Chapter 1
"Coach Pei!! Congratulations! Congratulations to the Chinese team!!"
"Congratulations on leading the Chinese track and field team's sprint team to achieve excellent results in this World Athletics Championships in Beijing, China!"
"After the World Track and Field Championships returned to Beijing after 12 years, you led the Chinese team's sprinters to create many groundbreaking results on Chinese soil. As a meritorious coach of China's sprinting project, I would like to ask how you feel at this moment?"
In the live interview footage of CCTV, the reporter happily asked questions to Pei Dingshan, the head coach of China's track and field sprint team.
Pei Dingshan in the picture looks to be no more than 30 years old, with a serious face that looks unpleasant at first glance. Even though he has a look that is not inferior to that of celebrities in the entertainment industry, it is difficult for people to offend him.
Pei Dingshan responded to reporters' questions calmly and with concise words, but his attitude did not reveal whether he was satisfied or dissatisfied with the performance of the Chinese team.
In a graduate dormitory of a university in City B, Su Yu and his roommates were watching a live interview on the dormitory TV, and his roommates were sighing with emotion.
"Pei Shuai is really awesome. Since he took over as coach of the national team, our national team has made great progress in the 100m, 200m and 400m events. Last week, Yuang won the 200m bronze medal in the World Championships! This is a record-breaking performance for the Chinese team at the World Athletics Championships!"
"Isn't it? Zhou Yuang's talent is really amazing. I heard that he was discovered by Coach Pei when he was in middle school during a summer camp. After that, he started playing in domestic U-series competitions and was promoted to the national team with Coach Pei."
"Hey, come to think of it, youngest brother, Zhou Yuang is also from S City, right? He is about the same age as you, maybe you had a chance to meet each other back then?"
The youngest one mentioned by several people was Su Yu who was sitting next to them. He had half of his hair tied behind his head. If you only looked at his face, he was more delicate than those idol stars on TV, but his face was expressionless just like Pei Dingshan, and you could tell from his appearance that he did not have a good temper.
Su Yu looked at the live broadcast in front of him, pursed his lips, and said after a moment: "Yes, I know him."
"ha?"
The two roommates around him were shocked to hear this answer: "Good boy, you really know him? Oh, by the way, I almost forgot, your sprinting performance was also quite famous back then. You weren't on the same school track and field team as Zhou Yuang before, were you?"
Su Yu watched the live broadcast on TV and did not answer.
But he said silently in his heart: It’s not the same school track and field team, it’s the same summer camp.
And it was not just the same summer camp. Even Pei Dingshan, the head coach of the national team's sprinting who was being interviewed on TV at the time, was the first one to approach him.
In his vague memory, it was on the third day of the summer camp that an assistant coach found him and said to him, "Su Yu, you are very talented. Would you like to practice sprinting with me?" '.
At that time, he had just finished a day of training in the summer camp and was exhausted. He had never been in good health since he was a child and had rarely experienced such high-intensity training. The summer camp alone was so hard, not to mention those professional athletes.
Pei Dingshan's question was simply impossible for him to accept.
The next day, he heard that another classmate in the summer camp named Zhou Yuang had accepted an invitation from an assistant coach to practice sprinting with him.
After that, when the summer camp ended, his and Zhou Yuang's destinies went in two completely different directions.
When he first left summer camp and returned to his familiar environment, he felt relieved that he no longer had to train so hard. But as time went on, there seemed to be voices from different directions reminding him to think back to the summer camp in that hot summer and himself who was tired but running lightly at that time.
——Hey, Su Yu, you got full marks in the short-distance running test? Awesome!
——You run pretty fast, right?
——Tsk, with your speed, it would be a shame if you didn’t become an athlete.
Driven by these voices, he once impulsively ran to the provincial sports team to find Pei Dingshan, wanting to ask if he could still train with him, but the answer he got was "too late".
'You're in your third year of high school, right? If you want to be a sports student, then there is nothing wrong with your talent. '
'If you want to go professional, it's too late. '
This was the last time Pei Dingshan met him. Later, Pei Dingshan was transferred to the national team, and with Zhou Yuang and other young players he discovered, they achieved one good result after another.
In the end, Pei Dingshan led these athletes to stand on one podium after another, breaking the Chinese record that had been locked up for many years, and also breaking the so-called "yellow race limit" in the sprint circle.
At this time, Pei Dingshan's interview was still going on TV.
The reporter asked: "Coach Pei, do you have any regrets in your coaching career?"
When Pei Dingshan heard the reporter's question, his brows furrowed slightly.
In the dormitory, Su Yu’s roommates were still discussing.
"This reporter's questions are not of high standard."
"Yeah, with Pei Shuai's personality, I feel like he usually takes revenge on the spot. There's no such thing as regret..."
As soon as he finished speaking, Pei Dingshan on TV said, "Yes."
Apparently, the reporter who asked the question was also stunned: "Uh, what is your regret?"
Pei Dingshan's eyes were filled with a rare look of reminiscence. After a while, he said, "There was a very talented sprinter back then, but I missed out..."
