17 years on ice [figure skating]

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The sky is cloudy now, but the lights on the side of the road are bright. Looking at it from Deng Chang's angle, Lu Xi's eyes widened from shock are extraordinarily clear.

"Baotouer?" Lu Xi muttered, "It's acting."

Deng Chang thought to himself, I wish it was an act.

As for the fact that Bao Zhongjie is actually a pious person, and for the truth that "everyone is innocent, but pregnant is guilty", Lucy should really be completely incomprehensible.

Deng Chang didn't want him to understand at all.

Lucy has never been lucky, because he was abandoned at a young age and was injured repeatedly.

But he is very lucky, because there have always been many people who love and protect him. Even in a small corner, he is still a child illuminated by the sun. He has a purity that many people will not have.

He has experienced setbacks and provocations, but he has never really seen a sinister heart, and Deng Chang doesn't want him to see it. He thinks that Lu Xi may not be able to bear it.

Deng Chang was already prepared that Lu Xi would be very angry and even rush back to find Bao Zhongjie, or he would not believe it.

He was even ready to grab the irritable Lucy.

To his surprise, after a brief daze, Lu Xi, whom he had always thought was a child, took Deng Chang's arm and asked him, "So why did you say that? Can you tell me?"

When Lucy smiled, his eyelashes were extra long, which made his appearance softer. Now he smiles shallowly, with a very gentle and caring feeling.

The lips were pursed into a line and slightly bent.He was wearing a clean white T-shirt with dark blue letters, and his jet-black hair was fluffy. Under the streetlights, his whole body seemed to be covered with a faint light.

He looked over with a distressed expression, his eyes sparkling.

Deng Chang always regarded Lu Xi as a child, so he tried his best to protect him and didn't want to say anything.

He carried Bao Zhongjie's pressure by himself, even if he couldn't take it anymore, thinking about Lu Xi, he felt that he could withstand it.

He was used to caring for Lu Xi, but he never thought that he would get tenderness and comfort from Lu Xi.

Tortured all afternoon by unwarranted interrogation, my nerves have been stretched to the limit, and then my beloved looks at me like this, he means that I am willing to listen to you, I want to go through with you no matter the good or the bad, just like It was a cold winter night when I was handed a cup of warm wine, and my heart almost melted.

No matter how strong a person is in the face of this situation, it is impossible for them to be stubborn.

Deng Chang took out his mobile phone and showed Lu Xi a contact in his WeChat.

-

"W1?" Lucy leaned over to look at it and asked, "This is?"

"The abbreviation means number one in the world." Deng Chang said, "This is the trumpet."

"No. [-] in the world." Lu Xi thought about the name and understood, "This is Baotouer?"

Deng Chang said, "Yes."

There are still chat records on the interface, and the date is two days ago, when Deng Chang practiced with Lu Xi for a week and a half that night.

-W1: You seem to have been distracted during your practice recently.

-Deng Chang: Whether I am distracted or not should be decided by Coach Chen.

-W1: This year is a good opportunity for you to become a champion, and you spend your time teaching others for a week and a half?You want him to recover soon, right?

-W1: Others may give you some face, but in my case, you are not even a world champion, don't be too crazy.

"Do you believe it is Baotouer?" Deng Chang asked, "There is nothing in this account that can prove his identity, and his speaking style is different from usual. If you don't believe me, I completely understand."

"I believe it." Lu Xi said, he didn't comment too much on Bao Zhongjie's arrogant words in the trumpet, but stared at a certain sentence and let out a "tsk", "I wish I could recover soon? What do you mean? He doesn't want me Recovery?"

Deng Chang was silent for a while, then said, "Almost."

"In that case, I've heard a story." Lucy thought for a while, "There are two equally perfect pieces of jade in the world. A rich businessman took them both, and the first thing he did was to smash one of them. One piece. If there is only one piece of jade left in the world, its value will more than double.”

"Is this the logic?" Lucy asked.

"Yes." Deng Chang said, "And you're not even his jade, because you didn't sign with that agency."

Lu Xi's eyes widened suddenly: "It was the company that they asked me to sign a brokerage contract at first, but you didn't let me sign?"

Deng Chang nodded.

Lu Xi had mixed feelings for a moment, and the strongest feeling was that Deng Chang had been restrained at that time, but he didn't notice anything.

