Chapter 8
Watching his mother and Sister Chunyan host a birthday celebration just for him, Xu Ming was deeply moved.
He tried hard not to cry, but perhaps due to the uncontrollable emotions of a baby, this grown man in spirit couldn’t hold back and started bawling, “Waaah waaah!”
Naturally, Chen Suya and Chunyan didn’t think their one-year-old child was crying out of gratitude. They assumed he might be uncomfortable and did their best to soothe him.
Xu Ming made up his mind then and there: he had to train hard and make his mother’s life better!
While their current life was indeed free from material worries, and the First Madam Wang Feng hadn’t interacted with his mother since his half-sister was weaned, making life relatively peaceful, Xu Ming still wanted to make a name for himself so that his mother could hold her head high.
From that day on, every night while his mother was asleep, Xu Ming would secretly climb out of bed and double down on his training. Push-ups, sit-ups, running laps around the room — he did it all. The moment his mother woke up, he’d immediately flop down onto the floor and pretend to be sleeping.
Sometimes, Chen Suya was puzzled as to why her son often ended up sleeping by the door. Could he be sleepwalking at such a young age? To test this theory, she tied a string to Xu Ming’s arm when she slept.
But even this didn’t stop him. Xu Ming simply switched to doing planks on the bed.
Half a year passed, and by the time Xu Ming turned a year and a half, he could already lift objects weighing 60 pounds.