The day after the one-on-one competition, at the request and accompanied by Zhao Zhixin, Han Lu went to the United States again for a comprehensive review. The result is a good recovery, but it is impossible to return to the state before the injury anyway. The advice of the hospital is to avoid over-consumption – but this is a phrase that they say to every athlete, and it is not valid for every athlete.

Zhao Zhixin's mentor once again suggested that he return to the United States to continue his doctoral studies with him, which Zhao Zhixin rejected with a smile.

"Leave me alone. He jokingly said, "I think of the days that revolved around papers...... The day you go to bed at four and wake up at seven by your email is about to shiver. ”

The good-natured—at least the good-natured—seemed to be a good-natured mentor and smiled.

"Rest assured, that won't happen anymore. He said, "Now, I'll wake you up with an email before you fall asleep." ”

After that, he turned to Han Lu again: "For your career." He gestured his hand to his chest, "You have to remember this line." ”

“…… I understand. Han Lu said, "Thank you." ”

"You look good. The white American man said with a gentle smile. He didn't mind or be unhappy with some of her previous rude behaviors that were caused by her impatience. "I'm glad you look good. ”

On the plane back, Han Lu opened a movie. This is the original source of the song that Xu Haoyang wanted to use sent to her mailbox by Liu Bofei. That day, after they ended that ridiculous – and perhaps unexpectedly rewarding one-on-one – in a somewhat strange way, they sat down to discuss the real track for the new season.

Of course, the real track must not be "Romeo and Juliet", Han Lu's Juliet, Han Lu's Juliet - once this news is released, it may earn 10% of the attendance and ratings.

Liu Bofei has no doubt about this.

In the end, Hui Haoyang proposed "The Impossible Dream", a 1972 musical film of the same name based on the Broadway musical "Dream Knight". "Dream Knight" is the musical version of "Don Quixote", taken from the most tragic scene of "Don Quixote", that is, the story of Don Quixote vs. the windmill.

A knight's rhapsody.

"As soon as Don Quixote saw the windmill, he said to his attendants, "Fate has arranged better than we hoped. Look there, Sancho Panza's friends, there are more than thirty presumptuous giants. I want to fight them and take the lives of all of them. With the loot, we can get rich. This is a battle for justice. Removing these bad seeds from the face of the earth is a great contribution to God. ”

"What giant?" asked Sancho Panza.

"It's the long-armed guys you see, some of them have arms as long as two thousand miles. Don Quixote said.

"You see," said Sancho, "those are not giants, they are windmills. Those things that resemble long arms are windmill wings, which turn by the wind and are able to propel stone mills. ”

Don Quixote said, "You are still a layman when it comes to taking risks." They are giants. If you're scared, stand aside and I'll fight them to the death. ”』

Zhao Zhixin unconsciously looked at Han Lu's iPad screen with his spare eyes, even if he couldn't hear the sound, he could immediately read those lines that he was already familiar with in his heart through the screen.

Don Quixote, this character once ran through Zhao Zhixin's entire teenage and young adult years. He was infatuated with this knight, the last knight of an era in which chivalric literature had gradually died out. Don Quixote wears tattered armor, rides lean horses, and fights windmills and flocks of sheep, even if his so-called chivalry seems to have turned into an absurd farce.

"Do you see?" Han Lu glanced at Zhao Zhixin, moved the iPad to the armrest of the seat between the two people, and separated a wireless Bluetooth headset.

"Thank you. Zhao Zhixin took the headphones, and at the same time took the iPad, freeing Han Lu's hands.

The two of them stared at the screen silently, and Zhao Zhixin couldn't help but listen to the breathing of the people around him. Real breathing mixed with the sound of music in one earphone distracted him.

Don Quixote, who seems to be running towards a windmill, overlaps with the people around him.

It's impossible.

He thought.

He liked the character – he found it moving, the reason why the story was fascinating, or maybe it was all based on a "fictional" premise. Once fiction becomes reality, things are different. He wouldn't want anyone around him to be Don Quixote.

to realize a dream that cannot be realized

Go and fight an undefeated enemy

To endure the unbearable sadness

Go to the place where the warriors have stopped

……

Go after the stars that are out of reach

It doesn't matter how little hope is

It doesn't matter how far away it is

Fight for the right thing

No doubts and stays

For the sake of the sacred cause, I am willing to march to hell

In the quiet long-distance cabin, the song was wrapped in the raging wind on the plains, and poured into the ears of two people without gaps.

