In preparation for this new season, they now need to prepare for the first two races, starting with the National Grand Prix in Harbin in September, followed by the Finnish Cup, also in September.

In figure skating, the larger competitions can be divided into three categories: domestic, challenger series (formerly known as B) and international competitions. The Grand Prix is a domestic competition, and in years with the Winter Olympics, the figure skating team also selects its team members to participate in the Winter Olympics. The Finland Cup is one of the stops in the Challenger Series. Although it is also an international level competition, the level of players participating in it is a little worse than that of international competitions such as the Grand Prix and the World Championships, but because it is also a competition that counts as points, many athletes will choose to participate in the Challenger Series to train and earn points.

Because the existing international competitions adopt a point system, that is, according to the points grouping and then draw lots, in order to strive for more points to squeeze into the lower group, some athletes will earn points to improve their world rankings, in order to win a favorable position in international competitions.

Generally speaking, the Chinese figure skating team used to start the season through the Grand Prix, but this time, because Han Lu and Xu Haoyang are partners for the first time, the points must be re-accumulated, and Han Lu is a player from single to double, so the coaching staff is ready to send Han Lu/Xu Haoyang as a double partner, as well as two rookie men's singles teams to participate in this B-level event, the Finnish Cup.

Han Lu wasn't used to having people next to her watch her practice, even if they were all out of concern and encouragement—because she was still a novice and novice at it, others almost unconsciously paid attention to her and Xu Haoyang, watching how she was thrown to the ground again and again by her unreliable partner.

The children in the youth group have Han Lu's fans, and they can be said to have started skating because of her, and they feel very uncomfortable when they see the scene where their former idols are practicing in a mess. Some people don't want to believe that when the hero falls, some people simply think that Xu Haoyang dragged the idol back.

The youth and senior divisions are generally not in the same place, so when the crowd outside the rink has gathered to a certain extent, the youth coach will run out and blast the children back to where they belong.

Because there was no restriction on others from watching the exercises, one night, a video of Han Lu and Xu Haoyang practicing double was posted on the video website by a mobile phone.

The content of the video is nothing special, it is a video of two people practicing spiral movements.

The spiral is a signature action in pairs skating, which is divided into four types: front and outside, front inside, back outside, and back inside, and it is a movement in which the male partner does the back and outside gauge movement, two people hold each other with one hand, and the female partner's body is close to the ice surface, and the male partner slides around the male partner with one foot.

The video has no background music, and the second half of the spiral action is recorded until the two slide out. Although the face was not clearly photographed, with the body shape and movements, familiar fans immediately recognized who the two people in the video were.

This kind of thing is actually not new, now that the self-media is so developed, every player has an SNS account, in order to interact with fans, many people will also take the initiative to share some practice videos and photos, which can be regarded as a benefit for fans.

But the problem at this time is that the partnership between Han Lu and Xu Haoyang has not yet been made public to the outside world, and the press conference to talk about the new season plan has not yet been held.

It's online again, and it's media again.

Liu Bofei suddenly had two heads and two big, and he couldn't wait to pull out the person who invented the Internet and beat him up.

However, there is nothing in particular that the figure skating team needs to explain about this matter. At this point in time, none of the projects have announced their plans for the new season, and they could have ignored them. However, because Han Lu's previous concealment of the injury incident caused too much negative impact, it lowered her evaluation in the minds of fans quite a bit, so much so that they began to question her as a person, as well as her skills.

In the largest sports forum, the screen was immediately swiped by this video. A post has been swiped for dozens or hundreds of pages, and the messages are still being renewed: This man is Xu Haoyang, and the woman is your Aunt Yulu, right?

Aunt Han is okay, I've taken a year off, and I've hooked up with Xiao Xianrou this year.

Xu Haoyang's goods have only fresh meat as a selling point, and when he is old for two years, he can't sell his face, so he can only go to the juvenile sports school for the elderly.

Athletes really have to take care of themselves and reshuffle the cards when they get injured. Even if Han Lu turned into a couple, he was reduced to matching Xu Haoyang.

What's wrong with Xu Haoyang? People are also fighting, and Aunt Han Lu dragged others to spar with her, thinking that she could skate for a few years?

