For a long time, the world's definition of pair skating has been between single skating and ice dancing. This event does not focus on difficulty competition like single skating, but it is also not like ice dancing without jumps and over-the-shoulder lifts. Skating and performance are the main highlights.
Perhaps it is the existence of this unpleasant factor that has caused pair skating to become unpopular.
It can be said that pair skating is a unique figure skating event that combines expressiveness and difficulty. If you want to achieve perfection in this event, you must be prepared to focus on both T points and P points.
Lu You and Xie Yunjun are the ones who have maxed out both the difficulty and expressiveness skill bars.
The time and years of growing up hand in hand have created an invisible thread between them. When the two stand together, they make the audience feel the purity and beauty that goes straight to the heart without even having to show it deliberately.
There was no suspense that Lu You and Xie Yunjun won the World Championship.
The world record-breaking "WR" appeared again behind the five-star national flag, and this time, no one surpassed it.
When the award ceremony began, the ratings of CCTV5's WC broadcast broke through 2% of the entire network at some point. The young boys and girls in the prime of their lives, draped in the national flag, with gold medals hanging on their chests, faced the flowers and applause calmly, and smiled under the spotlight.
Tang Baifeng was deeply moved when he saw this scene: "All the bad things are to welcome the good things. Maybe last season was not smooth, but what is gratifying is that now we are back on the highest podium."
They still lead the world record in pairs skating.
Lu You and Xie Yunjun, who had been working as cashiers for almost two seasons, finally became true world champions at the end of the 2023-2024 season.
The World Championships is the last battle of the season. After the game, ice fans all moved their stools, picked up peanuts and sunflower seeds, and enthusiastically devoted themselves to the off-season melon fields.
Everyone was discussing with great interest which pair's ship had sunk again. The biggest bombshell was that the male partner of the most popular North American ice dance group in figure skating was revealed to be married, and even had a child.
You know, these two had just skated to a charming and sexually tense song "Moulin Rouge" at the World Championships, successfully luring countless ice fans who were unaware of the truth onto their boat.
For fans of the doubles event, the most heartbreaking words are: Are you awake? The couple you are supporting is fake.
The days of studying and training are very fulfilling. When people are busy, they always feel that time has passed by unknowingly. When Lu You and Xie Yunjun were the first to successfully throw a 4T, Erica and Carlo also sent their wedding invitations as promised.
There are thousands of fake figure skating boats, but if you are lucky enough, you can always bump into a real one.
As one of Lu You and Xie Yunjun's best friends, although Erica and Carlo's grades are not top-notch, their popularity in China is not low. They even have a CP super topic called "Dual SIM Dual Standby" on Weibo.
Dual SIM dual standby users: Great news! We seem to have gotten it for real!
In mid-July, Lu You and Xie Yunjun took a leave from the national team and flew to Quebec, Canada, to send their most sincere blessings to two good friends whom they had known since the youth group.
The priest read out the vows, and the two said "I do" to each other with the promise of never leaving each other. They kissed sweetly after exchanging rings. Lu You stood in the audience as the bridesmaid, and only then did she realize that time had passed quietly for so many years.
It makes people grow up and grow old, and it also ties lovers together tightly.
Lu You quietly hooked his little finger around Xie Yunjun's little finger.
In the pious kiss of vows, pure white petals were scattered, and the implicit but evident love was hidden in the applause and cheers of the guests.
After the wedding ceremony, the bride's bouquet was always fought over by the bridesmaids and groomsmen. Lu You pinched her fingers and turned her neck, kicked off her high heels in two or three steps, and lifted up her skirt: "Xie Yunjun, hurry up, lift me up higher."
Caveira on the side was not to be outdone and rode directly on Anatoly's neck.
The local Canadian friends and family of both the newcomers and the newcomers said that they could not beat these figure skaters, so they decided to give up tactically.
Not sure if Erica did it on purpose, but Lu You always felt that the bouquet was flying straight towards her. She reached out and grabbed it, and the bridal bouquet of baby's breath mixed with daisies fell into her hands, exuding bursts of fragrance.
When Caveira was shaking Erica frantically and yelling, "We are sisters, why are you so biased that you even go to the Antarctic Circle?", Lu You lowered his head to sniff the bouquet, then walked to Anatoly.
"Here, this bouquet with the happiness buff of the bride's blessing is very suitable for proposing," Lu You smiled and pointed at Anatoly's bulging pockets, "Am I going to be a bridesmaid again?"
Anatoly smiled: "This is Erica's blessing to you."
"The blessing of a bouquet of flowers only makes sense in the hands of two types of people, single or unmarried," Lu You said, "Growing flowers is not like geese. We are still far from the legal age for marriage."
For pair skating partners who spend every day together, if they can really catch up with each other, then the expression of love no longer seems to require any special confession ceremony. It will take root and sprout in the long flow of life, and break out of the ground inadvertently.
——About liking you and wanting to be with you.
The 2023-24 off-season is known as the most romantic off-season in the history of figure skating because it witnessed two giant ships sailing towards the dock of happiness and was filled with pink bubbles of love.
Erica and Cavira were wearing wedding diamond rings and engagement rings respectively. Every time they video chatted, Lu You felt like his eyes were going to be blinded by the glare. Don't ask, the only thing he knew was that he wanted to kick over these two bowls of dog food.
