◎More and more people will remember her name◎
Tang Yi was silent for a moment, then stood up, sat next to Ji Tiantian, and spoke softly: "Okay, what do you want to talk about?"
Ji Tiantian glanced at Tang Yi's calm expression. He must have known what she wanted to talk about, but he wanted her to start it.
"You... want to continue your past life's relationship with Lin Aili?" Ji Tiantian asked calmly. In the previous life, Lin Aili was Tang Yi's third dance partner. They met at the 2010 National Championships.
However, in the previous life, Ji Tiantian only knew that Lin Aili was dissatisfied with her original dance partner and then teamed up with Tang Yi, but she didn't know that Lin Aili's predecessor was Xia Qiu. In this life, many coincidences really happened.
Perhaps this also shows that the ice dance community is indeed not that big.
"I can't team up with Xia Qiu. He didn't choose me before, and I don't want to choose him either." Ji Tiantian said helplessly, then she raised her head.
From this angle, they could still see the results display screen. The final scores of all the players were still displayed there.
She once again confirmed that Xia Qiu was really the tallest among the short ones. The gap between the ice dancers after Lin Xia's group became more obvious. From 110 points down, there were quite a few who had a total score of less than 100.
Generally, ice dance teams with unsatisfactory results would not be so persistent about their partners, and would just break up if they were told to. But with this result, it was really hard for her to choose. If she wanted to break up with Tang Yi, then at least in this national championship, she would not be able to find a suitable male partner.
Ji Tiantian had also read the news before. The highest ice dance score in the just-concluded COC China Grand Prix was 160, and the pair of contestants who received the highest score were not even among the top three in the world.
She and Tang Yi's current scores are a little over 123. Without considering the gap between the adult and youth groups, and the difference in scores between domestic and foreign judges, the gap between them and the stage champion is nearly 40 points.
And if she remembered correctly, the world's first and second ice dance pairs at that time could widen the gap to 60 points.
While ice dance masters were fighting hard for a 1-point difference, they were 60 points behind the world's top players.
60 points, like a huge chasm standing in front of them.
Every minute, every step forward, portends difficulties that are unimaginable to ordinary people.
In this situation, she had no choice but to choose a dance partner who was much weaker than her.
"If you team up with Lin Aili, I'll be left alone. Does the national men's singles team have a guy who's good at skating, looks promising, and wants to switch to ice dancing?" Ji Tiantian looked at Tang Yi's profile and spoke in a softer tone, "You said you'd help me choose a dance partner, right? You won't go back on your word, right?"
"Ji Tiantian, when you stepped onto the ice, didn't you think you would meet me?"
Tang Yi was silent for a long time, and finally spoke. He slowly turned his head and looked at Ji Tiantian, his voice still low and gentle, "You've thought about it, right? This circle is so small, you will definitely meet me." His tone was very firm.
Ji Tiantian stared blankly at Tang Yi's dark eyes, which reflected her figure. She was speechless for a moment.
"Then have you ever thought about it," she listened to him continue talking, "whether I am willing to let you go after achieving such results."
Ji Tiantian slowly opened her round eyes.
Tang Yi stood up from beside her and looked up at the results display screen in the distance: "From an objective point of view, who do you think I can work with to narrow the gap with the world's number one?"
Ji Tiantian looked at the tall and confident young man in front of her, and suddenly she understood.
"You never wanted to break up with me from the beginning." She spoke softly, then put her hand on her head.
She firmly believed from the beginning that Tang Yi would choose Lin Aili after meeting her. She never thought that Tang Yi could choose not to do so.
She suddenly felt a little confused.
"It's like doing a problem. I've been waiting for this problem to come up with an expected answer." Tang Yi paused, retracted his gaze from the display, lowered his eyes to look at Ji Tiantian, "Then show it to you."
His voice was low and firm, as if every step was in his hands.
She thought of the tea leaves he had given her. She thought he didn't know how to plan and would live his life poorer and poorer, but that wasn't the case.
Zhang Lilian had a certain liking for Tang Yi from the beginning because of the tea leaves, and never objected to her skating with Tang Yi, at most she would complain a little.
He was like a silent spider, spinning silk silently, gradually spreading out a web and holding everything he wanted in his hands.
He knew what he was doing from the beginning. It was just that she realized that she was his target.
"Are you not satisfied with this answer?" Tang Yi turned and looked at Ji Tiantian.
Ji Tiantian glanced at the huge, coldly glowing display screen and the young Tang Yi in front of her who seemed to be at ease, like an excellent student holding a perfect test paper.
"No..." Ji Tiantian took a deep breath and spoke with some difficulty, "This is a good answer...but, I just don't want to be with you anymore."
