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[Please add my stories, Want to Know About Cultivation in the Apocalypse? and You Think You're Good Enough to Learn Figure Skating?, to your reading list!] Lin Jingrong is a short-track speed skater, widely known as the national team's big bad wolf. With a pair of blades, she dominates the rink, winning gold medals and making countless international competitors in her sport cry. Everyone thinks that Lin Jingrong will keep up her image as the big shot who loves to say, "I just love seeing you hate me and not be able to do anything about it." Until one day, the big shot accidentally scrapes her leg during training. Sitting on a hospital bed with her leg stretched out, she says to the young woman in front of her, whose face is hidden behind a mask except for her eyes: "If the doctor blows on it for me, it won't hurt anymore." Please add Want to Know About Cultivation in the Apocalypse? to your reading list! Question: How do you survive if you transmigrate into an apocalypse? Yan Zhu: If you've got even one useful skill, you can coast through life. Yan Zhu transmigrates from the cultivation world into an apocalypse and is picked up by a search-and-rescue team, who take him to a human settlement. Evaluator: "What's your ability aptitude like?" Yan Zhu: "What's an ability?" Evaluator: "Then what are you good at?" Yan Zhu: "I'm fairly good at... the four arts: music, chess, calligraphy, and painting?" And so Yan Zhu gets cleaned up and sent to the legendary breeding district, where he becomes a top courtesan and leads an easy life, playing music and singing every day in exchange for food and shelter. Yan Zhu: Life in the apocalypse isn't so bad. It's pretty easy. Just as everyone thinks Yan Zhu is nothing but a pretty face, the zombie horde suddenly breaks through the defense line one day. As the piercing alarm rings, Yan Zhu watches a zombie lunge at him. In a panic, he quickly draws a talisman and slaps it onto the zombie's forehead. The zombie stops moving. Yan Zhu: "By the authority of the heavens, summon the Thunder Emperor!" Bystander: "Incredible! She's a rare lightning-type ability user!" Yan Zhu: "By the authority of the heavens, summon the Fire Emperor!" Bystander: "No, no, she's a fire-type ability user!" Yan Zhu: "By the authority of the heavens, summon the Wind..." Bystander: "Damn it! What type are you, anyway?" Please add You Think You're Good Enough to Learn Figure Skating? to your reading list! "My dreams: 1. Win an Olympic gold medal. 2. Win an Olympic gold medal with Xie Yunjun." --Lu You's locked diary As a child, Lu You was the darling of all the adults in her residential compound, and the little figure-skating beauty every boy there adored. When she was nine, a new family moved into the compound, bringing with them a boy her age. Their lives couldn't have been more different. Lu You was spoiled and adored by everyone. Xie Yunjun was down on his luck, lonely, and cold. Lu You was her father's precious darling. Xie Yunjun was beaten bloody by his stepfather on a rainy night. Lu You had custom-made skates for her skating lessons, and a steady stream of classmates wanted to be in her group. Xie Yunjun wore ill-fitting skates he'd found secondhand and was coldly shunned by all his classmates. Lu You sighed. Her new neighbor always seemed to be alone. What would he do without her? [That day, I saw someone standing in front of me against the light. She stubbornly took my hand and said, "From today on, you're my partner. We'll train for pairs skating together."] [That's why I stepped onto the rink.] --Excerpt from a solo interview with Xie Yunjun 1. Childhood sweethearts, going from obscurity to the red-carpet spotlight. One moment of young love lasts forever. 2. Half sports competition, half romance. 3. I came up with the title randomly, since I haven't thought of a real one yet. Theme: