27 Trust and Talent
Of course, the results speak for themselves, because the strength and speed of the men and women are not the same magnitude, let alone the men who are in their prime and the women who are on the verge of retirement.
Under the same scoring criteria, whether it is the overall completion of the song or the technical score, Xu Haoyang won Han Lu with a huge advantage.
Han Lu noticed that after he fell unsteadily on his feet and was helped up by Coach Sun, his eyes were full of ruthlessness and fear.
She was suddenly forced to stop breathing by his expression.
It was a familiar look to herβit was like her first race since she had recovered from an injury, and before that, she got out of bed, tried to stand on her legs again, re-acquainted herself with the strength of her muscles, and had to get back to the basics of her movements, and then she stepped on the ice, and she was terrified that she would fail.
That fear was more vague at the time, mixed with various forms of tension and more precisely pressure. But as time passed, she remembered the day she stood under countless cameras, and suddenly she understood more clearly what she was feeling at that time.
Fear.
The fear that everything will end here.
At this time, she suddenly felt that she seemed to see the same thing in Xu Haoyang.
But why? What was he afraid of, she thought?
"Alright. Liu Bofei clapped his hands, "The victory and defeat have been decided." β
This obvious gap also made him breathe a sigh of relief, otherwise, if Xu Haoyang was really not strong enough, Han Lu's character would either directly abandon the matter of the partner combination that he had said before, or he would have to ask for another competition......
He's had enough.
However, at this time, Coach Sun didn't have any eyesight, so he made a proposal to die.
"I said," Coach Sun said, "how about you two skating again?"
"What are you talking about, grandson!" Liu Bofei hurriedly stopped, "Still slippery?"
"What's the point of one person skating first and another skating again? Coach Sun obviously had an expression on his face that was not too big of a deal, "Why don't you come to the same competition once? β
"Yes. Amy also helped, "I'd love to see it." Or, you can think of it as a less formal pair skating. There are many forms of emotion in pairs, and maybe ......," Amy smiled, "and competing pairs is one of them." β
"......" Liu Bofei was completely speechless and choked.
Then, before Han Lu could say anything, Xu Haoyang had already stood up and walked towards the center of the ice rink for the second time.
No.
He thought.
He can't raise objections, he can't show weakness.
One step behind him, Han Lu also got up and walked to the center of the ice rink.
The music started again.
The two men made their own preparations from each end of the rink, each starting to slide, and then gradually approaching the middle. Seeing this scene, Liu Bofei breathed a sigh of relief - this game is too dangerous, at this speed, if two people collide, it will definitely be the result of being sent to the hospital immediately. However, the two people on the ice rink seemed to have a strange tacit understanding, and when they approached the center, they both slowed down in unison.
The shoulders of the two people brushed over their shoulders, Xu Haoyang stretched out his hand, and Han Lu naturally held it. They swapped positions around the center of the rink, then at the same time let go of their hands and skated in opposite directions as fast as they could.
"Yes. Coach Sun was surprised, "That's okay, right?"
"What a job. Liu Bofei said, "This Romeo and Juliet ......"
"My friend, don't think about Romeo Juliet. Coach Sun said, "I mean this action is very good with tacit understanding." It's only been a run-in together for a long time, and that's it. β
As they were talking, they saw that the two people in the center of the ice rink approached the middle for the second time, this time, the pairs skating moves they had done during practice had come in handy, they first made a spiral that could be described as something that could not be called love, and then, they began to slide forward together, Xu Haoyang stretched out his arm forward.
Liu Bofei saw sharply that this action was a preparation for the force before the jump.
"It's coming, it's coming, it's coming. Coach Sun patted Liu Bofei excitedly.
At the same time as Han Lu jumped on the ice, Xu Haoyang threw her out with his arms on her waist.
"Holy. Coach Sun couldn't help but exclaim.
It's a very powerful and decisive throw, with enough height and a neat and elegant gliding forward after closing the hand.
Liu Bofei on the sidelines was also so shocked that he didn't speak.
This high and floating toss and jump was Xu Haoyang's specialty when he was a teenager, but for some reason, in these years of competition, he seemed to have lost this talent and never performed the same potential as in the past.
It was at a practice duel that he thought was a fool's errand.
Han Lu felt this power very directly, this was a feeling she had never experienced before, as if Xu Haoyang's hand just touched her lightly, and then she flew high without warning and preparation.
She couldn't think of any other words to describe it.
This power is so amazing that she can't help but be impressed by it.
Is this man so strong?
There was enough time in the air, and she believed that she could complete the rotation in the air for four weeks.
However, imagination is only imagination in the end, because she had never done such a high toss before, and she fell heavily on the ice without controlling the time to turn around and fall on the ice in the air.
She held it up with her hand before falling on the ice, and it was fine. But Liu Bofei still stopped loudly, and walked directly onto the ice rink while stopping.
"Okay!" Liu Bofei shouted, "Stop!"
Amy also stopped playing the music.
On the suddenly quiet ice rink, Xu Haoyang retreated to the sidelines without saying a word, as if he hadn't recovered from this duel.
He didn't know what he had just done.
Liu Bofei stepped forward to help Han Lu up, checked whether she had fallen injuries, and after making sure that she was okay, he raised his face and shouted, "Enough trouble, right?"
Han Lu was still immersed in the astonishing height of the toss just now, and he didn't bother to quarrel with Liu Bofei, and he didn't even look at him. She looked at Xu Haoyang's figure walking to the sidelines, and actually laughed.
"This man. She didn't know whether to talk to herself or to Liu Bofei, "Yes." β
Xu Haoyang sat on the sidelines silently, adjusting his breathing with his eyes closed. This violent emotion made no one dare to step forward and pat him on the back for a moment. But Han Lu didn't care about this, she walked directly in front of him.
"Willing to gamble and lose. She said, "What do you want to ask for?"
ββ¦β¦ Requirements?"
"Didn't you say it yourself. Han Lu said, "If you lose, I'll listen to you." β
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Xu Haoyang remembered that he had said this.
"You forgot yourself?" asked Han Lu.
ββ¦β¦β
"Silly?"
"I'm telling you, don't underestimate me too much. Xu Haoyang suddenly raised his head and looked at her eyes. "You think you're amazing, don't you? Everybody has to follow you, hold you, beg you to work with them, I'm a professional athlete too. I've won the championship too. Don't think that just because you're good at yourself, you can ignore anyone. β
Han Lu frowned.
"Why do I have to defeat you to be 'qualified' to be your partner?
His voice grew louder, which made everyone except Han Lu hear his words as well.
- It sucks.
Xu Haoyang thought.
This is the second time, and he can't control his emotions in front of others.
It's not the kind of outburst of emotions that have been accumulating for a long time, it's more like the uneasiness that has been rushing around in the body suddenly finds an exit, and it hits out so hard.
This should have been his victory, but how could he really feel that he would lose to a female player on the same scoring scale?
But before the beginning β and even before the end β he was deeply trapped by such fears.
After the fear was gone, he didn't even feel that everything had changed any better.
Just now, he threw his new partner out of it entirely through inertia β or intuition, or something in his body that he didn't know what it was.
The force was so great that his shoulder joints were now extremely painful.
At that time, he didn't see her as his partner, didn't see her as a woman, and maybe didn't even see her as a person.
He didn't know what he was thinking, he only had bad, negative emotions in his heart.
He had to defeat her, he had to prove himself to her, he had to prove himself to everyone.
There was silence in the rink.
No one had ever said anything to Han Lu like this, at least not in Liu Bofei's memory.
Who would dare to use her as a target to lose her temper?
This Xu Haoyang is a real warrior. Twice, twice in a row.
But at the same time, Liu Bofei felt that his thoughts were a little familiar. Many, many years ago, he was a rookie in the ice world, and he was still chatting with the little girls on the team about new TV series and newly published novels, and there seemed to be a routine in the novels at that time, called "No one has ever dared to talk to me like that".
The male protagonist looked at the heroine who was ignorant of the world and had a big temper with great interest, and said so.
But now it's the other way around, it's the heroine who doesn't know the world and has a bad temper and looks at us condescendingly, and the male protagonist who goes berserk when he says he goes berserk.
Han Lu looked at Xu Haoyang and didn't say a word.
"What are you looking at?" Xu Haoyang asked, staring at her.