Blade of Glory [Figure Skating]

When the young man in the bright performance costume was panting due to the huge exhaustion of physical strength, slowly stood up from the ice and waved to the audience in all directions, and then bowed, many people seemed to wake up from a dream, and returned from the wonderful program. Come on.Immediately, deafening applause erupted from the ice rink, almost frightening the boy who had immersed himself in the performance just now and had just woken up from his dream.

Then, he raised a smile... so that everyone in the ice rink today and the world can witness the rise of a new star that is of great significance to the world of figure skating.

With today's outstanding performance, Qing Yue undoubtedly ranked first after the short program.This was enough to make those who thought that Qing Yue came here only because of Na Xiu's name stunned.But after such an astonishing short program, Qing Yue did not answer any reporter's questions to him...

What is left to everyone seems to be a blank that can be filled with anything.

And the audience present... seemed to have been fascinated by that extraordinarily slender figure ever since they saw the boy's back leave the stage.They never looked forward to a competition as much as they looked forward to the teenager's free skate.Although... this is just the World Junior Championships.But from that boy's body... the ultimate attraction of figure skating was something they had never heard of or seen.

That is different from the superposition of pure skills...too special performance.As if... what he showed to every audience was not his well-trained sportsmanship, but... the most attractive and soul-related thing that really belonged to figure skating.

But this is only his first shot at the World Youth Championship.

In the ensuing press conference, the player who ranked second after the short program made a decision that shocked the reporters—he will add a quadruple jump to the long program on the second day in order to obtain the same title as Qingyue. battle, and even a chance to take back the gold medal.

Quadruple jump at the World Junior Championships!Man... this year's figure skating world has been insane.This was the voice of many people at the time.Of course, it's not surprising that they would think so.

4T, four-way jump on the rear outer ice, which is a revolutionary jump, gaining absolute speed in the backward slide, and then jumping on the outer edge of the ice, turning four times in the air and landing on the ice.

It was a jump of absolute power, and by far the... hardest jump that could be done today.No matter in which period, only a very small number of top figure skaters in the world can successfully complete it in the competition.And the damage that practicing quadruple jumps may cause to the body... is well known.If possible, athletes of course want to prolong their sports careers as much as possible, rather than destroying themselves prematurely in quadruple jumps.

Therefore, the world's ice circles, where there have been no jumping talents for many years, have kept this word secret... I don't know when, everyone has abandoned the quadruple jump, which is too dangerous. Win with a clean and beautiful show.

It's not that there hasn't been a quadruple jump in competition over the years, in fact... there are almost every year, but...they all end up in a crash.Even... the year before last, it was reported that a hopeful figure skater suffered irreparable damage during training because he wanted to compete for an Olympic medal by jumping quadruples, and because of this, he sadly withdrew from the world ice skating team early. altar stage.

Since then, the quadruple jump seems to be an unbreakable curse.Anyone who tries to use it in an official competition will end in failure, and even... pay a terrible price.

Because of this, in recent years, even in the world-class competitions of the adult group, few people have added quadruple jumps to the competition.And those world's top players who could have completed the quadruple jump in training also chose to give up showing their talent in the competition because of the "quad jump curse".

And this year... actually saw the quadruple jump at the World Youth Championship?This... has far exceeded what the youth group should have.

But it is not without reason that the player who ranked second after the short program made this decision.He was originally the runner-up of this year's national championship in his country. He was supposed to transfer to the adult group last year, but it was delayed due to physical problems.And this year...he gave up on transferring to the senior group because the lineup of the World Championships was too strong, and came to the World Youth Championship again.

He who made such a decision came for the gold medal in the World Youth Championship.If he didn't get the gold medal, what face would he have to return home?And how to face the ice association and his ice fans?

However, Qingyue, a 16-year-old boy who had never been known before, disrupted all his plans.This young boy who is still young and immature... was actually nearly [-] points ahead of him after the short program. curse...

After saying this decision, the short program runner-up looked almost provocatively at the delicate young man sitting next to him, but saw that his eyes under the thick eyelashes... almost had no waves.

"Mr. Qingyue! Mr. Qingyue! What do you think about Kyle's decision to add a quadruple jump in tomorrow's free skating event?"

"Mr. Qingyue! Will you make some adjustments to your free skating program because of this?"

"Mr. Qingyue, can you tell me how you feel now?"

When the brief press conference after the short program ended, Qing Yue left immediately, but was still chased and intercepted by the reporters.Therefore, he had to speed up his pace and find a way to get rid of them, but Qing Yue obviously underestimated the physical strength, explosive power, endurance and chasing ability of these reporters.

He had never seen this kind of formation before, and he went from fast trot to trot with extreme nervousness, and then changed from trot all the way to fast trot.Relying on his flexible figure and super mobility, Qing Yue quickly threw away those sports reporters with cameras on their shoulders and microphones in their hands in the winding and forked corridors.Just throwing those people away, and while looking back from time to time, while continuing to turn and run forward at full speed, he hit a wall.No...or it should be said, it was a person, but...a bit hard...that's all.

"hiss……"

Before he could cry out the pain, Qingyue was grabbed by the shoulders by the person he bumped into, wrapped around his waist from behind, covered his mouth, and dragged him to a storage room for sundries.The sense of crisis instantly set off the alarm bells in his brain, and he was about to bite the palm covering his mouth violently, but he heard a familiar voice.

"Don't be nervous, it's me."

This familiar voice made Qing Yue hesitantly turn his head away, but unexpectedly saw the person who had been with him almost day and night for four months.

"Alek!"

Qing Yue could hardly believe what he saw.Alek, isn't he... There will be a figure skating competition at the World Championships in four days?How...how did it appear here now...?

The room was so small and dimly lit that it was almost impossible to turn around.Alek, who was still maintaining the posture of dragging Qingyue into this small space just now, seemed to be embracing and imprisoning Qingyue from behind. Qingyue couldn't see his expression, but he could easily He could feel the heat coming from the strong body separated by a layer of fabric behind him, as well as... the steady and powerful heartbeat.

The touch of his soft lips brushing his palm made Alek's heart palpitate, but he still put down his arms around Qingyue's waist, and after calming his breath, he said, "I just watched your game in the stadium. I want to go to eat with you after the end, but you seem to be entangled by reporters."

"So...you come here and help me...get rid of them?"

It's too awkward to speak with your back to people, so Qing Yue naturally turned around and said to Alek in this small space.But I never thought... This actually put me in an embarrassing situation where there was almost no distance between Alek and Alek. His lips were almost touching Alek's collarbone. Constantly sprinkled on each other's skin.And Alek's aggressive aura was also so close to him at this time, almost soaking him.However, it was too strange to turn around again, so Qing Yue had no choice but to pretend that he didn't feel anything and insisted on asking.

Just when he was about to answer Qing Yue's question, he heard many chaotic footsteps. Alek immediately blocked Qing Yue's shoulder with one hand, propped his other hand on the edge of the door frame, and turned his head so that he could get closer to the storage room. the door.

"Strange, where did that Qing Yue go?"

"Didn't you come here just now?"

"Otherwise, let's go back and look for it!"

Alek listened carefully to the voices and footsteps outside the storage room door, and judged their number and direction of departure.After confirming that those people were far away, he took out a piece of clothing from his backpack with some difficulty.

"Put on this coat, put on your hat, and walk out with me."

The magnetic voice of the boy who could almost be called a young man almost rang in Qingyue's ears. The slight vibration of the voice and the warmth of his breath made Qingyue's body tremble uncontrollably.