Figure Skating: Waltz on Ice

Du Liangchen started exercising his physical fitness every day, but his health was not as good as before, and he often felt short of breath.

He couldn't take it anymore after a month and decided to give up figure skating.

One day, the family ran out of salt, so Grandma Du asked Du Liangchen to go buy some. On the way, he met Mei Jing.

The two looked at each other.

Mei Jing walked towards him: "Long time no see, Xiao Chen."

Du Liangchen asked in surprise, "What are you doing near my house?"

Mei Jing smiled and said, "Because I came to see you."

Du Liangchen: "So free? Don't you have to train? Look at my memory, the season just ended, are you on vacation?"

"Yes, it's a holiday, so I came to see you."

"What's so interesting about me? I'm still the same as always."

"Let's go for a walk over there~"

Seeing that Mei Jing seemed to have something to say, Du Liangchen followed him for a walk.

"What's wrong? Are you in a bad mood?"

Mei Jing hesitated before saying, "Um, will you... come back?"

Du Liangchen looked at him and laughed self-deprecatingly: "With my physical condition, no one will want me if I go back."

Mei Jing looked at Du Liangchen with a pained expression: "I've been waiting for you. Are you going to give up?"

"Xiao Jing, to tell you the truth, I recently tried a month of physical training, but it was very painful for me."

"Do you know that feeling where you're trying really hard to breathe, but you just can't catch your breath, like you're suffocating? That feeling of being about to suffocate."

"It's not that I don't want to go back, it's that I can't go back."

Mei Jing looked at the dejected Du Liangchen, her eyes filled with tears.

"I can't understand that kind of pain, but I know that when I'm exhausted, I'll be short of breath. I think the pain I've endured is less than one ten-thousandth of what you've experienced."

Hearing Mei Jing's words, Du Liangchen's strong heart became fragile as he looked at the tears streaming down Mei Jing's face.

Du Liangchen was inexplicably furious and questioned, "Mei Jing, why are you crying? Are you pitying me?"

Mei Jing shook her head and denied it, saying, "I didn't."

Du Liangchen: "Then why are you crying?"

Mei Jing said painfully, "I don't know."

Du Liangchen: "Are you an idiot?"

Mei Jing: "..."

The two parted on bad terms. Du Liangchen was so angry that he forgot to buy salt, and went downstairs but then went back to buy salt.

Seeing that Mei Jing hadn't left yet, Du Liangchen pretended not to see her and walked over.

But Mei Jing grabbed his arm.

Du Liangchen said impatiently, "What exactly do you want?"

Mei Jing: "I just want to tell you that I will always be waiting for you on the ice. You are a figure skating genius who has created many impossibilities. I don't believe you will be defeated by illness. I think you are not willing to leave the ice like this, are you?"

Seeing that Du Liangchen didn't get angry, Mei Jing continued, "Someone doesn't want you to be in a high position, are you just going to back down? The Du Liangchen I know isn't a coward..."

"enough--"

Du Liangchen didn't want to listen anymore and shouted at them.

Mei Jing was startled by Du Liangchen's appearance.

Du Liangchen slapped Mei Jing's hand away, saying, "I'm going to buy salt. Grandma is waiting for me at home."

Du Liangchen returned home dejectedly, put down the salt bag, and went back to his room.

He didn't hear Grandma Du talking to him.

He said to Grandpa Du, who was sitting on the sofa, "What's wrong? He was fine before he went out, but he's like he's lost his soul when he came back."

Grandpa Du shrugged and said, "How would I know? I'll ask him when we eat later."