◎Strength is always the hard truth◎
After Tang Yi and Xu Chi left, the training camp for the day ended quickly. Ji Tiantian was taken by Coach Ma to meet the city team leaders and join the city figure skating team.
Ji Tiantian naturally informed Zhang Lilian about this matter. After Zhang Lilian was sure that Ji Tiantian would not affect her dance practice, she agreed.
There are not many people in the figure skating team in Nancheng. Many of them are training outside or have become coaches and have little free time. The training arranged by the team is not as intense as the training class that Ji Tiantian participated in. However, after joining, Ji Tiantian can use the gym dedicated to the figure skating team.
There is a spiral body shaping machine in the gym, which was donated by a figure skating enthusiast. The propeller attachment inside can help athletes better control their center of gravity and rotation. Skating with Tang Yi made Ji Tiantian fully realize that her rotation is really bad, so she stepped on the propeller and followed the machine when she had nothing to do.
Ji Tiantian was actually helpless about the spins. She started to learn the fixed-point spins in ballet when she was very young, and then the toe spins. It was difficult for her to adapt to the spins on the ice. It was like fighting, she was used to using a one-handed weapon, and suddenly had to switch to a two-handed weapon, and she always felt that something was off balance.
"Have you heard that Tang Yi was forced to return to the capital just a few days after coming to South City?"
In the gym, Ji Tiantian often heard people from the city team whispering.
She thought Tang Yi understood what she meant, and after skating together, Tang Yi left her world and never contacted her again. Just as she wished.
Of course, with Tang Yi's reputation in the ice dance circle, she would often hear his name.
"I heard that. The head coach of the national team wanted to find another player for Tang Yi in the women's singles. Coach Xu and Tang Yi both refused, and Coach Xu was very angry."
"I heard that the female singles player didn't want to change her sport, but was forced to do so by her coach. Coach Xu probably doesn't want to see another tragedy like Qian Xiyue's..."
“But it’s hard to say. The coaches have also put in a lot of effort, and the athletes must be suffering because they can’t continue their sports…”
"Ah... Life is full of difficulties and challenges that need to be overcome..."
Ji Tiantian no longer pricked up her ears to listen and focused on her own practice.
Ji Tiantian still attended the training camp with Chen Yusheng and others, and then practiced on her own in her spare time. During this period, except for the big problem of rotation, she hardly encountered any major troubles. When Cong Juan and Zhao Feng met her on the ice, they immediately skated around her and did not dare to provoke her at all.
"Tiantian, I found a dance partner for you. He's in Ningcheng, not far from us, but he's a little old, five years older than you." After a day of training, Coach Ma came to Ji Tiantian with a cheerful step. "He's an adult now, which is good because he can better control his time. He can come over and try to partner with you. The bad thing is... because of his age, he's eager to show results. He wants to participate in the national championships with his partner."
Ice and snow sports are relatively niche, and there are fewer provincial and municipal competitions. Professional athletes basically go straight for the National Figure Skating Championships, eager to make a name for themselves in the country's largest event.
Many provinces and cities usually join together to select ice dance talents and then compete together. It is not uncommon for City A to provide a female partner and City B to provide a male partner.
Especially in the months before the National Championships, except for the top few stable pairs, many other ice dance athletes will look for more suitable dance partners with the help of their coaches in order to achieve better results. It is a complete chaos.
"Tiantian, do you want to participate in the competition?" Coach Ma asked Ji Tiantian.
"I do want to..." Ji Tiantian said in a low voice. Of course she wanted to do it. Since she chose ice dancing, she would naturally want to get better results in the competition.
But now, her rotation is not very good, and she doesn't know how she can perform without a fixed male partner in the lift. This means that most of the difficult moves in the competition are in a blind state. She is not very confident.
"When we get here, we can practice together. Maybe we can get twice the result with half the effort." Coach Ma saw Ji Tiantian's worry and comforted her. "That's it. I'll try to help you make the contact. If you can practice well and participate in the competition, that would be great. There are many masters in the National Championships. You might be able to find a better dance partner when you go. You should practice well first. Strength is always the key."
