Reborn As Super Heiress

Chapter 67: Chapter 65: Offending the Instructor?

One lap, two laps…

After more than two laps, Huo Sining’s speed had not slowed down; she caught up with Xue Jingjing and Du Yanlin, who were lagging behind and then left them far behind.

In the final three hundred meters, Huo Sining suddenly turned around, smiled slightly at the boys chasing her relentlessly and said, “Gentlemen, I’ll be taking my leave first!”

With that, she started to accelerate, her footsteps as if on wheels of wind and fire, and in the blink of an eye, she sprinted towards the finish line.

Everyone was dumbfounded; all had thought Huo Sining had reached her limit, but she actually had been holding back strength!

That girl was terrifying – this was the ultimate thought of the freshmen at S University. Could it be she hadn’t taken any stimulants to be this fierce?

“Sixteen and a half minutes!” Chen Deping stopped the stopwatch in his hand, looking at Huo Sining, who was rushing towards the finish line on the track, with a smile. “The young lady has quite the potential. Go ask her name?”

In the army, there are specific standards for new recruits’ three-kilometer tests: fourteen and a half minutes for male soldiers and seventeen minutes for female soldiers is considered passing. This freshman was able to make sixteen and a half minutes.

Chen Deping had trained female soldiers before and was aware of their physical capabilities. The fact that this girl could achieve this without formal training proved the potential of her body.

Interest piqued, Chen Deping quickly ordered an instructor to go and ask for the girl’s information. The instructor hurriedly went up to inquire upon receiving the commander’s order.

Huo Sining looked toward Chen Deping in surprise and called out, “Reporting, instructor, I am Huo Sining from the second class of the Mathematics Department.”

Upon hearing the name Huo Sining, Chen Deping’s smile froze, and he stared blankly at the girl.

More than twenty years ago, he and Liang Ruining had completed a mission together. He still had a vague recollection of Liang Ruining, and he could indeed faintly see the shadow of the once Ace of Hearts in this girl’s features.

This was the child that Huang Jialin had eagerly come to the training camp yesterday, hoping to catch a glimpse of surreptitiously – with such a physique and quality, and those clear and pure eyes, she truly was worthy of being a descendant of Lang Ya!

Excellent, she had not tarnished her father’s reputation, indeed. Liang Ruining would rest easy with such an outstanding daughter.

With this thought, an involuntary smile of satisfaction appeared on his face.

Huo Sining felt slightly unnerved by the smile on Chen Deping’s face.

Although she had only been there for a day, Chen Deping’s face was always gloomy, and the training sessions were getting more intense each time. The nickname “Cold-faced Yama” had already spread among the freshmen.

Now being stared at by this “facial paralysis Yama” who was also smiling, Huo Sining felt the situation was very strange no matter how she looked at it.

“Reporting,” Huo Sining swallowed and called out.

“What is it, speak!” Chen Deping was still smiling.

“The three-kilometer task is completed. May I ask, instructor, if I am permitted to rejoin the squad?” Huo Sining asked with a cautious expression.

Chen Deping’s smile paused, realizing it was somewhat improper to stare at a girl while smiling, and the smile on his face subsided slightly, but his eyes were still reluctant to move away from this promising recruit.

“Go ahead.”

Although Chen Deping let her go very smoothly, Huo Sining still felt something was off. As she walked towards her team, she couldn’t help but turn back to steal glances at Chen Deping.

Huo Sining always felt that Chen Deping’s expression was somewhat unnatural, especially his gaze which seemed to look through her at someone else. The fervor in his eyes was akin to a hungry wolf eyeing a plump lamb, which made Huo Sining slightly suspicious.

Soon, Huo Sining’s suspicions were confirmed.

After a week of training, Chen Deping probably realized that these college students were no better than loose mud on a wall, so he simply initiated a free-range policy and the regulations were no longer as strict as the first two days.

However, his treatment of Huo Sining was intensified. During training, if Huo Sining did even a little poorly, she would be targeted by the instructor, followed by endless extra drills.

Besides running with a burden, Chen Deping even specifically took Huo Sining aside for individual training indoors.

Despite having the Water-Repelling Pearl, Huo Sining still felt that her body was having trouble keeping up with the high-intensity training.

From initial frustration to acceptance in just a few days, Huo Sining slowly picked up on the kindness and patience in Chen Deping’s eyes and knew that he was doing it for her own good, so she started to learn earnestly.

Chen Deping didn’t hide his knowledge. Starting from the basics of being a female soldier, he taught her. Huo Sining had a strong grasp and, coupled with her truly good physical condition, she quickly understood the essence and integrated it, which both surprised and saddened Chen Deping.

Most female soldiers were either physically weak or had poor comprehension. He had rarely seen someone as strong in all areas as Huo Sining.

Chen Deping harbored a sense of admiration for talent and thought about finding time to talk to the Huang Family, to see if the girl could join the military. Such a good prospect, why would she go to S University to study mathematics of all things? Wasn’t this a waste of talent and a squandering of natural resources?

Unfortunately for Chen Deping, his plans were likely to fall through. Not to mention whether Huo Sining was willing to join the military, such a harsh place. Just the fact that the Huang Family learned that Liang Ruining had left behind a girl and she had now grown up, the elders were both surprised and emotional, each wishing they could dote on her as the apple of their eye.

To have this fine young woman experience hardship in the military just like her father, the Huang Family wasn’t out of their minds. How could they agree to Chen Deping’s outrageous request?

“Are you alright? What’s with that instructor? Why do I feel like he’s always picking on you?”

Seeing Huo Sining return to the dormitory pale-faced and exhausted after completing the training, there came an expression of concern.

“I’m fine. The instructor is doing this for my own good, he’s giving me special training.”

Huo Sining said, propping herself up as she washed her face and turned with a smile.

The others in the room didn’t think so, though. Xue Jingjing, seeing that Huo Sining had recently fallen into misfortune and was constantly punished by the instructor, found some malice in her heart.

The frustration she felt against Huo Sining before had eased somewhat and hearing Huo Sining’s stubborn words, Xue Jingjing couldn’t help but mock coldly:

“I think it’s some people who love to show off and have offended the instructor, which is simply foolish. This is the military; the instructor disciplines those who are unruly!”

Du Yanlin also advised, “Yeah, it can’t go on like this forever. Huo Sining, I think you should go apologize to the instructor. Although he looks fierce, he is not unreasonable. Just say a few nice words to him, and maybe he will let you off the hook.”

Du Yanlin had an ‘I am thinking of your best interest’ attitude, but the schadenfreude in her eyes was unmistakably evident.

Huo Sining truly did not have the patience to argue with these two idiots. She stretched her lips into a faint smile: “Then I’ll thank you for your kindness first.”

After saying that, Huo Sining directly climbed into bed to rest. Du Yanlin and Xue Jingjing exchanged glances, secretly suppressing the triumph and schadenfreude in their eyes. Xue Jingjing scoffed, “Hmph, a dog bites Lu Dongbin; he does not know a good heart.”