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My Straight Best Friend Thinks It's Bro Stuff novel · Chapter 22 of 24

Chapter 22: Lane Five

The National University Swimming Championships were held in January in the big municipal pool on the north side of Chengdu.

It had ten lanes, five thousand seats, and an electric scoreboard the size of a bus.

Tang stood behind block five with his towel round his neck and tried not to look at the stands.

He looked anyway.

Building 9 had come in a body, with a banner that said TANG ZHIYUAN'S MEDICAL TEAM IS FU LINGCHEN, and Luo Bin had a megaphone.

Aunt Lin sat with her chestnuts.

Beside her, in a good coat and a dark scarf, sat a small thin woman.

She had flown in from Shenzhen the night before and had not stopped looking at her son since.

On the deck, beneath the scoreboard, a physio table had been set up with ice and tape.

Fu stood behind it in the team polo and his reading glasses with his arms folded.

He was looking straight at Tang.

He was smiling.

It was a rare thing, a daytime smile, small and private, and it made the whole of the long pool go quiet around Tang's ears.

The professor had cleared the shoulder three days earlier, on Fu's plan.

The rest of this chapter is part of the paid portion of the series. Chapters 1–12 of My Straight Best Friend Thinks It's Bro Stuff are free to read — start from the beginning, then unlock the rest with coins in the app.

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