Cavella: “You, what do you think about Anatoly and I skating to ‘Dream Wedding’ this year?”
"..." Lu You was very tired after being fed dog food unexpectedly, but he still analyzed it seriously, "Compared to the dream and beauty, I always feel that the song "Wedding in a Dream" is a bit sad. Watching the lover walking towards you in a wedding dress in the illusory dream, because you are afraid of waking up from the dream, you dare not hug or kiss. It expresses the love that is not obtained."
Lu You: "If you two really want to skate, why not string it together with the Wedding March and put the Dream Wedding before the Wedding March? It will sound like a dream come true, and the whole program will have more soul."
Caveira immediately started to think: "How about trying it the other way around? It would be exciting to skate a Be story of shattered dreams!"
Lu You, who was well aware of his friend's bad taste, sighed and silently lit a candle for the ice fans who were eagerly waiting for the next season.
Because of the time difference, the three of them didn't have much time to get together for a video call. After hanging up the phone, Lu You slipped on his slippers and staggered to Xie Yunjun's room.
The boy sat on the small sofa with a textbook in his hand. The course of diplomacy was more demanding than that of journalism. Flying around the world to participate in competitions would delay many things. During the off-season, both of them would borrow books from seniors to prepare for the next semester's courses in advance.
Lu You crawled into Xie Yunjun's arms, leaned over to look at his textbook, and read it out word by word: "Media Response in Communication"... Uh, how come your textbook makes us journalists look like villains?"
However, when he thought about the interviews he had done after the game, in which the media reporters tried to provoke him in various ways, and even raised the issue to the relationship between the two countries, Lu You felt relieved again.
When faced with such unscrupulous media, Xie Yunjun, as a student of the School of Political Relations, has learned the sarcastic techniques of the Foreign Ministry spokesperson to the letter, often leaving those malicious reporters speechless.
Well, now Xie Yunjun is almost becoming the official spokesperson of the national team.
Lu You: Ever since Xie Yunjun studied diplomacy, leaders no longer have to worry about them saying the wrong thing at press conferences. The male companion... no, the boyfriend-brand diplomacy machine, will point out any mistakes.
"Senior Olivia has sent us the edited free skating demo," Lu You grabbed the buttons on Xie Yunjun's clothes and played with them. After thinking for a while, he said, "Coach Xue said that we should participate in more B-level competitions next season and strive to get to the top of the standings."
Xie Yunjun put the book down, grabbed the girl's armpits, lifted her up and adjusted her position, changing Lu You's position from nestling in his arms to sitting astride his thighs.
Xie Yunjun: "You came to me late at night just to talk about this?"
Lu You reached out his hand, grabbed a pillow and hugged it in his arms, blinking his eyes: "No, it's just that Erica and Cavira are too arrogant, I think I can't lose."
For them, when they decided to live together, many things became self-evident. Even Xue Chengze came to Lu You several times and said, "The team doesn't object to your relationship, as long as it doesn't affect your grades."
They themselves didn't realize when that thin layer of window paper was broken. On the day when they were tentatively trying to confirm their relationship, Lu You remembered that he had only touched the other person's lips and then left, but he didn't know how Xie Yunjun took the initiative and was pressed down and kissed from the head of the bed to the foot of the bed.
The girl cleared her throat, pulled up the pillow to cover most of her face, and said righteously: "How about... I will also give you a place in the next season."
Xie Yunjun paused, as if he was still slowly trying to sort out the meaning of Lu You's words, and didn't speak for a long time.
The breaths of the two blended gently. After waiting for a long time without any response, Lu You wrinkled his nose and said, "You don't want it?"
The young man gently placed his hand on the slender waist that he had hugged countless times, and slowly spoke: "Having a name but no position means that it is just a name, but has no actual content, so I am now considered to have a position but no name?"
Lu You nodded and said seriously: "You can understand it this way."
Xie Yunjun stretched out his finger and pressed against her head, which was like a chicken pecking at rice: "So the actual content I should have... except for the first one, where did the rest go?"
"Well."
Lu You was silent for a moment.
She really didn't expect that this topic would eventually entangle her. No wonder Xie Yunjun scored ten points higher than her in the college entrance examination.
Although he was not in the right, Lu You still put his hands on his hips and said confidently: "That's it, you didn't seize the opportunity, it's overdue."
After she finished speaking, she lowered her head to look for her slippers. When she tried to climb down from the sofa using her hands and feet, the pillow in her arms was suddenly taken away and thrown to the ground.
Xie Yunjun held his female companion's waist and pressed her into his arms. Their bodies were pressed together. He gently rested his forehead against the girl's forehead, his fingertips stroking the back of her neck, and his other hand intertwined with hers.
The temperature of the palm of my hand continued to rise, and a tingling sensation arose where my fingertips passed over it.
The boy's voice was low and hoarse, his long eyelashes drooped, and his nasal tone was a little casual: "What about now?"
Lu You thought for a moment, then tilted his head back and leaned forward, pressing his lips against the other's.
"Okay, I'll reluctantly approve it this time."
Xie Yunjun seemed to laugh very softly, then inserted his fingertips into the girl's soft hair, lifted the back of her head forward, and bent her neck.
A warm and moist touch came.
Lu You hugged his male companion's neck, and before being picked up and pressed onto the sofa, he said vaguely, "This won't happen again," and he didn't know if the other party heard it clearly.
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