It's better to fall in love with an old enemy

The draws of Xiyuan Temple and Dylan are next to each other, the fifth and sixth places in the last group.They have already competed together for two seasons. In figure skating, there are only a handful of world-class competitions that have weight in one season. Two hands and two feet can be clearly broken, which is more than enough.There are very few games where the two of them can meet in the same game, let alone the chance to play with the front and rear feet next to each other.

Most players will avoid entering the field to prepare in advance, so as not to see the live game of the previous player, which will cause unnecessary psychological pressure. Playing with a blank slate will always have more advantages than disadvantages.However, for Xiyuan Temple and Dylan, the consecutive lottery has become a little bit of romance that they can steal during an extremely tense game.

You go on stage first, and I quietly watch your entire show standing on the sidelines or behind the blackout curtains, and then use your final score reported by the radio as the background sound for my last 2 minutes of warm-up.

I will end first, so I can sit in the spectator seats in a relaxed manner, and trace your every move on the live screen without taking my eyes off it and with peace of mind.

Coach Paul Lancer looked worriedly at his apprentice who was peeping through the blackout curtain: "Why don't you just lift the curtain and look over there."

Contestant Dylan White hesitated: "Will that be too conspicuous?"

The subtitles in Lanser's mind looped the four-letter national curse, "Does your fucking guilty look stand out more?"

In the end, Dylan went directly to the sidelines to watch Xiyuan Temple's free skating.

Xiyuan Temple adjusted his breath, raised his head and evoked his signature smile, nodded slightly, and his game began.

Together with the first piano sound named "Date" in "Your Name", Xiyuan Temple's sight instantly zoomed away with his fingertips stretched forward, a small arc under his feet hooked a small loop and then turned to Sliding forward, he simply stopped the story he wanted.

From the look in his eyes that faded away with the movement of his arm, Dylan knew that he was finally right this time.

The plot line of dual time and space is too complicated, but it is too one-sided to express myself as only one of the characters.So it's better to just pull yourself out and write a story of your own.

It is enough to be right in terms of emotional expression. Only the players themselves know what kind of story the players are skating on the ice rink.

Dylan is not entirely sure that Xiyuan Temple is handling this free skating according to the advice he gave him last night. It's in the box.

Including the National Championships, he has skated "Your Name" five times in the official arena this season. Sometimes he is the actor Taki, sometimes the heroine Mitsuha, and sometimes the star that suddenly diverted to the earth. An incoming comet.At the World Championships, he was himself.

With the dance movements of his arms, Xiyuan Temple quickly rubbed the red knotted rope on his right wrist with the fingers of his left hand.The movement of his feet was still in harmony with the music. After a short skating, he changed the edge neatly, took off with the outer edge, touched the ice on the blade of his right foot, and raised his hands, completing his only beautiful move this season. The hook of the hand jumps around.

Xiyuan Temple's raising of 4Lz caused the audience to exclaim, and Dylan heard the people in the auditorium behind him exclaim, "When did this god even raise his hand 4Lz?!"

This fairy has long been able to raise his hand, and as long as he is in good condition, he can raise his hand in five surroundings, but he can't do it.Players who have practiced together with Xiyuan Temple in private know this. He has been thinking about raising his hands and hooking four on the field this season, but every time he comes to the field for practice , the quality was always not up to the standard that he thought he could play, so he procrastinated and delayed until the World Championships, and it was a big move to come up.

After Xiyuan Temple slid out smoothly, strings and wind instruments joined in together, and began to push up the atmosphere of the music.After a short series of footwork, it is followed by a two-turn three-in and a non-sloppy Sakhov around.He directly changed his feet and turned to the squatting and rotating point, and the clear sound of the music "ding--" pulled everyone out of the sweet and breezy situation, and turned to a world watched by the gods.

The mystery of Yushen Body, the divine power of chewing wine, and the principles taught by Grandma Yiye to her granddaughter are the original content of this long piece of ethereal music.At this time, Xiyuan Temple seemed to have a program in his mind that automatically played GIF format animations at intervals of one second. All that emerged was Dylan solemnly ringing the bell at the Landlord Shrine in Kiyomizu Temple last offseason. Those pieces that ask the gods of Japan to bless the marriage.

From the moment Dylan stood beside the barrier, Xiyuan Temple knew he was coming without turning his eyes there.He felt that he seemed to have developed an ability to separate the sight of Dylan from other people.

He entered the graded footwork after a simple four-in-a-row and finished with a few sabers.Coincidentally, at the last stroke of the knife-toothed step, the direction Xiyuan Temple was looking at was the direction where Dylan was standing.Xiyuansi didn't expect their eyes to meet so directly on the field of the World Championships. He wanted to quickly withdraw his gaze, but his eyes betrayed his brain, and he didn't want to leave that person's face for a long time.

