The Gold is Yours, You Are Mine

While looking for someone, Xie Shi'an called Yan Xinyuan.

"Hey, Coach Yan, are you in the training center?"

"Yes, what's the matter?"

"I just argued with Chang Nian. She ran out of the restaurant in a fit of anger. She doesn't know the place and doesn't have a mobile phone. I..."

Xie Shi'an's voice was anxious and self-blaming.

Yan Xinyuan immediately stood up and said.

"Okay, don't worry, I'll go to the apartment management office and ask if the person is back."

Xie Shi'an nodded and hung up the phone.

"Okay, then I'll look around for it."

She searched all around the hotel, and ran through several streets. The crowds and traffic flowed constantly, but there was no sign of that person.

Xie Shi'an stopped panting heavily, turned around in a circle, and searched around with his eyes. Not far away, a bus slowly slid over, and the terminal was written on it: Houhai.

For some reason, the boy thought about it, ran over, squeezed into the crowd and got on the bus.

Yan Xinyuan trotted all the way to the athlete's apartment, asked the administrator for the access records, and the administrator checked it on the computer.

"Jian Changnian, I didn't come back, there is no record of swiping the card."

There is a gate at the entrance of the apartment, one card for one person, and only a card is allowed to enter.

Yan Xinyuan thought to himself:

"It's broken. It must be because of the quarrel about Yuchu. Neither of these two children is reassuring."

He said while running outside.

"Okay, thank you, if the person comes back, please call me back."

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Houhai Park.

The last time I came here was still winter, and in a blink of an eye, the ice on the lake melted, and it was February when the grass grew and the warblers flew.

Today is a working day, there are no people in the park, it is evening, and there are not many customers in the bar, only a few scattered along the road with their doors open and soft music playing.

Jian Changnian walked aimlessly along this road until someone gently pulled the corner of her clothes.

She looked down, and saw a little girl blinking her watery eyes, and said in a baby voice.

"Sister, can you help us fetch the kite? It's hanging on the tree and I can't reach it."

"where?"

The little girl pointed to the side.

The tree is not tall, outside the guardrail, very close to the embankment.

She climbed over the guardrail carefully, walked to the bottom of the kite step by step, looked up, and saw that it was hanging on the treetop in front of her.

The steam blowing from the lake moistened her face.

Jian Changnian looked at the sparkling lake water, took a step back unconsciously, and swallowed with a mumble.

The little girl's companions all stood outside the guardrail and watched her.

"Sister, come on, you can do it!"

Jian Changnian came back to her senses, nodded, and forced herself to look away from the water.

She looked up at the kite, reckoning that one jump should be enough.

The teenager gritted her teeth, took a few steps back to run up, and jumped off the ground suddenly, but she ignored a fatal factor. The grass was very slippery, not a training ground, and it couldn't provide her with a good grip at all.

The moment Jian Changnian's finger touched the kite, his eyes lit up, and he was about to say, "I—"

Before she finished speaking, this was a slope, she slipped, lost her balance, and was about to fall down.

Below is the green lake.

Jian Changnian closed her eyes in despair.

However, after waiting for a long time, the feeling of weightlessness did not hit.

Someone grabbed her back collar tightly.

She looked back, Xie Shi'an said with a cold face.

"Isn't it just a few words of quarrel, as for running here to die?"

In a word, Jian Chang wanted to jump if he didn't want to.

"Who?! Who is dying! I want to help someone pick up a kite!"

Xie Shi'an looked up, and then looked at the children standing beside Qiqi Ai Ai who was watching them, and coughed lightly to cover up her embarrassment.

When she just rushed over, she only noticed that she was standing by the water, but she didn't pay much attention to the people next to her.

Xie Shi'an held her arm, and pulled her back to her side, on a flatter ground.

"Step aside."

The boy stood on tiptoe, stretched out his hand, and easily took down the kite from the tree, and handed it to the children.

The little girl clapped her hands.

"Wow! My sister is so handsome!!"

Xie Shi'an touched someone's head for a rare moment, and said softly.

"Go home, it's dark, don't play by the water, it's dangerous."

The little girl nodded obediently and ran away.

Jian Changnian stepped over the guardrail, turned around and left.

"Just pushy."

Xie Shi'an put his hands in his pockets and followed step by step.

"Don't follow me, okay, I said I don't want to see you anymore!" Jian Changnian was annoyed by this door **** who was walking wherever he went, and turned around and roared angrily.

"You go back with me, and I won't follow you."

"Do you understand human speech or not? I have my own feet and I will go back. Let me stay alone for a while!"

Jian Changnian became impatient, so she took two quick steps, Xie Shi'an followed her again, and she turned around and lashed out at her.

Her voice was not too loud, and some pedestrians who were walking stopped to watch.

"What is this for?"

"The young lovers are having a fight, let's go, why bother?"

Xie Shi'an had no choice but to take off the earphones, and with the dim light on the forest path, she could still see the tears in the corners of her eyes clearly.

The boy himself is not a character who would humbly apologize to others, but his heart softened, and there was a rare pleading tone in his tone.

