Chapter 270

After the European Cup journey, Cristiano returned directly to Madrid on a private jet.

He arrived at the villa in the early afternoon in Madrid, and before he even put down his suitcase and knocked, the door opened.

"I feel you're back." Kaka stood in front of him, he opened his arms and gave his lover a full hug.

While Portugal was playing in the European Cup, Brazil was also playing two friendly matches. He could only see Cristiano's fragile appearance through the screen and the noisy Internet.

And now, he finally held his lover completely in his arms.

Cristiano's eyes were slightly warm. He stood there without moving an step, as if he was fixed in front of the goal. He lowered his head and hid his face in Kaka's shoulder.

Kaka knew that his lover just needed a brief shoulder to rest on, so he lowered his head and kissed Cristiano's ears, over and over again.

The two little guys were led by the housekeeper Emma and walked slowly to the door. Seeing this, Emma wanted to take the two little guys away first to give the two gentlemen some space. As a result, Junior quickly broke free from his hand, trotted towards Cristiano like a little cannonball, and hugged his father's thigh.

Seeing this, Luca walked over slowly. See, if it were him, he would not disturb the two adults' world of two.

But now that Junior has passed, he also wants to have a hug from Cristiano.

Cristiano was brought back to his senses by Junior's collision. He wiped his eyes vigorously with Kaka's shirt, then bent down and picked up Junior: "Let Papa see my little babies, I missed you so much!"

He kissed the little guy's soft cheek hard, then lowered his head to look at Luca, and saw Luca also looking up and stretching out two chubby white arms towards him. He smiled and freed up one hand to pick up Luca.

The weight of the two little guys is not light, but it is not much different from the weight he usually carries.

Kaka narrowed his eyes and saw that Cristiano's worries were quickly dispersed by the two children. He let Cristiano hold one of them in each hand and kiss them for a long time before he took Luca from Cristiano's hands.

Luca has gained a lot of weight. Kaka weighed the little guy's butt in his arms and thought with narrowed eyes.

Luca suddenly felt a cool breeze in his father's arms. He shrank his neck, turned his head, and saw his father blowing air on the back of his neck.

Luca: “…”

"It's time to increase your exercise, Luka," said Kaka.

Luca: “…”

"There's no harm in that." Cristiano nodded in agreement.

Luca: “…”

Who remembers that he was just a kid? Children should be chubby! They really should go meet Luca from Neymar's uncle's house later.

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Shortly after returning to Madrid, after a short family vacation, Cristiano and Kaka returned to the club's training ground.

Ancelotti was very happy to see his two beloved players always come to the training ground so diligently, and he was even happier that Kaka was not like most Brazilian players who were accustomed to enjoying themselves and were too casual to waste their talents.

The Italian had nothing extra to teach the two. The cooperation between Cristiano and Kaka was always a work of art that flashed with inspiration. He knew that all he needed to do was put the two on the same field.

Once after the training, Cristiano and Kaka walked to the parking lot to drive home together. They happened to meet a young man who came to Madrid for an exam and came to pick up Ancenotti. When the young man saw Kaka, he was obviously surprised and happy, but before he had time to chat, Ancenotti urged his younger son to drive.

"See you tomorrow." Ancenotti waved to Cristiano and Kaka from the passenger seat, completely blocking his son's view.

Ancelotti: "..."

"That's Carlo's son? The young man who regarded you as his first love in football?" Cristiano laughed and bumped Kaka's shoulder. "How pitiful! He didn't even have the time to say anything to you. Carlo is so tactless."

Kaka shook his head and laughed, grabbed Cristiano's hand and strode back to the car: "How come you know all the gossip?"

Cristiano raised his chin towards Kaka and raised his eyebrows: "Maybe it's because after he said that, the 'list' game between couples became popular on the Internet? You and I are on the list, and we are very high up. I think it's hard not to know."

"What is that?" Kaka heard it for the first time. He turned to Cristiano while starting the car engine, "What list?"

"You've never heard of it?" Cristiano suddenly laughed mysteriously, and said in a long voice, "But the Son of God really shouldn't know these things."

Kaka held the back of Cristiano's neck, leaned in and kissed Chris unexpectedly, and then asked: "Do you think the Son of God should kiss his gay lover here?"

Cristiano: “…”

He swallowed subconsciously. Even though he knew that their car had an anti-peep film and their movements could not be seen from outside, he still felt nervous and excited.

"...He must have learned bad things on his own," Cristiano muttered.

Kaka laughed: "Now can you tell me about the list game?"

"It's a tolerance list between lovers." Cristiano cleared his throat and blinked. "If they were given a quota to allow both parties to cheat on each other, who would they choose? Make a list of this. That's it."

Kaka frowned when he heard this: "This is absurd."

"See, I told you you wouldn't like to know this kind of stuff." Cristiano laughed and licked his lips. "But what if I asked you to list it?"

"There is no such thing." Kaka replied, still frowning.

Cristiano leaned in closer to rub Kaka's brows, and smiled, "This is a difficult question, you must give an answer? Write it on your phone, and I will write one too, and we will show it together."

Kaka looked at his lover who seemed to have discovered a new toy. He pinched his brows with a headache: "Really? Cristiano? You want to write this?"

"Yes, yes." Cristiano leaned in and kissed the corner of Kaka's mouth, then took out his phone and urged, "Write quickly, write quickly!"

Kaka: “…”

God, why does his lover always have some weird ideas in his mind?

This must be a bad idea.

As he thought about it, he took out his mobile phone and observed Cristiano. His lover's fingers were poking rapidly, as if he already had a candidate in mind.

