My name is Nanli, and it can be written as "Nanli", but my father is a cultural person, so he had to name me in traditional characters, and it took me a long time to learn to write this "裏" character when I was a child.

My father is a high school Chinese teacher, my mother is a university geography teacher, and I was born into a family of teachers, but I am best at sports, and I won many awards in school sports meetings. Even so, I aspired to be a teacher from a young age. Generally speaking, if you want to be a teacher, you just need to apply for a domestic normal college and study a normal major during the college entrance examination. However, I have been deeply influenced by my mother since I was a child, and she said that people in this era must have a big pattern, and they must go out and see more things, so I have always wanted to see the outside world. In those years, studying in Japan was just emerging, so I took advantage of the popularity to go to Japan.

When I first arrived in Japan, I felt that everything was quite new, but I was soon troubled by my thoughts and emotions. If you add the preparatory department, you will have to stay in Japan for at least five years in total, is this really the right path for you? Isn't it better to study abroad than to go to university in China?

Fortunately, during this period, I got to know two fellow villagers, Dongguo Pharmacist and Bai Huabiao, and with their blessings, I dispelled all my worries. I successfully passed the preparatory department with them and was admitted to Kyoto University together. During that year, I became interested in sports clubs in Japanese schools, so I chose to major in sports.

Naturally, the relationship with those two fellows was getting better and better, but I soon found out that they were already in love, and every time I did activities with them, I felt weird, so after my sophomore year, I spent more time alone. They really enjoyed their time studying abroad, but I didn't come here to study here for the sake of falling in love.

I often come to the track and field on my own to run or something, but after my sophomore year, there was someone who attracted me in particular. According to Huabiao, that person is a student at Reifuin High School next door, but he is known as the rising star of Japanese athletics, so he is often called here to practice with college students here. I didn't take it too seriously at first, until one day I witnessed him practicing pole vaulting......

The movements are so beautiful, without a trace of superfluous movements, it is simply a living textbook!

Can you really do that with talent alone? At least I don't think so, it's definitely the result of a lot of hard work. After that day, I started to follow him, all the competitions he played, and I saw him win one championship after another. His name is Minami Kintaro, it's also quite interesting to say, obviously even the nationality is different, but the surname is the same......

If this goes on until I graduate, I'm afraid I won't take the initiative to talk to him, and he won't have any reason to talk to me, and then I won't pay so much attention to him, after all, we are not from the same world. Gradually, however, I noticed something was not quite right—why had I never seen him happy?

Since my senior year, I haven't seen him on the track here. It wasn't until one day at the turn of spring and summer that I finally waited for him to come here again for a morning run. I followed him for some distance and greeted him, only to speed up his ......

What the hell is this little ghost!

I hurriedly followed. But this guy is really more powerful, my endurance has reached the limit, and I still can't catch up. Just as I was about to give up, he stopped.

"What are you doing, follow me all the time!" He suddenly yelled.

It's embarrassing to think about it, but my first impression of him was probably that of a stalker.

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry! I just have something I want to ask you......" I quickly explained, "I've always seen you training here before, but I haven't seen you much lately, so I'm a little curious......"

"Oh, this one......," he said, with a smile I hadn't seen before, "I'm out of the track and field club now, because I love baseball now and have moved to the baseball club, so there's no need to come here every day to train." ”

I'm really surprised, is he such a casual person? But when I saw his smile, I realized that he really liked baseball, and I seemed to understand why he had been sullen before.

"You are quite famous, I know a little bit about you, I heard that you have won a lot of championships in track and field events before, and now you have abandoned them all and started practicing new events, don't you think it's a bit of a pity?"

"At first, there were a lot of scruples, but the scruples were useless, because many things had been arranged by others, and by the time I found out, I had already been on the thief ship, but now I think it's good." He smiled, "By the way, you're also quite good, you have followed such a long distance at my speed, you must have practiced long-distance running, right?" ”

"Ah...... Yes, that's true......"

I didn't really understand what was going on, but I was really getting more and more curious about this person. I want to know more and more about what kind of outcome this guy will end up with in the trash and start from scratch with all his past achievements......

After that, every time I saw him here, I would say a few words to him. It just so happened that the paper I was going to write was also related to club activities, and maybe chatting with him more would also help me write my paper, so the frequency of our meetings gradually became more frequent.

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"Hey, I said you've been getting pretty close to Kintaro-kun lately! You don't think you're already dating, are you? ”

Here we go again, Huabiao has often said such cool things to me recently. No matter how best it is, isn't such a joke a bit excessive?

"What are you thinking! I just thought that communicating with him would help me write my paper...... And I'm so much older than him, how could I feel that way about him? If you have the leisure to gossip, you might as well think about the paper, wouldn't it be embarrassing if you didn't graduate? ”

"That's right, we're all about to graduate in the blink of an eye...... You've already figured out what you're going to do in the future, but I'm completely confused now, and the medicine man is also changing hexagrams all the time, and sometimes I really wonder what I'm doing in Japan......

Yes, I decided to go back to China to become a teacher after graduation. Anyway, that little ghost is in his third year of high school and will graduate soon, what will he do after graduation? Keep playing baseball? Back to athletics? Or do you want to go to university, or just get a job?

It's strange, this kind of thing has nothing to do with me, why do I suddenly care?

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(To be continued)