Conquer America, Start with a Boxing Champion

After returning to the hotel, Link took a hot bath, poured a glass of pure water, sat in front of the hotel's floor-to-ceiling window and called Zhang Zilin. He also responded to many friends who had sent congratulatory messages.

Zhang Zilin asked him if he had drank.

Link said no, it’s not convenient to drink outside.

Zhang Zilin said that there are many beauties in Taiwan and asked him if it was true?

Link said it was true, but he was not as beautiful as her. No one was prettier than her and had long legs.

Zhang Zilin smiled happily and asked him to go to bed early and come back early tomorrow.

Link said yes.

Among the people who sent him congratulatory text messages were Gao Yuanyuan, Xun Geer, Pu Shu, Xia Yu, Du Juan, Yu Na, Tang Yan, Bai Baihe, director Wang Xiaoshuai, etc., as well as Lin Zhilin and Liang Jingru, whom he had just met. information.

Link picked a few new contacts to reply to, and chat with familiar people after meeting them, so as not to send a series of messages from the other party after replying, which would affect his rest.

After replying to Lin Zhilin's message, the other party asked him when he would return to Kyoto.

Link said tomorrow afternoon.

Lin Chilin said it was a pity and wanted to invite him to participate in the "Popular Tracking" program hosted by her.

Link said that the Olympics are coming soon, and training has been quite intense recently, and there will be more time after the Olympics.

Lin Zhilin said it was great. She would invite him to the show after the Olympics and also ask him to talk about the Olympics.

Lin Zhilin said she had made an appointment with him first and hoped he would not refuse.

Link said yes.

Lin Zhilin wished her a gold medal in the Olympics.

Link expressed his thanks.

Boom, boom, boom!

While I was replying to the message, there was a knock on the door.

There were no bodyguards outside, and Link wasn't sure who it was. He came to the door and took a look through the peephole before opening the door.

I saw the princess standing at the door, wearing slippers and pink and white pajamas, revealing two cold white calves, holding a bottle of red wine in her hand, saying that she couldn't sleep and wanted to talk to someone, and asked him if it was convenient.

Link invited the other person in.

"Are you alone?"

The princess asked as she looked around the room.

"This is Taipei. I have no acquaintances, so naturally I am the only one."

Link took a goblet from the counter and handed it to her.

"You mean if you go to the Mainland, someone else will accompany you when you sleep at night?"

the princess joked.

Link smiled and invited her to sit on the sofa.

"Why is there only one goblet? Don't you want to drink?"

"I'm too drunk, so I won't drink anymore."

"No, it's no fun for me to drink alone. You have to drink with me. You're a grown man and it's impossible that you can't even drink a glass of wine."

The princess stepped barefoot on the carpet, fetched a goblet, then took the wine bottle and filled two large glasses.

"Come on! Cheers!"

The princess handed him a glass of wine and said.

Link shook his head, touched her once, took just a sip and then put it down.

The princess blamed him for being unhappy, saying what would happen if a man drank too much.

Link said that if he drank too much, he would become drunk and might do something outrageous, especially since she was the only woman in the room now, so it was better not to drink too much.

"Something outrageous? To me? Really, I'm so much older than you, and you're an unattractive old woman, and you're going to mess around?"

The princess asked with a half-smile.

"Sister Fei is a mature, beautiful and charming woman, so she has to be on guard against her."

Link shrugged.

"I'm not afraid. If you dare to mess around, I'll beat you up. Come on, cheers!"

The princess picked up the wine glass and wanted to clink it with him.

Link smiled softly, picked up the wine glass and clinked it. Under the gaze of the princess, he also took a sip.

The two were sitting on the sofa drinking and chatting. The princess saw a guitar in the room and asked him to sing a song with it.

Link sat on the sofa with his guitar in his arms and sang "Love Transferred". After singing, the princess asked him to play "Because of Love" and sing a duet with him.

Link played the intro and sang a few lines, and the princess leaned on his shoulder, swaying her white calves, and sang the female part.

Singing and harmonizing, in this quiet and ambiguous atmosphere, it feels like the quality of the songs is a higher level than the last time the two collaborated in the recording studio.

The princess asked him to continue singing another song.

Link paused and sang a new song, "The Year in a Hurry."

"In those short years, we have seen too little of the world, and we only love to look at the same face, so inexplicable and so pleasing."

When he sang a new song, the princess sat up straight, looked at him seriously, listened to him singing, and even followed the beat.

"What song is this?"

After he finished singing, the princess asked quickly.

"I've been writing a new song recently. I didn't have any inspiration for half of it. I just sang with you and inspiration suddenly came. How do you feel about completing this song?"

Link asked, holding the guitar.

"It sounds great. I didn't expect you to be quite talented. Any song you write is always a good song."

The princess looked at him and said.

