wipe the ice and fire

"If you dare to go outside and cause trouble again, I'll break that little boy's leg and let him know that his whole life was ruined because of you!"

"No, Mom and Dad, please don't do this kind of thing..."

"Get out! I've never raised something like you that would seduce people everywhere." After the woman finished speaking, she raised her hand and gave her a slap.

"Snapped--"

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When Luo Ming turned over from the bed, the clothes on his chest and back were already soaked with sweat.The bright headlights above his head and the sunlight coming in through the cracks in the curtains made him feel dazed so that he didn't know what night it was.

Looking at the familiar furnishings in front of him, his consciousness gradually came back.

It was a dream, he had another nightmare.

Covering his thumping chest, he took several deep breaths, saw the traces of sweat on the pillow, bit his lips with a complex expression, and walked down the bedside table.

It was three o'clock in the afternoon, when the sun was at its fullest.The floor-to-ceiling windows were half opened, and the room was filled with sunlight. The wind blew up the white curtains, reflecting the golden gleam of the sun. Just looking at it made people feel alive.

But he was like a frightened chick, wearing a loose white nightgown and moving out of the room little by little, even if the sun was shining outside, he would stay in the nest and dare not move.

There was a vague conversation in the living room on the first floor. He walked to the handrail and looked around, and found that his brother had come again and was talking with the housekeeper.

"Ahem..." He wanted to speak, but unexpectedly his throat became dry and tight, and he coughed a few times in discomfort.

"Master, are you awake?" Seeing this, the butler immediately walked up quickly and helped him away from the railing, as if he was afraid that he would accidentally fall off.

Luo Ming pulled out his arm with the last bit of strength left, and walked towards the bathroom by himself while supporting the wall.

A half-human, half-ghost face was reflected in the mirror.

After being stimulated, my mental state took a sharp turn for the worse. No matter day or night, as long as I close my eyes, I can't control my cranky thoughts. If I feel a little sleepy, I will be awakened by various nightmares.

At first he was able to cry out to vent, but later his body couldn't bear it anymore, so he could only lie in bed in a daze, feeling his whole body being pulled away from his body little by little...

He hadn't rested for four or five days, and his face had lost a lot of weight, turning into a dull waxy white, making the dark eyes under the eye sockets more obvious, embarrassed and sick.

"Master, I made noodles, do you want to eat?"

He shook his head slightly, but he couldn't stand still, so he could only find a sofa and sit down.The elder brother also came up when he heard their conversation, and patted him on the shoulder: "Did elder brother speak too seriously that day?"

"No, it's my old problem." He took a sip of water to moisten his throat before he managed to speak out.

"If you can't sleep, ask the doctor to prescribe you some sleeping pills, so as not to break your body."

"Yeah." He still didn't look up, just responded casually, and ordered the housekeeper, "Bring Xiao En here for me."

"Didn't the doctor say not to bring dogs into the house to sleep?"

"I want to hug him for a while." Luo Ming's voice trembled, and he was about to cry.

Seeing this, my brother shook his head: "Lumi, if you feel afraid of sleeping alone, I can find a manufacturer to customize plush toy dogs for you. You can have as many as you want."

"I'm not a child anymore!" He finally gathered enough strength to say something loudly, and stumbled downstairs to lead the dog out of the pet room.Xiao En moved its short legs understandingly with his slow pace, obediently jumped around his feet, and arched his calf from time to time, so docile.

The butler wanted to stop him, but his eldest brother stopped him first, and whispered "Let him go".

Luo Ming returned to the bedroom with red eyes, and took a lot of effort to hug little Corgi to the bed.

Sean rarely received this kind of treatment. He lay happily on the side of the pillow and wanted to stick out his tongue to lick him. Maybe he noticed the bruises and needle holes on the back of his hand. He only slurped his fingers sensiblely, staring at his bright eyes and purring. .

