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Lin Xue trained very late that day. When the club's duty officer came to the training ground to look for her and said that someone was waiting for her at the door, she looked impatient: "No one is here."

Her sudden retirement was criticized by everyone in the figure skating circle, but it was not the case outside the figure skating circle. People only regarded her as a legend on ice worth talking about.In addition, after she decided to come back, the commercial performance company made every effort to make her a star, which made her popularity soar.

All of a sudden, there was an endless stream of people coming to the club to find her: fans, business partners, reporters, everything.

Lin Xue just wanted to concentrate on training.

She knows too well that as an athlete, performance is the foundation, just like as an actor or singer, the work is the foundation.Otherwise, everything else is a castle in the air, a tree without roots.

The attendant on duty murmured: "I told her you won't see me, she must believe me..." Then he was ready to leave.

Lin Xue stopped him: "Who is it that came to see me? Did you say your name?"

"A girl with long curly hair, her surname is Sang."

Lin Xue put down her skates and ran out of the ice rink. The rush of the wind stunned the attendant: "No, didn't you say that no one will be seen?"

Lin Xue put on her coat only to realize that Sang Tian called her several times but she didn't answer, so she asked someone to come to the training ground to find her.

She ran all the way to the door of the club, and suddenly slowed down again, walking slowly.

Sang Tian saw her running so fast, shouldn't she laugh at her?How can she maintain her arrogant and arrogant attributes?

She also reached out to straighten her hair.

In fact, the sport of figure skating is not as glamorous as it looks on the surface. Costen, who is gorgeously dressed, dances gracefully on the ice.Behind this is the extremely rigorous training day after day, especially for Lin Xue who works so hard, every game is like being fished out of the water.

Wouldn't it be unsightly to have sweaty hair clinging to the scalp?She stretched out her hand again.

Even when she faced many reporters before, she never thought about it.

Walking out of the club slowly, I saw a beautiful figure at the door, walking back and forth in a pair of short boots with head bowed, as if trying to crush the moonlight.

Lin Xue walked over: "Why are you here? Didn't you just meet two days ago?"

Come on, tell me you miss me.

But the big sister didn't follow the routine: "Why, it seems that some people don't want me? Then they don't want the little gift I brought?"

She slowly took out something from the coat pocket, and shook it at Lin Xue, who immediately blushed——

It was a Polaroid, and the content was a bit exciting. Sang Tian was wearing the maid outfit that couldn't cover the two big cream dumplings, leaned slightly, and made a cat's paw movement towards the camera.

It was good that she didn't bend over, but when she bent over, the two dumplings almost fell out.

At this time, the security guards from the club who were patrolling at night came over. In fact, it was impossible to see this Polaroid clearly at such a distance in the night, but Lin Xue was in a hurry.

In order to avoid such human tragedies as her gouging out people's eyeballs, she reached out and snatched them.

Sang Tian was already on guard, and raised his hand with a smile: "Didn't you miss me?"

Lin Xue didn't have the time to make trouble with her, she just didn't want anyone to have any possibility to see Sang Tian like that.

The more she robbed, the more Sang Tian refused to give.

In the end, Lin Xue took a breath, stretched out her hand to hook Sang Tian's coat belt, shook it twice, and lowered her eyes and said, "Sister, please."

She even twisted her waist.

Sang Tian was stunned.

Lin Xue took the opportunity to snatch the Polaroid from Sang Tian's hand, and immediately stuffed it into her pocket.

Sang Tian realized that he was about to grab her, but Lin Xue hugged her and leaned into her ear: "Can't I miss you?"

"I miss you, so I want it very much."

A straight ball was hit, and Sang Tian was stunned again.

Lin Xue thought it was a bit funny, so she tapped Sang Tian's nose and asked her, "Did you come here specially to send me photos?"

Sang Tian hesitated for a moment: "And this."

She took out a small thing from her coat, not much bigger than the Polaroid photo just now, but Lin Xue almost staggered back a step.

In Sang Tian's hand was a number plate.

In Gai Yiyang’s ice school, in order to train them more efficiently, Wen Xinzhu numbered everyone when they were almost all wearing black training clothes. on the training clothes.

Chao Xi is No.11, and Lin Xue is No.[-].

