[Net King] one step away

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1,

In Nioh's eyes, Yukimura is like the wind.

Ubiquitous, omniscient, yet elusive, unable to grasp, just looking at you gently there, unable to get close or far away.

He never thought of being the one who catches the wind.

Just want to try, can let the wind stop for him.

2,

Yukimura this year's French Open match Nioh only caught up with the last game.

He had just been promoted to a consulting manager at the beginning of the year, and his workload and salary had more than doubled. The double-digit numbers of accumulated annual leave and time off continued to rise, and his rest time was constantly compressed.Watching the game was a tacit commitment between him and Yukimura, or at least Nioh didn't want to give up early after saying "I want to try".So he bought tickets for every game in Yukimura, changed the plane and refunded the tickets, and finally managed to catch up with the finals.

After arriving at the scene, he sat in his seat and sent a message to Yukimura, saying that it's a good thing you made it to the final, otherwise I wouldn't even be able to watch the last game.

Of course he didn't get a reply.

Yukimura doesn't look at his phone before the game.

Niwang looked forward to the chat records of the two people and found that the last conversation between the two people happened a month ago.

He asked Yukimura about the game arrangement, and Yukimura replied with a jumping external link.

In the front are some short and irregular conversations, some are simply about what to eat today and working overtime is a little tired, and some are some practice skill videos and sharing the weather with jet lag.

From Nioh's point of view, this kind of contact frequency can't be considered indifferent.

Therefore, when he locked the screen, he curled up the corners of his lips, feeling a little simple happiness.

He looked up at the field, the people around him began to cheer, and the athletes began to enter the field.

The game started.

Red clay is Yukimura's specialty.

Technique, patience, and fine distribution of physical energy.

Yukimura's first Grand Slam medal was the French Open.

That was five years ago, when he was 23 years old.It can be regarded as winning the French Open championship at the peak of physical strength.

It is unbelievable in the international tennis world that an Asian can achieve such good results on clay courts.

After that, Yukimura spent another two years conquering the US Open and won his second four Grand Slam medals.

The undisputed "genius" of his time.

Even the once legendary Echizen Minamijiro only won the US Open once, and then retreated bravely.

The consumption brought about by age is inevitable, and the pain of youth also leaves a little sequelae.After reaching the top of the US Open, Yukimura's performance has fluctuated for a while, but then stabilized. The French Open and the US Open that he is good at can basically reach the quarter-finals, while Wimbledon and the Australian Open have ups and downs.

Yukimura turns 28 this year.

He did not participate in the Australian Open at the beginning of the year and concentrated on preparing for the French Open in June.

In March, Nioh and Yukimura spoke on the phone.

"This year is a good year," Yukimura said, "I'm very excited."

Nioh felt something familiar from Yukimura's words.It is the person who made me involuntarily look up when I was a teenager, the halo that has been draped around me from beginning to end.

So he doesn't even feel anxious when he can't find a reason to take a vacation.

Just the finals.

Yukimura will definitely make it to the finals.

So now, he is sitting in the spectator seats of the final.

People who swing rackets on the court are still not much different from when they were teenagers.

Headband, long hair, ponytail tied up for movement.

There is also Yukimura's own spiritual force field that firmly covers the court.

Too bright, this man.

3,

The game went to the fifth game.

When Yukimura won the match point, Nioh and the audience stood up and cheered together.

He didn't participate in the follow-up carnival, and he made a few calls back after struggling from the court to solve the chores that he had to deal with while on vacation.

He went back to the hotel, took a shower and took a nap for half an hour.

After relieving his fatigue, he picked up his phone again, but he didn't see Yukimura's reply, but the status of the previous message had become read.

Nioh hooked his lips and sent a hotel room to locate him.

Later, the phone in the room rang, and Nio picked it up and passed the identity information asked by the front desk.He counted the time and opened the door.

Yukimura was also wearing a mask when he came.

Although it is not necessary, the Asians who have just won the French Open championship are indeed very conspicuous on the street, and Nioh’s hotel is near the stadium. For safety reasons, masks are a good choice.

After entering the door, he went straight to the bathroom without closing the bathroom door.

Nioh hung up the safety lock of the room, and leaned against the bathroom door to look at him with a little smile.

"I thought you'd be later," he said.

