Chapter 1 Rebirth

After logging out of the game, Nie Yan immediately began an intense and rhythmic workout: resistance training, squats, boxing, combat techniques, and reaction drills. He repeated each set ten times, replenishing his energy every five minutes, mainly with nutrient solutions.

For the thirty-kilogram squats, the weight immediately gave his legs a heavy feeling.

Besides punching power, combat also demanded a lot of leg strength.

He clasped his hands behind his head, squatted down, then stood up, once, twice, three times. Before long, Nie Yan's back was sweating. After twenty repetitions, he felt utterly exhausted. He drank some nutrient solution, rested for two minutes, and continued with his second set of squats.

After resting for a while, his physical strength gradually recovered, and his fatigue vanished.

After being reborn, this body's recovery ability was quite good. Such good physical fitness should definitely not be wasted, Nie Yan thought to himself.

Gradually, Nie Yan seemed to get used to the weight on his legs. He added five kilograms and picked up a book on mechanical dynamics, holding it in his hand while squatting.

Nie Yan's workout pushed him almost to his physical limit, but he still gritted his teeth and persevered.

"The combined application of lever arms and torque in mechanics, the calculation of current intensity... Problems that I couldn't understand before are actually so simple." Nie Yan scribbled in the book, quickly writing down a line of words. A difficult problem involving the calculation of current intensity was quickly solved.

Although his body was tired, his brain was unusually active.

Having been reborn and experienced a lonely previous life, Nie Yan knew all the more that the current happy life was hard-won. He wanted to make the people around him happy, and he wanted to make himself stronger, whether in the game or in reality, in terms of economic ability or personal combat skills, so that he would have enough ability to protect everything he had.

"Cao Xu, if you still refuse to let us go in this life, then I will make you die!" Nie Yan's face was covered with frost as he added another five kilograms and increased the frequency of his squats.

"One, two, three, four, five..."

The sound of Nie Yan's heavy breathing echoed in the room.

Love for family and hatred for enemies were two of the most extreme emotions. When they appeared in a person, they could often unleash infinite potential, and now Nie Yan was dominated by these two emotions.

"Sixty-nine... eighty-six..." Nie Yan's physical strength had reached its limit. He was completely controlled by his willpower. The weight on his body made it hard for him to breathe. He let out a muffled roar, "One hundred!"

Nie Yan burst out with his greatest strength, stood up unsteadily with the forty kilograms of weight on his body. The moment he straightened his body, he felt all the strength in his body was drained, and a strong sense of fatigue surged up, and he fell backward.

"Phew, reached the limit." Nie Yan lay on his back on the floor, panting, his muscles aching.

Even when his muscles were extremely fatigued, he could still feel the soreness slowly diminishing.

After lying on the ground for five minutes, Nie Yan got up again, his fatigue reduced a lot, and he moved his limbs.

"Maybe I should go test my pulling force, squat strength, and punching power," Nie Yan thought.

This was an era of national fitness. Almost every citizen had practiced some taekwondo, free combat, and other fighting skills. Martial arts gyms were everywhere on the streets, and these gyms often had some masters teaching. They were equipped with a large number of fitness equipment and machines, just like gyms, and there was a fee for using these machines per hour. Modern people had short working hours, and in their spare time, they liked to come here to exercise. If you hadn't practiced a few moves, you would be looked down upon. If men knew a few fighting moves, it would be much easier to pick up girls, not to mention that there were often some extremely beautiful women in the martial arts gyms.

In his previous life, Nie Yan had also been crazy, wild, and dissolute. Especially when his father's career was successful, he was a complete playboy, frequenting various places, and he didn't forget to go to martial arts gyms to pick up those extremely beautiful girls, and occasionally even have a one-night stand or something. At that time, he was truly filthy and unbearable, and only Xie Yao was the only pure land in his heart. Later, his father's career failed miserably, and he turned back, but it was too late.

In his previous life, when he had money to go to martial arts gyms, he never thought about practicing martial arts, only about picking up girls. In this life, his state of mind was completely different.

Nie Yan walked towards the nearest martial arts gym. The Lin Family Martial Arts Gym was opened by the father of one of Nie Yan's classmates, but Nie Yan didn't like that classmate very much. He hoped he wouldn't run into her when he entered the martial arts gym.