Tang Yi frowned slightly, not quite understanding what she meant.
"I'm sorry, I don't blame you..." Ji Tiantian lowered her head and looked at her feet, "I just... I just want to change the way I live."
She followed him in her previous life, and even after becoming his wife, she still maintained the habit of being a fan. In front of him, her own preferences and passions were no longer important. She only knew to follow him and care about everything about him.
Because she was so used to it, she couldn't change it no matter what she did, and it even got worse. She gradually lost herself and her passion for her career.
Although she tried her best to act as if she was not affected in front of Chen Yusheng and her colleagues, she knew in her heart that her career ambition was no longer as strong as it was before she got married.
In the end, neither the career nor Tang Yi was taken care of well.
In this life, she just wanted to leave Tang Yi and say goodbye to her idol-chasing heart.
Living in a place without Tang Yi, living in a place without the sun, then she can become her own sun.
But what Tang Yi said was also right. She should have thought of it earlier. Since she entered the ice dance circle, she should have thought of the possibility of cooperating with him. Cooperating with him is the best solution for her career.
But will she get lost again, become his shadow? She is a little scared and a little conflicted.
Tang Yi lowered his eyes and looked at Ji Tiantian. Her various struggling expressions did not escape his eyes.
In his previous life, he could feel that there was a barrier between him and Ji Tiantian, and he couldn't see her true thoughts. But now he probably understood that the problem was not "between them". He himself was the barrier in front of her.
Ji Tiantian was immersed in her thoughts when she suddenly felt a stinging pain in her foot and couldn't help but let out a soft cry. She looked up and found Tang Yi half-knelt in front of her, pinching her injured foot with his slender fingers, not too hard or too soft.
"What are you doing!" Ji Tiantian instinctively tried to pull her foot back, but failed.
"Ji Tiantian, to be able to reach this position in such a short time, you must have suffered a lot and overcome many difficulties that ordinary people could hardly imagine, right?" Tang Yi looked at her feet and spoke in a low voice.
"Yes...yeah, so what."
Tang Yi gently placed Ji Tiantian's feet on his knees.
"Then think of me as the difficulty you need to overcome." He lowered his eyes and smiled softly, then looked up at her eyes, "Step on this difficulty as well, cross it, and then you can achieve success that ordinary people can hardly achieve."
Ji Tiantian stared at Tang Yi steadily, with a faint mist in her eyes. "It's not that easy..." She sniffed and spoke.
Habits are terrible things, formed quietly but difficult to change.
"You will encounter problems when you team up with other people, but with me, at least you know where the problem lies." Tang Yi paused, put away his smile, and looked at Ji Tiantian intently, "All you need to do is to overcome it like you have overcome every difficulty in the past."
"I have lived a lifetime," Ji Tiantian said with a sad smile through her tears, "I know there are some difficulties that cannot be overcome."
"For many people, this is indeed the case." Tang Yi nodded, his voice still firm, "But for athletes, there are no difficulties that cannot be overcome."
Ji Tiantian subconsciously looked up at the results display screen, and tears rolled down her face without warning.
The 60-point gap represents the huge gap between domestic ice dancing and the world's top ice dancing. In the eyes of many people, this is an insurmountable difficulty.
But as an athlete, you have to challenge the impossible.
They cannot back down, they cannot be afraid. This is their responsibility. This is their mission.
In his previous life, Tang Yi had been working hard, but the gap between him and the world champion was still large.
In this life, he started from the starting point, and even with the experience of the previous life, it might not be much easier. Technical difficulty, performance appeal, prejudice, concepts... there are many, many problems that need to be overcome.
Only now did she realize what path she had chosen.
How can we overcome the difficulties and achieve success?
Thinking of the hardships, tears rolled down uncontrollably.
She didn't know how much effort she would have to put in to overcome the chasm, but she knew that compared to the 60-point gap, working with Tang Yi didn't seem that difficult.
"Just now, those fans... called Wei Xiao and Chang Yu "Laughing", and called Lin Aili and the others "Lin Xia Group", but called us... just Tang Yi and his dance partner..." Ji Tiantian sobbed as she spoke, "In my previous life, when I went to meet your friends, teammates, and old fans, they all called me Mrs. Tang, or sister-in-law... They didn't care who I was."
"Ice fans are not familiar with you yet and don't know your name. They will find out slowly." Tang Yi closed his eyes and sighed silently, "As for the previous life... I'm sorry. I didn't pay attention. It's my fault."
In his previous life, he had never thought that Ji Tiantian had always lived under his shadow.
