The next day, neither of them received the coaching staff's dreaded "self-criticism assignment" or the "ten-thousand-meter warning," causing both to breathe a collective sigh of relief. Wang Datou even cautiously tested the waters with Coach Liu, who vaguely hinted, "Just watch yourselves, I didn't see anything."
With the two of them spending every day together training, eating, running, and working on physical conditioning without the coaching staff calling them in for a talk, Wang Chuqin couldn't help but get a little brazen. Whenever the opportunity arose, he stuck by Shasha's side like a volunteer bodyguard and dedicated logistics manager, an arrangement Shasha tacitly allowed—or perhaps, cultivated, whether consciously or not.
True to form, when the administration handed down a task for the team to sing a passionate, youthful rendition of the song "Youth" to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Party, Shasha naturally took part as the most popular star of the Chinese National Table Tennis Team. But after she butchered the melody so badly that she sang completely out of tune twice, the director in charge of recording the music video laughed from start to finish. In the end, they had to bring in a vocal coach and suggest she set aside some time to learn the song properly.
Chapter 110