"Come back with me, Coach Yan is also very worried about you."

Jian Changnian more or less listened to the words of those passers-by just now, turned his head shyly, and said angrily.

"If you tell me to go back with you, I'll go back. Then I'm too shameless!"

A trace of helplessness appeared in Xie Shi'an's eyes.

"Then what else do you want?"

"I'm hungry and want to eat!"

"tasty."

"But I have no money with me."

"?"

A big question mark popped out of Xie Shi'an's little head.

Having said that, the two of them found a western restaurant nearby and sat down. Jian Changnian was salivating looking at those brightly lit bars, and wanted to go in and see the world, and by the way, blackmail Xie Shi'an.

The boy dragged him away with a cold face.

"No money! Besides, the game is about to be played, and you still drink, don't you think the red card penalty is not severe enough?!"

Jian Changnian struggled unsuccessfully.

"You can drink by yourself, but others can't. I know it. It turns out that the state official's surname is Xie!"

Xie Shi'an closed the menu and handed it to the waiter.

"Two pastas, two sodas."

"Do you want soda with ice?"

"add."

The pasta was brought out quickly, and Xie Shi'an ate it by himself.

"Forget it if you don't eat, give it to me later, I'm not full."

Jian Changnian saw how well she ate, and was not to be outdone, but Naihe was still not used to using a fork, and couldn't pick up a few sticks, so she said bitterly.

"I suspect you are taking revenge on me."

Xie Shi'an finally showed a smile in his eyes, and beckoned for the waiter.

"a pair of chopsticks."

The waiter nodded and went to get it.

"Everyone else in the western restaurant uses forks, but I use chopsticks, you don't think it's shameful enough!" Jian Changnian blushed slightly, indignant in a low voice.

Xie Shi'an glanced to the side, there was only their table sitting on the huge terrace.

"Who is there? It's fine if you feel comfortable."

Jian Changnian looked as far as the eye could see, the Shichahai not far away was brightly lit, and the wind on the lake was blowing slowly, making it very cool.

On the tree-lined path downstairs, willow branches are fluttering, and occasionally pedestrians in twos and threes pass by on bicycles.

It is a quiet and soft night.

The wind in Shichahai also blew away the grievances and dissatisfaction in her heart.

"you…"

"you…"

Jian Changnian just wanted to open his mouth, but he didn't expect the two of them to open their mouths at the same time.

Xie Shi'an was startled, and took the words back.

"You go ahead."

Jian Changnian stirred the noodles on the plate with chopsticks, without looking up.

"Sister Yuchu, to you...is a very special existence, right?"

Xie Shi'an was taken aback, and when she didn't know how to answer, Jian Changnian smiled wryly again, and looked up at her.

"I can feel it even if you don't tell me. After all, I'm not a fool. You always put her first and take care of her feelings, even during Chinese New Year. If Miss Yuchu stays in the team You won't be going to my house, will you?"

"Zhou Mu and I have been friends since childhood, but when I was standing by the water, I had a ridiculous idea in my head, that is, if you fall into the water with Zhou Mu, I will rescue you first. Who, I can't make a choice for a while."

"But Shi'an, you will definitely choose to save Miss Yuchu first without hesitation."

Jian Changnian curled the corners of her lips, smiled self-deprecatingly, and her eyes slowly turned red again.

Xie Shi'an looked at her and fell into a long silence.

Not speaking means acquiescing.

Jian Changnian sniffed, put down her chopsticks in disappointment, and got up.

"We're full, let's go back."

Xie Shi'an also stood up and called her name in a rare way.

"Never mind."

Looking back, Jian Changnian saw something sad on the boy's face for the first time, even when she ran out of her mother's house crying and carrying her luggage on New Year's Eve, she didn't have such an expression.

Although she didn't cry, at that moment, before Xie Shi'an could speak, Jian Changnian's nose was already sore.

"I depend on her very much. She has been the only one who has treated me well since I was a child, so she is indeed a very special existence to me, so special that I am willing to do anything for her."

For Xie Shi'an, it was also the first time for him to peel off his heart and soul for others to see.

Standing here, she is as magnanimous as a breeze and a bright moon, but there is also a deep sadness in her eyes that cannot be resolved.

"Someday, you'll understand what it feels like, but—"

The boy's voice changed, and his gaze gradually became firmer as he looked at her.

"You are also very special, especially to the point that I have never told anyone about these things. I will not let it happen in a situation like what you just said, because you are all people I want to protect."

Although she didn't say "I'm sorry", these words have already shown her attitude, and the depression in Jian Changnian's heart was swept away, watching her brightly raised the corners of her lips.

At that time, she didn't know that this emotion is called jealousy.

"Then we're still friends, right?"

"Of course, I haven't congratulated you yet for getting this precious substitute spot."

Xie Shi'an also showed a smile in his eyes.

Speaking of this, Jian Changnian thought of Qiao Yuchu again, she should also be very disappointed.

"I don't know if Miss Yuchu has eaten yet? Let's pack something and feed it to her."