"I don't want to follow you anymore, Tang Yi. I will use my own way to make them remember me, and everyone remember me." Ji Tiantian wiped her tears vigorously, stood up, and looked down at Tang Yi, "If you want to cooperate, you should regard me as a pure business partner. Our relationship is equal... No matter what problems we encounter, we must discuss them together."
"No problem." Tang Yi stood up, looked into the girl's red eyes, and promised solemnly.
"Except for the competition, we don't want any more contact. I just want results, nothing else. If you agree, we can form a team." Ji Tiantian sniffed and reached out to Tang Yi. Her voice was tearful but firm, "In this life, we will be on the ice together... for a lifetime."
"Okay." Tang Yi calmed himself down, reached out and held Ji Tiantian's little hand tightly.
Ji Tiantian sniffed and tears fell again.
Throughout her life, she has only focused on her career and cared only about herself.
This was the path she had chosen. She was ready for it.
It takes a lifetime to cross the 60-point chasm.
"Our previous cooperation terms are still in effect. However, in order to maintain the stability of long-term cooperation, a few more clauses will be added. If you meet a more suitable dance partner, let me know in advance, don't hide it." Ji Tiantian sniffed and spoke while thinking, "If you are in a relationship, tell me in advance, I'm afraid we will be misunderstood when we open for business..."
"You don't have to worry about these." Tang Yi looked at Ji Tiantian like this, and couldn't help but soften his tone and said, "I will agree to whatever you ask for. Stop crying, okay?"
"I don't want to do this... Don't look at me..." Ji Tiantian turned her head to avoid Tang Yi's gaze, still crying. There was no way, her appearance was like this, she was more likely to cry when she was emotional.
"It seems like we have come at the wrong time?" Just then Wei Xiao and Chang Yu walked over from a distance.
"It seems so." Chang Yu nodded.
They stood not far away, neither approaching nor leaving, just watching the Ji Tang group silently. Chang Yu was still cracking a handful of melon seeds in his hand, and he created the atmosphere of watching to the extreme.
"Something?" Tang Yi frowned and looked at Chang Yu.
"Nothing, we just suddenly found that you two were gone, so we looked everywhere." Chang Yu said while cracking melon seeds, "There are many cases of male and female members of the group quarreling and fighting after the National Championships. You two suddenly disappeared, so as your senior, should I be worried... So, what's going on with you two? Do you want me to judge for you?" After saying this, Chang Yu looked at Ji Tiantian's eyes that were tear-stained.
"Nothing. Just chatting..." Ji Tiantian said in a low voice. She rubbed her eyes and stopped crying.
"Did Tang Yi bully you?" Wei Xiao glanced at Tang Yi, "If he bullied you, tell me. I will definitely teach him a lesson."
"Tiantian! I finally found you." Qian Xiyue also ran over at this time, exhaled and continued to talk, "Chen Yusheng asked me to find you. She is...adding friends with many contestants and is too busy."
This sounds like something Chen Yusheng would do. "I'll ask my mom to bring my shoes over, and then I'll go find her." Ji Tiantian nodded and spoke, then lowered her head to send a message to Zhang Lilian.
Qian Xiyue then noticed that Ji Tiantian was not wearing shoes at the moment and was just walking on the ground in her pantyhose.
"Aren't you cold? Uh, it's bleeding? Does it hurt?" Qian Xiyue asked.
"It's okay, it doesn't hurt anymore and the blood isn't new." Ji Tiantian had a pair of swollen walnut eyes and showed a soothing smile.
"Hey, you really work hard. Fortunately, your results are worthy of your efforts." Qian Xiyue couldn't help but touch Tiantian's head. "By the way, did you receive the message I sent you?"
"What information?" Ji Tiantian was stunned for a moment.
"Didn't you ask me before if there are any boys in the national team who are good at skating and wanted me to introduce them to you? I gave you all the contact information." After Qian Xiyue finished speaking, the eyes of the people around him were focused on Ji Tiantian.
"What's wrong? Are you going to break up?" Chang Yu cracked half of the melon seeds and immediately made an expression of sudden enlightenment, "No wonder you're crying like this."
"No, no, Tang Yi and I have decided to establish... a stable cooperative relationship." Ji Tiantian immediately clarified.
However, since she has decided to establish a stable cooperative relationship, she cannot just build a fish pond openly. She must at least have some spirit of contract.
She glanced at Tang Yi, who had an expressionless face beside her, and then spoke to Qian Xiyue seriously: "Thank you, Sister Xiyue... I can't use these contact information for the time being. But I will save them. If you need any help in the future, just let me do it."
