The night his ex-girlfriend dumped him in public, a mechanical voice sounded in Lin Chen's mind: “Omni-Power Fitness System, successfully bound.”
A hundredfold training effect: one day of training is equivalent to a year for anyone else. Fascial release with massage tools, posture correction, and hands-on therapy: techniques dismissed as “pseudoscience” by traditional fitness circles became science in his hands.
Starting out in a leaky milk tea shop on Wutong Street, he offered free screenings, treated sanitation workers' back pain, and corrected the spine of a girl with a hunchback. When competitors challenged him, he crushed them. When the national champion challenged him, one match made him a legend. An award-winning actor's shoulder injury, a king of pop's knees, an entrepreneur's high blood pressure, high blood sugar, and high cholesterol: as these chronic conditions were cured one after another in his hands, his name appeared among the contributors to national textbooks and the creators of international industry standards.
But he never forgot that he had come from that old street lined with parasol trees.
Wearing canvas shoes with soles worn through, he went from a good-for-nothing everyone looked down on to a creator of industry standards. By his side was the woman who had never left him since they first met in the neighborhood park: Su Wanqing, a rehabilitation doctor. In return, she received a ring engraved with a parasol leaf on his ring finger.
This is a story about turning things around from the brink of despair.
From being mocked for bench-pressing forty kilograms from the start to setting a world record with a 450-kilogram squat in the end.
A trillion is not the finish line. The summit is only the starting point.
