Time flies, and a new season is here.

After this offseason, the Chinese figure skating team in the new season can be described as a big change. First of all, the men's singles and women's singles each have newcomers on the stage, which first grabbed some of the attention. In addition, it is Chen Tingyuan/Jiang Xin, a combination that is refreshing to everyone.

According to the news, this is Wang Ximing's latest "strong alliance" policy.

The 47-year-old head coach has taken a bold step forward on top of his already radical style.

In an interview, he explained in detail the development strategy of each individual event in the next three years, including the outlook for the future of China's men's singles, his thoughts on the new duo of Jiang Xin and Chen Tingyuan, and the fact that Wang Liu will go abroad to study with Russian coaches after she recovers from her injury.

The press conference lasted nearly two hours, but only two names were not mentioned: Han Lu and Xu Haoyang.

Han Lu retired from injury, and Xu Haoyang became an outcast.

The old ice fan couldn't help but have such worries in his heart, but to no avail. There are many kinds of discussions on the Internet, and there is no reliable source of information. They can only welcome this breakthrough season with trepidation, regret and anticipation.

After Han Lu finished the necessary recovery training in the United States, she had returned to China quietly. She didn't delay too much and soon made it clear to the coaching staff that she would not consider retiring. However, she was not able to return to the field when the new season arrived.

This time, Zhao Zhixin analyzed her physical condition in a very rare and unquestionable tone, which made her choose to back down in the face of such a big decision for the first time.

For the gold medal he promised, she might still get it.

So for the first time in years, she watched everyone else play as a complete spectator. It's fresh, exciting, but also nerve-wracking. She found several amazing young players, a 19-year-old Russian boy who almost replicated the stunning brilliance of Wang Ximing's debut, and a Japanese female player who first entered the adult group at the age of 16 interpreted "Onmyoji" to the fullest.

In addition to this, what surprised and shocked her for a long time were two other names: Duhamel and Eric.

Although she had heard the names of the world-renowned pair skaters, it was the first time she had actually seen them compete.

The track they chose was the interlude "I Feel Pretty" from the musical and dance film "West Side Story", which is based on the Broadway opera of the same name, which tells the tragic story of two major gangs in the West Side of the United States who often duel in the streets, where a friend of one gang leader falls in love with the sister of the other gang leader, and finally the tragic death of the male protagonist due to a duel between the two leaders.

Han Lu has little interest in such a cliché Shakespearean variations-style love story, or rather, she is a person who is not naturally interested in love stories. I don't understand, and I don't intend to understand.

When she chooses songs, she also tries to avoid stories about women who are in love, struggling or happy. She doesn't like this sticky tenderness, it makes her feel uncomfortable all over.

However, when the bizarre notes sounded, and Duhamel, who was dressed in a bright red performance suit, slid out a wonderful arc without a trace of hesitation, Han Lu's breathing seemed to be caught for a second.

It's a strong, bright, frenetic piece, so they're moving very fast. Duhamel skates at an astonishing pace, choreographed to the fullest of her feet, almost constantly changing paces. Under such high-intensity physical exertion, her three-week jump and landing are still crisp and neat, and she seems to be full of surplus.

Her partner, the tall and handsome Eric, plays the male protagonist who is madly in love, and the camera cuts to a close-up, and one can see that there is an indescribable passion in his eyes, mixed with carnival passion. In the second half of the story, his ice blade spins wildly, making it seem as if the desperate rain of bullets of that era is just around the corner.

At the end of the story, the two of them dance with each other, as if they want to merge each other's fragments with their broken selves.

The narrator used all his words to describe the performance, and he almost stood up and applauded with the audience.

There are no mistakes, not even any flaws.

Han Lu's heart was beating fast, and she was indeed unwilling to let herself be impressed by such a performance, but she had to admit that these two people at this moment could be said to be perfect.

Throughout the history of figure skating, it's rare to see flawlessness.

Will anyone really be able to reach that peak?

Han Lu pondered.

It's not a score, it's not a medal, it's not a standing. It is the pinnacle of pure art and power.

There is no need to deliberately calculate the score, and there is no need to go out of your way to arrange most of the difficult jumps in the second half, as if you have a smooth and watery movement with the memory of your body and your soul's intuition.

