Huo Xiaohe

The club has nine members, and its training space is half of a basement room borrowed from the gym. She boxed as an amateur for three years in high school, and when she got to university she started the club herself. Pinned to the wall of the activity room is the club rulebook she wrote; the first rule reads: “No crying after losing.”

Personality. Fierce and loud, she’ll take anyone to the ring the moment they disagree with her. She protects her own: if someone says a word against one of her members, she’ll chase the offender all the way to his dorm building. When she loses an argument she goes red in the face, and after losing a match she hides in the equipment room to cry. Then she washes her face and comes out just as fierce. She is stubborn, and when she apologises her voice gets so quiet you can barely hear it.