Chapter 21: Kevin De Bruyne’s Development Template (Cuckold-Proof Edition)
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Kevin De Bruyne Growth Template (Anti-Cuckold Edition): You will gain additional benefits during training, guiding your development toward Kevin De Bruyne’s style.
Outside of this template, you may retain your other existing abilities.
Current progress: 12%
Damn! I actually bought it successfully!
After acquiring Kevin De Bruyne’s growth template, Tang Ye’s personal stats panel changed noticeably.
Tang Ye (Age 37 years 4 months)
Ball Control: 72; Passing: 72
Shooting: 54; Heading: 39; Set Pieces: 56
Speed: 58; Stamina: 61; Physical Duels: 62
Defense: 55; Vision: 91
Overall Rating: 66
De Bruyne’s growth template brought about a comprehensive boost to Tang Ye’s attributes.
With the added bonuses from Modric’s outside foot template and Casemiro’s tackle template, Tang Ye’s overall rating has now reached 66.
At just 16 years old, an overall rating of 66 is likely among the highest for players his age in the global football leagues.
However, despite having bought De Bruyne’s growth template using Huabei credit, Tang Ye wasn’t particularly thrilled.
He had spent 100,000 comeback points on a substitute Oscar!
Sometimes Tang Ye couldn’t understand his own system.
If he had spent 100,000 comeback points, why not just buy Oscar’s growth template directly? Why bother with De Bruyne’s substitute?
Damn it!
“Beep!”
The treadmill’s alert sounded—the 3km warm-up task was complete!
Tang Ye pressed the STOP button, and once the treadmill fully halted, he stepped down.
“Finished running?”
Van der Gaag looked up, seeing Tang Ye step off the treadmill and drop the newspaper from his hands.
“Let’s activate some muscles with equipment first, then we’ll head to the training ground.”
“Why the training ground?”
“To run endurance. We trained strength yesterday; today we focus on endurance.”
Van der Gaag raised an eyebrow at Tang Ye.
This is the price of skipping homework!
“Endurance training? Sure.”
Unexpectedly, Tang Ye only shrugged slightly at the news of endurance running, showing only a hint of nervousness.
“Determined, huh.”
Van der Gaag smiled.
Twenty minutes later, the two walked out together. The first team’s training ground was lit at night.
Not very bright, but sufficient for running.
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Van der Gaag sat down on a substitute bench chair, pointing to the marker cones already set on the pitch. “Rest for five minutes, then we’ll start.”
“Alright.”
Tang Ye walked onto the pitch, already beginning to operate mentally.
Purchase Grealish’s Draft Beer, price: 5 points
Payment Method: Huabei
Insufficient Huabei credit
“...”
Tang Ye’s worst fear had come true. After using 100,000 points to buy De Bruyne’s growth template, his Huabei credit was completely maxed out!
Unless Tang Ye earns back 100,000 points, his Huabei account would be frozen for 21 years!
Earn money?
No way!
If the system won’t sell him good stuff, Tang Ye would have to train it properly himself!
100,000 points? No chance!
Payment Method: Account Balance
You have obtained Grealish’s Draft Beer.
Today’s task: 10 sets of 25-meter shuttle runs, 5 sets of 50-meter shuttle runs, followed by 2 sets of 500-meter endurance runs.
The volume wasn’t large, but the intensity was high.
Training at this intensity called for some draft beer!
“Speed up! Speed up!”
“Good, keep this pace, keep going!”
“Hold steady!”
At 8:30 p.m., the first team training ground echoed with Van der Gaag’s voice. Watching Tang Ye tirelessly push himself on the field, the Dutchman felt a trace of unfamiliarity.
Is it really necessary to work this hard just because there’s no homework...
Van der Gaag took out his phone and dialed Ten Hag’s number.
“I’ve found Tang’s manual!”
...
The next morning, Tang Ye woke up feeling intense soreness in his calves, extremely sore.
Sure enough, that so-called Grealish’s Draft Beer was just a numbing tool.
If you don’t endure pain during training, you’ll have to endure it after training.
But this was fine; at least Tang Ye could now complete the coach’s prescribed training with the help of the draft beer.
Age 37, you wake up on time, feeling a great sense of accomplishment from yesterday’s extra training.
Daily Task: 300 crunches (up to 5 sets)
Reward: 3 comeback points
Something familiar returned.
300 crunches...
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Tang Ye discovered a very clever mechanism.
Although draft beer costs 5 comeback points, and one daily task reward isn’t enough to buy it,
Utrecht doesn’t schedule endurance training every day!
Tang Ye just needed to save the comeback points earned from daily tasks and use them during endurance training!
Thinking about not having to endure that kind of pain during endurance runs ignited Tang Ye’s passion for training.
Checking his phone, it was still 20 minutes until assembly.
Better get those crunches done first!
Age 37, you persist with your morning workout. Keep going—one day you’ll regain your morning vigor!
Earned 3 comeback points.
Panting heavily, Tang Ye ran from the cafeteria to the training ground.
As expected, his teammates were already warming up under Van der Gaag’s lead.
And Ten Hag.
At that moment, Ten Hag was looking at Tang Ye with a scowl: “You’re late again—that’s the ninth time this month. I’m seriously considering kicking you out of the first team cafeteria.”
“No, sir, please hear me out.”
Tang Ye pulled up his training jacket, revealing his abdominal muscles to Ten Hag.
“I was late because I woke up early to train my core. Otherwise, I would’ve been on time.”
“Do you think I believe that?”
Ten Hag glanced at Tang Ye’s faint six-pack abs.
“You’ve lost weight, but that doesn’t help. Also, your core strength is the worst on the whole first team, so cover up your belly.”
“Go change your shoes.”
Ten Hag tapped Tang Ye’s backside with his notebook.
“Get up earlier. Training right after breakfast isn’t good for your body.”
“All right, all right. So, what about the cafeteria?”
“You’ll eat in the second team’s cafeteria for now. When you stop being late, we’ll talk.”
“No way! That’s not fair.”
Tang Ye spread his hands in disbelief.
His right to eat in the first team cafeteria was earned through assists and long passes after tackles in matches.
This was a right he had earned through ability.
Why should Ten Hag kick him out?
“Assists, sure. But can you guarantee an assist every game? No, right? That’s tough.”
“...”
Tang Ye was speechless.
From the moment Ten Hag oppressed him with homework to force training, Tang Ye had figured out what kind of person he was.
This guy was truly ruthless!
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