“One force drops ten skills”

“One force drops ten skills” is an expression meaning that overwhelming power can defeat or neutralize a wide range of techniques. In the novel, it is applied most directly to Shen Tang, whose exceptional strength repeatedly changes the balance of situations that would otherwise leave her vulnerable. The phrase therefore links physical force to the story’s broader contrast between public assumptions, entertainment-industry performance, and the concrete results of action.

Meaning and First Application

The expression appears when Shen Tang is injured and photographed in the hospital with blood running down one side of her face. The ambulance has already attracted paparazzi attention, and the resulting image sends #ShenTangInjured# to the top of the trending charts. Her friends are surprised that she is the injured person precisely because they regard her as unusually strong. The narration invokes “One force drops ten skills” to suggest that, by ordinary expectations, such strength should have made her nearly invincible.

That usage is deliberately ironic rather than absolute. Shen Tang’s strength is real, but the hospital scene demonstrates that physical power does not erase every danger. She can be difficult to overpower in a direct confrontation, yet she can still be injured, photographed, discussed, and converted into online spectacle. The expression thus establishes a distinction between winning a physical contest and controlling the circumstances surrounding it.

Strength as Action

The phrase receives its clearest practical demonstration when Shen Tang protects Gu Anran from people attempting to seize the child in broad daylight. After prying open an old woman’s hand and placing Gu Anran behind her, Shen Tang faces several burly attackers. She is not described as a technically trained fighter; instead, the narration emphasizes that she is extremely strong. Anger at nearly losing the child supplies the immediate force behind her response.

She shields Gu Anran and punches with all her strength, taking on the attackers one by one and even fighting two at a time. The bystanders initially expect to see Shen Tang beaten by the group, but the attackers prove incapable of matching her power. Their apparent numerical and physical advantage collapses, and the crowd’s fear changes into confidence when it becomes clear that a single woman can defeat them. Here the expression operates almost literally: force overwhelms the attackers’ collective aggression without requiring a display of elaborate technique.

Contrast with Games and Performance

The expression’s implications become more complicated in Shen Tang’s gaming life. While playing King of Glory with Miao Miao, Shen Tang is repeatedly attacked in the bottom lane, while the opposing mid laner and jungler also gank her. Her own jungler refuses to come help and answers her request with a sexist insult, implying that her rank must have been obtained by using sexual access rather than skill. In this context, physical strength has no direct authority. The game is governed by roles, timing, coordination, rank, and team behavior, so the maxim cannot simply be transferred from the body to the screen.

Later, Shen Tang discovers that Gu Huaian is online and has already reached King rank, though she does not know whether he achieved it himself or had someone boost the account. She is pulled into his room without creating one herself, and the game becomes a medium through which their relationship develops. Another match places them with two girls who main mage and support and a boy who has three jungler heroes available. The contrast is significant: the expression celebrates direct power, while the game exposes the limits of power when success depends on systems, cooperation, and contested judgments of competence.

Social and Narrative Significance

Shen Tang’s public career provides another counterpoint. Her company’s public-relations team pairs her with nearly every male celebrity she has worked with in order to exploit attention around her scandals, while online rumors continually label her with hostile epithets. She considers leaving the entertainment business, but Wang Brother reminds her that even bad publicity is still publicity and recalls her earlier wish to earn enough money to buy a house and improve her siblings’ living conditions. The story consequently places bodily force beside other forms of power: publicity, money, reputation, and institutional control.

Shen Tang also performs composure as part of her work. During an agricultural livestream intended to help remote mountain regions sell overstocked fruit, black fans flood the room and drive up its popularity. Shen Tang maintains a constant professional smile as though the abuse in the comments is directed at someone else, knowing that the stream will bring her money through the company split. Her physical power may settle a fight, but professional survival requires emotional discipline and the conversion of hostility into traffic and income.

The expression therefore functions as a recurring interpretive principle rather than a universal guarantee. Shen Tang can use strength to protect Gu Anran and defeat attackers, but strength cannot by itself prevent injury, silence rumors, repair a hostile public image, win a badly coordinated game, or replace the labor required to support her family. Its force lies in the tension between what Shen Tang’s body can accomplish and what the surrounding social world continues to impose on her. In that tension, “One force drops ten skills” becomes both praise of her extraordinary capacity and a reminder that not every form of power can be answered with a punch.