"Yeah." Ji Tiantian nodded, then cheered up and started practicing.
After all, it was summer vacation, and she had free time. Ji Tiantian said goodbye to Chen Yusheng, who was going home for a dinner party, and practiced alone for most of the day. It was not until night that she was reluctant to leave the ice and walked home with numb legs.
Fortunately, her house was only on the third floor. She walked up the stairs with difficulty and knocked on the door.
"Keep your voice down, your dad is sleeping." Ji Tiantian's mother Zhang Lilian quickly opened the door and looked at Ji Tiantian with a complicated smile, "Tiantian, have you been practicing skating like crazy recently?"
"It's OK." Ji Tiantian walked in and slowly changed her shoes. She knew that Zhang Lilian would not object to her skating as long as it did not affect her dance practice. If she suddenly stopped practicing after a short period of enthusiasm, Zhang Lilian would feel that the money she spent on the skates wasted.
"Mom, why did you marry Dad?" Ji Tiantian put away her ice skates and asked for the sake of conversation.
"Because your dad is pretty good." Zhang Lilian added smoothly, "It was the first time I saw someone like him. He was good-looking, but he blushed when I held his hand. So I won him over."
Zhang Lilian and Ji Ze, one is a dance teacher at a training center and the other is a math teacher. Their meeting and getting to know each other was natural and extremely sweet.
Sometimes Ji Tiantian is also quite envious.
"What's wrong, Ji Tiantian? Is there something wrong with you?" Zhang Lilian came over and carefully observed Ji Tiantian's expression. "Did you meet that boy you liked in the training class, so you practiced so crazy?"
"No, mom, don't talk nonsense."
Ji Tiantian couldn't help but think of Tang Yi again.
In fact, she always felt that Tang Yi married her not because of his parents' affection, let alone love.
He has always been a man with a strong sense of responsibility. In his career, he guides every dance partner wholeheartedly, and as a husband, he also does everything a husband should do. She even thinks that the reason he agreed to marry her is that he feels that since she, a fangirl, has spent so much time on him, he has a responsibility to give her an explanation.
After marriage, he rarely touched her, and he never seemed to be truly happy. As for her, she felt that her feelings for Tang Yi in her previous life might not be love.
It’s just the longing of Girls’ Generation.
She came back to her senses from her memories and sighed softly.
It doesn’t matter. Anyway, she will never have any contact with Tang Yi again.
"What's wrong? You're sighing." Zhang Lilian pinched Ji Tiantian's fair and tender face, "Come and tell me, what are you worried about, you little flower growing in a greenhouse?"
"No, mom." Ji Tiantian covered her face and ran to the bathroom, "I'm going to take a shower."
"Your dad and I don't have classes tomorrow morning. We're going to the movies!" Zhang Lilian shouted at Ji Tiantian's back, "There's leftovers in the fridge. Heat them up and eat them yourself!"
Zhang Lilian and Ji Ze's married life is also very sweet, and they often send Ji Tiantian out for dates, which Ji Tiantian also understands.
"I know!" Ji Tiantian responded, and went to bed after washing up.
Ji Tiantian had a dream. She dreamed that in her previous life, she was penniless but very hungry, so she squatted at the door of a convenience store, looking at the steaming oden inside, and cried breathlessly.
Then she woke up crying.
She was restricted by her mother from eating snacks since she was a child, but occasionally Zhang Lilian would take her out to eat oden out of mercy. As a result, she also liked to eat oden when she grew up in her previous life.
Ji Tiantian lay on the bed, sniffing her nose and touching her stomach, as if she was really hungry.
"Ji Tiantian!"
Suddenly she heard a voice shouting her name, as if coming from downstairs.
And it sounds very familiar.
Ji Tiantian paused, then sat up suddenly. Why did this voice sound so much like Tang Yi?
She immediately opened the window and looked down. She saw Tang Yi, who had dyed his hair black, holding a bowl of oden in one hand, standing downstairs, looking up at her.
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