"Except for the unexpected, I've always been talented."

Link shrugged.

"Smelly!"

The princess gave him a look and asked him to sing again.

Link sang it again, and the princess hummed along with him, her eyes clinging to him, and Link looked at her as well.

Halfway through the song, the princess leaned into his arms and looked at him, her eyes becoming blurred.

Link put down the guitar and gently stroked her cheek. 35 years old is not young, but her skin is well maintained and her skin is still fair and smooth. To him, who has experienced eighty or ninety years old, she is still a fresh and delicious woman. .

He kissed the woman's rosy lips.

The princess wrapped her arms around him, and her whole body became passionate.

Link did not spoil the fun.

On the carpet of the hotel, he did something upside down.

When he woke up the next day, the woman in his arms had already left, and there were some strange fragrances and a few strands of hair on the quilt.

Ding Dong!

A message was received on the phone, saying that what happened last night was a momentary impulse, and hoped that he would forget last night and pretend that nothing happened, which would be good for both of them.

Link did not reply, but just deleted the text message.

When changing clothes, he found a torn women's pajamas hanging in the closet, missing a white shirt and sweatpants.

After breakfast, Link changed into a sportswear and ran in the surrounding park to do some simple exercises.

At around ten o'clock, under the arrangement of the company and the agent, a book signing event was held at the Taiwan Island City Library. From ten o'clock to four o'clock in the afternoon, more than two thousand albums were signed. Liang Jingru and Lin Zhilin got the news from somewhere and also mixed in with the fans to find his autograph.

At around five o'clock in the afternoon, Link and his team flew back to Kyoto.

Zhang Zilin drove to the airport to pick him up, and the two were affectionate in the car again.

After returning to Kyoto, Link continued to train boxing, shot put, and javelin, and occasionally went to the national team training base next door to practice running.

However, his main training content is still boxing, honing offensive and defensive techniques, punching power and speed, combination punches and steps.

From June last year to this year, he has trained for nearly a year, and his boxing skills have recovered by 70% to 80%, and his combination punches and steps have also recovered well.

In terms of strength, the maximum explosive power of the right fist has slowly increased to 800 pounds, and the maximum explosive power of the left fist has increased to about 700 pounds. In the middleweight field, even in the professional boxing world, this fist weight is also top-notch.

But one day when he was training boxing, head coach Feng Shuye suddenly found him and told him that Xia Yuanfeng, a seeded player in the men's 5000 meters of the national team, was injured in training, causing a rupture of the joint ligament and could not recover in the short term.

Originally, Xia Yuanfeng ran 13 minutes and 25 seconds in the Asian Games, breaking the domestic 5,000-meter record and qualifying for the Olympics.

Now he is seriously injured and will miss the Olympic Games.

The national team is preparing to organize a 5,000-meter qualifying competition, and all athletes with 5,000-meter results under 14 minutes will participate.

Link ran a good result of 13 minutes and 09 seconds in the last city games, setting a new domestic 5,000-meter record, so he is also qualified.

The competition time is in early June.

Link cannot refuse the call from the national team. Now he can only run a few dozen minutes more every day and eat more meat to enhance his physical strength and endurance.

Fortunately, 5,000 meters is only five kilometers. For someone like him who runs at least fifteen kilometers every day, the training volume is not too much.

In early June, the national track and field team held a 5,000-meter Olympic qualifying competition in Changsha. Link and 16 athletes from track and field teams from various provinces participated in this event.

Since the Chinese team only has one spot in the 5,000-meter event, only the champion can qualify for the Olympics.

The competition was fierce. After the start of the game, all the contestants fought hard to be the first. Link ran half a lap first, and then rushed forward quickly in the second half of the lap to the first place.

In the following laps, other players kept competing with him for the first place, which put great pressure on Link. Link could only grit his teeth and continue running, trying to suppress other opponents.

In the last three laps, other athletes gradually exhausted themselves. Link firmly occupied the first place, leaving the second place 100 meters away.

The later he went, the greater his lead was, and he finally won the first place with a time of 13 minutes and 02 seconds.

"Good!!"

"Put some pressure on Link, he can run faster."

In the stands, head coach Feng Shuye excitedly patted the railing, and his eyes were shining when he looked at Link.

In the previous school sports meet, Link was not under much pressure and won the championship with a final score of 13:09. Now, competing with the top domestic long-distance runners, Link felt the pressure and his score became 13:02, a full 7 seconds higher.

Although 7 seconds is not much, Link has been striving to be the first in the competition and has put other opponents behind him.

If Link can continue to maintain this spirit of striving to be the first in the Olympic Games, he is likely to win a medal.

A track and field running medal is a groundbreaking achievement in China and Asia.

It is worth trying.

"This classmate Xiao Lin is really good. He can run this result at the age of 19. The future is promising."