These messy messages flooded the entire forum for a while, and even went on Weibo's hot search. The team held a meeting to discuss how to respond, and finally reached the conclusion that it would not make a big deal out of it, so Zhang Lei forwarded a Weibo and said our secret special training in a half-joking tone to make things vague.

The person who shot the video was a child who was a new member of the youth team this year, and he was scared to death that day, and apologized again and again that he didn't know what was going on and didn't know that he couldn't send it, and Liu Bofei couldn't help it.

Generally speaking, Han Lu would not be affected by the words of unrelated people, but the situation may have changed now, and Liu Bofei was not sure if Han Lu would be able to turn a blind eye to the attacks of others after that long rehabilitation.

Of course, she won't say it, this is the worst thing Liu Bofei thinks, she has always been like this, no matter how much panic, uneasiness, worry, etc. are accumulated in her heart, she has always swallowed them alive.

However, some of those negative emotions can be digested, while others will ferment deep inside, react with other things, and finally evolve into terrible things that you can't even imagine.

It's the same for anyone.

Late at night, Xu Haoyang walked to the dance studio alone. Figure skaters have ballet lessons in order to develop a perfect physique. He used to do this a lot, and before his official debut, he would often stay alone in an empty dance studio late at night, with the lights on, and practice silently with headphones plugged in.

It was his first dance studio, and in his hometown of Harbin, the nights were always infinitely long, quiet and dark, and the moonlight came in through the windows, fell on the smooth floor, and reflected back into the mirror. His face became blurred, as if he was on the border between reality and illusion. With one step in one direction, he can step into another world.

He loved it.

However, it stands to reason that this kind of thing is not allowed now. Liu Bofei has very strict rules on the diet and rest of professional athletes, not to mention that he can't drink, can't eat ham sausages, and can't eat out, and even the daily routine of athletes also has specific and detailed requirements.

Regular work and rest time, ensure 8-10 hours of sleep every day, need to take a nap, do not listen to the radio in bed, etc.

These requirements, especially the requirement of sleep time, are actually not complied with by the vast majority of people. For example, Xu Haoyang is a person who is born with little sleep, let him sleep for 8 hours, which is undoubtedly lying on the bed and the ceiling with big eyes. So he listened to music during his lunch break, so that Liu Bofei could see that he could still let him go and say nothing, but this kind of sneaking to the dance studio without sleeping in the middle of the night would inevitably be a training session if he was caught.

However, he probably wouldn't have expected anyone to come to this place at night.

The only one who knows about this secret base, except for Xu Haoyang, is Jiang Xin.

Many years ago, in order to eagerly establish a good relationship with his new partner, Xu Haoyang shared this place with her, so when the two of them did not run smoothly, when the competition failed, and when there was no special reason to just want to be quiet, they would come here together.

Sometimes we practice some ballet moves together, sometimes we don't do anything at all, just wait quietly for the sun to rise, and then slip back to the dorm before it gets dark.

It's very beautiful, and when I think about it, there will still be things flowing out of my heart.

This time, Xu Haoyang did not enter the dance studio building directly from the main entrance, but took a long detour from the side, in order to see if the cat that often dozed off here was still there.

The cat was yellow and white, too lazy to take care of people, and dozed off most of the day. It seems to have been domesticated by the figure skating team, and it can be seen almost every day as you shuttle between the ice rink and the cafeteria.

Not surprisingly, the cat is here.

Xu Haoyang squatted down and sat next to the cat for a while, one person and one cat were safe, and some of the tension during the day was relieved. He then stood up and walked towards the dance studio, only to see that the lights in the classroom were on.

The classroom was on the first floor, and he could see some of it through the window, so he walked over to the window and looked inside.

The person inside is Jiang Xin.

Jiang Xin was wearing a sportswear, which looked like he was practicing, but it wasn't.

Xu Haoyang stared at her intently and saw that she was crying inside. The closed glass window blocked out the sound, but he could see the broken newspapers all over the floor—a habit she used to use when she was angry, and he used to hand her the whole newspaper and take care of sorting it out and throwing it away.

But now, he was just standing outside the window, out of reach of neither her sight nor her consciousness, without the thought of wanting to walk over and push that door open.

He didn't know why she had to deal with her out-of-control emotions here, or if she had thought of anything.

He didn't want to care anymore.