123 Is This a Rehearsal for Domestic Violence?
Before the first trial class at the martial arts gym was even halfway through, Wang Heng’s coach had changed. Before Wang Heng could come up with an excuse to refuse the free membership card, Cao Zhan had silently walked away, leaving this new student to Ye Xun.
Ye Xun moved her shoulders, neck, and wrists, saying with great interest, “Senior, you tutored me in math, so now I’ll tutor you in combat!”
Wang Heng: “…How do you plan to tutor me?”
“To improve math grades, just reading books is not enough. You have to do problems,” Ye Xun imitated his words from back then with a straight face. “And the key is not the number of problems, but to thoroughly understand every problem. It’s best to keep a notebook for wrong questions and summarize how you got them wrong.”
The corner of Wang Heng’s mouth twitched. “So your tutoring method is to fight me directly?”
“How could that be? That would be too rough…”
As she spoke, the girl took off her boxing gloves and put on a pair of focus mitts. From the outside, these things looked like flattened boxing gloves.
Ye Xun held up the focus mitts in front of her face and said, “Come on, hit me in the face.”
“In the face?”
“That’s right. Use force.”
Wang Heng was still hesitant. “But you’re a girl…”
“Don’t underestimate me so much. And if you’re really worried, just don’t use your full strength at first. Throw a couple of punches casually to try.”
Ye Xun stood firmly with one foot in front of the other and beckoned, looking like she was provoking him.
Seeing her like this, Wang Heng didn’t say anything more.
Following the key points Cao Zhan had explained not long ago, he threw a punch. When his fist was less than half a meter away from the girl’s face, it was blocked by the focus mitt, making a muffled sound.
Wang Heng was about to retract his fist when he suddenly felt his arm being pressed down. Immediately after, a light breeze rushed towards his face, making him subconsciously close his eyes.
But while closing his eyes, he didn’t wait to be hit. Instead, he hurriedly stepped back, retreating out of Ye Xun’s attack range.
After standing firm and opening his eyes to look carefully, he realized that Ye Xun hadn’t used her full strength—in other words, even if he had stood there stupidly just now without dodging, she wouldn’t have hit him.
Ye Xun withdrew her hand and smiled. “You really have talent. Your reaction is really fast.”
Wang Heng let out a sigh born of long experience. “My reaction speed has always been fast.”
“But just having fast reactions isn’t enough,” the girl patiently instructed. “Your force exertion is too stiff, and don’t drop your other hand when you punch. Your right hand is for hitting people, but your left hand must be ready to defend at any time!”
Wang Heng understood a little. “Is this the so-called ‘doing problems’? Not practicing movements against the air, but using this method… letting me make the movements and then correcting them?”
Ye Xun nodded. “That’s right, because I don’t like hitting the air.”
Wang Heng: “I thought the ‘doing problems’ you mentioned meant actual combat.”
Ye Xun: “That’s impossible, because you have no foundation. You must practice one movement at a time. First learn one, make sure the movement doesn’t deform when exerting force, and then practice the next one. If we go directly into actual combat now, it would be bullying you too much. By the way, if you don’t believe me, do you want to try now?”
“I don’t disbelieve you…”
Before Wang Heng could finish, he was interrupted by the impatient girl. “Come on, try it! I know you definitely don’t believe me. Your eyes tell me so!”
Indeed, because he hadn’t sparred with Ye Xun in the first timeline, Wang Heng found it hard to believe that this girl could really pin him to the ground and rub his face in it. After all, seeing her fight others in the amateur ring, he always felt it wasn’t a big deal.
“Then let’s try.”
Wang Heng was also very curious whether he, who hadn’t even started learning combat, could protect himself in front of Ye Xun. Or rather, taking advantage of the fact that there were no signs of yandere yet, test the opponent’s lethality first?
So the two stepped onto the ring on the other side.
At this time, there were already quite a few customers in the martial arts gym, as well as many apprentices like Cao Zhan or higher-level coaches busy instructing. Seeing someone enter the ring, they paused one after another and looked over.
A duel between opposite sexes, and one of them was a pretty girl. This scene was rare.
Ye Xun said loudly, “I’m just sparring with a friend. He hasn’t trained before, so we’re just playing around. You don’t need to watch…”
With this explanation, sure enough, the apprentices and coaches of the martial arts gym stopped staring here. Only a few customers couldn’t help but be curious, their gazes drifting over.
“Alright, don’t feel burdened,” Ye Xun put on her boxing gloves and tapped her fists together. “It’s not shameful for a novice to lose badly.”
Wang Heng suddenly raised his hand. “Question, what rules are we using?”
Ye Xun asked back, “What rules do you want to play? Boxing? Sanda? Or MMA?”
Wang Heng thought for a moment. “Boxing only uses fists, Sanda can use both, and MMA allows grappling and takedowns, is that right?”
Ye Xun shook her head slightly. “Sanda also allows takedowns, but you can’t attack once the opponent is on the ground, so many moves from jiu-jitsu can’t be used. Also, Sanda doesn’t allow knees and elbows, while MMA has no restrictions.”
After a brief but prudent consideration, Wang Heng felt that as a novice rookie, he should choose the rule with the most restrictions. Otherwise, if she hugged him and did some fancy maneuvers, wouldn’t he be pinned down and unable to get up?
“Boxing. I choose boxing.” He said decisively.
“Then let’s start now,” the girl smiled, shook her hands, and raised her fists. “No need for a referee. Now!”
Wang Heng also imitated her and assumed a stance.
Both of them were right-handed, so they both stood sideways, left side forward and right side back. However, Ye Xun’s movements were obviously more relaxed. And her footwork was also more agile.
The girl’s feet stepped in small, quick steps at a very fast frequency, sometimes forward, sometimes backward, sometimes moving left and right, making it difficult to lock onto her position in the next moment.
Suddenly, Ye Xun launched an attack.
With a few consecutive steps, the girl rushed over quickly. Wang Heng subconsciously retreated, but his retreat speed was obviously no match for her forward momentum. In the blink of an eye, she was right in front of him.
Although he was a little panicked, Wang Heng still remembered the key points of boxing defense—hands tightly protecting his face, arms close to his torso, protecting his chest and abdomen.
However, a rookie’s defense is very limited.
Ye Xun threw a punch with her left hand, which was closest to him. A lead hook hit Wang Heng right on the forehead. The force wasn’t great, but it was enough to make him stagger and reveal an opening.
Immediately after, the girl threw a rear straight punch, hitting Wang Heng right on the right shoulder.
Ye Xun had aimed for this spot. There were no internal organs, so it wasn’t a vital part. It didn’t matter if it hurt a little. In short, it was to ensure he wouldn’t be injured.
As the girl retracted her fist, Wang Heng had already fallen onto his back in the ring.
He clutched his right shoulder, and only one thought was in his mind…
In the first timeline, Ye Xun was definitely the last one to go yandere. If it had been a little earlier, let alone himself, how could the other three have survived?
