Olympics End in Tears, Immortal Heroes Begin Amid Tribulations

“Flowers in Houston Bloom Beyond the Height of Summer in Paris” “When the One Climbing the Mountain Meets the God Descending It” “Do I Have to Buy My Own Ticket to the Beijing Grand Slam?” “We Agreed You’d Propose After Winning Gold, but You Didn’t Believe Me” After one Olympic mistake, I, Jiang Yifei, fell from grace despite being ranked world number one. The national team abandoned me. Ye Xinglan, my mixed doubles partner since we were kids, abandoned me. Everyone abandoned me. I spent 415 days smoking, drinking, and drifting through life. Every day, I numbed myself with alcohol and dreamed the dreams I wanted to dream. At last, I saw myself standing atop the podium at the Los Angeles Olympics in the United States, holding the gold medals I’d won in all three events and proposing to Xinglan, my companion of eighteen years. But a sudden plunge into a xianxia world dragged me into transmigration, making me wonder if I’d somehow become the star of a real-life Inception. Only after I endured my trials in this xianxia world with a modern face did I finally understand what reality truly was, and which dreams I could never return to.