"You've finished writing?" Cristiano turned to look at Kaka, who was no longer editing, and raised his eyebrows. "Then let's exchange phones?"

Kaka handed the phone to Cristiano.

So they all saw each other's answers on the screen -

C: Kaka in Sao Paulo, Kaka in AC Milan, Kaka in Brazil, and Kaka after 40:) Ops, are you sulking? So what now? :)

K: Sporting Lisbon Cris, Manchester United Cris, Portugal Cris, Juventus Cris, forever Cris

Cristiano laughed softly, his ears starting to turn red.

FOREVER CRIS? He likes this.

Kaka laughed too. He should have known what Cristiano was thinking as he stared at him writing this nonsensical list, but he was so shocked by the table definition that he didn't even bother to think about it.

But he thought, he had given a good answer, even if his brain had crashed.

"But Kaka after 40? Why choose this?" Kaka laughed, and gestured at his belly, "What if Kaka after 40 is a guy with a beer belly?"

"I will supervise and will not give you such an opportunity." Cristiano gave his lover a look, patted his lover's currently solid abdominal muscles, and raised the corners of his mouth. "I haven't seen Kaka after the age of 40. This is very novel, like opening a gift that I already know, but I am still looking forward to it."

Kaka paused when he heard this. He almost forgot this. He almost forgot that his lover left abruptly at that time. He tightened his grip on his phone slightly.

But soon, he unnoticeably let go of the phone and looked at Cristiano who was still sitting in the passenger seat. His lover was still enthusiastically chatting about the future after the age of 40, which made him find his breath again. He leaned forward and suddenly kissed Cristiano.

"...I haven't thought about retiring at the age of 40. Giggs played until he was 40, so I can at least play for a few more years. What about you? You also have to - um." Cristiano tensed up slightly, but after a few seconds he relaxed his shoulders, put his hands on Kaka's back, and exchanged shallow breaths.

"That's a good idea." Kaka responded.

"Which one do you mean? Playing until you are in your forties? 42? 43? 44?..." Cristiano was soon kissed again.

"The Kaka after the age of 40, I mean this." Kaka slowly let go of Cristiano's lips, and he replied, "I think he will try his best not to let you down."

He didn't think that the Kaka who was over 40 years old would be the one Cristiano liked. But he promised that the one in the future would be the one Cristiano liked.

Cristiano panted slightly. Hearing this, he raised his eyes, reached out his hand to stroke Kaka's slightly curly hair, and then touched the side of Kaka's face: "You have never let me down, Kaka, don't talk nonsense."

He narrowed his eyes, then kissed Kaka's forehead loudly and heavily, and with a "boo" sound, he patted the steering wheel: "Okay, drive quickly and take us home!"

Kaka laughed.

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As the new season approaches, Real Madrid's pre-season games and friendly matches are becoming more frequent. The players' vacation has come to an end and they have returned to Valdebebas one after another.

Everything was going on normally, but after a few games, Casillas was injured in the pre-season and missed half of the season. The club had to make some adjustments immediately.

Before the summer transfer window closed, Real Madrid bought goalkeeper Navas. At the same time, Bayern midfielder Toni Kroos, who had been under discussion, also announced his joining Real Madrid. At the same time, the former midfield commander Xabi Alonso announced his transfer to Bayern Munich.

Ancelotti quickly made some experimental adjustments to the starting lineup, he needed to see if their newly bought signings could adapt well to the team.

Ramos temporarily replaced Casillas as the captain of Real Madrid on the field and wore the captain's armband.

I don’t know if it’s because the new season’s lineup was not given enough time to run in, or if there was a problem with the tactics, but we lost to our opponents in the pre-season opener and friendly match, which made the club’s top management and Florentino very dissatisfied.

Ancelotti is naturally under a lot of pressure. Compared with the brilliant results of last season, such pre-season results are really embarrassing.

It's not that they haven't scored any goals, but they have missed more goals. It's just that last season, this problem was always masked by the fact that they scored more goals. But now, Casillas is injured and Navas seems to be lacking in form. These have caused the team's results to show a downward trend.

Florentino is a businessman with little patience. When he saw the losses, he wanted to stop them before they expanded further. His statement that he wanted Ancelotti to be fired was too obvious, and almost all the players realized it.

Cristiano tried to retain them, and Florentino should give them a little more time. God knows how chaotic they have been in the past month. Even Pepe was injured in a recent game. Their lineup has been constantly adjusted and repaired.

"Ancenotti is not a problem. You should give him some time, give us some time." Cristiano looked at the old man opposite with some anger. He leaned on the desk in front of Florentino, and the back of his hand was slightly exerted so hard that veins bulged.

A voice in his heart reminded him that it was useless, that was a stubborn guy, a disrespectful guy, that was who he was - you knew it best.

Cristiano bit the soft flesh in his mouth unconsciously as he stared at Florentino.

Sure enough, Florentino just looked at him, with a mocking arc at the corner of his mouth: "Then who is the problem? Cristiano? Casillas? Or Pepe? Or, can you guarantee me a few goals? Guarantee a championship? But you just lost a championship."

Cristiano clenched his fists, Igor? Pepe? Florentino may just want to clear out the injured. He pursed his lips tightly, and the conversation ended without a doubt on bad terms.

Ancelotti left Real Madrid in October. Florentino’s tactics have always been vigorous and decisive. After Ancelotti left, the new coach was appointed to take charge of the situation.

Zinedine Zidane is the first French head coach in the history of Real Madrid.

Cristiano is familiar with, likes and respects this partner who is both a teacher and a friend, but he is still sad about Ancelotti's departure. He is deeply aware that Florentino has always been like this and will never change.