“Just now, experiencing the French Open journey from Nadal’s perspective added clay-court sliding ability, as well as forehand and backhand hitting ability.”
“That means every experience can increase at least three abilities. And my clay-court sliding ability was the weakest, so I felt it the most deeply, and the improvement was the most obvious!”
In his previous life, he had never played on a clay court before, so when he experienced the French Open journey from Nadal’s perspective, what struck him most deeply was that carefree, exhilarating clay-court slide.
During this morning self-study period, Meng Hao was rather absent-minded.
All his thoughts were on that bright green, miraculous tennis ball.
Compared to middle school students, high school students were a few years older and a bit more mature. Teachers would not pressure them as tightly as they had in middle school; much of the time, it depended on one’s own self-discipline.
Especially in a key high school like the one he attended, where top students were everywhere and the competition was truly fierce. Everyone studied very consciously and had no need for a teacher to supervise them from the side.
As for Meng Hao and his deskmate Yan Cong, their grades were the sort that could only be called utterly ordinary within the class, so the two of them had very open-minded attitudes.
A key university was far beyond reach; scraping into a second-tier undergraduate program would be enough.
In the classroom, no one cared what they were doing.
Without batting an eye, Meng Hao stuffed the tennis ball into his pocket, then casually slipped one of his hands into the same pocket as if nothing had happened and silently closed his eyes.
In the image within his mind, six large characters instantly appeared: “Experience a Legend’s Perspective.”
Just now, experiencing Nadal’s legendary 2005 French Open journey from his perspective had been the beginner’s gift pack bestowed upon him by this miraculous tennis ball.
To win the French Open championship at Roland-Garros at only nineteen years old—what a wonderful, dreamlike moment that was.
A dream that many outstanding tennis players could not accomplish in their entire lives, yet someone had completed it at nineteen. How could it not make one’s blood surge?
“What is a legend?”
“At least one Grand Slam singles title!”
“Then does Olympic singles champion Massu count?”
The Massu Meng Hao referred to was the men’s tennis singles champion at the 2004 Athens Olympics.
“No! In the realm of professional tennis, only those who have won a Grand Slam singles title can be called legends, even if you only have one!”
“The players included in Legend’s Perspective are recorded up to September 2025!”
That was also the point in time when Meng Hao had been reborn.
Meng Hao looked at the images before his eyes. Recorded here were the championship journeys of those legendary players, only each image was marked with a key-shaped lock. For the time being, he could not directly open them and experience a Legend’s Perspective; he had to satisfy certain conditions first.
“Federer’s 2004 Wimbledon Journey,” “Djokovic’s 2008 Australian Open Journey,” “Roddick’s 2003 US Open Journey,” and so on—Grand Slam championship journeys of various legendary players.
Among them, the one that left the deepest impression on Meng Hao was “Alcaraz’s 2025 French Open Journey.”
Even though some time had already passed, whenever Meng Hao thought back to that soul-stirring French Open final, he was still filled with excitement.
The 2025 French Open final was absolutely one of the most spectacular Grand Slam finals in history.
Alcaraz had staged an earth-shaking, epic comeback, the kind even the boldest screenwriter would not dare write.
The two sides in the final were world number two Alcaraz against world number one Sinner. The scores of the first four sets were 4:6, 6:7, 6:4, 3:5, and in the ninth game of the fourth set, the score was 0:40 on Alcaraz’s serve.
He saved three consecutive championship points from his opponent, held that service game, chased the set score to 4:5, and then immediately broke serve in Sinner’s service game.
In the end, he won two sets in a row and completed a soul-stirring super comeback, winning 3–2.
Meng Hao very much wanted to experience this French Open journey from Alcaraz’s perspective.
What conditions were needed to unlock it?
“When you obtain your first ATP point, you may unlock a new ‘Experience a Legend’s Perspective’!”
“And after that, when you accumulate 100 ATP points, you may unlock another new ‘Experience a Legend’s Perspective’!”
