Su Niannian, a taekwondo instructor, kicks the side mirror off Lu Jingchen’s Maybach the first time they meet.
Who told him to park illegally and then argue about it? One side mirror could buy her two cars? Then she’ll show him what it means to “make a point with your foot.”
Lu Jingchen, president of the Wanning Group, is twenty-six, worth billions, and has never lost a negotiation. Then, in a parking lot, a woman with a ponytail and an energy bar in her mouth kicks off his side mirror and follows it up with a side kick. He ends up with a soft-tissue injury to his calf, and the doctor tells him to rest.
Call the police? Demand compensation? No. He shows up in person with a medical report and a digital scale, making just one demand: Su Niannian has to be his private taekwondo instructor for three months and train him from zero to a yellow-green belt. Otherwise, she’ll pay in full for the side mirror, medical expenses, and emotional damages.
Su Niannian thinks he’s faking an accident to extort her. Lu Jingchen admits it: “The accident is just a tactic. Making you take responsibility is the goal.”
And so a forthright instructor who grew up in a taekwondo gym and a cold-faced CEO who’s used to solving everything with contracts and acquisitions begin their nightly one-on-one lessons. In the training room, she’s the instructor who takes no arguments: stretching, practicing kicks, sparring. It doesn’t matter if he’s a CEO or a student. If he doesn’t get it right, he starts over. Outside the training room, he’s her “creditor,” finding all kinds of absurd excuses to show up in front of her, each time with a new gimmick: a digital scale, a medical report, a marathon registration form, records of donations to her father’s gym from before he died...
A contest that began with a “beating” moves from the parking lot to the taekwondo gym, from the ring