"Oh, it's okay, you can keep in touch first. More friends mean more options. There are many sensible children in the national team." Qian Xiyue said.
Ji Tiantian didn't answer for a moment. She looked at Tang Yi beside her, and Tang Yi also looked at her.
"Tiantian, are you afraid that Tang Yi will disagree?" Qian Xiyue also acted like a senior, and put his arm around Ji Tiantian's shoulders and said, "I'm telling you, you can't always accommodate your dance partner, you know? Your dance partner is just a partner, he can't control your life. He can't become the focus of your life or an obstacle to your social life."
Ji Tiantian and Tang Yi fell silent.
"Yes, if you want to meet boys, just go, no matter whether your dance partner is willing or not." Wei Xiao echoed.
"Oh no..." Chang Yu suddenly felt that the melon seeds in his mouth were no longer fragrant. "Xiaoxiao, you hurt my heart a little bit when you say that."
Wei Xiao looked at Chang Yu in confusion: "Why do you like to join in the fun? What does this have to do with you?"
"How come this has nothing to do with me?" The adult group of the national team, who originally wanted to help, started quarreling among themselves.
Ji Tiantian watched silently and could already foresee the future.
"It's okay, I won't hinder Ji Tiantian." Tang Yi paused and spoke to Qian Xiyue.
"That's right." Qian Xiyue nodded, "It's not easy to find such a good dance partner, you should take good care of her."
"Yeah." Tang Yi smiled at Ji Tiantian, "If you need someone's contact information in the future, you can ask me directly."
"No, no." Ji Tiantian waved her hands quickly. She didn't dare to trust Tang Yi now, and always felt that this person had other intentions.
Qian Xiyue had nothing more to say, so she said goodbye to everyone and left. She still had to continue her skiing training.
When Qian Xiyue left, the adult group was still arguing. In fact, it was not an argument, but more like Chang Yu was expressing his inner grievances, and Wei Xiaozheng was comforting him irritably, which could be regarded as a way to enhance their relationship.
Ji Tiantian and Tang Yi just stood aside and watched silently.
"Wei Xiao and Chang Yu, are they a couple now?" Ji Tiantian asked Tang Yi in a low voice.
In the previous life, Wei Chang in Ji Tiantian's eyes has always been a mystery. The two broke up and got back together, and never settled down, which made fans very worried. It is hard to tell what is true and what is false.
"I don't know either." Tang Yi said.
"You don't know?" Ji Tiantian looked at Tang Yi in surprise.
"Well, maybe they themselves don't know how far they have developed." Tang Yi paused, "But it's fine as long as we can have stable cooperation."
Ji Tiantian thought so too. The cooperative relationship on the ice is simple to say, but in fact everyone's situation is different. Only the parties involved can understand the taste of it.
Ji Tiantian couldn't help but look at Tang Yi again.
Tang Yi's temperament is different from other male ice dance partners. He looks particularly cold and abstinent, not like someone who can have a romantic relationship with his dance partner. In his previous life, his fans were almost desperate about his love life. Xu Chi might not be wrong. In everyone's mind, he has become a monk. "If Tang Yi has someone in his heart one day, it must be a holy monk breaking his vows, or a god descending to earth." Tang Yi's fan leader in his previous life once said this with emotion.
This made sense to Ji Tiantian. It seemed like Tang Yi married her just to complete a mission and he had never fallen in love with her.
There will no longer be the constraints of marriage in this life, and Ji Tiantian thought that she hoped they could cooperate stably and smoothly.
After a while, Zhang Lilian came over with the shoes, followed by the two coaches.
"Oh, I was so busy just now that I didn't have time to congratulate you." Xu Chi came over and said, "Tiantian, how do you feel about winning the award? It's not bad to work with our bear kid!"
"Yeah, it's fine." Ji Tiantian put on her shoes and smiled obediently.
"That's good. You will definitely fly higher and higher in the future." Xu Chi nodded to her and continued, "In the next few days, Jiang Lin, Tang Yi and I will go to the capital. This kid has to prepare for the final exam. Jiang Lin and I will also report to the team leader. But we will find you in South City soon. Don't worry, just train steadily with Coach Ma of the city team. Coach Ma and I have also talked to him."
"Thank you for running back and forth between the two places," said Zhang Lilian.
"It's okay, it's my duty." Xu Chi nodded, then turned to look at Tang Yi, "Let's take all the luggage, shall we leave now?"
"Wait a minute, coach. Tang Yi and I have something else to do." After Ji Tiantian said this to Xu Chi, she pulled Tang Yi to find Lin Aili.