With that, he put on his chest guard, clenched his spear, and rode forward, rushing to the first windmill in front of him. The spear struck the wings of the windmill, but the wind blew the wings of the windmills, breaking the spear into several pieces and throwing the horse and the knight down the field. Sancho urged the donkey to come to his aid, but Don Quixote could not move. It was the horse that threw him like this.

"God forbid!" said Sancho, "Didn't I tell you, see what you are doing? It's a windmill, and how can one not admit that it's a windmill unless they have one in their head?"

However, Don Quixote's mind was already full of demons and monsters - Zhao Zhixin could silently continue, he ignored Sancho's words, he believed that the matter of fighting was more fickle than anything else. "It was the sage who stole my study and my books, Frestone, who turned these giants into windmills in order to deprive me of the honor I had won over him. He was very hostile to me. But in the end, his vicious hand is no match for my sword of justice. Don Quixote said.

After the movie ended, Han Lu silently closed the iPad and didn't say anything.

"Do you like it?" Zhao Zhixin asked, "this story." ”

"General. Han Lu said, "I can't talk about liking it, and I can't talk about disliking it." ”

Zhao Zhixin laughed softly.

"I," he said, "was fascinated by this story when I was in school. ”

Han Lu looked at him.

"Maybe it was because I was young at that time, and I was a little worried about giving new words, so I especially liked to watch tragedies, all kinds of tragedies. The tragedy of Don Quixote, the tragedy of Hamlet...... The kind that can memorize the lines. They often say that Don Quixote is a madman, but I don't think so. ”

“？”

"People think that he can't distinguish between reality and imagination, so he does this kind of thing as treating the sheep as enemies. However, I don't think so. He has always been able to distinguish between reality and imagination, but he is deliberately unwilling to distinguish between them. You've watched The Great Gatsby, right?"

Han Lu once skated the episode "Young And Beautiful" from the movie "The Great Gatsby".

"Watched the movie. ”

Gatsby always knew that the love he was looking for was unattainable, but he still rushed to the green light in desperation. He may not be in order to get anything, nor to prove anything to others, but he just feels that people must never betray their hearts, and once they betray their hearts, everything is over. ”

Don Quixote knew his own tragedy, but he was still bent on what he believed in. ”

"I think so. Zhao Zhixin nodded.

"I probably need to understand. ”

Zhao Zhixin smiled again, this may indeed not be something that Han Lu can naturally understand. If it were her, maybe she would have intended to correct the world's perception of chivalry through her own powers, telling them that knights never die, because she is here, and they can become like her at any time.

The first time he saw Han Lu in the ice rink, he felt this power in her.

The reason why he chose to become a doctor was the hope of his parents at the beginning. The father was a doctor and the mother was a teacher, and they rightly hoped that their only son would follow the same path. He listened to his parents, but instead of choosing a general medical major, he chose the slightly marginal discipline of sports medicine.

In order to get closer to the desire he had in middle school to become a short track speed skater.

He would not think that it was his parents who ruined his dreams, because at that time he suddenly realized that it was difficult to be a person who sticks to his desires, especially when the future in front of him was completely blurred and nothing was certain.

Once he fails, everyone will come and say, "Look, I said it......," and parents will say, "You've let us down."

He didn't have the courage to take the price of failure, he didn't want to disappoint his parents, and he didn't want to face a life where he might not achieve anything.

This was something he realized when he was sixteen, and he gave up on being an athlete – it was his choice.

Fifteen years later......, 31-year-old Zhao Zhixin graduated with a master's degree and received a fixed salary, so he could sit on the plane without worrying about the future, and said to the athletes around him: "The key to this piece is 'choice'." Don Quixote chose to be such a person. ”

Han Lu was already a little sleepy, because it was late at night, the cabin was dim, and Zhao Zhixin's voice was unusually gentle, not the usual tone of speaking seriously to her, more like a person's self-talk.

"I'm going to sleep. Han Lu said.

Zhao Zhizhi smiled and closed the window panel.

"Good night. He said.