For the next Four Continents and the World Championships, Han Lu and Xu Haoyang increased the intensity of their practice, reducing the original sleep time stipulated by Liu Bofei by one hour, so as to more delicately polish the programs they have practiced countless times. Liu Bofei was adamantly opposed at first, but he relented under Xu Haoyang's insistence that he had no intention of backing down and his promise to return to the prescribed routine after the World Championships.

He looked at Xu Haoyang, and suddenly felt that he saw him when he was a teenager.

Like a little beast, with primitive wildness and lonely desires, and undeniable conviction said to him: I want this.

At the World Championships, unlike previous Grand Prix, this time they abandoned the more difficult jumps – because a mistake in the jump would cost you far more points than you would add to it, and the focus would be on expressiveness. This is also the guidance of Amy for more than two months...... Probably under the troubles of Zhang Lei and Zijun, they tried to complete a set of programs that pursued the accurate interpretation of each action. This performance earned them a sixth-place finish at the World Championships.

On their way back to the preparation area from the other sub-districts, they passed by Duhamel and Eric without saying a word.

Eric shook his head and laughed as he watched the two men try to keep their backs haughty and calm.

In this season, Eric clearly saw the prototype of Xu Haoyang's world, the Don Quixote that does not belong to the movie, or even to the author, only Xu Haoyang can present the unique Don Quixote.

Because he has some cracks in his personality, which instead make up his style.

It's just that he himself hasn't noticed it yet.

After all the competitions of the season, there will be a large-scale charity show in Nagoya, Japan. Hosted by one of Japan's most famous active men's singles players, it invites the world's top and second tier figure skaters to Nagoya, which means that this may be the best opportunity for ice skaters outside of the major events in the last decade.

In this commercial performance, Han Lu and Xu Haoyang, Zhang Lei and Zijun were invited, which was a good opportunity for them. And, in addition to this incident, there will be another good news for the training center: Wang Liu has finally finished her studies in Moscow, and after returning to the team, she is still teaming up with her old partner Chen Tingyuan to officially prepare for her first game as an adult in the past few months.

In order to celebrate Wang Liu's return, several young players in the team who have a good relationship with her chatter and discuss every day, and after the proposals such as "opening a welcome party", "buying a huge cake to bring to the ice rink", "spreading balloons on the ice rink" and other proposals were ruthlessly rejected by Coach Sun, who was supervising on the side, they had to choose the most vulgar, primitive and ordinary way of celebration...... i.e. a meal in the cafeteria.

"Allow you to buy a cake. Coach Sun looked at the disappointed faces of a group of children and made a special case with great compassion. "But you are not allowed to get to the cafeteria floor. ”

On the day when Wang Liu officially returned to China, what everyone didn't expect was that she didn't even put her luggage back to the dormitory first, and she didn't have time to sort out the fatigue of her long-distance flight, so she went directly to the ice rink.

When she appeared on the ice rink, the first team member to see her directly let out a super high decibel exclamation, and then several people pounced on her and surrounded her in the middle.

Their hugs and screams continued for a while before they subsided, and when the rink was quiet again, everyone couldn't help but turn their eyes to Chen Tingyuan, who had been standing on the edge of the rink since the beginning.

Chen Tingyuan was silent, neither stepped forward to hug his long-lost partner, and even had no expression on his face. He silently watched Wang Liu walk in his direction with a smile, and when the distance between the two people was only about an arm's length, he finally couldn't hold it anymore, and he cried with a wow.

He squatted on the ground with his face covered with his hands, crying loudly regardless of the fact that he had been wronged outside and finally returned home, and finally asked Wang Liu to squat down and hold him in his arms to comfort him, and coaxed him for a while before he could be restrained a little.

Han Lu had already stopped practicing, looking at the two people a little confused.

“…… What's going on?" she asked Xu Haoyang. "What's wrong?"

Xu Haoyang shook his head. "Don't ask, it's a long story. ”

"Do you listen?" Zhang Lei jumped over, "I'll tell you." ”

"Don't listen, get out. Xu Haoyang said succinctly.

"Hey, you person, I said Xu Haoyang, you little bastard, your wings are hard, don't you? You learned badly, do you know?" The expression on Zhang Lei's face went through a series of complex changes, and finally fell on an expression of "This world is messed up, this person can't do it".