Luo Ming lay on his side on the bed, desperately pulling it into his arms, and felt much more at ease when he heard the breathing of the living creature.

Downstairs, the conversation continued.

"I'm going on a business trip to Madrid from tomorrow, so take care of him and don't think about committing suicide again. If it doesn't work, give him a nutrient solution, anyway, he doesn't have the energy to bother."

"Don't worry, young master."

"By the way, I have the information of that little boy here, please help me find out if they knew each other before."

"Master, do you think so too?"

"I know Lumi's character well, he won't just have that kind of extravagant expectations on others."

……

Although Luo Ming couldn't hear what they were saying, he knew very well in his heart: The Varis family would rather raise a useless person lying in bed than a slut who caused trouble.

But this time he didn't want to just fall down like this.Even if it's not for Du Qingshao, to watch his World Championships a week later, even if it's for himself, he has to stand up again.

"Wow~" Little Corgi seemed to have guessed what he was thinking, and rubbed his head into his chest.

Little did they know that in City B, which was [-] kilometers away, Du Qingshao was also tossing and turning in bed in the dead of night.

painful.

This is the first time in his memory that he was tortured to the point of insomnia by injuries.

After closed training, he added two more hours of training every day. Although it was a seemingly ordinary 120 minutes, it was an unbearable load for his injured body.

The fracture didn't hurt so much before, and I was able to go back to the ice rink after [-] to [-] days of rest.But this kind of injury is a chronic injury that has accumulated repeatedly. Even surgery can only fix the joints, and there is no way to cure them.

Fifteen days before the competition, with Luo Ming's help, he managed to recover the quadruple jump, but the output was obviously not as stable as before, so Ye Feihong caught him and kept practicing.But he was still angry at the fact that the coach deliberately drove Luo Ming away, coupled with the constant pain from the shoulder injury, every time he moved and jumped, he was constantly reminded of how he fell in the Four Continents game.

The unbearable memory is still rooted in his mind, and it will make him dazed from time to time.Therefore, the training efficiency was not high and was criticized by the coach.Such a vicious circle caused the relationship between the two and his state to drop to a freezing point.

Any teacher knows that the most terrible thing is for a student to disobey discipline, but Du Qingshao has a character that prefers softness to toughness. If you want him to go north, he insists on bumping into the south wall, or his head will be broken and bloody. Not necessarily the kind that wants to go back.

Ten minutes after the evening training ended, Du Qingshao didn't want to stay under his watch for a minute, so he went to the rooftop to relax.

"How's your shoulder?" Pan Lishu walked in from behind with a Pocky bar in his mouth.

Du Qingshao didn't look back, and looked back through the glass window: "It's okay, it won't affect the game anyway."

"I see that you haven't been very active in training these few days, so I plan to come and ask. If you're really uncomfortable, don't try to hold back."

He nodded nonchalantly.

"Still angry with the coach?" Pan Lishu came over and said earnestly, "Xiao Du, listen to my advice, you must not be emotional when you are in the game."

"Understood, I will not joke about my future."

Pan Lishu leaned on the window with his arms folded and continued: "I still want to talk to you about his affairs. I know you won't let it go for a while, but in my opinion, your feelings for him are not necessarily liking him. According to Studies have shown that outwardly mature people who inadvertently reveal a vulnerable side..."

"That's enough," before he finished speaking, Du Qingshao glanced over, "Have you studied psychology?"

"I came into contact with it when I was studying abroad."

"Then when you and Jin Cheng are together, do you also judge the relationship between the two with such critical eyes?" He asked coldly.

Pan Lishu was taken aback by his question, and before he could say anything, Du Qingshao picked it up: "Doctor Pan, I think it is necessary to formally raise it with you. It means that your life experience is richer than mine. I have a job and income this year, enough to be responsible for every choice I make, and I don’t need you to teach me how to do things from the perspective of an elder. Similarly, you have no right.”

The corridor reflected the dark purple night outside the window, and also reflected the firm and calm gaze in his eyes.