Yukimura looked at him through the mirror, his expression was a little tired, but his eyes were still sharp: "I didn't go to the celebration banquet, but I came to see you after finishing my physical therapy."

"I'm flattered, puff." Nio leaned against the door and smiled, because of the meaning of the words, and because of Yukimura's rare urgent attitude.

The clay court is very exhausting, but the hormones that have been raised to the extreme will not subside immediately after the game.

The tight training state and competition state cannot be maintained for a long time.Injury to the body will also damage the life span of sports, and proper relaxation is also part of maintaining the state.

Athletes more or less have the habit of venting after the game.

White people's routine is to drink nightclubs and women, and occasionally smoke drugs.

Yukimura hated those things.

He himself hates chaos and filth, and has his own arrogance.

At the beginning of his career development, due to his Asian identity and the racial discrimination he always encountered, he also participated in one or two gatherings.It cannot be said that he is out of place, but he is indeed a "strange person" recognized by the club.

Later, when he achieved results, he naturally had the capital to be unique.

Of course, Health X Living is the relaxation method recommended by physical therapists.

One cannot live without sex.

Xing can vent, but also give people happiness.

On this point, Yukimura has his own choice.

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6,

It's hard to say when Nioh started to like Yukimura.

Anyway, no one will ask him to give a definite answer.

Besides, Nioh himself feels that this kind of liking also has elements of admiration and longing, which is different from pure love liking.

In high school, he wrote a reply letter to Yukimura's tennis club group love letter with a sense of joking, and after that, Yukimura talked to him once.

"I was only joking, poof."

Although the matter was brought up in such a tone, Nioh himself knew how serious he was.

And he felt that Yukimura understood, but he didn't say it clearly.

But liking is a personal matter, and has nothing to do with Yukimura.

They had an embarrassing time because of this little episode, and soon Yukimura went abroad to start a job network, while Nioh took the college entrance examination in China, went to university, and got a job step by step.

From the very beginning, Nioh didn't feel that Yukimura was obliged to respond to his emotional sustenance, so he also regretted his recklessness.

If there is no impulsive impulse, perhaps the two people can maintain the relationship of ordinary friends for a long time.

At least it doesn't get awkward.

Of course, it may be his responsibility that the relationship between the two of them will become like this now.

King Ni didn't know if this was considered forcing. After all, he never confessed again, so he didn't think it counted.

The opportunity like that five years ago was so rare, so Nioh did not regret it.

It doesn't matter if it's a relationship that can go to bed, at least it won't make friends.

So far, it's good that Yukimura hasn't been troubled too much.

Although even such an idea, there is a little bit of cheap and good-looking.

7,

After taking a breath, Nioh got up and went to the bathroom to take a shower again.

On the way, he could hear Yukimura calling the front desk for room service, and the voice of the cleaner tidying up the room.

The intense sex made his legs weak.

He changed into a clean bathrobe, dried his hair and came out with the room already made up.

Yukimura stood in front of the French windows, and when he heard the voice, he turned his head and glanced at him, then stretched out his hand to close the curtains.

"Go to sleep." Yukimura said.

The reserved room was a double bed room, Nio saw that Yukimura had no intention of leaving, so he naturally gave up half of the bed.He took out his mobile phone to check if there was anything urgent, and asked the intern who left him a message to save some to-do items for him to deal with when he went back.

Yukimura also went to bed when he spoke, and took half of the quilt away.

Before turning off the lights, he asked, "Are you going to Wimbledon at the end of the month?"

"meeting."

"I'll watch a few more games."

Yukimura smiled softly: "It's okay to just watch the finals, you have some confidence in me."

"Pfft." Nioh leaned over and turned off the lights in the room, and closed his eyes in the dark, "You will be retiring in a few years, of course you can watch every game you can."

"Want to watch me play so much? Then come out to play during the offseason next time. Can you still afford a racket in the past two years?"

"...It's too much, Minister."

"Okay, I'll stop talking. Go to sleep."

King Ren stopped talking.

He worked overtime continuously last month, and his excessive fatigue solved most of his sleep problems, so he fell into a deep sleep not long after.That's why he didn't notice that in theory, after playing a high-intensity game and then experiencing high-intensity sex, the person who should be more tired than him stretched out his hand to tuck the corner of the quilt after seeing him fall asleep, and leaned over to leave a smudge on the corner of his lips. kiss.