"What's the matter with you?" Xu Haoyang waved his hand, "If you have anything to do, you will run over." ”

"You are a person, you are a person who is ...... person" Zhang Lei made a gesture to roll up his sleeves and fight, "You are going crazy, you have learned to scare people? Let me tell you, now in this entire ice rink, only Sister Han Lu is allowed to scold me! Come Sister Han Lu, you scold me." ”

"Get out. ”

"Did you hear that?" Xu Haoyang squinted and looked at him with a smile, "Your goddess told you to get out." ”

Wang Liu's welcome party was on this night, in order to let everyone play more freely, the coaching staff only stayed for about 20 minutes, toasted two glasses of oranges and left the cafeteria. A group of young people gathered around the table, and Wang Liu sat in the center. Han Lu was not particularly accustomed to this kind of occasion, if it was in the past, she would have stayed for ten minutes at most before getting up and leaving. But this time, Xu Haoyang sat on her left and Zijun sat on her right, and the atmosphere of the whole table was warm and harmonious, and there was no room for her to leave.

It seems that she is not willing to spoil the atmosphere.

Wang Liu is two years younger than Chen Tingyuan, and has just turned 18 this year. She is only 1.5 meters tall, with a round face with bangs, and a pair of eyes written with stubbornness, eagerness, and hope that will never be extinguished because of something.

"Last year's Chinese New Year was fun," Wang Liu said to her teammates, her voice crisp. "Because I can't go back to China, I wrote a letter to my mother and sent it over, and then my mother sent me a very long WeChat in the morning, and I got up and made a video with my dad, and my dad said, 'How good, we cultivate talents for the country', really, I got goosebumps all over my ......body, and I got goosebumps."

She said with a fluttering eyebrow, and there was no anxiety or complaint in her expression at all about wandering abroad. The others listened to her with a smile, but there was a bit of mixed feelings in their hearts.

A person who has been abroad for two years, what does it mean behind this, of course Wang Liu will not be unaware.

However, in the midst of such adversity, in constant neglect, ridicule and denial, it is a very rare and even remarkable thing that she can grow into what she is now.

"I don't think the Russians seem to handle jumps the same way we do, I learned a little bit but I don't seem to be able to get the hang of it...... Shall I ask the coach tomorrow?"

"Yes, yes. ”

"And I still think it'......"

Wang Liu tapped the plate with a small plastic fork and was talking endlessly. There was harmony and silence in front of the whole table, but it was rare that there was no stiff atmosphere that everyone was suppressing something. Zijun suddenly felt that this was probably the only time in many years that she had completely relaxed in front of many teammates.

When it was almost time for the cafeteria to close, everyone also packed up their things and prepared to go back to the dormitory, Wang Liu gently pulled Jun at this time and asked in a low voice, "Sister Zijun...... Is Sister Jiang Xin not here today?"

Zijun's face sank for a moment, and she raised her eyes to look at Chen Tingyuan.

"Didn't you tell her?" Zijun asked.

Chen Tingyuan shook his head.

In the past two years, not only did he not tell Wang Liu about Jiang Xin's departure, but even about himself, he didn't tell her anything.

I don't know what to say.

"Jiang Xin has already left the team. Zijun replied, "Not long ago." It seems that she has only said hello to the coach, and no one has seen her in the days when she is about to leave. She glanced at Xu Haoyang.

Xu Haoyang nodded silently.

"Anyway," Zijun said to Wang Liu, "a lot of things have happened, so let's talk about it slowly later." ”

However, what no one here knows is that in fact, just before Jiang Xin left the team, Xu Haoyang had met with her.

It wasn't that he wanted to see him on purpose, but after Jiang Xin came out of Wang Ximing's office, Xu Haoyang happened to pass by that place. So the two of them looked at each other, and there was no way to avoid it.

Originally, in the entire training center, the last person Jiang Xin wanted to see was Xu Haoyang, he had too much of her that she wanted to give up, and he felt ridiculous. When facing him, things she doesn't like will come out from all directions.

However, at this time, they were standing face to face in the corridor, and Xu Haoyang looked directly at her without any hesitation or flinching, which made her uncontrollably anxious.

It was an expression on his face she hadn't seen before.

This sudden anger and anxiety that struck her heart made her open her mouth to tell him about this decision that she had not intended to tell anyone on her own initiative.

"I'm leaving. She said.

"Transfer?" Xu Haoyang asked.

Jiang Xin didn't answer, but only acquiesced to this fact with his gaze.

"Where?"

"Mueller," she said, "his club." ”

"I see. Xu Haoyang said.

"I'll ......," Jiang Xin looked at him, "join the Korean nationality." ”

"Yes. Xu Haoyang nodded.

"You ......" Jiang Xin looked at him, she originally wanted to ask him if there was nothing more she wanted to ask her, but in the end she didn't say anything.

It's so pretentious, she doesn't want to do it anymore.

"What?" Xu Haoyang asked.

“…… Go for it. Jiang Xin finally said this.

She said the same thing to him when she first broke up with him. Only now, everything is different from then.