Draw a card? Draw a card? !

A month later.

"Invitation letter?" Su Tang looked at the card in his hand twice, and asked suspiciously, "For me?"

"Well, it's for you." Sakura Jianfeng said, and handed her the folder in her hand, "The British Tennis Association will organize a conference in the near future, inviting young tennis masters from all over the world to gather together for friendly exchanges. The final venue will be Wimbledon."

"This is the list of the Japanese representative team."

Su Tang took the light blue folder and opened it. Inside were the list of candidates and coaches from schools such as Lihai University, Qingxue, Bingdi and Sitianbaosi.

Seeing a long list of familiar names, Su Tang couldn't help but feel as if he had passed away.

In the past month, she has blocked almost all the information from the outside world. The professional network is cruel and ruthless, but also extremely exciting, and the rhythm is very tense. The competition and training every day are enough to make her exhausted.

Su Tang, who came in August, was already a step behind others. In order not to let external factors disturb her, Ying Jianfeng confiscated her mobile phone, computer and other communication equipment, and made her prepare for the competition.

Even the news that the High School Affiliated to Lihai University had won the national competition, she didn't know until half a week later.

At that time, Su Tang was clutching the mobile phone that he could touch only once a week, watching everyone's text messages from all sides, happy and excited, but he didn't know how to reply.

It was also at this moment that she clearly realized again... She had missed the feast of her friends after all.

She doesn't regret that she pursued her dream at this time, but think about it, she still has some regrets in her heart.

Su Tang regained his senses from the past, his eyes were in a daze for a moment, his fingers lightly stroked the names clearly written on the white paper, restrained his strange emotions, raised his head and asked calmly:

"All the men's tennis players gathered at the conference, so you invited me... to warm up?"

Ying Jianfeng sat beside her and slowly stroked the girl's hair. The soft and fluffy curly hair was docile and docile in her hands, but its owner had the opposite staunch and tough character in his personality.

She has witnessed Su Tang's growth this month, and she has seen her reason and strength in her eyes and kept it in her heart.

Ying Jianfeng sometimes feels that she is redundant, and the environment of the job site is simple and chaotic, but even without her, this young girl who knows the social rules and disciplines can handle everything well.

What she thought of as Su Tang's easy-going at the beginning was not really pure, but she was willing to stick to her indifference after knowing the rules of the game in the world.

Ying Jianfeng sighed lightly, put Su Tang's mobile phone back in her palm, and said gently: "Don't think too much, the Tennis Association has no energy to take care of both the conference and the professional tennis competition at the same time, so, just give all the professional tennis players of the right age All the contestants sent out invitations, both men and women."

"But it's not compulsory. If you want to play, you can go, and if you want to train yourself, you can train yourself."

"But I suggest you go. Susu, don't talk about meeting your friends. You've stretched yourself too much during this time. It's good to go and relax. Just take a rest, okay?"

……

Because of what the manager said in the afternoon, Su Tang rarely suffered from insomnia tonight. At two o'clock in the morning, she opened her eyes in a daze in the dark.

If she forced herself to close her eyes, Miss Sakurami's persuasion echoed in her ears after a while, and she remembered the text messages sent by Yukimura and the others after a while, and she seemed to still be able to see the smile on her face when she said "Congratulations".

The room was too quiet, so quiet that one could hear the sound of water flowing outside the window, Su Tang was upset for a while, so he simply got up and got out of bed, grabbed a coat and ran out the door.

"call……"

Su Tang took a deep breath.

There was no one on the streets in the early morning, only misty mist roaming the city in groups. This kind of mist mixed with dust and water vapor has never been liked by Su Tang, but feeling the moisture in her nasal cavity tonight, she felt that it was still can coexist with them.

Atobe's hotel was built on the banks of the Thames River, where every inch of land was precious. Su Tang walked slowly along the river bank aimlessly.

"Wow-wow-"

The turbulent sound of the river was mixed with the noise of the street in the distance, Su Tang could vaguely hear it but didn't pay attention to it, there would always be people of one kind or another agitating at night in the city, she didn't care and didn't want to care about it.

She just wanted to relax, lest Yukimura and the others would be "sick of being close to home" when they saw Yukimura tomorrow or the day after tomorrow, but in fact, even she herself didn't know what she was thinking.

The river lantern exudes a faint orange light, echoing the bright light of Big Ben, which is brighter than the girl's mood, and the sound of the bell is continuous and cheerful.

