Chapter 72: Inaccurate Judgment
Kobe was scorching hot in June this year, and Hanyu felt like he was melting along with the ice. After just one opening rehearsal, his T-shirt was soaked with sweat.
The wet clothes stuck to his body, making him feel very uncomfortable. He took off his T-shirt decisively. The air-conditioning was turned on very high. The moment the fabric left his body, his sweat hairs stood up due to the cold air, and he shivered slightly.
I quickly put on the dry T-shirt my mother handed me, and glanced at the stands while putting it on.
In the stands, in an area that was out of reach of all cameras, Le sat there wearing headphones, studying his choreography project.
Her long hair was slightly curled, and it fell on her shoulders as she bent over. Occasionally, her hair would fall down, and she would raise her hands and tuck it behind her ears, revealing her cool vest straps and her beautiful shoulders.
Yuzuru Hanyu frowned, whispered a few words to his mother, and nodded in the direction of Le.
The music was so loud that she had to turn up her headphones to a high volume to focus on her assignment. She frowned, her Apple Pencil in hand, still trying to figure out the extra "homework" the group had assigned her. Only when Yumi Hanyu came over and gently draped a black sport coat over her did she notice someone was there.
"Aunt Yumi, why are you here?" Le quickly took off his headphones and turned his head to try to see the clothes on his back. "What is this...?"
"Yuzuru asked me to bring this to you. This is an extra coat I prepared for him." Hanyu Yumi sat down next to Le. "Le must be cold. Mom, please give her a coat. That's what he told me."
How did he know he was cold?
Le thought as she put on her coat. She tugged at the slightly longer sleeves and lifted her hand to pull out her hair that was trapped by the coat. Suddenly, she understood.
When she left the house this morning, she wore her hair in a cool bun, fearing the heat. Just now, as she started to feel cold while sitting here, she took her hair down as a way to stay warm. Yuzuru Hanyu must have noticed.
The corners of his mouth curled up unconsciously.
"Young people's love is so wonderful~" Hanyu Yumi put her hands on her knees and smiled at Le. "The boy who used to worry me a lot, now he also worries about his girlfriend."
Yuzuru Hanyu's eyebrows and eyes look just like his mother's, and Yumi Hanyu's smile is similar to Yuzuru's, with her lips curved into an arc and her eyes narrowed into slits, though with more wrinkles at the corners. If you look closely, you can see a lot of white hair among her hair.
Le looked down at his coat, the one Yumi's mother always kept as an extra for him.
"Yuzuru is truly happy." She gently stroked the cuff of her coat. "Although figure skating is a difficult journey, he always has Auntie by his side. With Auntie's love, he is truly blessed."
The envy in her eyes made Yumi Hanyu feel a little distressed for a moment.
"Actually, I also thought about letting him go on his own. When he went to Canada, I originally wanted him to go alone. Of course, I was worried about him, and I was hesitant at the time. I called Feng and asked her about the precautions for going abroad. It was she who made me determined to go to Canada to take care of Yuzuru."
"Really..." Le zipped up her jacket and pulled it all the way to the top with a swish. Hanyu Yuzuru's clothes were still a little too big for her, but pulling the collar up was enough to hide her mouth and nose.
"Do you know what Feng said to me at that time?"
shook his head.
"She said that the thing she regretted most in her life was not accompanying you to Boston."
Their conversation paused as the music began again. Yumi Hanyu patted Le's head and left her seat, leaving her there. She lowered her head in a daze, savoring what Yumi had just said. That story, which she had never heard before, swirled and swelled in her chest, finally dissolving into tears that fell onto the iPad on her lap.
Snap——
The sound of falling tears was drowned out by the music from the ice rink rehearsal.
[Feng loves you very much too. So, Xiaole, you are also a happy child.]
She leaned back in her chair, tucked her feet up on the chair, and buried her face in her hands. Her sobs grew louder and louder under the cover of the music.
Yes, I am also a happy child.
The cell phone next to him vibrated and emitted a light.
Yuzu: Le, are you feeling unwell? Why don't you go back to the hotel first? I'll be back as soon as rehearsal is over.
On the ice, the performers were gathering for the final rehearsal, and Yuzuru Hanyu had already joined them. Le watched him on the ice, knowing he wouldn't see his reply, so he simply didn't reply and remained seated. As he circled the rink, he could see her immediately.
"Eh? Where's Hanyu?" Oda finished rehearsing his solo show and found that many of the cameras on the scene had been removed. He felt a little strange and went up to a few people on the sidelines to ask.
"Hanyu-senpai has finished rehearsals today and is leaving first~" Tomono Kazuki answered obediently.
"Huh? Leaving so early today?" Oda was a little unbelieving.