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1,

Yukimura later thought about whether it would be better to chat with Nioh because of a reply letter.

He will go abroad soon, and the last batch of "love letters" to the staff will inevitably be sentimental.There are also people who wrote replies, similar to Marui's reply also wrote "I will always remember you and will not forget you", so Nioh's "Because it is time to say goodbye, so there are some things I still want to say to you" He also thought it was just sensational and exaggerated.

But seeing Niwang's uncontrollable eyes when he talked about Xin made him understand that this was not a joke.

Seriously.

"Minister, I like you."

"The kind of love that loves."

The two sentences that were somewhat scribbled on the paper were mixed with the truth he saw in King Ni's eyes at that moment.

Yukimura suddenly became confused.

"I'm just joking, puli." Yukimura also felt at a loss when the man with the pigtails turned his head and said such words. It seemed that it was wrong to follow the words or deal with the answer seriously. appropriate.

It was clearly a private conversation with each member to say goodbye, but at that moment he began to regret that he had talked about replying to the letter.

If only it was just an ordinary farewell.

Yukimura couldn't respond after all.

For this reason, it is a pity to draw a clear line between them for five years as teammates.

2,

An athlete's biological clock is accurate to the second.

It was still early in the morning when Yukimura woke up.The person lying next to him was lying on his side, half of his face was buried in the hotel's white sheets, and there were teeth marks on the back of his neck from last night.

Yukimura took a deep breath and got off the bed lightly.

There's only two weeks off after the series and then Wimbledon.

Yukimura is not very good at grass, and the best record in Wimbledon history only reached the semifinals.He won the French Open this year, so he doesn't have too strict requirements for the next event.After all, he is not young anymore.He loves tennis very much, and he doesn't plan to leave the court too early, so he has to take it easy for some things.

He made a plan in his heart, and poured hot water from the vacuum flask on the table in a familiar way.

When I came yesterday, I still brought a tennis bag, which contained a change of clothes, some daily necessities and the natural tennis items.

After drinking a glass of warm water, Yukimura put on his headband and wristbands, took his racket and ball and went out.

Nioh has been booking this hotel for several years. It is not far from the French tennis court, and there is an indoor tennis court downstairs, which is very convenient from any angle.

Yukimura probably knew that it was for him, and it was probably the subtext of "staying in the hotel overnight if possible".

At first Yukimura was slightly embarrassed by what he realized.

But after five years, it has become as natural as a living habit.

They had lost contact for a few years before that, and they always felt strange when they met again, so he couldn't help being moved when Nioh put something in front of him so bluntly.

But five years have passed, and Yukimura is no longer able to give the exact answer he was able to give in the past.

It has nothing to do with boiling frogs in warm water.

3,

five years ago.

A somewhat delicate moment in time.

Yukimura was only 23 years old that year, and the rising trend was obvious.

In January, he made it to the semi-finals of the Australian Open, and his physical condition was unprecedentedly healthy. The French Open preliminaries started like a bamboo shoot, and the tennis world can see that he is in the best competitive state.

Li Hai's former teammates also paid close attention to this year's French Open, and when they noticed Yukimura's good results, they all made an appointment with each other to watch the match live.

After getting the news that everyone was free, I also contacted Yukimura, and decided that regardless of whether Yukimura made it to the finals or won the championship, we would also gather in those few days.

The venue is set at the venue of the French Open.

Nioh was in his second year of work at that time, and he had already passed the rookie period. He had gained some experience in the work and cultivated a little ease of attitude.

He and Yukimura haven't seen each other for a long time.

Domestic teammates have regular gatherings, but Yukimura plays abroad, and occasionally comes back for the New Year, and he doesn't mean to participate in all-member gatherings.

It means to avoid it, Nioh can detect it.

He is lucky enough to have the contact information of the village, and he will greet each other during the New Year and holidays, but the meaning of keeping a distance is also obvious.

It can be a friend, but it is impossible to go any further.

Nioh has seen Yukimura treat many girls who confessed to him like this, and he has also dealt with many confessions coldly, so he is proficient and familiar with this method of distance.

He is not a person who is good at stalking, and he feels a little pity in his heart, but he can't be more cheeky.

In this way, they became estranged from each other by default.

The French Open final ended and Yukimura won the championship.

When the game whistle fell, Nioh cheered with his teammates, and went to the street to revel together.

