This Is My Partner

Sd and

cq, the sharpest spear and the strongest shield on China's national table tennis team.

In public, they're the perfectly in-sync “st” duo, a mixed doubles gold-medal machine.

In private, he's the only one who ruffles her hair and calls her “Little Bean Bun,” and she's the only one who can read every emotion beneath his cold expression.

But under the spotlight of the singles court, they are rivals who can afford no special treatment. The night before the final, he sends her a text with just three words: “Give it your all.”

She replies: “Of course.”

While the whole world wonders how this battle of the century will tear the perfect partnership apart, after the match, the victorious woman hangs her gold medal around his neck in front of every camera.

Her eyes shining, she smiles even more sweetly than when she won:

“He said half his gold medal belongs to me. Now this one of mine will always belong to him, too.”