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"I watched last year's campus swimming league and this year's short course competition. Your performance was amazing. I had a premonition that you would be a dark horse." The person sitting next to Duan Zhuo said so.

She is the niece of the sponsor of the sports meeting. Her name is Sun Qi. She usually pays close attention to sports events. There is no swimmer in the circle who can't name her.

But for her praise, Duan Zhuo didn't take it too seriously.

He wanted to send Jiang Sui a message back, but Sun Qi couldn't stop talking, and kept talking about swimming. He felt that it was not polite to lower his head and play with his mobile phone, so he had to listen, nod, and occasionally agree.

"Then what do you do when you're not training?"

"Take classes or work part-time." Duan Zhuo sneaked a glance in Jiang Sui's direction while answering the question.

At this moment, the fifth group happened to be on the stage, and the focus of the audience was on the athletes on the field. Duan Zhuo was a little surprised by the gaze cast against the crowd. He thought that Jiang Sui would not care what he was doing.

"Then do you have any other hobbies?" Sun Qi asked him.

Duan Zhuo shook his head, thinking that the girl might have to sit here all afternoon, he got up and said, "I'm sorry, I'll go to the bathroom first."

On the way, I couldn't wait to take out my phone, saw the message from Jiang Sui, and asked who he was chatting with.

【Free: The niece of a sponsor. 】

[International bar lifter: Yo. 】

Duan Zhuo couldn't quite understand what the word "yo" was trying to express.

[Free: What's wrong? 】

[International-level barbarian: What are you talking about, talking for so long? 】

[Free: Nothing, just chatting. 】

【Free: [Positioning] I live here in Huating, let me know when you're done booking, and I'll see where it is. 】

Jiang Sui finally booked a hotel not far from Huating, just across the road, and very close to the snack street. Duan Zhuo searched for recommendations on the Internet, arranged a time, and wanted to take Jiang Sui to eat supper.

It's a pity that things didn't go as planned. After the game that night, the coach took everyone to his room for a meeting. The meeting lasted for more than an hour, and when it ended, it was past ten o'clock.

It's not far to go to the snack street, but if you add the time to eat, you can't go back until early in the morning.

Jiang Sui disagreed, and politely rejected him on WeChat, asking him to take a good rest. Duan Zhuo reluctantly gave up this opportunity to be closer to Jiang Sui.

After taking a shower, he lay on the bed, flipping back and forth like spreading a cake.When he came here, in order to focus on the game, he didn't bring his work documents with him, and the tablet was also left at school, and he was a little annoyed at the moment.

When turning over, his elbow accidentally pressed the TV remote control, and the screen suddenly lit up, so he simply raised his pillow to watch TV.

The TV in the hotel does not have a membership, and there are not many channels to watch. Duan Zhuo dialed and dialed, and finally stopped at the channel of "Animal World". He listened to the commentary about how polar bears go into heat.

Inevitably, he thought of that night on the island again, and thought of the person in his arms.When he was about to do something, the phone rang, which startled him.

[J: [Picture] I took my son to watch your game today. 】

In the photo is the big screen at the competition site, and it captured Duan Zhuo coming out of the water to wipe his hair.

Duan Zhuo suddenly woke up, his fingertips were trembling with excitement.

[Free: Why didn't you notify me in advance before you came, will you come tomorrow? 】

[J: Of course, I will cheer for you. [cat wink]]

Cheng Ziyao came out of the bathroom after taking a shower, saw the person lying on the bed holding his mobile phone and giggling, and crawled to lie down next to Jiang Sui.

Although Jiang Sui quickly exited the software, Cheng Ziyao still flashed a chat interface in front of his eyes.

"Who are you chatting with? Don't let me watch it."

"I didn't chat with anyone." Jiang Sui poked into a video app, "It's just an old classmate."

"Fart! Classmate, what are you hiding?" Cheng Ziyao suddenly raised his voice, "Quickly tell me, who are you chatting with?"

"Who's chatting..." Jiang Sui glanced at him speechlessly, "Just chatting normally, okay?"

"I don't believe it," Cheng Ziyao arched towards Jiang Sui, and reached out to touch his phone, "Then let me see."