Why did Chao Xi come a year later than Lin Xue, but her number was higher?Because they all inherited the numbers of the retired senior sisters, they got the numbers when it was their turn.

At this time, the number plate in Sang Tian's hand was Chao Xi's number seven at that time.Even when Chao Xi had just returned to the ice school after surgery, but was forced by Wen Hsinchu to train intensively, Chao Xi broke down once and threw the sportswear at his feet, and the number plate was stained with Chao Xi's blood.

After so many years now, the bloodstain has faded to the point where it is almost invisible, it looks like a yellowed old stain.

Lin Xue's eyes were stabbed deeply, she turned and left without saying a word.

"Lin Xue." Sang Tian came over to pull her.

Lin Xue shook off her hand forcefully, pushed her on the shoulder with that inertia, and growled, "Don't touch me!"

Like a beast that has lost its mind.

Sang Tian was stunned by her yelling.

Lin Xue left without looking back.

******

It finally took until Thursday, and it was the day when Sang Tian could see Bai Xinnuo. As soon as Sang Tian entered the consultation room, before he could sit still, he let out a long sigh: "Hey! You really said it."

Bai Xinnuo nodded: "I said you were too hasty."

When Sang Tian chatted with Bai Xinnuo about Lin Xue last Thursday, she told Bai Xinnuo that she wanted to do this.

The number plate was quietly given to her by Gai Yiyang when she went to Hei Province to find Gai Yiyang.After so many years, after experiencing Chao Xi's tragic death, Chu Lingxue's sad retirement, Wen Xinzhu's departure from his hometown and a series of events, only Gai Yiyang will keep this number plate.

Bai Xinnuo said at the time: "I know you want to persuade her to face Chao Xi's matter with you, but since she is not ready, you will only irritate her."

Sang Tian felt that she couldn't wait any longer: "You haven't seen her after training, her lips are pale, as if she has used up the last bit of energy in her body, practicing to death is a metaphor for others, but for her Here’s the real description.”

"I can understand other behaviors that lose control of my emotions, but this kind of play that wants to kill myself is not because of Chao Xi's matter in my heart? It seems that she is worthy of Chao Xi when she stands on the ice rink with Chao Xi's dream again. It's like it's dawning."

"I know it's not like this, and she also knows that I can't wait like this any longer."

But the facts turned out as Bai Xinnuo expected, Lin Xue was greatly stimulated and left.

Sang Tian called Lin Xue countless times this week, but she didn't answer, and she never made a video call with Sang Tian again.

On the night after seeing Bai Xinnuo, Sang Tian couldn't help but ran to the club again.

Coincidentally, the gate was still the same person on duty last time, and Sang Tian asked him to call Lin Xue again.

After a while, the man came back alone: ​​"She said she didn't see her."

Sang Tian: "Did you say my surname is Sang?"

That person: "I said it, but she said that no matter what her surname is, she won't see her."

Sang Tian: ...

She reluctantly smiled and thanked the man: "It's troublesome."

It was time to go, but her feet led her in disbelief, and she sat on the bench at the entrance of the club.

There is fine and dense snow floating in the sky, and the night weather in the suburbs is so cold that people's ears will be frozen off.

Sang Tian sneezed.

A cup of hot ginger tea was handed to her.

Sang Tian raised his head, but it wasn't the lazy face he was expecting, but the officer on duty just now: "This is prepared by the club for our night shifters. You should have a drink too. Look at your head and shoulders. Snow is almost turning into a snowman."

Sang Tian took it: "Thank you."

The man whispered to her: "Girl, don't waste your time here. I've gotten to know Chu Lingxue after she's been training here for a while, and what she decides won't change. Don't say that nine cows won't come back. Even nine little monsters and nine Ultramans can't be pulled back."

He finally summed it up in three words: "Stubborn!"

Sang Tian smiled helplessly.

Why doesn't she know Lin Xue is stubborn?

However, Lin Xue was not the only one who was stubborn, they all insisted on their own persistence, like pulling the two ends of the same rope, the harder they worked, the more they made each other's hands covered in blood.

Who should let go first?

Sang Tian drank that cup of ginger tea, but his stomach didn't warm up in the end.

When she walked away step by step and turned her head three times in the snowy night, she took a last look at the warm yellow lights on the training ground.

In the end, Lin Xue didn't come out to look at her.