Du Qingshao felt that he had thought clearly enough. He could just maintain a teacher-student relationship with Luo Ming, exchange dance skills with him, report the results of the competition after the game, and chat for a while. Intend.

He will no longer ask Luo Ming to watch his games, nor will he ask him to come all the way to comfort him when he is frustrated.

This is good for both.

After a moment of silence, he glanced at his watch and pushed the door out: "I'm going to a meeting."

Pan Lishu stood where he was, carefully recalling what he said just now, and sighed thoughtfully.

This meeting is mainly about the team test tomorrow night. The coach said that in order to improve the competitiveness of the athletes, he also specially invited people from the provincial team to compete together. The process is more formal, and the final ranking of the test is related to the allocation of places in the World Championships. .

Only Ma Jiabo was sent to the last World Championships team, and he single-handedly broke into the top ten and won two places for this year.Originally, the second spot must have been given to Du Qingshao, but he suffered such an injury in the Four Continents Competition, and he has not recovered until now, so the situation is a bit embarrassing.

So sitting next to Song Tanghao during a meeting, the two of them would make a noise like boiling water poured into a frying pan.

After Ye Feihong explained the competition matters, he sorted out the videos of all the athletes' recent competitions and prepared to release them for everyone to study and reflect on.

Du Qingshao wasn't interested in this set, so he sat down leisurely and snapped his fingers, the standard left ear went in and the right ear went out.After a while, it was put on his game data, and he only looked up a few times under Ye Feihong's ruthless roll call.

The first jump was his Rippon posture in the French Grand Prix, where he turned three times into 4F+3T, and it was also his jump with the highest technical score so far.Du Qingshao sat down with his chin in one hand, thinking that his shoulder was so injured that he couldn't lift it up, he felt mixed feelings.

Before Ye Feihong had time to say anything, the screen suddenly went black for a few seconds, and then a picture that was too familiar to him popped up.

The second jump of the free skating was the one he missed.

The moment he heard the music, Du Qingshao's heart trembled, and in the next second, the most unbearable scene in his memory overlapped frame by frame with the animation on the screen. The pain of dislocation and the chaos after hitting his head on the ice, everything was clearly reproduced before his eyes.

The originally noisy meeting room suddenly fell silent, and everyone's eyes were cast on him.

Du Qingshao forgot to breathe, his heart beat faster immediately, and stared at himself on the big screen with panicked eyes.

The thin Kosten did not cover the deformed dislocated shoulder, a twisted bone protruding from the back.He just lay on his side on the ice, motionless, blood slowly oozing from the side of his forehead, staining the ice red.

"Ah... is this unconscious?"

"It seemed that the back of the left head was hit by the falling ice just now, and it seems that the shoulder was also injured. Anyway, now the person is lying motionless on the ice... Ah, and his head is still bleeding."

"Director, is the director here? Let's cut the screen first. This is a bit, um..."

It's also a fucking version with commentary.

Du Qingshao sat down, clenched his hands into fists, and looked at the scene in front of him in disbelief.

"Xiao Du, Xiao Du?" Ma Jiabo poked him with his elbow, "It's all right, stop watching."

Even Ye Feihong who was sitting on the podium was stunned, rushed up to grab the mouse, and frantically turned off the video.

But it was too late, Du Qingshao saw everything.

Breathing stopped for an instant.He covered his mouth and coughed a few times, got up and rushed out the door.

He didn't want to stay there any longer, not for a second longer.

The door was pushed open heavily, making a muffled bang.

Why, why!It was hard for him to get out of the shadow brought by this accident, why did he put it aside in front of so many people for him to see? !

He rushed out of the meeting room without looking back, dizzy to the point where he couldn't see the way, but he finally ran to the ice rink based on his memories of the past few years.

Dazzling white flashed into his eyes, Du Qingshao was stabbed so helpless, he staggered to hold on to the baffle, and knelt on the ice.