My Mr. Mermaid (浪花一朵朵)

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My Mr. Mermaid

Episode 11

Auntie Lu

What happened that you are so happy?

Your Auntie Lu's precious son came home yesterday for a rare visit.

How can she not be happy?

Look at her smile, she's practically on cloud nine.

Bullshit

What person would need that brat to come home to be happy? Not me.

Don't you know why I'm happy?

Why are you?

It's all because my Baby Fei is home earlier so I'm happy.

Yun Duo, you are such a luck charm to us.

Before I used to be in this house all by myself. No one cared about me.

The second day you're here, my husband stops working and comes home early.

Even my ungrateful son comes home from school and visits me.

Are you luck charm, aren't you?

How so?

Why lately are there so many people complimenting me as luck charm?

What did you say?

Nothing. Uncle and Aunt, I'm meeting my friend, so I have to leave now. I'll get going first.

Enjoy your time.

Bye. - Bye.

Be safe.

She is such a nice girl. I really like her.

Let me tell you something. I haven't seen Tang Yibai in so long.

When I saw him yesterday,

a sudden thought came to me.

I think he and Yun Duo look good together. What do you think?

You should stop having random thoughts.

You may scare away your son from coming home.

This is the pool that I used to train in everyday during high school.

It's also the place where I got my high school tournament gold medal.

Back then, whenever I was done with training, my favorite thing was

to sit by the pool and have Popsicle.

Calming myself down by enjoying the swimming pool with no one it it.

At that time, I felt that it was really easy to feel satisfied.

I understand now. This is your starting point.

It was here that I decided that no matter the struggles,

I would never give up and would keep moving forward.

until I become the fastest male swimmer in the world.

This is for you.

What is this?

Qi Ruifeng told me last time that you were in your bottleneck now. So I went to do some research.

All these are training methods from professionals home and abroad.

Also including how they deal with bottleneck.

I translated the English parts as well.

Nevermind. Don't look at it anymore.

What's wrong?

Do you think that I'm funny?

You're a swimmer who has received professional training since you were young.

Why am I trying to look for ways to help you?

I'm embarrassing myself in front of a professional.

You're wrong. I'm smiling because I'm happy.

Happy?

You probably spent a lot of time gathering those information.

You don't have to make me feel better. I know that I can't really help you in any way.

I'll get going.

Who says you can't help me?

You don't understand.

Any competition can't compare with having you by my side.

Because I realized, the only two times that I swam very well were when you were there.

You're just like my mascot.

It seems like as long as you're there, I can swim faster than everyone else does in the world.

Who's your mascot?

You. You're just my own exclusive mascot.

I'm done.

Can we watch it now?

Yes.

The left side is my current self. The right side is me, 4 years ago at my high school competition.

They're both the 100 meter freestyle swimming. 4 years ago,

It doesn't matter whether it was diving, swimming or breathing, they were a lot more fluent compared to now.

I don't really understand what you said.

But I can see one difference.

You looked happier when you swam four years ago.

Why did you swim four years ago?

Why do you swim now?

We still haven't found a solution after spending a whole day.

It's okay. I know that I can't rush this.

You're still saying it's alright? You're getting creases from frowning.

You can make a bowknot out of those creases.

You must feel really pressured.

Although I can't help you find a way to make a breakthrough,

But I can help you release your stress. Follow me.

I do this whenever I feel stressed.

Close your eyes. Lift your arms.

Take a deep breath.

You have to use a lot of power, as if you're

sucking in hundreds of square kilometers of air.

What are you looking at? You should do it, too.

I did it already.

When? I didn't even see it.

My stress is all gone now, so you can't see it.

What?

I think the answer that Coach Yuan wants you to find

is the smile on your face right now.

Just like your past self and your current self,

Even though you have the same dream,

I can say that you felt happier back then.

Hey Yibai.

I heard that last week, you went to your high school swimming club.

Yes. Head Coach Yuan gave me some suggestions so I could get over my problems.

I didn't know what to do, so I went back there to see if I could find an answer.

In conclusion, did you find an answer?

Don't rush. There's still time. Go practice.

Go to the swimming pool.

Ok.

Coach Wu, I know you treat me the best. Let me send a text.

Only one text.

You sure are brave now.

It's not even two days yet and you want your phone back already.

Hurry and go practice.

Ok.

Hurry up.

Morning.

There are 13 interns.

Boss Liu will only keep the top two.

Yun Duo, stop spacing out.

Pause on what you're working on. We have a meeting.

Alright.

Coach, I have something to ask you.

What is it?

Coach, when announcing the participant list for the Dream Cup,

you said that there was a vacancy

for the 100 meter freestyle.

We'll have an internal selection soon then, right?

That's right. That's what I said.

If that's the case, I would like to join too.

I hope that you can put your efforts towards the butterfly. After all—

If I didn't guess wrong,

you already decided to have Yibai compete, right?

Coach, I'm not questioning your decision.

I just think I must remind you.

Yibai's performance is at his lowest right now. His 100 meter freestyle is far worse than mine.

So, I don't think Yibai can win the Dream Cup for us.

Chen Zi Chan, how dare you?

Qi Ruifeng.

Let him finish what he has to say.

Coach, you made me do butterfly style because of the team.

I worked so hard, but the results aren't that great.

I don't have the confidence to do well in butterfly style for our team.

So, what do you plan on doing?

I want you and Coach Wu to give me a chance.

Give me a chance to prove that I am more worthy than Tang Yibai.

Let me participate in the selection.

Head Coach Yuan.

I also can't accept it.

Before I can actually prove myself worthy,

I am forced to give up my dreams.

Allow Chen Zi Chan and I compete for the spot.

Didn't we say that we will compete fairly? Whoever wins gets the spot.

No matter what the results are, we won't be unhappy.

How long has it been?

How could you write such thing?

I mentioned many times.

One must optimistically report the news.

How could you put your own point of view into it? Rewrite it.

Ok Boss Liu. I will correct my mistakes.

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Goodness, they must be under a lot of pressure for a battle like this.

I'm not sure if Yibai can handle it.

Don't be funny. He is Tang Yibai.

This little pressure can't stop him.

We can't be sure. Who knows if Chen Ziqiang might be the straw to break the camel's back?

Yibai's situation seems simple, but it's the most difficult to deal with.

He wants to win so badly, so he is extremely pressured. Even his style changed.

Other than that, the main problem is

that he uses up all his energy at the start.

He has no more energy by the end of it.

If we intentionally tell him, it might cause backlash effect.

You're right. If you want an overly pressured person to reduce their pressure,

it will make him even more pressured.

Every athlete must deal with how to minimize their pressure.

If Tang Yibai doesn't overcome it,

his swimming path might just end here.

Yang Yang.

I'm here.

Though I can't help you find a way to surpass your current limitations,

I can help you minimize your pressure.

First, close your eyes, raise your arms.

Breathe in.

I believe that Head Coach Yuan wanted you to discover

the smile on your face.

It is like the you from four years ago.

The you back then and the you now are both after the same dream.

However, I can feel that you were much more happy back then.

Ready.

Oh no.

Yibai actually fell back at the start.

It seems like this competition already ended. Tang Yibai have lost.

Coach, the competition hasn't even ended. How could you make such presumptions?

Yibai's problem is that he wants to win so badly.

Every time he starts, he already tried his best.

That's good. What's bad about it? I do the same.

The problem is that from what we see.

His later half is always slower than his earlier half.

If he doesn't gain a definitive lead in the first half,

it will be impossible for him to turn things around in the second half.

Right now, he's behind Chen Zi Chan.