“Each ‘Experience a Legend’s Perspective’ scene can only increase various technical attributes during the first ten times. After ten times, that scene can be experienced for free.”
The same scene could only increase strength during the first ten times? Understandable! It was just like Old Demon Han taking pills—if you took too many of the same pill, you would develop resistance.
As for ATP points, he would have to sign up for professional tennis tournaments to obtain them!
100 ATP points would not be easy. After all, the ATP was full of experts.
No matter. There was still the beginner’s gift pack!
“Then let’s experience Nadal’s 2005 French Open journey again!”
“Although the beginner’s gift pack has already been unlocked, it can only be experienced once for free. If you wish to experience it again, you must complete a task!”
“What? There’s a task too? Don’t tell me it also requires ATP points. With my current strength, there’s no way I can get ATP points!” Meng Hao immediately felt speechless. He had been counting on repeatedly farming the “beginner’s gift pack.”
“Run 1,000 meters on the sports field within four minutes, and you may revisit the beginner’s gift pack once! Because things closely tied to physical fitness, such as strength, stamina, and movement, cannot be improved through ‘Experience a Legend’s Perspective.’”
“You must improve them through your own training, such as running 1,000 meters.”
Meng Hao glanced out the window at the track and field, thinking to himself: Although it was drizzling at the moment, it wouldn’t affect his running.
Running in the light rain had its own unique charm!
Meng Hao withdrew his thoughts and picked up his textbook again, putting on an act.
At that moment, their homeroom teacher, the English teacher, had already entered the classroom and was preparing to begin class, so he could only wait until class was over.
Their homeroom teacher’s surname was Yu, with the single given name Fang. She was in her early thirties.
For the homeroom teacher of a key high school, what mattered was not the undergraduate admission rate of a class, but the key university admission rate.
They were already in a key high school. If they were still talking about the undergraduate admission rate, then what difference would there be from an ordinary high school?
So for the homeroom teachers of key high schools, their performance evaluations only looked at the key university admission rate.
Because of this, when it came to students like Meng Hao, who were still some distance from the key university cutoff, she basically turned a blind eye.
Do whatever you like, as long as you don’t affect the top students in the class.
Even if you only got into a junior college, it would not affect her performance evaluation.
In fact, Meng Hao’s grades had been decent in middle school, but after entering this key high school, he simply could not outcompete those top students.
There were roughly a dozen or so students in this class who belonged to the group this teacher had “given up on.”
“Students, as long as you get into a key university, your future will be bright!”
“In the future, high-paying jobs, civil service positions within the system, even emigrating abroad—none of that will be a problem.”
“The key is that you have to get in!”
Actually, as someone who had been through it before, Meng Hao knew very clearly that forget ordinary key universities—even getting into a 211 or even a 985 university did not mean you could rest easy for the rest of your life.
Outside the system, even if you worked hard for more than ten years, when it was time to be optimized out, you would still be optimized out. Capitalists were just that realistic.
Within the system, if you had no connections and no background, you might spend your whole life as an ordinary clerk at the grassroots level, running errands everywhere with no hope of promotion.
As for emigrating overseas, Meng Hao had obtained a passport in his previous life, but he had never actually gone abroad, so he had no idea.
Some said it was good, some said it wasn’t. Perhaps only the tall, rich, and handsome readers knew what the truth really was?
“I don’t want to work hard, only to be optimized out in the end!”
“Nor do I want to live in constant fear every day for that meager salary, swallowing my anger before an overbearing and unreasonable boss.”
“And then there’s your girlfriend, who looks down on you because your job isn’t respectable and your income isn’t high, yet spends your money as if it’s only right and proper.”
Meng Hao looked at the panel before his eyes and sighed inwardly: Tennis, oh tennis. Beautiful, lonely, and free—how utterly fascinated I am by you, how deeply I love you, more than any beautiful woman!
“I’ve already been reborn, and now I have this bright green miraculous tennis ball. Is there anything better than playing tennis?”
“Then I have to play tennis!”
At seventeen, in the finest bloom of youth, he would begin chasing his dream!
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