"You ask me if I like table tennis, I don't know. I only know that table tennis has been everything to me since I was five years old."
"When I do something, I have to do my best. I don't want to be inferior to others. That kind of life is meaningless to me."
——Zhang Jike
"Zhang Jike, you must come back, I'll wait for you."
"You have gotten what you want, but my future is still unknown."
——Liu Shiwen
"Why don't I live in the shadow of Zhang Jike? They always say that if he hadn't left, those things wouldn't be mine."
"I really want to be liked by you like Jike. Even though I have defeated him, I still can't be satisfied."
——Ma Long.
"Four years after four years, I am still here, watching my companions fight on a battlefield that does not belong to me."
"Either wait until they can't fight anymore, or wait until I can't fight anymore."
——Xu Xin
A Grand Slam is never 445 days, it is your twenty years of sweat, your running footsteps, and the seven stitches on your body.
Zhang Jike, I will imagine that in those years when I missed you, you grew wild in the corner, you were still looking up at the stars while you were stuck in the quagmire, you were young and ambitious, you drank ice for ten years, and your blood was hard to cool down.
The story begins in 2004 when Zhang Jike was returned to the provincial team. The story generally follows a realistic rhythm, and the order of the writing does not represent the actual status in the text.
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