Although it is true that Bao Zhongjie wanted to get him, Bao Zhongjie actually failed to get him, so Lu Xi didn't really feel it. On the contrary, it was Deng Chang's appearance in the conference room just now and his current appearance. The responses were all real.

Distressed emotions entangled Lu Xi again, he gently squeezed Deng Chang's shoulder: "So he bullied you, right?"

"It's okay." Deng Chang said, "It's acceptable."

"I don't think it's acceptable." Lucy said, "Can you tell me?"

Deng Chang was determined not to say anything, especially because he didn't want to tell Xiao Xi that the inexplicable hostility would make people sad.

But the gentle Lucy made him completely irresistible, he sighed: "Okay."

-

Probably more than ten years ago.

Deng Chang completed his first triple axel jump when he was eight years old, and the next three weeks.Even on a global scale, this is top-notch.

But that year his father was diagnosed with kidney disease and had to stay in bed all year round, and his mother had no ability to work, and the family lost their income.

Just then Bao Zhongjie appeared.

The other party said that there are very few jumping geniuses of Deng Chang's level in the men's singles. He hopes to subsidize Deng Chang's continued training, even help his father pay for medical expenses, and provide the necessary funds for his family's life. Of course, in return, Deng Chang must cooperate with the team's publicity , to maintain their top competitive state.

Deng Chang's mother agreed without hesitation.

After that day, Deng Chang was sold to Bao Zhongjie, and his parents asked him to only listen to Bao Zhongjie.

He participated in the youth athlete program called "Future Star", and his daily life is training, studying and filming.

Deng Chang was the underage winter sports player with the highest commercial value in China at a very young age (of course, there is also the reason why domestic winter sports are not very good), and he even participated in movies.

Bao Zhongjie has high expectations for him, saying that he wants to train him to be a truly "perfect" "top athlete personality", so he even has extremely high demands on him in his studies.

The brokerage company that Deng Chang signed was introduced by Bao Zhongjie, and the contract share was extremely unequal. It can be said that although Deng Chang made a lot of money for the team one after another, he basically had no savings. In the hands of Bao Zhongjie.

Probably he had already paid off the debt of signing Bao Zhongjie the year before last, and Bao Zhongjie should have made a lot of money afterwards.

Bao Zhongjie has been extremely strict with Deng Chang since he was a child. Whenever Deng Chang disagrees with him at the shooting or event scene, he will be scolded, and sometimes he will hit his palm or slap his thigh with a knife sheath.

Deng Chang could barely accept these, because Bao Zhongjie had indeed paid his father's medical expenses before, hired someone to take care of his parents, and helped him find a suitable house for rent.

Deng Chang had always thought this way:

Bao Zhongjie helped his family when they needed help the most, and he is repaying the kindness now. Although the money he owed has already been paid off, it doesn't matter if Bao Zhongjie continues to restrain him.

In a few years, when he retires, he will be free.

He has always been a more docile, more tolerant person.

It is really possible to quietly work for Bao Zhongjie for more than ten years with his glamorous "future star" status.

If there is no such thing as that training camp.

-

"The training camp at the age of 14?" Lucy asked, "Is it the training camp where we slept together for the first time?"

"Yes." Deng Chang said, "He looked for me that night, do you remember?"

Of course Lu Xi remembered that Deng Chang was strangely called away by the coach. He even asked Deng Chang what the coach told him, but Deng Chang didn't tell him.

"At that time he said two things. The first one was to keep me away from you." Deng Chang paused, "He never wanted me to have friends, friends would distract me, skating, study, work three things That's enough."

"So you kept ignoring me because of him?" Lucy asked suddenly.

"..." Deng Chang didn't want to focus on this, but what Lu Xi said was indeed right, he nodded, "He will try to transfer those who are too close to me, because in his heart, they are all players with no future anyway. There is no difference between the provincial team and the city team. Coach Kong was demoted for two years because he was too kind to me, and he promoted Coach Kong back when I came to the national team.”

In short, Bao Zhongjie at that time asked Deng Chang to stay away from Lu Xi.

This is all fine.

Deng Chang has long been used to suppressing all his feelings.

But the next sentence completely broke Deng Chang's mind.

He still remembers that scene to this day. Bao Zhongjie squinted his eyes, took a deep breath of the cigarette, and said thoughtfully: "But that Lu Xi seems to be okay, why don't I sign him too."