She followed the prestige and saw that the hour and minute hands on the huge dial were at a right angle of ninety degrees.Perhaps it was the wind and water in the evening, so Su Tang waited until the bell had finished ringing to realize that it was already three o'clock at night.

——Deeper and heavier, it should be the moment of sound sleep.

But just when most people were sleeping soundly, a new disturbance appeared by the quiet Thames.

Su Tang tightened the thin coat with both hands, the hair behind her was flying wantonly in the evening wind, she didn't care about the heat and cold of the master at all, she thought while standing on the sidewalk by the river bank.

She should have turned around and returned to the hotel 3 minutes ago, instead of choosing to wait and see curiously after hearing the sound of running closer and closer and the sound of tennis balls breaking through the air.

It's fine now.

Su Tang raised his eyes slightly, looking at the two sides who were confronting each other not far away.The bruised, black-haired man was leaning on the railing, clutching his right shoulder in pain, covered in dust and mud, obviously nowhere to be found.

On the other side, the pale blond man stood in the dark with an indifferent expression, neither sad nor happy. The tennis racket in his right hand was vertically pointing to the ground. He had no intention of attacking yet, but the other people around him were either laughing or ready to move.

This kind of bullying scene is bullying with more bullying, a girl like Su Tang should run away screaming and covering her mouth at this time, and she really doesn't want to care about it in her heart.

But when her eyes touched the black hair of the man by the railing, she still rolled her eyes silently in her heart.

For the sake of our compatriots, Su Tang thought.

"Lin Xiu." She called out, then turned to the pale blond man, "Keith."

Su Tang crossed his arms and looked at them coldly, and asked with a half-smile, "Why, are you going to usurp power within Clarke?"

Lin Xiu, that is, the scarred man gave a wry smile, turned his head and said anxiously to Su Tang: "Su Tang, you hurry up, this matter has nothing to do with you!"

Su Tang snorted coldly: "You think I really want to control you?"

Keith didn't make a sound, but the dark purple-haired boy beside him couldn't help it. Peter held the tennis ball in his hand and shook Su Tang, shouting: "Hey! Woman! Get out of here, be careful we beat you too! "

Su Tang stood up straight, unmoved, and didn't bother to look at Peter. She said indifferently: "I don't think Clark's behavior of injuring or even destroying other tennis players in the back is any more noble than beating women. .

I have nothing to say about those people losing their confidence in playing tennis, but isn’t it even more despicable that you have severely injured other people’s bodies and left them with indelible sequelae? ! "

As he spoke, Su Tang couldn't help frowning in disgust.

She sympathizes with what happened to Clark, but this is not a reason to hurt others, especially after seeing athletes such as Yukimura Seiichi and Tezuka Kunimitsu suffering from illness, she is even more tired of the so-called violent tennis.

Not to mention, this is not an aboveboard duel in an official game.

"You fucking—ah!" Peter blushed, raised his tennis racket and was about to smash it, but when he just took a step, someone grabbed him from behind and was thrown out like a rag .

Su Tang glared at Keith immediately.If nothing else, he must be his companion!

Seeing this, Lin Xiu propped himself up and wanted to come over. The silver ring on his left middle finger reflected a shattered light. He impatiently persuaded the girl: "Su Tang! Stop making trouble, go back quickly, your manager can't find you at dawn... Uh-cough cough cough!"

Before she could finish speaking, a brown tennis ball flashed past Su Tang's eyes like lightning. With her dazed expression, it hit the black-haired man hard, and he knelt down and coughed up a mouthful of blood.

Su Tang's expression changed immediately, "Lin Xiu!"

She clenched her fists tightly and stared sharply at the indifferent Keith. The man ignored her presence and slowly put away his racket. His pale eyes looked like a ruthless god, and he looked down at Lin Xiu quietly.

wrong.

Su Tang calmly thought that Keith and Lin Xiu were companions. Although he learned from Lin Xiu that there seemed to be a slight deviation in their philosophy, Su Tang met Clark several times, and the two clearly stayed together all the time.

She thought it was just a little friction just now, and she, an outsider, intervened to divert the "firepower" and it was over. After all, it was not the first time that Keith attacked his companion when he was in a bad mood.

But looking at the way the two of them are at war, it's not right no matter how you look at it.