Jiang Sui was protecting the phone, and Cheng Ziyao became even more excited. He looked like a grieving woman whose legs had been split. She pressed a finger on Jiang Sui's chest like the barrel of a gun, and poked twice: "You must have a ghost in your heart!"

Jiang Sui's heart was itchy from being poked by him, and he hid aside with a smile, but Cheng Ziyao made up his mind to gossip right now, so he threw himself on him, scratching his itch while groping for the phone.

Jiang Sui didn't get a favorable position at first, only being tickled by Cheng Ziyao.

The bed was very narrow, Jiang Sui struggled to retreat to the edge of the bed, there was no way to retreat, most of his body was hanging in mid-air, only two legs were still pressed by Cheng Ziyao.

His head was getting bloodshot, and he couldn't get up again. He threw his phone on the bed in a breakdown, begging for mercy intermittently: "OK, OK... I'll tell you..."

Only then did Cheng Ziyao stop, and dragged half of his body back to the bed, laughing wickedly.

Jiang Sui breathed a sigh of relief, and talked to him about the Xiaohe Miao Charity Fund and the bond with a little sister. He also dug out a photo more than ten years ago from the space album.

"Just this little sister," Jiang Sui asked with a smile, "Do you think she's pretty?"

After all, Cheng Ziyao is also a face control person, and his eyes became brighter when he saw the photo: "Beautiful, so beautiful. I can't tell, you have such a vision! Do you have a photo of her now? Show me."

Jiang Sui thought about it again and again, but he still didn't intend to reveal Duan Zhuo's identity, otherwise, according to Cheng Ziyao's personality, Duan Zhuo would know about it within three days.

"He doesn't post photos in his circle of friends, and I haven't met him yet..."

He thought, he really did not meet Duan Zhuo as a sponsor, so it is not a lie.

"That's it," Cheng Ziyao asked again, "where is she now? Is everything going well?"

"It went well," Jiang Sui said. "He's just like us. He's a freshman. He's a very smart kid."

"Wow...that sounds so rewarding."

Jiang Sui raised his eyebrows, and said rather proudly: "That is, especially when I heard that he went to the school in Nancheng specifically to find me, so I feel very happy."

"Damn," Cheng Ziyao couldn't close his mouth, and he smiled after a few seconds of reaction, congratulating him, "This fate really can't be stopped, so you're spending money to buy a child bride?"

"What's this called?" Jiang Sui explained seriously, "I spend the money voluntarily. I just want him to eat meat and drink milk and grow up safely. It doesn't mean that he spends my money. What do you want in return?"

"OKOK, I understand," Cheng Ziyao winked at him, "Then does she like you?"

In Jiang Sui's mind, the red eyes of Duan Zhuo under the dim street lights a few nights ago appeared again.

He clearly said "no matter what you decide, I can accept it", but what Jiang Sui read in his eyes was the fear of clenching his teeth.

In fact, Jiang Sui knew that he couldn't accept another answer at all, just like he couldn't accept being a stranger to Duan Zhuo himself.

After getting a positive answer, Cheng Ziyao asked again: "Then do you like her?"

When this question came to the point, Jiang Sui turned to look at him: "How do you like it?"

Cheng Ziyao showed caring eyes: "Look at you, with your EQ and IQ, what's the use of you skating faster than Wu Dajing?"

Jiang Sui raised his foot to kick him, Cheng Ziyao reacted quickly, avoided him with a smirk, and after a while, lay down beside him and said: "If you like someone, you can't help but pay attention to everything about her. Followed by being happy, I couldn’t help but want to make her happy. Well... Let me describe it this way, if you have a piece of strawberry cake, you really want to eat the strawberries on it, but if it is eaten by someone you like, you can also Being satisfied is even more blissful than eating yourself. It's as simple as that."

After Jiang Sui listened, he was stunned for a long time. This is clearly Cheng Ziyao's understanding of love, but he can empathize with every state in it, and even quickly associate it with the corresponding scene.

The person in the picture is not the little spoon with braids, but the person who is running towards him in the cold wind, holding a bunch of strawberry candied haws in his hand.

