The top table tennis team

When Lin Yuan heard Chu Shaoqin mention what happened that year, he quickly perked up and said, "Of course I remember." Although Lin Yuan did not get a substitute seat in the reserve team for that game, he taught all the players a lesson.

When hearing about what happened back then, Chu Shaoqin's emotions began to fluctuate, and then he slowly said, "Back then, Sun Shasha and I were a mixed doubles partner."

"The two of us have been preparing for the Paris Olympics for three years. Because our predecessor missed the gold medal, the only thought in our mind during those three years was to bring the lost gold medal back to China."

Lin Yuan listened quietly, rarely interrupting.

"Things were going very smoothly. Except for the North Korean players who were known as the mysterious team in the final, we didn't encounter any major problems. When the last ball fell, Sun Shasha and I lived up to everyone's expectations and brought the mixed doubles gold medal back to China."

When mentioning the past honors now, Chu Shaoqin still feels extremely proud. He took a sip of coffee, and the rich aroma of the coffee lingered in his mouth.

Then he slowly opened his mouth and said, "After the victory, I put my racket on the suitcase, picked up the national flag, and accepted everyone's worship, as usual."

"At that moment I felt that my life was perfect. It was an incredible honor to be able to bring glory to my country. There is an old Chinese saying, 'blessings and misfortunes go hand in hand,' and this day proved everything to be true for me."

"When I felt I had reached the peak of my life, my coach Xiao Zhan came over with a heavy face."

"When I saw his face, I felt something was wrong. Sure enough, a pair of tattered rackets were held in front of me. I have had this racket for a long time, and I recognized it at a glance."

"The racket was covered with shoe prints, and there were obvious signs of fracture at the handle neck," Chu Shaoqin said when he talked about this place. The despair he felt at that time still makes him feel regretful now.

Lin Yuan looked at Chu Shaoqin and his heart ached. The importance of a racket to an athlete is self-evident. It is like a warrior's weapon. It will take about twenty days to get used to a new racket. Obviously, the conditions were not met at that time.

"I felt like the sky was falling. My goal at the time was to win the Triple Crown, but I lost all my weapons. How could I participate in the singles competition the next day?"

"At that time, the police and the Olympic Committee were dispatched to investigate the truth of the matter, but for me at that time, it was no longer meaningful."

"Because of my unstable emotions, I almost got into a fight with the foreign personnel present. Afterwards, I quickly practiced for half a day using a spare racket."

"But things were just as you all saw. I kept failing to receive serves, and the racket seemed to be out of control. I couldn't hit anything accurately. When I was on the court, I felt like the sky was falling apart."

"In the end, my foreign opponent Xiao Mo won the victory and successfully advanced to the top 16. I became the fastest eliminated athlete in the history of Chinese table tennis."

Speaking of this, Chu Shaoqin couldn't help but lower his head and smile. It might be because too much time had passed, and he still felt painful when mentioning the shame at that time, but now he has become indifferent.

"As expected, this news spread to China, and I was on the hot search twice within one day. The day before, I was a national hero, and the next day I became a fool that everyone wanted to beat."

"After the game, I stayed backstage. I felt like the sky was falling and it seemed that all my honors would be gone with me after this defeat."

Talking about this place, Chu Shaoqin's expression was noticeably softer. "At that time, I sat alone on a chair in the lounge and didn't let anyone touch me."

"My mind went blank and a voice kept echoing in my head: Why, why, why is this? Everyone is afraid of my temper and dares not get close to me."

"But Sun Shasha just barged in so directly. When she saw me like that, she kept comforting me at first. But when she saw that it was of no use, she used a ruthless move and slapped me in the face with her hand."

I have never been hit by a woman since I was a child. I touched my swollen left cheek with disbelief on my face and stared blankly at Sun Shasha's red face because of anger. "You actually hit me?

"I'm going to hit you," said Sun Shasha, who was not very tall. She put her hands on her hips and started to scold me like an old cadre.

At that time, I was like a child who had made a mistake, listening to Sun Shasha's lecture, but I couldn't refute a single word.

Because she was right, one failure doesn't mean anything. I need to adjust quickly and prepare for the team competition later.

That was the first time I wanted to marry Sun Shasha as soon as possible. Without thinking, I said, "Let's get married after the Olympics."

I originally thought that Sun Shasha would refuse. After all, her status in the eyes of the people at that time had surpassed everything. But she only hesitated for a few seconds and nodded in agreement.

"Okay." Sun Shasha didn't feel that Chu Shaoqin was being presumptuous. It seemed that marrying him was as natural as drinking water and eating.

After looking at each other for a few seconds, the two finally hugged each other. At that moment, he felt like a gambler walking on a cliff, and it seemed that he would be crushed to pieces if he was not careful.

Fortunately, a pair of hands held him tightly, giving him the courage to stand up again.

As everyone knew later, the racket was sabotaged by a fan of my opponent, who disguised himself as a reporter and seized the opportunity to give me the most painful blow.

At that time, his superiors sent him the results of the investigation and asked him whether he wanted to hold the person accountable. Chu Shaoqin hesitated for a long time and then gave up because too many countries were involved.

It is no longer just a simple personal behavior.

Afterwards, this incident taught the national team a hard lesson: weapons must be held tightly in their hands at all times until the last moment of every game.

Originally, he thought that Coach Xiao would also leave him, but his master chose to stay with him for another four years. Thinking of this, Chu Shaoqin felt extremely fortunate.

It seemed that despite the experience of being kidnapped in his childhood, everything changed after he joined the national team. He met his lover who always firmly chose him, and his master and friends who always stayed by his side and encouraged him.

During those years, he recovered a lot from the mental illness he had suffered from childhood, and he married Sun Shasha at the happiest moment of his life.

Sun Shasha means more than just a lover to him, she is also a beacon of light in the darkness, so he does not allow Sun Shasha not to love him.

When he saw the ambiguous love letters filling the sky, his mentality completely collapsed. He seemed to be forgotten in the corner again. The world was filled with cold black and white, with no sunlight shining in.

Recalling this place, Chu Shaoqin clenched the wall of the cup with his fingers, as if only in this way could he ease the pain brought by bringing up the past.

He had never mentioned this matter to anyone, including Lin Yuan. But at this moment today, perhaps because he had been suppressing his feelings for too long, he opened up to his good brother.