In her previous life, Lin Aili's life was also very rough. Her parents' transnational marriage had long been in name only, and they officially divorced after she and Tang Yi worked together. Lin Aili's mother was born in a British lawyer family, and her father was a Hong Kong tycoon. The Hong Kong tycoon had always been philandering and had always dreamed of having a son. Perhaps it was retribution, after divorcing Lin Aili's mother, he found that he was ill and could no longer have children.
Lin Aili's parents have been fighting for the custody of Lin Aili, and this fight naturally affected Lin Aili's state. She was deeply fed up with her father's stalking, and in order to get rid of him, she finally went to the UK with her mother to continue her ice dance career in a foreign country. After working with Lin Aili for four years, Tang Yi had to change his dance partner again.
If Ji Tiantian remembered correctly, in the current timeline, Lin Aili's parents had already begun preparing for divorce, and there was actually very little she and Tang Yi could do.
"What's the matter?" Lin Aili looked at Ji Tiantian and Tang Yi who were jogging towards her, and smiled with a puzzled look.
Ji Tiantian was silent for a moment, then walked forward and gave Lin Aili a big hug.
"I just want to tell you that the haze in front of you will eventually dissipate." Ji Tiantian spoke softly to Lin Aili, "If you encounter any difficulties, contact me and Tang Yi, and we will definitely help if we can."
"Okay..." The black swan was silent for a moment, then reached out and gently hugged the little white swan in his arms, "Thank you, Ji Tiantian, I hope you will get better and better."
Tang Yi, the coach, and the adult national team boarded a plane to the capital, while Ji Tiantian and her family and friends also set off for the airport and took a plane to South City.
Sitting in the waiting hall, Ji Tiantian felt a fire burning in her chest, making her feel a little restless.
Although she didn't know what the future would be like, and didn't know whether her cooperation with Tang Yi would go smoothly, she had a strong premonition that she would get better and better.
Everything will get better.
At this moment, the phone beeped. Ji Tiantian opened it and saw that it was a message from Tang Yi. It contained the contact information of several male single brothers, and also included photos.
He always remembered it.
Ji Tiantian couldn't help laughing as she watched. She tapped the screen to take a closer look at the photos.
However, I don’t know if it was intentional, but these photos were either too far away or too blurry, and the faces couldn’t be seen clearly in any of them.
Ji Tiantian was a little angry. She was about to send a message to Tang Yi when she saw Tang Yi send a message first.
Tang Yi: Is that enough? :)
The smiling face that followed behind looked gentle, but seemed to have a hint of threat.
Ji Tiantian: That’s enough, thank you~
She took a deep breath, ignored the upset Tang Yi, and decided on a whim to visit the figure skating forum that she used to visit in her previous life.
When she clicked on it, she found a post with many replies floating on the front page.
Special discussion thread for the 2010 National Championships Ice Dance.
OP: How many people watched the live broadcast of the National Championships! I'm so excited! Our ice dancing has finally made it!
1L: I’m a couple fan visiting. I didn’t watch the ice dance, but I heard that this year’s ice dance was pretty good?
2L: That was pretty good. I watched it live, and the free dance of Tang Yi and his new partner was amazing. This Coldplay fan was very satisfied.
3L: Could you please stop keeping us in suspense and elaborate on the topic?
4L: Tang Yi has become a completely different person after he got a new partner! The Coldplay songs they skated to were especially touching! I used to think Tang Yi was just a cold Swiss Army knife, but now his performance has improved!
5L: The skating is also very good. The synchronized twists of the two people are a bit overtaking and making people laugh... I am not trying to criticize you, just a rational discussion.
6L: Just one suggestion, don't always mention new partners. Tang Yi's partner is Ji Tiantian. She is a talented player who just learned ice dancing and beat a group of veteran players. Don't forget to mention her name!
7L: Wow, really? I just watched the live broadcast and was wondering where this girl came from. She looks sweet and has great skills. I didn’t expect she only learned ice dancing! She must have been sent by God to save our ice dancing!
8L: I’m so excited about what you guys said. I’m going to watch the game! Where can I find the replay?
9L: I saw it on the homepage and clicked in out of curiosity. What's going on? Why is the ice dance circle so lively this year and there is a special post? Did the sun rise from the west?
10L: Yes! There is an incredible sister, Tang Yi's new partner Ji Tiantian, go watch the replay! Go watch it if you haven't seen it! Otherwise you will miss out on 100 million!
…
There are still many people following the post, and the number of people following the post is gradually increasing.
Ji Tiantian saw that many people were discussing her, feeling a little embarrassed and a little proud. She held her phone and couldn't help but smile.
From today on, more and more people will remember her name.
Definitely.
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