In the semi-finals the next morning, Duan Zhuoyou performed at the same level as the preliminaries, and successfully advanced with an excellent time of 1:46. One of the final places with him was from the Zhejiang team and the other was from the Henan team.Both of them have been to the Olympics before, and their results are remarkable. The last one is Zhang Jiayan, who is very surprising.

Because of his low quality, Jiang Sui didn't like this guy very much. Even if he got a similar result to Duan Zhuo, he still felt that he was just lucky, and he would definitely not be able to beat Duan Zhuo in the final.

The final was at [-]:[-] p.m. Jiang Sui and Cheng Ziyao had eaten and returned to the scene early with a light sign to ensure that Duan Zhuo could see them first when he came out from the backstage.

After two games, Duan Zhuo seemed less nervous than Saturday afternoon. When he walked out of the red carpet, he waved towards the auditorium. Although the direction was only in the B area where Jiang Sui and the others were, it was still an improvement.

It is also obvious that Duan Zhuo's popularity is higher than before. When he waved his hand, Jiang Sui heard the almost crazy screams of the girls, and some even shouted "Mom loves you".

The starting gun sounded, and Duan Zhuo plunged into the water like a dolphin. His take-off movement had nothing to say. After a few kicks, he rushed to the first position and went hand in hand with Jiang Han of the Zhejiang team.

Jiang Han has been training with the national team before, has participated in two Olympic Games, and won awards in both of them. He is a ruthless character.

His preliminaries were nearly 0.5 seconds faster than Duan Zhuo's. Later in the semi-finals, he was also the best, throwing away No.2 by an entire body distance, a terrifying speed.

It is basically the scheduled champion tonight.

Duan Zhuo and him are on the first and second tracks respectively, and because they are close together, the gap is obvious. Duan Zhuo lags behind Jiang Han in the first lap, and the gap has exceeded half a meter in the last 100 meters.

And Zhang Jiayan was in the third lane. This person who has been ignored by Jiang Sui has been rushing fiercely today. On the second lap, he has already chased back the one meter behind the jump, and competed with Duan Zhuo for the No.2 position.

When Duan Zhuo was about to turn around on the second lap, he noticed that Zhang Jiayan's arm seemed to have surpassed him, but it was just a quick picture, he was not completely sure, and his body had already turned around mechanically.

What I saw again was Jiang Han's rapidly swinging legs on the other side of the swimming lane.

In the last 25 meters, he stopped breathing, swung his arms with all his strength, kicked his legs, and sprinted! ——

The moment he rushed out of the water, he almost fainted. He took off his swimming goggles, but his eyes were still covered with a layer of mist. He gasped heavily, and it took him five seconds to see clearly numbers.

The heart sank suddenly.

I can't believe it - Zhang Jiayan beat him by 0.04 seconds and ranked second.

The strength in his body seemed to be exhausted, and his brain was blank. He didn't even have the strength to hold on to the line of the swimming lane. His arms went limp, and he fell back into the water again.

Zhang Jiayan sat on the dark blue lane line and shouted in celebration, slapping the water surface continuously, the pool water splashed on Duan Zhuo's face, as if he was slapping him hard.

Duan Zhuo crawled out of the swimming pool, dazedly wiping the water droplets on his body, his mind was full of a reality that he had to face - he lost his ranking, which was equivalent to losing his quota for the Asian Games.

Because the other events he reported were the 200-meter medley and the relay. Breaststroke and butterfly in the medley are not his strong points. The No.1 of each event will swim the relay.

He lost at his best event...

The sound of Zhang Jiayan interacting with the audience reached his ears, but he didn't dare to look up at those people who trusted him and cheered for him.

He avoided eye contact with Jiang Sui and the others, and hurriedly left the scene.

Going back to the lounge and opening the cabinet door, the phone just flashed. It was a new message from Mr. J.

——Don't be discouraged, the game is not over yet, you must still have a chance.

He used a very affirmative tone, which didn't sound like consolation, but a sincere and firm expectation.

It's strange, this person is clearly watching his game for the first time, but he seems to be very sure of his strength.