jdhmnovel Chapter 74: The opening ceremony of the Olympic Games, a reunion after half a year.
Chapter 74: The opening ceremony of the Olympic Games, a reunion after half a year.
Jiang Chengcheng's junior high school studies proceeded in an orderly manner.
What's remarkable is that Jiang Chengcheng has hardly encountered any major incidents since the start of the school year.
Surprisingly, the high school science and technology competition was forced to be suspended for some reason.
When Jiang Chengcheng first heard the news, she was somewhat surprised. She even couldn't help but chuckle, secretly mocking the cruel twist of fate. If Xu Yue had waited a little longer, she wouldn't have had to beg and plead to get things done for her.
However, when it comes to the cancellation of the middle school science and technology competition, Jiang Chengcheng has a strange intuition that it may be closely related to her aerospace fighter jet.
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Time flew by until February 2014.
Jiang Chengcheng lived a very peaceful time during this period. In just over six months, she applied for the 14 college entrance examination.
Zhang Wangyue and the MicroDistance app she invested in were also launched at the end of last year. However, since the chat giant is still Tencent, MicroDistance didn't make a big splash. But Jiang Chengcheng wasn't worried. After all, in the future, MicroDistance would be something everyone in China would install. She wasn't afraid of using up the billions of users.
During this period, Jiang Chengcheng's biggest task was to fly to country E with Zhang Jingfei to participate in this year's Soqi Olympics.
Speaking of Country E, Jiang Chengcheng and Sirius haven't seen each other since Sirius said he needed to calm down. The long separation has calmed her restless heart.
The saying that time heals all wounds is certainly true. After calming down, Jiang Chengcheng no longer felt that initial flutter of excitement when she thought of Sirius again.
So you see, time can solve everything.
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February 7, 2014, 2 PM.
The opening ceremony of the Soki Olympics, hosted by country e, was held as scheduled at the Fitzgerald Stadium.
As the sounds of the meeting began, Jiang Chengcheng followed the Chinese delegation into the venue in an orderly fashion.
After that came the basic procedures such as lighting the torch and giving a speech. Jiang Chengcheng huddled in the center of the crowd, looking at the audience below the stage.
There's one thing that's universally true in any country: the bigwigs sit in the front row, while their families sit in the back.
Jiang Chengcheng looked at the front row, where a group of wrinkled middle-aged foreign men's faces were gathered together, but a slightly younger face suddenly appeared in the middle.
Well… at least he’s considered young among this group.
Moreover, it was a face that Jiang Chengcheng was quite familiar with; she had seen the other person twice before.
This person is the boss of country E.
Looking into the other person's hawk-like eyes, Jiang Chengcheng even shrank back for a moment. This person's aura was truly terrifying. She had thought that all people in E country were as gentle and easy to get along with as Sirius.
Now it seems that she was wrong. But thinking about it carefully, the other party is, after all, a national leader, so it is only natural that he has such an aura.
Jiang Chengcheng wasn't sure if it was just her imagination, but she felt that the other person had glanced at her intentionally or unintentionally just now.
Of course, Jiang Chengcheng had no idea that this was not her imagination.
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On the other side, Sirius gazed at the familiar red figure in the center of China and fell into deep thought.
He had met her twice before, and before that he only felt a strange sense of familiarity. But today, when they met again, he saw that the girl was about the same age as Jiang Chengcheng and had a similar figure.
A bold guess formed in his mind: he seemed to have never asked the girl's name... Could it be...?
Thinking of the person I haven't seen for half a year, and the fact that I might have met him in real life, the excitement I had suppressed for so long began to resurface.
He thought a lot during the past six months, and even spent a long time in self-doubt.
How could I have such thoughts?
If he's been married, the girl is probably almost the age of his child. He shouldn't let his dirty thoughts ruin her life; she has a long time ahead of her...
She could live in her country forever, do what she loves, find a lover around her age, and live happily ever after...
Rationally, Sirius knew better than anyone else, but emotionally, after half a lifetime of calm, he couldn't control his mind for the first time. He couldn't help but miss the girl, wondering what she was doing and whether she was doing well...
Even knowing that the other person is just a minor, they will still anxiously wonder if she has someone she likes.
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The opening ceremony ended quickly, and the schedule for the competitions was also announced. Jiang Chengcheng's women's singles figure skating competition started at 4:00 AM on February 21st.
In other words, she didn't have any matches during this period, and her time was relatively flexible, as long as she was in country E.
After the opening ceremony, Jiang Chengcheng and her team returned to their accommodation. Since the rooms were arranged according to nationality and competition event, most of them were people they knew, although there were some exceptions.
For example, next door to Jiang Chengcheng lived a figure skater from country E. When Jiang Chengcheng went back at night, she happened to run into him and found out that he was someone she knew.
Elizabeth Pimanova.
The top figure skater in country E.
Jiang Chengcheng never expected that her neighbor was this person.
Seeing the look in her eyes, Jiang Chengcheng greeted them somewhat awkwardly in English.
"Hello."
"Hello, we've met before." Upon hearing Jiang Chengcheng's words, Bimano returned a very friendly smile.
The two didn't linger at the door for long, and since they didn't speak the same language, they could only exchange a few simple sentences in English before returning to their respective rooms.
Jiang Chengcheng was in the US, and even her mobile data was running out quickly, but that didn't stop her from watching the foreign version of TikTok.
However, the international version of TikTok is definitely not as fun as the domestic version.
The videos above are mostly featuring handsome men and beautiful women in rhythmic poses and everyday life videos showcasing their daily lives.
Jiang Chengcheng scrolled through Douyin (TikTok) for a while out of boredom, and before she knew it, it was already 10 p.m.
Thinking about the gifts she needed to buy for her family the next day, Jiang Chengcheng didn't stay up all night working.
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Time flies, and in the blink of an eye, it's already 2 a.m. on February 21st. More than ten days have passed, which is neither long nor short.
The alarm clock rang for a full five minutes before Jiang Chengcheng reluctantly got out of bed.
After changing into the competition outfit that had been prepared in advance, Jiang Chengcheng also put on a silver half-mask after her makeup was done; this was part of her costume and makeup.
扣！
Buckle up!
Jiang Chengcheng had just finished tidying up when there was a knock on the door. When she opened it, she saw her teammate Xia Qiqi. She had met Xia Qiqi after practicing figure skating, but since Xia Qiqi's main training location was in Beijing, the two didn't see each other often.