Blade of Glory [Figure Skating]

"Use your legs hard! Use your strength but not make you stiff! I can feel the stiffness of your body without even looking! No, you are still not familiar with your movements! Practice these steps again today, If you can't do a single movement well enough, how can you succeed in the show!

I said I don't want to see obvious discontinuities in your program, no referee can tolerate a player who completely freezes every time he slides to the footwork part.Not to mention the fact that you're in a situation that makes me wonder if you're going to fall over during a game because you tripped over your footwork! "

After Sauron took over Qingyue's daily training, Qingyue's training focus completely changed.At Sauron's request, he showed him all the programs that Xue Liya and Naxiu jointly arranged for him.After being silent, Sauron said that he would make large-scale changes to Qingyue's programming.Because, the current show... except for jumping, the degree of difficulty of all the prescribed movements seems to him like playing house.

Perhaps Qingyue has not yet realized the jump from the youth group to the adult group.But the fact now is that...if that's all, he won't get the medal.And Sauron didn't want Qingyue to give people the impression that he would jump when he entered the adult group in his first match.

Therefore... the program has deleted a large number of almost meaningless connection movements with almost no difficulty, and replaced it with a series of skating and footwork with a high degree of difficulty.Even with the rotation, Qingyue added two more posture changes under Sauron's strong request, and the rotation speed also made higher requirements.

Such a change in difficulty seemed inconceivable to Alek, even unacceptable.He even looked for his father Sauron more than once because of this.There is no other reason, it is almost November now, you must know that Xishu will hold a national championship in January every year, and before that, Qingyue must pass the regional trials.So they only have less than eight weeks.

At this time, to make such a big change in the programming, regardless of whether Qing Yue can accept it or not, to practice the two sets of programs with great changes in a short period of time, just the change in the degree of difficulty... the large span will make the He couldn't bear it.The time was too short...that would kill him.

At least...Alek, who has been on the ice since he was two years old, thinks so.But every time he mentions this, the answer he gets from his father is always the same... "Look, he will definitely be able to do it."

"He is different from you and me. Not preparing two sets of programs for him that are enough to hit the World Championships medal... That is what really hurt him." ——This is a certain time when Sauron was repeatedly studying Alek's past The words he said to Alek during the game video made Alek stop walking away, and his heart could not be calm for a long time.

After that?Alek walked to the second floor and opened the door of Qingyue's room.The weather that has gradually entered the cold winter made this night even more chilly.Due to the carelessness of the temporary occupants of the room, the windows of this room were opened wide, and the drawn curtains were constantly being rolled up by the cold wind at night.Because of this, the silver moonlight was projected in, falling on the young man's face, making him even more hazy.

Seeing this, Alek immediately walked towards the window sill quickly, closed the window much smaller, and then approached Qing Yue's bedside.The sleeping teenager obviously didn't cover the quilt properly, almost his entire shoulders were exposed, and the cold that he could feel in his sleep made him hug the quilt tightly.

Alek hesitated for a moment, then slowly pulled the quilt out of Qingyue's arms and covered his shoulders.But he seemed to be enchanted when he saw the picture in front of him, unable to move his eyes away.

The boy's hair was scattered softly on the pillow.The forehead and eyebrows that were not covered by the forehead betrayed his childishness, and the first and second buttons on the pajamas that were not fastened made the boy's neck, collarbone, and shoulders look like a temptation. The angle of view appeared in front of Alek's eyes.

Struggling flashed in Alek's eyes, and after hesitating for a long time, his outstretched hand finally covered Qingyue's lips.The fingertips just touched it, and it was retracted as if it was electrocuted, but after hesitating, it fell back again.

With just the touch of his fingertips, he could feel that piece of... softness that made his heart throb.

The boy in front of him was so delicate.The five hours of ice training every day almost crushed him, but in his body... there is a power that Alek could not imagine, and the talent that Alek dreamed of... wanted to have since he was a child.

That is not an emotion related to jealousy.Perhaps Alek has long been under the impact of the facts... After so many years of adaptation, he has found his place.

At an age when other players were still playing with their peers, he had already been with huge ice cubes, and fell again and again, but he didn't seem to know the pain.He continued to practice for nearly six hours a day, six days a week, when players close to his world ranking surpassed him in one fell swoop.After he was finally recognized by the Jia National Ice Association and attracted national attention, he continued to train for nearly six hours a day, six days a week.When the Jia National Ice Association decided not to qualify him for the Olympics last year, he continued to train for nearly six hours a day, six days a week, hoping to win a medal at the World Championships that year.

