The Man Who Is Always First

Across the city, Gu Changye stood inside a windowless private gym. A screen froze on the instant Lu dropped Han. Black words—different from Lu's silver ones—unfolded before him. [A bearer of the matching Imprint has been detected.] [If his training ends after yours, you will lose the late-mover advantage for the first time.] Gu stared for a long while, then started the timer. “Then let's see,” he said, “who stops first.”