Xie Shi'an nodded and called the waiter again.

"it is good."

The two walked out of the western restaurant with packed lunch boxes and walked along the tree-lined path to the bus station.

The young man who just got the substitute seat and reconciled with his friends is full of ambitions, looking forward to the future, and dancing along the way.

"When the World Championships are over, let's go to the national team to recruit new assessments, and sister Yuchu will also go, so that the three of us can stay together forever, and we can also play competitions around the world."

"Don't forget, I have completely offended the leaders of the national team. Maybe they will be annoyed when they see our Coastal Province team."

"Ah, you are a real person. If you refuse, you can't be more tactful."

The two walked side by side, when a gust of wind blows, the catkins fly, and the street lamps drag their shadows for a long, long time.

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When Xie Shi'an returned to the apartment, it was already past ten o'clock in the evening. She opened the door and saw that there was no one in the room. She didn't know where Qiao Yuchu had gone so late and why she hadn't come back yet.

She thought about it, put the lunch box on the table, took out her mobile phone and called someone, but no one answered.

Xie Shi'an hung up the phone and sent her a text message.

"where?"

After about five minutes, the phone rang again. She picked it up and saw that it was Qiao Yuchu's reply.

"Go out and buy something to eat, and I'll be back in a while."

"I brought you pasta and pizza."

After sending the text message, there was no reply for a long time, probably on the way back, Xie Shi'an put down his phone and went to take a shower.

A coupe parked downstairs in the dormitory.

Jin Shunqi turned off the car, took out a small bottle of medicine from the storage box and handed it to her.

"If your wrist still hurts, you can take a painkiller. I also take this medicine occasionally when I have a migraine. It works very well."

Qiao Yuchu looked at the medicine bottle in his hand, but didn't take it.

Jin Shunqi smiled.

"You're not worried that I'll give you a stimulant, right? Don't worry, this drug will have little effect on the test results of the stimulant. Besides, you've finished your recent game, haven't you?"

"I'm really worried about you. You didn't let us use anesthesia to suture during the operation. In order to quickly enter the game after recovery, you didn't dare to take steroid anti-inflammatory analgesics. It will definitely aggravate the postoperative sequelae. Others don't Knowing how much you have paid to get to this day, as the attending doctor, I can't be more clear."

"Just as a friend, I don't want to see you in such pain again. Once in a while, please live for yourself."

Qiao Yu first looked at his face, then shifted her gaze to the medicine bottle in his hand, little by little, shaking her lips, and slowly stretched out her hand.

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Xie Shi'an came out of the shower, opened the curtains to breathe, glanced downstairs inadvertently, Jin Shunqi opened the car door for her, Qiao Yuchu got out of the car, and the two said goodbye with a hug.

The boy gritted his teeth immediately.

The doorbell rang, she walked over to open the door, Qiao Yuchu still had a smile on her face.

"came back."

"En." Qiao Yuchu responded, and put the plastic bag in her hand on the table.

"I bought some fruit, you can try it."

The young man's expression was a little cold, and he felt ironic when he saw the food he brought back for her all the way.

"Aren't you still very angry in the afternoon? Why, you are so happy after going out with Jin Shunqi. Is this what you said to go shopping?"

Qiao Yuchu's movements of changing shoes froze, she straightened up and looked at her.

"Are you following me?"

"The car is parked downstairs, are you still afraid that people will see it?"

As she blurted out these words, Qiao Yuchu also frowned and raised her voice.

"Yes, I went out on a date with Dr. Jin, so what, can't I have other friends?"

Xie Shi'an looked at her and spoke harshly.

"Didn't you say you broke up with him a long time ago? Why did you go out on a date with him again! He is rich in his family, but he is smooth-talking and eloquent. At first glance, he is a veteran in love. Can there be less Yingyingyanyan around?! Even if you were looking for it, you wouldn’t be able to find one like this!”

Xie Shi'an is not a character who can speak euphemistically. What he said was three points jealous, and seven points was for her own good. Even if it wasn't him, he hoped that she would have a good home.

Unexpectedly, it hit Qiao Yuchu's pain point, which made her feel a little bit embarrassed. She lost the game today, heard a lot of sarcastic remarks, and was blamed by her again, and an unknown anger rushed straight to her forehead.

"Xie Shi'an! What right do you have to interfere in my life? Whoever I want to be with is my freedom! Don't forget, we are not related by blood. Even if we do, it's not your turn to dictate."

When she landed a word lightly, she stabbed countless knives into the boy's heart. Xie Shi'an took half a step back, trembling his lips, as if he couldn't believe it, she would say that.

"Yuchu, I am..."

Qiao Yuchu turned around indifferently and went straight into the bathroom.

"Don't talk about it, I have been too used to you all this time, I will go back to Jiangcheng tomorrow, so please do it yourself."

The moment she closed the door, there was a sound of heavy objects falling to the ground outside, Xie Shi'an ruthlessly swept all the lunch boxes she brought back to the ground, and rushed out the door.

Qiao Yuchu listened to the commotion outside, raised her head, turned on the shower, and tears fell silently.