After accepting the interview, Yukimura called Liu and said that there was an agreed party with his colleagues in the club.

Their party itself is scheduled for the next day, and I know that no matter what the results are, Yukimura always has to deal with a lot of things on the night after the game.

Yukimura does have a lot to deal with.

Press conference, post-match physiotherapy, greetings with club management, and warm invitations to players from the same club.

"This is the celebration program we have prepared."

Yukimura actually knew what these people were planning.

He didn't want to go, but there was no way, at least this time he needed to be there.

This is the "social rule", his first four grand slams, a "carnival" that must be treated.

The nightclub he had already selected was reserved, and he only needed to pay when he was there.

The "colleagues" who said they wanted to celebrate for him picked out alcohol with their women in their arms.

Yukimura counted the time and estimated that it was almost there, so he planned to leave early.

The colleagues who thought he was a "weird" complained a few words, but didn't say much.

"One last drink," they said.

Yukimura drank it graciously.

When he walked out of the nightclub, he felt something was wrong.

It's not medicine, at least not the kind of medicine that would affect athletes' detection, maybe it's something these people use to "enjoy the fun", because the wine bottle that was poured out of the wine was a random bottle placed on the most central table in the nightclub, and it was Yukimura himself take it.

But for Yukimura, who can be described as pure-hearted and ascetic, it is still a bit too much.

He walked through the alleys at night in France, frowned and began to pick up his mobile phone to check nearby hotels.

He skipped those taverns and hotels with unknown security attributes, and finally found a star hotel within 1000 meters.After the room, he was a little uncontrollable and anxious, not only because of the heat, but also because the hormones had not completely subsided after the game.

He thought about taking a cold shower in his room, but would it hurt his muscles?

Do you take a cold shower after your treatment?

The closed elevator reopened, and someone outside wanted to go upstairs.

Yukimura leaned against the corner and took a deep breath, but froze when the door opened.

——It’s Nioh.

4,

Nioh later chatted with Yukimura about that night.

He described that night as "a fateful arrangement" and thought "of course I had to take such a good opportunity".

Yukimura thinks from the perspective of King Ni, and thinks there is no problem with such a statement.

But at the moment, when he saw King Ni, his thinking inevitably faltered.

Nioh was also obviously surprised to see him here, and even glanced at him when he walked into the elevator.

They are on the same floor, because Nioh didn't take out his room card to swipe the elevator control after he glanced at the elevator number.

Yukimura can still think about these things, but he can also notice Nio's watching eyes on him.

stop looking.

he thinks.

He began to feel that the elevator was going up too slowly.

eleven floors.

When the elevator stopped, he stepped out first, and Nioh followed behind him, keeping a close enough distance that he could hear the sound of footsteps.

When he opened the door, he wondered if King Ren would come up to say hello, and was King Ren really on the eleventh floor?

The moment he opened the door, he turned over and raised his hand to grab the hand that King Ni extended.

"Don't be nervous." King Ni smiled, "Say hello, Minister."

Because of this title, Yukimura felt an inexplicable irritability: "What's the matter?"

"It's you who has something to do, not me." Niwang softened his tone, "Minister, you need help, right?"

5,

Drugs, of course, affect the brain.

At least Yukimura can't remember why he let King Ni into the room at that time.

What he could remember was that King Ren knelt down to give him koujiao, and he remembered that King Ren said that I smelled it, Minister, you might as well call me instead of calling room service, anyway, you can't be hard on me.

Why didn't he refuse?

Except for the medicine, there is a little bit, because of the fact of "knowing that Nioh likes me".

The look from bottom to top brought a sense of desperation, and Yukimura, who was not so rational at all, heard the sound of the safety line snapping in his head.

□□It can never be one person's wishful thinking, so Yukimura has always defined that night as two people's obsession.

6,

Yukimura finished his morning stretching and simple exercises.

He went upstairs to the dining room for breakfast, and packed an extra to take back to his room.

Nioh was still asleep, Yukimura glanced at the time, went to the window and opened the curtains.

When the sun shines on his eyelids, Nioh is naturally awakened from his sleep.He is not fully awake yet, his voice has a strong nasal voice: "... What time is it?"

"Nine o'clock." Yukimura said, "When is your flight back home?"

"……night."

Nioh woke up, and his brain naturally calculated the exact time until the plane took off.