Xiyuan Temple secretly let himself look at him for 0.5 seconds longer.

Stealing a breath to return to reality, Xiyuan Temple took another breath to sink back into the field.

The rhythm of the music suddenly became tense. In the second half of the jump, there is only a 3A1Eu3F difficulty jump. Few players can jump like this. As a sandwich jump, it is much more comfortable to connect with a 3S than 3F.This jump has become Xiyuan Temple's signature move.

Jumping is not a problem, and rotation is not a problem. The most troublesome thing for Xiyuan Temple is to arrange complicated connecting steps.In order to match the tension rendered by the music, the set of choreographed footwork in the second half is simply the most intensive set he has ever skated.In the grand prix at the beginning of the season, he didn't dare to be distracted at all at this stage. If he made a wrong step, he would lose control of the rhythm, and only the idea of ​​​​don't make mistakes was left in his mind.

By now, Xiyuan Temple has mastered them by heart, and can focus on listening to music to find emotions.Maybe he doesn't really need to look for it deliberately.I have to say that Coach Ono's choreographer really has two skills. After the movements are smoothed out and accompanied by music, the emotions can be brought out naturally.However, this choreographer has a relatively high standard for the smoothness of the movements, and ordinary memorization is obviously not enough.

Sliding down the movement, sadness, eagerness, confusion, and fear exhausted the heart of Xiyuan Temple.He couldn't help thinking about the fight—he didn't want to bring this emotion into the show.

Fortunately, the rhythm of this arrangement is tense, but it is not too long.When Xiyuan Temple pushed the emotions of himself and everyone in the venue to the most heart-wrenching climax, his movements gradually softened with the slowing down of the music.

He, Coach Ono, and the choreographer all agreed that the meeting in Tiankeng should be put at the end, and it would be exciting enough for the show to stop here.

Wind instruments, string instruments, and drums all gradually withdrew, leaving only the tinkling of the piano.

Xiyuanji pulled Bellman up, and then let go of him.He kissed the knot on his wrist without hesitation, and raised his arm in an upright rotation.He spun, staring up at the dots of light against his fingertips.

He let himself and Dylan settle down again in the free skating at the World Championships.

The spinning stops and the music falls.Xiyuan Temple's finishing action is not bad.

Xiyuan Temple bent down and supported his knees, panting non-stop, the only sound he could hear was his panting in such a large venue.Others—the audience, the staff, the coaching staff—couldn’t make a sound at all. They were like the moment the comet hit the village in the movie "Your Name", they were silenced.

One second

Two seconds

The third second...

Xiyuanji counted the frequency of his breathing.He finally straightened his back as if measured by a ruler, and raised his neck, which was always high but not always low.He opened his arms, he provoked a smile, and he mouthed:

"thank you all."

The venue of the Shanghai Oriental Sports Center exploded with a "buzz", cheers, shouts, and applause melted into a large piece, condensed into a ball like a comet nucleus, and smashed towards the ice rink.

The voices of people jumping for joy are the nucleus of the comet, the plush dolls thrown out by people are the tail of the comet, and Saionji Sawaaki standing in the center, sweating and bowing continuously, is the comet’s landing site.

He bowed four times in different directions, and finally turned towards Dylan White, kissed the knot of his right wrist again, and blew another kiss.It caused the audience above Dylan's head to scream an octave higher.

Coach Lancer stood beside Dylan: "You are finished, you will be under the podium by him for the rest of your life."

Hearing this, Dylan showed a wild smile that rarely appeared on his face: "It's okay, I'm not afraid that he will keep pressing me on the field."

In the audience seats backstage, Song Liu and Xiao Cheng gave a high-five as his farewell to leaving the audience seats. They both glanced sideways at Weir who was staring at the screen with a pale face, and then they exchanged words. eyes.

Song Liu walked up to Weil and stretched out his palm towards him.Veil touched his finger perfunctorily.Song Liu didn't have any unhappy reaction, but Xiao Cheng immediately stood up and satirized him: "Senior Ping Qi Zhongliang's 4A, who has spent his entire career, can knock you out of your mind. Did you get any sweetness from Si and Dylan?"

Hearing what he said, Song Liu hurriedly lifted his foot and knocked on the upper of his sneakers, and kicked back what he wanted to say, "If they're not here, the score will crush you to death."

Veil had played against them so many times, so he couldn't understand what Xiao Cheng wanted to say.He raised his eyes and stared at him, and was about to open his mouth to turn back, but was immediately pushed back to his seat by the score reported by the radio.

The two Guinness World Records for free skating and total points in the men's figure skating competition were once again born on the field of the World Championships, and once again under the ice blade of Saiyuan Zeming.

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It’s been a long time since I’ve written a lot about the competition, I’m a little handy QAQ