******

The next day when Sang Tian woke up, he found that his voice was as hoarse as Mrs. An's, unable to speak.

After entering the office, Ding Yuning immediately noticed that Sang Tian, ​​who is usually the most talkative, was exceptionally silent today: "What are you playing so deeply?"

Sang Tian grabbed his throat with one hand, and stretched out his other hand to Ding Yuning: "Baojuan, what's wrong with my throat, Baojuan?"

Ding Yuling was startled: "Why is your voice so hoarse?"

Sang Tian said with a smile, "It's cold."

Not only is it cold, but also cold.

While talking, Sang Tian's cell phone rang, and it was Tang Shishan: "I was doing business nearby, and happened to pass by downstairs of your office, do you have time to buy me a cup of coffee?"

Sang Tian hung up the phone and typed a reply on his mobile phone: "I'm so cold that I can't speak, I'm afraid I'll infect you."

Tang Shishan replied in seconds: "Isn't that right in front of my business area? Hurry up and go downstairs!"

In fact, Sang Tian knew that getting a cold was not Tang Shishan's business scope at all. Tang Shishan studied sports rehabilitation medicine. She said this on purpose, probably because she had something else to talk to Sang Tian about.

Don't Lin Xue want to break up, right?

When Sang Tian went downstairs, she saw Tang Shishan's short hair that looked like a bird's nest, and she was no longer as delicate as usual. She yawned and asked Sang Tian, ​​"Which coffee shop in your neighborhood has the best coffee?"

Sang Tian took her to a nearby cafe and sat down. She immediately ordered a cup of double concentrate, took two sips before she woke up a little, took out a box of medicine from her bag and handed it to Sang Tian: "Eat this, two times a time." capsules three times a day, just pack it for two days."

Sang Tian took a look at the imported medicine box full of English, and typed Tang Shishan with her mobile phone: "Yes, you can also prescribe the right medicine for a cold, but what a coincidence, you carry the medicine I need with you?"

Tang Shishan: "We doctors all have Doraemon's pockets, and we carry a lot of medicine with us."

Sang Tian typed again: "Actually, I still have a little diarrhea, can you change a box of medicine for me?"

Tang Shishan: ...

She smothered the little bit of leftover coffee in one gulp: "Oh, I won't be acting anymore! It's still my bedtime so early, how can I act if I'm not clear-headed!"

She told Sang Tian: "It was Xuexue, that dead thing who called me early in the morning, saying that you might catch a cold if you caught a cold, and asked me to call and ask my classmate what medicine is the most effective. I drove to find my classmate early in the morning. After taking the medicine, I will bring it to you, otherwise Xuexue will annoy me to death!"

Sang Tian typed: "Is she okay?"

Tang Shishan: "Not very good."

Sang Tian typed: "She won't let you tell me this? Why are you willing to tell me?"

Tang Shishan glanced at Sang Tian: "Sang Tian, ​​I really admire you."

"Actually, from Principal Gai, to Coach Wen, to me, those of us who are close to Xuexue don't know that Chao Xi is her heart disease? But we all let her bury her head in the sand like an ostrich inside."

"I think it's because we are also ostriches, and no one has the courage to guarantee that after pulling Xuexue out, we can fight with her to the last moment."

She asked Sang Tian: "Do you know what you are facing when you investigate? Xuexue is worried that her life will be in danger. That is not random suspicion."

Sang Tian nodded.

Tang Shishan: "Then you still need to investigate? Chao Xi has passed away. Even if the truth of the year is found out, what can be changed?"

Sang Tian typed: "Because if we don't continue to investigate, there will be a second, third, and countless Chao Xi. I think if Chao Xi is watching from the sky, this is the last thing Chao Xi wants to happen."

She typed and asked Tang Shishan: "You don't have any problem reading large sections of Chinese, right?"

Tang Shishan: "Not bad."

Sang Tian poked the phone twice, and pulled out a page for Tang Shishan to read.

Tang Shishan saw that it was a piece of news——

A girl practicing gymnastics suffered a fractured femur. Many people thought that her gymnastics journey was about to end. However, with tenacious willpower, she carried out rehabilitation training for more than a year, threw away her crutches and regained her qualifications for the World Championships.

However, after getting the quota, the psychological pressure was too great, and the state plummeted, and finally chose to commit suicide.

