care deeply about someone, it's hard not to let your imagination run wild.