He turned over and found the mobile phone next to the bed to read the information, and whispered: "Actually, you can change the sign until tomorrow, and there is no important thing to go back to deal with."

Yukimura smiled and put the breakfast he brought on the bedside: "So you want to change your ticket?"

Nioh checked the work items on behalf of him, and mentally calculated the overtime hours and work priorities needed to go back.

"...Forget it." He licked his lips and threw the phone aside.

He looked up at Yukimura, "Do it again."

"Ok?"

"We'll see you next time at Wimbledon, and it's been a few weeks," Nioh said. "So, let's do it again."

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In the end, we went to have lunch together and chose a light meal at a cafe, because it would take too much time in a regular restaurant from appetizer to dessert, and Nioh would miss the plane.

In the end, I ordered coffee, and I chose the shape of a tennis ball for the latte, and the classic bolognese spaghetti can't go wrong.

Nioh and Yukimura said that next time they go back to Japan, let’s eat sukiyaki together. Marui has newly invested in a sukiyaki shop, which is next to the dessert shop and coffee shop.

Yukimura said yes, and said that you should bring an umbrella when you come to Wimbledon. It is impossible not to rain in the UK. If you catch a cold again and work while sick, you will get burnt pneumonia, which is scary to death.

I will bring it, it is more romantic to get in the rain.

How exactly is your romance defined.

After talking and laughing briefly, Yukimura rented a car to take Nioh to the airport.

In the past few years, they haven't talked too much about emotional issues.

What is the definition of bed ban?

Yukimura didn't know too well.

But he knew that he acquiesced to Nioh's initiative, so he didn't refuse every time Nioh approached him after the game in the past two years.

The more times you go to bed, there will inevitably be tender moments, and the fetters of your own existence will continue to be deepened as you spend time together.

Yukimura still believes that the most direct relationship between himself and Nioh has nothing to do with love.

His concern for King Ni was more out of friendship, and gradually became ambiguous due to the continuous closeness of the relationship.

Desire is greater than love. After careful consideration, he still came to such a conclusion.

And the entanglement is getting longer and longer, and the desire to control has also developed to some extent.

He began to put Nioh in the safety circle, defining Nioh as "his thing".

This is too arrogant, Yukimura knows.

But this kind of arrogant thinking is also indulged by King Ni, so the responsibility is also shared by two people.

Nioh told him that the most important thing in your life must be tennis, followed by family and friends.Love itself is not a necessity for you.

It's rude to speculate on me like that, Nioh.he responded.

Because this will make me more comfortable, Nioh said with a smile, of course I have reserved a risk plan, if one day you suddenly fall in love, it is also within the scope of my plan.

Too sly.

Yukimura has known Nioh for so long, how could he not know Nioh's subtext?

Besides, it is appropriate for him to say "love is not a necessity for you" to Nioh.

It's just that, as the object of his confession, he has no position to say such things anyway.

But that's something he's only recently discovered.

11,

Yukimura bought a watch at the duty-free shop at the airport, and after paying for it, he unpacked the box and pulled it over Nioh's wrist to put it on.

"Make up for your birthday present from last year," he said.

"It's been half a year." King Ren pursed his lips and smiled, "I didn't even give you your birthday present this year."

"Didn't you order that bouquet?" Yukimura snorted softly.

"Oh, I was discovered." Niwang said a little pompously.

Yukimura shook his head and smiled, saying that next time, don't send lilies. If you want to send flowers, you should send them in pots. The pruned flowers can't live for a few days.

Then I'll bring you a pot of aloe next time.

Nioh said.

When going through the security check, Nioh leaned over and hugged Yukimura's shoulders, the kind of hugs that friends give at a farewell hug.

"I won't call you because of jet lag," he said.

12,

On the way back, Yukimura opened the car window.

The wind with a humid breath blows in, and it's a bit stuffy, but not to the point of sweating.

Yukimura suddenly felt that Nioh was like the wind.

Even if it circles you, chases you, or stays by your side, it is still free.

That's fine.

Everyone should be free.

The author has something to say:

I like this one myself, but it may be a bit out of the ordinary.

The relationship between the two of them is not a simple love relationship, but a more complicated one, mixed with longing, friendship, feelings, past, fetters, possession and many other emotions.

Nioh would not want more, and Yukimura would not give more.

A delicate balance.

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