Manyu rarely participated in internal team dinners or similar gatherings hosted by the Chinese National Table Tennis Team. Even when she was occasionally required to attend banquet dinners for certain tournaments, her discomfort was always clearly visible.
This did not mean she was a cold or aloof person; in reality, she simply suffered from mild social anxiety. Furthermore, she viewed table tennis more as a career rather than the entirety of her life, and she was somewhat reluctant to form deep friendships with her teammates.
Her close friends were all people from outside the sports circle—elementary school classmates, friends she had met at pet shops, hiking companions, and so on.
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