Ever since Zheng Yuanshi issued the swimming command, every morning had become a nightmare for Jian Shuning.

She not only had to get up early, but also had to wash up and change clothes with sleepy eyes. Then, with an empty stomach and carrying a change of clothes, she had to follow the man to the indoor swimming pool on the basement floor.

This indoor warm water swimming pool, although only having five lanes, was a standard 25-meter length, exclusively for the residents of this community.

It also had shower rooms, changing rooms, and sauna facilities, all well-equipped.

On the first day before getting into the water, Jian Shuning lingered in the changing room for a long time, unwilling to come out.

Because no matter how conservative her swimsuit was, with a small skirt covering her hips, it couldn’t change the fact that her figure was round and plump.

Yes, she didn’t like to describe herself as “fat,” but the numbers on the scale and the pear-shaped figure reflected in the mirror clearly showed that she was indeed a chubby girl.

Usually, clothes could cover it up, but swimming required a swimsuit, and she deeply suspected that Zheng Yuanshi was deliberately teasing her. From childhood to now, he had always loved to bully her!

Brother is so mean.

He even threatened her outside the changing room, “Jian Shuning, I’ll count to three. If you don’t come out, you won’t get to eat today!”

So mean…

Hearing that she might not get to eat, Jian Shuning had no choice but to walk out silently with tears in her eyes.

Zheng Yuanshi looked her over. The simple and elegant dark swimsuit made her skin look even fairer. He deliberately ignored the parts that clearly showed she was a mature woman and looked down. Below her waist was a small skirt that barely covered her round hips, making her look even more childish. Her legs were quite long, although far from “slender.”

Zheng Yuanshi looked at her, and his handsome eyes gradually filled with laughter.

Jian Shuning was sure that laughter was mockery, ridicule—

So mean.

She glared at the man accusingly, only then noticing that he, wearing only swimming trunks, had a great figure. Broad shoulders, narrow waist, slim where he should be, and muscular where he should be, with a perfect proportion and a sexy, attractive mermaid line. His skin was a healthy, shiny bronze color.

Jian Shuning stared blankly, and her mind involuntarily conjured up a movie-like scene: sunlight, beach, a handsome man smiling with a mouth full of white teeth…

She wanted to bang her head against the wall!

Her heart was pounding wildly, and she could feel the blood rushing in her ears. She could clearly feel her cheeks burning and her ears turning red.

Her brother in swimming trunks was handsome enough to be in a movie, while she was…

The contrast was too great! How could she not blush and have her heart race?

Zheng Yuanshi didn’t know if this chubby girl was having a crush on him, but he pulled her to the poolside, did some warm-up exercises with her, and then, without any hesitation, kicked her into the water.

Jian Shuning could swim, but her breathing wasn’t very smooth, so she often couldn’t swim 25 meters without panting and resting her arms on the pool edge.

At this time, Zheng Yuanshi would swim over like a swift fish, using his sharp gaze as a weapon to glare at Jian Shuning, making her dare not stop and forcing her to swim again.

Zheng Yuanshi required her to swim at least eight laps, which was 400 meters, every day.

She felt like fainting just hearing that. “Brother, please spare me!”

“400 meters shouldn’t be difficult, right? I swim 2000 meters every day.”

Meaning he only asked her to swim one-fifth of what he did.

“Brother, I didn’t have the habit of swimming for exercise before, so I need to take it slow.”

“Fine, then you start with 200 meters as your goal.”

200 meters, huh? One-tenth of her brother’s, which didn’t sound difficult at first, but…

On the first day, she only swam 50 meters and couldn’t go on!

On the second day, she improved to 75 meters.

After a few more days, she finally managed to swim 100 meters.

She already felt she had done something amazing, but her brother was clearly not satisfied. However, even if he wasn’t satisfied, he couldn’t force her to death. This wasn’t some amphibious soldier’s hellish training.

“100 meters is hellish training? If the soldiers heard you, they’d laugh to death!”

Hehe, for her, it was indeed hellish training without a doubt!

She begged and pleaded, using every means possible to get out of it, and finally managed to get through the daily morning swimming session.

But the real pain was about to begin.

After swimming, it doesn’t mean she can just eat and drink to her heart’s content and then lie on the sofa like a couch potato. She still has to go to work! She has to deal with various trivial matters assigned by her office colleagues, spinning around like a top.

This is the true calorie-burning exercise.

By the end of the day, Jian Shuning felt her muscles aching, almost to the point of falling apart.

But the next day, this torture would repeat itself.

Even more disheartening was that a week later, when she secretly stepped on the scale, she found that the number was the same as before, even increasing by a fraction.

Oh my god! How could this be!

She almost cried.

She complained to Du Qingshuo, who had just returned from a business trip to Korea to see an exhibition. Du Qingshuo told her this was normal. At the beginning of exercising, the focus is on eliminating fat and making the body’s muscles firm, shaping the body’s lines.

“What you really need to reduce is your body fat percentage, not your weight,” Du Qingshuo encouraged her to continue.