"Yes, he said he wanted to go home early today to get back in shape," Tomono Kazuki replied, though he himself found it a bit strange. After all, Hanyu-senpai usually spent quite a bit of time at the rink. Besides discussing figure skating techniques with them, they would sometimes chat about small things. He was momentarily lost in thought, unconsciously raising his hand to scratch the bumpy, red, and swollen pimple on his cheek. Sakamoto Kaori quickly slapped him on the back of his hand.
"Don't scratch it, or you'll break it, or Hanyu-senpai will come and laugh at you again tomorrow."
After being reminded of this, Youye pouted in grievance.
"How could I have known he'd suddenly bring up my acne... He even told me that if I didn't rinse conditioner thoroughly, I'd get closed comedones... And I don't use conditioner on my face..."
His aggrieved accusation hit Sakamoto Kaori's funny spot, and she held her stomach and laughed so hard that she couldn't straighten her back.
"Your smile is too exaggerated! Girls should be more elegant!" You Ye was a little embarrassed by the laughter. Seeing that she still had no intention of restraining herself, he pulled her towards the stands and said, "You should imitate the elegance of that girl over there! Eh? Where is she?"
"Who are you talking about?"
"I noticed today that there was a beautiful young lady with a ID. I had never seen her before. She seemed very familiar with Mrs. Hanyu... I saw her sitting over there during rehearsal... Where did she go?"
"Just keep lying, beautiful lady. You're very familiar with Mrs. Hanyu. Why don't you just say that you're Hanyu-san's girlfriend?" Sakamoto Kaori counted the core elements of what he had just said on her fingers. The more she argued, the more she couldn't believe it. Finally, she waved her hand and left the scene.
She didn't believe it, but some people's gossip antennas were alerted.
Oda Nobunari had also seen beautiful women with good temperament. There was no shortage of beautiful women among media workers, so he didn't think much of it. But after hearing everyone say this, he suddenly felt that something was fishy.
We'd have to find out somewhere about this.
Thinking this, Oda Nobunari took out his cell phone.
The protagonist being talked about has no idea that he is being speculated. He is in a battle of wits with his girlfriend who refuses to tell the truth in the hotel.
"You were so upset that you cried, and you still said it wasn't serious. There is a portable cooking pot in mom's room. I went to get it and made you some brown sugar ginger water." He patted his thigh and stood up to go out, but Le grabbed his clothes.
"No, really." She frowned and pursed her lips, her face showing her rejection of the sweet and spicy brown sugar ginger water.
"Are you feeling uncomfortable?" Yuzuru Hanyu sat down again and touched her forehead tenderly.
"fine……"
"Then why are you crying?" His fingers slid down her forehead and gently rubbed the corners of her slightly red eyes with his fingertips.
When he went to look for her after rehearsal, Yuzuru Hanyu immediately noticed the traces of tears on her face. But with her mother and Naoki Fukutani there, he couldn't bring himself to point it out.
Maybe she would tell him when they were alone?
Yuzuru Hanyu thought so optimistically.
But no, from the moment she entered the room, she hadn't said a word about her crying. His patience for waiting gradually faded, and he had no choice but to take the initiative.
The touch on the corner of his eye was very gentle, and his tone of voice was just as soft, but Le could clearly see in his eyes the determination to get an answer today. No one could resist such a look, and Le could only reluctantly compromise.
"Today, Aunt Yumi told me a secret." She roughly recounted what happened today, her voice choking as she reeled back into her earlier emotions. Before she could finish her sobbing tale, Yuzuru Hanyu surrendered.
"Okay, okay, I won't say anymore." He hugged her lovingly, gently stroking Le's back to soothe her. In his heart, he kept blaming himself for asking so much and bringing up her sad memories.
Leaning in Yuzuru Hanyu's arms, Le's emotions were almost uncontrollable.
"W-why... I... I really don't want to..."
"I, I... am, I am... fine now..."
"They... everyone has... their position... I understand... but who, who understands, understands me?"
She sobbed and sobbed, as if she had found an outlet for her emotions. What she said seemed a little incoherent to Yuzuru Hanyu, as if she just wanted to cry.
"I understand, I understand," he hurriedly wiped the tears from her face with his palm, but as soon as he wiped them away, new ones fell. His whole face was covered with tears. He hugged her tightly in his arms again with a distressed look, kissed the top of her head and comforted her, "I understand you. Okay, okay, don't cry anymore."
It's hard to appease someone whose emotions are out of control. This was Yuzuru Hanyu's biggest realization that day. Le cried for a long time, finally ending when she fell asleep in his arms. Even then, she still sobbed between breaths. Looking at her red nose, Hanyu realized for the first time that Le was also a girl with emotions.
However, it was not until later, when he recalled that day, that he realized that it was not just an emotional day. Le was still the same Le, and her collapse always had a deep reason.
But he didn't know it at that time.
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