The Lin Family Martial Arts Gym wasn't big, but it was a separate building, and it was decorated quite well, with all kinds of equipment. It was said to be quite well-known in the neighborhood.

Nie Yan stepped into the Lin Family Martial Arts Gym and looked down at the bar. A familiar figure came into view. Damn it, why was she working the register today!

The cashier at the bar was Lin Jia. Speaking of which, he and Lin Jia could be considered to have some fate. They lived not far from each other, and they were classmates in elementary school, middle school, and high school. She was also good-looking, and she was the class beauty in middle school, but she was no longer in the running in high school. In Nie Yan's opinion, Lin Jia and Xie Yao were incomparable. One was barely good-looking, and the other was beautiful and moving. Nie Yan was indeed infatuated with Lin Jia for a while in middle school, and he even wrote her love letters, but Lin Jia rejected him. Later, Lin Jia publicized everywhere that Nie Yan had a crush on her, which made Nie Yan feel very embarrassed. Until he transferred to another school in the second year of high school, Nie Yan hadn't gotten rid of this shadow.

As Nie Yan grew up, he gradually understood that Lin Jia was a vain person, and how could she be with a poor boy like him. Later, Nie Yan turned from a poor boy into a playboy, and Lin Jia looked for Nie Yan and spent the night at Nie Yan's place. Nie Yan gave her three hundred thousand. That woman was also sensible and took the three hundred thousand and left, and never pestered Nie Yan again.

Nie Yan didn't want to think about those broken things in the past.

Nie Yan turned around and wanted to leave, but then he thought, he was already in his twenties, why bother arguing with such a little girl. Besides, he was about to transfer to another school, and he would not have any contact with this woman in the future, so why should he avoid her?

"Boss, get a card, two hours." Nie Yan put fifty yuan on the bar.

Lin Jia was familiar with Nie Yan's voice. Lin Jia looked up and found that it was Nie Yan, and showed a disgusted expression, waved her hand and said, "Are you here to find me? I don't have time." In Lin Jia's heart, Nie Yan was no different from a buzzing fly.

Lin Jia did have some beauty, her cheeks were still smooth, her eyebrows were painted with curved eyeliners, matched with watery eyes, she looked a little enchanting, wearing a silk dress, with a large area of ​​snow-white skin exposed at the neckline.

In Nie Yan's current view, Lin Jia was just a little girl who knew how to dress up a little bit. In his previous life in middle school, he was really blind to have taken a fancy to Lin Jia. After several reunions, he found that there were girls who were prettier than Lin Jia everywhere. It was just that Lin Jia at that time knew how to dress up and put on makeup better than her peers, so she could only fool middle school and high school students.

"I want a two-hour gym card." Nie Yan glanced at Lin Jia faintly.

"Nie Yan, I've already made it clear to you, don't pester me. With your skinny appearance, you're still here to work out..." Lin Jia sneered, and threw a card to Nie Yan.

This woman must have watched too many Hong Kong and Taiwan dramas. Nie Yan was too lazy to entangle with this woman, picked up the gym card and walked into the Lin Family Martial Arts Gym.

Lin Jia wanted to say something, but Nie Yan had already turned around and left, leaving her with only a back view, and some words were swallowed back. She mocked, "My family owes five or six hundred thousand, a poor ghost, a bunch of relatives come to the door every day to ask for debts, I don't know where my parents are hiding, and I still have the leisure to work out."

Lin Jia's harsh words fell into Nie Yan's ears. Nie Yan was slightly angry in his heart. If it were him in high school in his previous life, he would have rushed up long ago, but now, he was already twenty-eight years old, and it was really not worth arguing with a teenage snobbish girl.

Lin Jia looked at Nie Yan's leaving back, and there was a vague illusion that Nie Yan was much stronger than before.

"How is this possible? This guy is a well-known weakling in the class, and he asks for leave at every turn." A mocking look appeared on the corner of Lin Jia's mouth.

"Lin Jia, who is that person?" A young man in his twenties with dyed yellow hair walked up to Lin Jia and asked.

"That's one of my classmates. Our class's 'top student', ranked third in cultural courses!" Lin Jia immediately showed a charming smile when she saw Bao Wei coming over.