Peter laughed triumphantly: "Hahaha! Traitor, let me see where you can escape!"

traitor?

Su Tang looked subtle, and she turned to Lin Xiu in surprise: "You left Clark? Why?"

Obviously, it was useless for her to persuade him before.

Panting heavily, Lin Xiu got up from the ground, his face was pale, it was obvious that Keith had hurt him so deeply, but the way he looked at Keith was still very gentle, with an inexplicable firmness in the gentleness.

"Don't ask." Lin Xiu said in a low voice, "I will solve this matter, and you can just prepare for the competition with peace of mind."

A trace of uneasiness flashed through Su Tang's heart, and she was keenly aware of something. She questioned: "You mentioned 'tomorrow' just now, and now you say 'conference'. Player?!"

After Su Tang came to the UK, the first time he heard of Clark's name was when he heard someone mention it during training. Several players in the men's tennis next door were inexplicably attacked on the eve of the match, resulting in physical injuries and unable to play.

Although no one was injured in the women's tennis, who knows the intention of that organization?Therefore, Su Tang was restrained by Ying Jianfeng and could not go anywhere during that time, and the training was all carried out in the hotel.

Later, she met Lin Xiu by chance, and she knew something about Clark.

"Aren't you crazy?" Su Tang saw that Lin Xiu kept silent, the anger in his heart suddenly burned up, and the sun in the sky began to shine slightly, but Su Tang's heart sank again and again.

"Professional tennis players are capable anyway, at most they will suffer a little skin trauma, but who are the people who come to this conference? They are all students younger than you!"

Su Tang gritted his teeth and glanced around. Except for Keith who was indifferent and silent, the rest of them were all mocking and watching the show, and they didn't think there was anything wrong with their behavior.

She closed her eyes hard, and didn't want to persuade her any more, she turned to Lin Xiu and said, "I'm sorry, Lin Xiu, if things get to that point, our agreement will be void."

The dark-haired man nodded with a wry smile.

Su Tang didn't want to see Keith, and Keith didn't necessarily want to see her, she turned around and left after she finished speaking, as if Keith wasn't there.

Now that she knew about it, she couldn't do nothing.

The girl left very decisively, and she didn't even plan to take care of Lin Xiu anymore, but this time Lin Xiu didn't stop her, but the silent Keith suddenly reached out and grabbed Su Tang.

Su Tang's figure paused, and he slowly turned his head to look at him. Although his wrist was bound by the man's hand, it didn't hurt, but he couldn't break free.

She didn't break free either, but said indifferently: "I thought you wouldn't care if I said it or not."

Sometimes Su Tang couldn't figure out whether Keith did those things to make things happen, or to kill himself.

Keith's face was calm, his tall and thin body firmly blocked her way, his voice was light, and he said with some doubts: "I thought we should be the same kind of people."

the same kind of people?The same kind of fallen people?

Su Tang pursed his lips slightly, and stared at him with complicated eyes. The man turned his back to Chaoyang and his whole body seemed to have a soft light. She seemed to see someone, her eyelids twitched slightly, and she lowered her eyes.

"Maybe it used to be, but it's not now, and it won't be." Su Tang was absolutely sure of this.

Lin Xiu couldn't understand what they were talking about, but he didn't want the girl to be involved. He was about to open his mouth to ask Keith to let Su Tang go, when his former companion shot unceremoniously——

knocked her out.

"Keith!!" Lin Xiu roared.

"You..." Su Tang looked at the indifferent man in shock, but soon lost his eyesight and fell limp in his arms.

Keith stretched out his hand to hold the girl firmly, bent down slightly, and hugged her with one hand in his strong forearm. The girl closed her eyes and leaned against his neck unconsciously. The man's half-length hair covered half of her body. face.

Lin Xiu was frightened, and pulled Keith's arm and shouted in a low voice: "What are you doing?!"

"I won't hurt her." Keith said blankly, squinting his eyes, "It's you..."

Lin Xiu couldn't help but shook his head, let go of him and took a few steps back, his back quickly hit the railing on the river bank, and there was no way to retreat.

He looked at his companion sadly, and finally said: "I will definitely pull you out!" Then turned over and jumped into the river.

Peter ran to the railing and looked down, muttering dissatisfiedly: "The traitor runs fast..." But under Keith's pressure, he was too scared to say anything else.

Keith lowered his head slightly, a trace of self-loathing flashed across his eyes.

"Let's go."