Chapter 001: No More Playing in This Life
February 2015, Alpha Grand Casino, Singapore.
It is the Chinese New Year, in order to attract mainland high rollers, the casino side has taken great pains, and the original European-style luxurious hall is entangled with various red lanterns and Chinese knots.
The wine ladies who used to be dressed in revealing clothes also wore Tang costumes at this time, walking through them.
Instead of wearing suits and bow ties, the dealers wore long horse coats with the words "Fortune Fortune and Fortune" printed on their chests, Wishing you prosperity.
Kong Zhendong, who was squinting drunk, shook the blue martini wine glass slightly with his left hand, and rolled golden chips with the tips of his right fingers.
Kong Zhendong looked at the compatriots of the motherland around him who were either fanatical, numb, elated, or gambling and cursing his mother, and inexplicably felt a trace of disgust and strangeness.
Abhor? Kong Zhendong laughed at himself, he finally got the New Year's holiday, isn't it just to let himself put down the shelf and become a layman?
The shaking wine made the handsome face reflected on the wine glass slightly deformed, and Kong Zhendong couldn't help but think: How long has it been since no one called himself the prince of the table tennis world?
Looking back on life, I watched my predecessors win one championship after another, I won one championship after another, and my juniors and disciples won one championship after another, Grand Slam, Double Slam, Golden Slam, Grand Slam......
So far, his female disciples have won one championship after another. Defend the title again and again, add glory again and again, until numb!
Is there anything harder in the world than winning a championship? Kong Zhendong thought slightly.
Perhaps!
That's – take a runner-up!
Kong Zhendong, who was not interested in gambling with two hands, took his attention away from the gambling table and bored to look at the news and information played on the LCD giant screen in the lobby dome.
The dome of the casino lobby is placed in a triangle with three large LCD screens, and in the past, when most European and American tourists were in the majority, most of them would play football, boxing, unlimited fighting and other hormone-bursting programs.
Today, because of the majority of mainland aunts, casinos play entertainment news related to the mainland.
Now it is a feature of Sophie, a new film and television diva in the mainland.
Actress Sophie has achieved a transformation in her acting career since last year, and Singapore and other Southeast Asian markets have simultaneously introduced two super-popular dramas in the mainland, "Tianjiao Witch" and "Capital Love Story".
Thematic evaluation: Sophie played a love-obsessed costume witch and a strong and inspirational new urban woman at the same time, and her acting career has made extraordinary achievements.
IntroductionSophie has just won the New Women Media Award, and in the second half of this year, there will be challenging roles such as hating a married girl and a drug queen, so people will wait and see!
Is this Sophie? The confused Kong Zhendong poured the whole martini down his throat.
When Kong Zhendong met Sophie, she was still a childish little girl.
Over the years, the little girl has gone from a kung fu girl, to an idol actress, to a temperament actress, to a strong woman, and finally grew into the most successful hate girl!
Thinking of Sophie, Kong Zhendong suddenly wanted to gamble recklessly!
What is Kong Zhendong best at? It's control!
Control every center of gravity, every force, every arc, every landing point.
In the past 20 years, Kong Zhendong has been rated as the first master of controlling the rhythm and landing point of table tennis!
Compared with the absolutely controlled table tennis ball, the only thing that Kong Zhendong can't control is probably the small steel ball that rolls and bounces in the big roulette.
Swish! The small steel ball catapulted out ferociously, passing back and forth in groups of colorful numbers, as if shuttling back and forth in the long river of time......
Looking at the tenacious and flying small steel ball, Kong Zhendong remembered a movie related to roulette that Sophie had watched with a deadlift.
It's a magical film, where the heroine travels through time and space again and again as the roulette wheel spins endlessly.
The heroine runs with her life, just to save her sloppy boyfriend who keeps getting into trouble.
I still remember that Sophie tightened Kong Zhendong's arms at that time, and said with a smile: If you go back in time, you fall to the bottom and become a Jingpiao who struggles at the bottom, how good it would be, at that time you looked up to me to rescue you......
Looking at the small steel ball that seemed to shoot out with the power of the wilderness, Kong Zhendong recklessly threw out the chips in his hand!
The moment the chips left the hand, it was as if there was a voice in my heart reminding you: according to the rules, it seems that you can't gamble!
Stipulate? So, so what?
The highest honor, the best woman, the most mellow wine, the most unforgettable youth, what have you not enjoyed?
The fan sister is surrounded by a lonely person, and the heroes compete for the top to the top of Dugu to seek defeat, what else do you have to lose?
In the last picture before Kong Zhendong got drunk, he seemed to see the small steel ball bouncing and falling into the 25 grid......
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Ding~bell~bell~
Kong Zhendong was woken up by the mechanical ringing of an inferior alarm clock, smelling the dry breath, and when he opened his eyes, he saw the beams in the old-fashioned courtyard house in Beijing.
What's wrong? Did the power of the flood really explode and transform into the bottom of Jingpiao?
The 'big heart' forged by his twenty-year championship career made Kong Zhendong accept the memories of continuous flashback and fusion in his mind as calmly as possible.
But when the fusion of memories was completed, Kong Zhendong, who was called the cold prince by the media, was still so frightened that he jumped up from the bed!
The jump is not high, because this body is just 1.6 meters.
According to memory, Kong Zhendong knew that he had returned to the body of an ordinary teenager in 1990, who was also called Kong Zhendong and was just ten years old.
Touching the quilt that has just been lifted, it has the feeling of hand-beating cotton, and the quilt cover is sewn together with several pieces of burlap, and the gray twine can be seen running through the edge of the quilt cover.
The hut is not big, and the wall calendar on the wall is still the collective style of the second generation of great people.
Kong Zhendong jumped off the earthen kang, ran barefoot to the shelf by the door, took off the towel, and washed his face with the ice water in the enamel basin.
In the scorching heat of August, it is still refreshing to wash your face with cold water.
Kong Zhendong wiped the water droplets on his face, looked at the towel in his hand, and smiled.
The red and white face towel had fluffed slightly, but I could still see the words embroidered on it - 'Red Flag Canal'.
Enamel basin red towel, big dry and fast to fight dedication! After the shock of hesitation, Kong Zhendong fell in love with this era!
But this kind of strange thing can happen after 25 years, and the past will not change beyond recognition, right?
Kong Zhendong buckled up his pull-back shoes, walked out of the room, and went straight to the small study in the East House.
The door of the study was pushed open, and it was spotless, much cleaner than Kong Zhendong's kennel-like room.
According to his memory, Kong Zhendong knew that his mother in this life was a teacher who had just been transferred back to Beijing from the Northeast, so although he was in the summer vacation, he also had to go to school to familiarize himself with the new working environment and curriculum.
The mother, who was born as a teacher, is naturally well organized in the study.
The cultural people of the 80s had the habit of collecting old newspapers and magazines. Kong Zhendong opened the lower level of the bookcase in the corner of the house and took out a thick stack of old newspapers from the past few years.
A few hours passed, and Kong Zhendong combed through all the newspaper headlines he had collected in the past few years, and he was finally relieved.
The general situation of the country and the world in the past few years is no different from the memory of my previous life.
The only change in this world is probably that he has become another Kong Zhendong who is five years younger, and he is no longer a table tennis boy who got up early to play ball with his coach father at the age of five in his previous life!
The ultimate glory of the champion in the previous life who won the softness was grinded out by the extreme boredom of training.
In this life, I still don't play!