…
Immersed in his own thoughts, Su Yu did not hear the interview and question-and-answer session between the reporter and Pei Dingshan on TV. He was recalling the scene when he was 14 years old, riding on the school bus to the S Province Sports Team to attend the summer camp.
He had asked himself countless times: Su Yu, are you really regretting because of regret?
——Or is it just because other people's praise of you makes you develop unconscious expectations of yourself?
He couldn't answer.
Just as he was immersed in his own thoughts, he suddenly felt something stuffed into his arms.
When he looked down, he saw a blue and white leather sports handbag.
"……This is?"
"What is this? Su Yu, are you stupid or carsick?"
A very familiar voice sounded in front of him. When Su Yu looked up, he saw the figure of his childhood friend Jiang Yuan, who had shrunk by at least 10 years.
Perhaps because he was used to taking care of Su Yu since he was a child, Jiang Yuan sighed when he saw Su Yu frowning. He resigned himself to his fate and picked up the blue and white sports bag in Su Yu's arms and said, "Okay, ancestor, I'll carry it for you."
As he spoke, Jiang Yuan placed Su Yu's blue and white sports bag on top of his own suitcase, ready to personally carry the luggage in for his little ancestor.
"Let's go, why are you still standing here?"
Jiang Yuan held the suitcase with one hand and looked back at Su Yu. After Su Yu seemed to come to his senses and followed him expressionlessly, Jiang Yuan began to nag: "Alas, with your physical condition, I think your uncle and aunt shouldn't have rushed to send you to this summer camp."
"It's not an easy thing. I've heard that the coaches in charge of us are all assistant coaches of the provincial team, and the head coach is a senior coach of the provincial team. The group that came to participate in the summer camp last year went back crying and wailing, saying that after a day of training, they wanted to eat two large bowls of rice for a meal..."
"With your physical condition, wouldn't it be better for you to recuperate at home during the summer vacation?"
Jiang Yuan and Su Yu grew up together, with their families living next door to each other. Jiang Yuan had seen Su Yu hospitalized several times due to health problems, so his parents had always told him to take good care of Su Yu.
Jiang Yuan was walking and muttering, and when he turned around he saw Su Yu frowning and holding his forehead with one hand.
"Shit, are you okay?"
Su Yu frowned, looked around at the strange yet familiar environment, then shook his head: "It's okay, just a little dizzy."
Jiang·Old Madam·Yuan immediately had a bitter face, stood still and took out his cell phone: "Hey, Xiaoyu, why don't we tell Teacher Liu that we won't participate and go back now?"
Su Yu had been spoiled in the past because of his health problems, and it was common for him to ask for leave from physical education classes at school. Just when Jiang Yuan thought Su Yu was going to nod in agreement, Su Yu shook his head.
Jiang Yuan:?
Su Yu stood there and thought for a while, then said, "I want to attend summer camp."
***
Until Su Yu followed Jiang Yuan to the provincial team's youth team dormitory, Jiang Yuan was still looking at him worriedly from time to time, probably because he felt that his little ancestor was feeling too uncomfortable today and had a brain problem.
Su Yu ignored him, still immersed in the reality that he seemed to be reborn.
So he is...really back?
Back to ten years ago, when I was 14 years old and attending the school summer camp?
On the side, Jiang Yuan looked at his childhood friend with some concern and asked him, "Xiao Yu, are you really okay?"
"Yeah, it's okay."
Jiang Yuan listened to Su Yu's answer and sighed helplessly: "Okay, you are my ancestor, if you say it's okay, then it's okay."
"Hey, but I'm telling you, if you ever feel uncomfortable, remember to tell me!"
Su Yu listened to Jiang Yuan's chatter, and suddenly looked up and asked Jiang Yuan: "Jiang Yuan, what is your dream?"
Jiang Yuan was stunned for a moment, then smiled and said, "Maybe to be a hero?"
After saying that, Jiang Yuan also laughed: "Hey, don't listen to my nonsense, I actually don't know what my dream is."
After a while, seeing Su Yu staring at him blankly, Jiang Yuan began to talk about something else: "Hey, although this dormitory is a triple room, the conditions are really ordinary. You have to live here for a month or so. Can you get used to it? Hey, ancestor, please sit down first. I'll go clean up the room."
As Jiang Yuan spoke, he started moving, muttering, "I wonder if the third roommate is from a different school and if we can get along well with him..."
The third roommate...
Su Yu actually knew who their third roommate was.
As they were talking, there was a knock on the dormitory door. Jiang Yuan was cleaning, so Su Yu stood up and opened the door.
When the door opened, it was the guy who had won China's first World Athletics Championships sprint medal under Pei Dingshan's leadership just before his rebirth.
Outside the door, a young man who was about half a head taller than Su Yu was slightly stunned after seeing Su Yu, and then showed him a hearty smile with eight big white teeth: "Hello, roommate, I am also in your dormitory, my name is Zhou Yuang!"
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