Incredible performance.

……

Yes, there is.

She thought to herself, gritting her teeth.

Yes, there is.

She looked at the two men sitting in the waiting section with her coach, smiling softly and waving at the camera camera—the kind of social rhetoric she had always scoffed at and bored.

Yes, there is.

The one who touches the sky, which symbolizes the limit, is a true genius.

At this moment, she also felt a crisis from the unknown.

Where she couldn't see, there were many people, many things, that had grown unbridledly. It may be beyond her control, beyond her control, beyond her control.

For so many years, she has had her eyes on the same path, which she firmly believes is the only way to victory. Perhaps, she thought, if she had been a few years earlier, if she had been eighteen years old, she would have been able to see her wider and farther, and if she had grown up in other ways, perhaps she would have become a completely different person than she is now.

However, there is no turning back from anything.

There is no turning back from anything.

Amy said the same thing to herself.

Amy, 55, was one of the first Chinese figure skating team members to achieve excellence in the world more than 30 years ago. Although the history of the performance in China can be traced back to the Song Dynasty, it was in the mid-80s of the last century that there was a real breakthrough, and the real breakthrough of the high wall firmly erected by Europeans and Americans.

Wang Ximing was the first Asian to shock the world world when he won the men's singles title at the World Junior Championships by defeating the talented American youngster who was considered an impenetrable barrier at the time. He was only 15 years old at the time, and since then, he has been like a hurricane, unstoppable.

Three years later, Liu Bofei also officially appeared on the world stage. He and Wang Ximing, two Asian faces with completely different styles, attracted everyone's attention for a while. Amy, who was older than them all and made her debut earlier, suddenly transformed after a few years of mediocre years of admittedly beautiful and smooth movements, but always poor results, and made her first high-difficulty jump at the Winter Universiade, and achieved a success that amazed the world.

The era of Chinese figure skating women's singles was thus revealed, and the name of "Queen of Gyros" was also called.

However, Amy's high-intensity training only began when she had long passed the development period and her body functions had matured, so every time she competed and every difficult jump was an irreversible drain on her body. It's like a piece of wood that, after a race, was cut off.

This is almost visible to the naked eye.

Because all aspects of her body had been cordoned, Amy and the head coach at the time reached an agreement and decided to retire after winning a medal at the World Championships that year.

She was only 21 years old that year, and it was only three years from her birth to her retirement. It was a real flash in the pan.

After retiring, she did not accept the team's suggestion to coach at a local sports school, which was the path that most retired athletes would choose at the time, but proposed to go to the United States to continue her choreography course. This decision seems avant-garde even now. Perhaps, the emotional crisis between her and Liu Bofei also planted a * at this point in time.

Also in the United States, Amy met her boyfriend, who was six years older than her and was studying for a master's degree in finance. This man, who later became a real estate tycoon, founded Lu Xiaokun, the owner of Guangtai Media, one of the major entertainment companies in China.

At this time, the relationship between her and Liu Bofei had reached an irreparable situation, and she decisively requested him for divorce.

Half a year after the divorce, she married Lu Xiaokun in the United States, and gave birth to a boy a year later.

That is, after returning from studying in the UK, with excellent business foresight and his father's resources, when the trend of capital turning to athletes and sports stars was just emerging, he single-handedly founded an international star sports brokerage company, and now has a close relationship with the entire sports circle.

It was also not long after his marriage with Amy came to an end, Liu Bofei chose to retire due to disagreement with the concept of the management center at that time, and left Beijing to lead the local junior figure skating team in Qiqihar, which was at this time, he and Han Shuhua, a former national gymnast who also served in the junior sports school, became colleagues.

Han Shuhua's retirement, Liu Bofei vaguely heard that it was related to her family. After recovering from a minor injury, she retired and returned home to marry and have children under pressure from her family, and her competitive career came to an abrupt end.

He had heard gossip about Han Shuhua's marriage in the team, and this was the last time he heard the news of this unrelated woman.

Later, I came to the local sports school, because most of the sports schools are retired athletes, so Han Shuhua is also there, and there is nothing surprising.

The two remained safe until Han Lu appeared on his ice rink.

This is where the story begins.