He knows how much his talent is, and he also knows the effort he needs to put in.But since his father could use his own efforts to defeat those who were far more talented than him and reach the top of the figure skating world, why couldn't he?

He could do it, Alec had always believed so firmly.But when he saw a genius like Qing Yue... he couldn't help feeling envious.It was a kind of... longing for the beautiful things in the world.At the same time, he also became afraid.Because...such a genius...such a genius didn't come into contact with figure skating until he was 13 years old.He almost had nothing to do with the world of figure skating.

But fortunately... fortunately...

Alek's fingers gently stroked Qingyue's lips, feeling the...warm softness.It was so beautiful, so beautiful that he couldn't bear to let go.The movement of his hand was getting bigger and bigger, he tentatively plucked the boy's lips, and stopped when he felt the damp heat.

With his knees touching the edge of the bed, he moved away from the hand that was touching the young man's lips, and turned to support the side of the bed, leaning over...

The moonlight is so charming tonight.It gently falls on the bedside of that room through the curtains that are constantly being rolled up, like a silent piece of music that makes everything related to this night beautiful, and it is worth keeping in the deepest memory.

The young man with deep facial features lowered his head and kissed the young man's light-colored lips, closed his eyes and felt the softness, the temperature that did not belong to him, with some unknown palpitations.Pure, bewildered, only one person has memory...

Time is turning the pages quickly.Under Sauron's strict teaching, Qingyue was at a loss for what to do, but under Alek's careful demonstration and explanation, his inspiration flashed.If only the display of high-difficulty footwork makes him feel awkward or even impossible to complete successfully, then why not let the whole body cooperate with it to create a rhythm that can be remembered by the body and even become instinctive?

Thinking of this, Qingyue immediately designed the corresponding dance moves for the footwork skating according to the choreography of the two programs, and the attempt like a flash of inspiration achieved surprising results.So even though he had completed five hours of training that day, he still continued to make different attempts on the ice rink with only Alec accompanying him.

Under Alek's amazed gaze, Qingyue's gliding completely "live" under the test.It was completely different from the previous lifeless footwork...an eye-catching performance.Although it was just a test of a single movement, it was enough to make a world-class player like Alek hang his heart and stare at him unrelentingly, with his throat moving up and down...

As for Qingyue on the ice rink, he gained a feeling of novelty after the experiment. He recalled the dance moves Xue Liya had choreographed for him. The dance moves flashed through his head, and when he got excited, he gave a wonderful and light jump.Maybe it's the inherent jumps in the programming, or maybe it's the random jumps on the spur of the moment.

Immediately afterwards... as if he had found the most suitable state for him, he laughed like no one else, and slid out amazing clips on the ice again and again.

"Look, I told you already, he can do it."

Sauron, who did not know when he arrived, walked to Alek who was shocked by the scene in front of him, and stopped.He said with a chuckle, and turned to look at his proudest son.But he saw Alek staring at Qingyue on the ice, he could hardly move his eyes.

"Think there's something else to add to him? How about a quad?"

Hearing this, Alek turned his head to look at his father in disbelief, but at this moment he heard "boom!", the sound of a heavy object hitting the ice.Looking back, it was Qingyue who fell down because he slipped to the top and tried to spin faster and longer on the ice and turned dizzy...

Shocked by this scene, Alek rushed into the ice rink, carefully supporting Qing Yue by the back of his neck.

"Ah...Alek? ​​I'm sorry, I'm dizzy... I can continue after a short rest..."

"No! Your training time today has almost reached six hours, stop now and continue tomorrow!"

As he said that, Alek involuntarily picked up Qingyue, put a plastic cover on Qingyue's skate blades under Sauron's quiet gaze, and then hugged him without even giving him time to take off his shoes. car.

Speechless all the way.

After returning to the residence of Sauron and his son, Alek directly carried Qing Yue to his room on the second floor on the grounds that the skates were not suitable for landing on the ground, and knelt down on one knee like a knight to take off his skates.Along the way, he thought a lot, a lot.He saw the boy in front of him improve at a daily rate, transforming from a national-level figure skater to a world-level figure skater.

Perhaps, compared to Alek, Qingyue is still far behind. He still has many things that Alek, who has been learning figure skating since childhood, cannot match.But after these days of getting along, Alek has no doubt that Qingyue can do it, and together with them, they will create a glorious era that belongs to them, an era that is different from Sauron and Naxiu.

"I'm waiting for you at the World Championships."

The young man who seemed to regard skating as important to his life raised his head and said this to Qingyue.The deep voice seemed to be beating on the other person's eardrum.However, who made the young man's clear smile fill his eyes like clear streams with starlight...