Sang Tian typed: "I checked the news database. In the past ten years or so, as far as I can find, there are four similar news."

Tang Shishan: "Maybe... a coincidence?"

Sang Tian smiled and continued typing: "Ordinary people can think this way, but people with two professions in the world can't think so."

"One is the police, and the other is the reporter."

******

Then, Dai Qing's real birthday arrived.

Yang Jingsi called Sang Tian very gossip early in the morning: "Are you going to the princess's house today?"

Sang Tian's voice was confused: "Go."

"Why haven't you gotten up yet?" Yang Jingsi asked, "Since you're going, shouldn't you get up, wash your hair, take a shower, and put on makeup?"

Sang Tian: "Why am I fussing about all this? Didn't the princess just invite me to her house for a light meal?"

Yang Jingsi: "But isn't the princess chasing you?"

Sang Tian: "Sisters, don't make trouble. The princess is mainly frying steaks and I am sugar fire. The princess is mainly serving cocktails and I am Erguotou. We will never be on the same table!"

"I'm not afraid to bite my tongue when I talk so much." Yang Jingsi muttered, "Why don't you mix Chinese and Western together?"

Sang Tian thought it was funny: "What are you doing here?"

Yang Jingsi: "I'm not matching you and the princess, I just heard that the wolf cub has ignored you for a while, and I think she's a bit too much."

Sang Tian was silent for a while: "Let's not talk about this first, I really should get up, otherwise I will be late."

Yang Jingsi: "Okay, you can go, it's rare to go to a birthday party to relax and have fun."

******

After Sang Tian washed up briefly, he finished proofreading a translation that was to be handed in today, and then came to Dai Qing's villa a while before lunch.

It was Chen Baiyu who came to open the door: "Reporter Sang, Miss has been waiting for you for a long time."

He took Sang Tian to Dai Qing's bedroom: "At the moment, Miss is cooking herself, I want you to go to her bedroom and wait for her."

Sang Tian: "...why wait in the bedroom, why not wait for her in the living room?"

She doesn't want to go to clean up the bedroom at all!As soon as I entered last time, I saw a big photo of myself stupidly turned into a poster. Together with posters made of Olympic gold medals and World Championships gold medals, they were placed on the wall of Dai Qing's bedroom. The tragic death scene.

Chen Baiyu laughed and said, "Miss has a surprise for you in her bedroom."

As soon as Sang Tian entered Daiqing's bedroom: ...

Forget about the headshot from last time!Why did you change the face photo this time?The face is glowing with oil and there is a huge pimple that hasn't been removed by P!

Which live press release is this taken directly from?

Sang Tian: "Chen Butler, I beg you to do something, can you take this poster for me no matter what?"

Butler Chen smiled: "Reporter Sang, I'm sorry, Miss said she would hang out for the rest of her life."

Sang Tian brought out his trump card: "I'm standing here with such a big face, Queen Mother...ah no, do you have any objections to Ms. Dai?"

Chen Baiyu: "If it helps to improve Miss's grades, Madam will have no objection to anything."

Speaking of Dai Lili, Sang Tian realized: "Ms. Dai is not at home? Isn't it her daughter's birthday?"

Chen Baiyu: "Madam's company is very busy. She usually spends a lot of time training and competing with the lady, so when the lady is resting at home, the lady is always working in the company."

Sang Tian couldn't help being speechless, thinking that the queen mother is really not an ordinary person.

Chen Baiyu: "Miss Sang, sit down first, I'll prepare some fruit."

After Chen Baiyu left, Sang Tian made some calculations in his mind. After walking all the way just now, no corner of the house was spotless. It seemed unrealistic to pick up a single hair of Chen Baiyu.

Just as I was thinking, the phone rang, and Sang Tian saw that it was Chi Xia, and picked it up secretly: "Hello?"

Chi Xia: "I have checked Gong Ping's social relations. He has never left Hei Province in his whole life, just like Chen Baiyu has never left Beicheng in his whole life. There should be no possibility of them getting along for a long time when they were young. Now we can only check their relationship. No blood relationship, did you get Chen Baiyu's hair?"

Sang Tian lowered his voice: "I'm trying to find a way."

A cold voice sounded behind her: "What can I do?"