"Coach Feng, congratulations on training a good seedling."

"Coach Feng, congratulations! The national track and field team has hope."

In the stands, coaches of other track and field teams and leaders of the sports department congratulated Coach Feng Shuye.

Coach Feng laughed and said that Link's time of 13 minutes and 2 seconds was very good, but there was still a lot of room for improvement, so he shouldn't be too proud now.

Others also wished the track and field team a good result in the August Olympics.

After the competition, Link returned to Kyoto with the coaching team. Now he has one more competition task.

That means he will compete in four events in the August Olympics, including men's boxing, men's shot put, javelin, and 5,000-meter long-distance running.

These four events are very demanding on the body, and can be called the Ironman tetrathon.

In order to prevent him from being injured during training, the staff of the national team's medical care team will check his body after training every day. Once any abnormality is found, he will immediately stop training and rest to prevent injury and reimbursement of all events.

Fortunately, Link has a very good physique and is not easily injured. Even if he is injured, he will recover quickly, so the amount of training is not heavy for him.

In addition, after completing training every day, you can go home and take a bath with Zhang Zilin and do some of your favorite things, which will help your body recover faster.

Sometimes he would go on secret dates with Brother Xun, Gao Yuanyuan, and the princess to relax his body in this way.

The secret meeting with the princess began in June. After he wrote "The Year in a Hurry", he gave the song to Zhang Yadong and asked him to find the princess to sing it. She was more suitable for the song.

The princess did not refuse, and later the two met in the recording studio and repeated what happened in the hotel on the sofa in the office.

Although the princess looks cold and full of personality, she is still a woman controlled by dopamine when it comes to this kind of thing.

She initiated every secret meeting and always said it was the last one when it was over.

Link also followed her, and went to see the princess when she wanted to meet her. When he didn't want to meet her, he could go to Brother Xun and Gao Yuanyuan, and never took the initiative to date the princess.

This also made the princess say that he was a cold and heartless man.

Link will not refute with words, but will only use practical actions to prove that he is indeed cruel.

In July, summer vacation has arrived, and the days until the opening of the Athens Olympics are getting shorter and shorter. For athletes participating in the Olympics, these days are more like a countdown to the college entrance examination, and the pressure of training is increasing.

However, in order to prevent athletes from getting injured, the national team coaches have reduced the training volume of various events during this period. Most trainings have been halved, and some have been stopped directly. Those who train secretly will be punished.

Link's 5,000-meter, shot put, and javelin training were also stopped. He was only allowed to practice postures and warm-up every day, and no high-intensity training was allowed.

Also because of the reduced training volume, Link also has more time at his disposal.

At an alumni meeting in early July, he met Liu Qiangdong through a fan and classmate of Renmin University.

The other party is a 92-year-old college student who started his own business in Zhongguancun, not far from the National University. He is setting up JD.com to be an agent for optical discs, disks and other products, similar to Netflix.

In 2001, it became the leader in the industry in the Kyoto area, and by 2003 it had 12 stores. However, due to the impact of SARS in the first half of last year, its business plummeted, and many stores closed down.

Liu Qiangdong came into contact with e-commerce at the beginning of this year and decided to close all offline stores and focus on online. He established JD Multimedia Network to get involved in the e-commerce field, similar to Taobao established at the beginning of the year and eBay in the United States.

Affected by funds, JD Multimedia Network developed slowly.

Liu Qiangdong often participates in various alumni associations after work, hoping to attract investment. However, the computer penetration rate in China is currently relatively low, and online e-commerce is more like a scene described in a science fiction novel, which seems very unrealistic.

So no one wants to invest.

After hearing the other party's explanation at the alumni meeting, Link asked the other party several key questions, such as how to compete with e-commerce platforms such as eBay and Taobao, and how to ensure supply, transportation, and after-sales service.

When they first started chatting, Liu Qiangdong didn’t pay much attention and just thought it was just for fun.

As the questions deepened, Liu Qiangdong thought for longer and longer, stumbled when answering the questions, and sweat gradually broke out on his forehead. He also saw that Link was not only a singer and sports student, but also a person who knew e-commerce very well.

Liu Qiangdong began to become serious, and finally said helplessly that there were some questions that he needed to study carefully before he could give him answers.

Link nodded and asked about investment.

He claimed that after learning about eBay and Amazon in the United States, he was very optimistic about the future development of e-commerce in China and was ready to invest in similar projects.

If JD Multimedia Network needs investment, he can consider investing.

Liu Qiangdong immediately became excited, talked about JD's development and asset status, and asked how much he was willing to invest.

Link said that he now has 1 million US dollars in his hand. As long as he needs investment, he can get the money, even 10 million to 100 million is no problem.

Liu Qiangdong thought for a moment and reached out to shake his hand, hoping to cooperate with him.