Sang Tian hung up the phone and said nonsense: "The guy who sells the house always calls me, and I say I owe a lot of campus loans, and I'm trying to find a way."

Dai Qing: "Campus loan?"

Sang Tian grinned: "Yes, I said I just turned eighteen!"

"..." Dai Qing didn't talk nonsense with her, and asked her, "Would you like a gift?"

Sang Tian was taken aback: "It's fine if you don't want me to give you a gift for your birthday, why do you still want to give me a gift?"

Dai Qing casually pointed to the bedside: "There are too many gifts, all from my mother and sponsors, you can take whatever you want."

Sang Tian took a look at the piles of presents, and the girls on Xiaohongshu howled that they couldn't buy the limited editions, just throwing them on the ground casually.

Sang Tian: "You don't want any of these?"

Dai Qing: "No, I just want you to give me a hug."

Sang Tian: "...Why are you still struggling with this?"

Dai Qing: "I don't know, I don't want to see anyone, I just want to see you."

Sang Tian: "You don't think you haven't gone abroad since you came back from Canada?"

Dai Qing nodded his head.

Sang Tian: "You don't want to train either?"

Dai Qing nodded again.

Sang Tian: "Then will you still participate in the competition?"

Dai Qing's eyes dimmed: "I don't know."

Sang Tian: "Well, it depends on God's will, do you have any coins at home?"

Dai Qing went to the bookcase to look. There was a piggy bank she had when she was a child. She took a coin and handed it to Sang Tian.

Sang Tian took it in his hand and tossed it: "If the coin lands heads three times, it means God wants you to compete."

Dai Qing glanced at her.

"Don't believe me?" Sang Tian looked at Chen Baiyu who was just bringing in fruit and said, "Why don't I play with Steward Chen and show you a sample?"

She smiled and asked, "Butler Chen, is there anything you want to know the answer to?"

Chen Baiyu glanced at Dai Qing, Dai Qing nodded, and Chen Baiyu said, "Then, I want to know how an old friend who I haven't contacted for a long time is doing well now."

Sang Tian: "Okay, I tossed the coin three times, if it comes up heads three times, it means that the old man you asked is very good."

"By the way, Steward Chen, in order to make God feel that you are the one asking questions, you have to pull out your hair and press me down."

Chen Baiyu smiled: "There is a sense of ceremony."

He pulled out a hair and handed it to Sang Tian.

After accepting it, Sang Tian tossed the coin three times, and it actually landed heads three times.

She smiled and said to Chen Baiyu: "Look, God gave you the answer."

Chen Baiyu said with emotion: "Really? Is she doing well?"

Sang Tian didn't know who he was asking. He had worked in Dai's family all his life and had never been married. It was easy for people to think that he was born with such a gray-haired old man, and people would forget that he was also an angry horse in fresh clothes. A boy who used his dream as a horse to carry his beloved girl.

It's just that the years have changed, and that person has been lost in the depths of time.

Sang Tian turned to Dai Qing: "It's your turn, pull out your hair and give it to me."

Dai Qing hesitated.

She asked, "If it doesn't come up heads three times, it means God doesn't want me to slip, right?"

Sang Tian smiled: "You can think so."

Dai Qing stretched out his hand, pulled out one of her black and thick hair and handed it to Sang Tian: "You have to keep it for a lifetime."

Sang Tian was frightened to death: "Then I'll give it back to you."

"Just kidding." Dai Qing said, "Throw it away."

She knew very well in her heart that the probability of Sang Tian tossing a coin six times and getting heads six times was too low, almost infinitely close to zero.

If Sang Tian said it was God's will.

Maybe God gave her a chance to be free.

The author has something to say:

感谢在2022-02-0616:56:01~2022-02-0716:56:39期间为我投出霸王票或灌溉营养液的小天使哦~

Thanks to the little angel who cast the rocket launcher: 1 Huosen;

Thanks to the little angel who threw the grenade: the piece in the middle of the watermelon is for you to eat, one for Mu Chenyan and one for Zhaohai;

Thanks to the little angels who threw mines: qr, 531018051;

感谢灌溉营养液的小天使：日日日酱10瓶；531018058瓶；天空之上5瓶；兜风的刺猬2瓶；薄言1瓶；

Thank you very much for your support, I will continue to work hard!