Figure Skating! I'm a Martial Arts Heir and an Olympic Champion!

[Upcoming works in the author’s column: From the Creator App, Miss Mapple’s Bizarre Theater, and Black Snowflake [Figure Skating]. Add them to your collection!] In her previous life, Yu Simeng was an heir to a martial arts tradition. At a globally watched freestyle fighting tournament, she pulled off an upset and knocked out the world’s top boxing champion. Who could have guessed that on the way home that very day, Yu Simeng would die in a car accident… When she woke up, Yu Simeng discovered she had returned to the age of twelve. A brand-new environment, unfamiliar family members, and the physical abilities she had inherited from her previous life: everything told her one thing. She had been reborn! That wasn’t all. After being reborn, she also found a cool and aloof System in her mind. The System claimed that Yu Simeng’s rare talent mustn’t go to waste, then assigned her a whole pile of tasks For example, win the women’s singles title in the figure skating club league, win the National Women’s Figure Skating Championships, win the World Junior Women’s Singles Figure Skating Championships, and win the women’s singles title at the 2022 Huaguo Winter Olympics! Hearing one figure skating championship after another, Yu Simeng’s head began to buzz. What? Is this some kind of joke? In her previous life, she practiced martial arts. Why was she suddenly supposed to learn figure skating!? But what could she do? To avoid being punished by the System, little Yu, reborn at twelve, could only obediently start learning figure skating from scratch! First of all, to practice figure skating, she’d need to find a suitable rink, right? Then she’d have to start by learning the basics of skating, right? After that came spins, jumps… What? You say her family has no money? She can’t find a reliable coach? No problem. In her previous life, Yu Simeng had been an heir to a martial arts tradition. She took the training methods of martial arts and applied them to figure skating, bringing the two disciplines together. Training on her own, she still managed to make it look pretty good! And then… Huh? Wait, how did she suddenly become a champion? Anyway, this is a genuine sports novel about learning figure skating from scratch. It has training, everyday life, competitions, laughter, conflict, sweat, and tears… (Other than being reborn, the System provides no cheats.) Synopsis 2: When Yu Simeng was reborn, the System in her mind said: Congratulations, Host! Our System has detected that your talent in the field you honed in your previous life surpasses that of 99.99% of humanity. Now that you’ve been given a new life, please keep working hard, sharpen your skills, and benefit all humanity! At first, Yu Simeng thought this sounded like good news. A rare chance to live her life over again had come her way, and she had to make the most of it. But when she saw the System’s tasks for her new life, Yu Simeng was dumbfounded. Task 1: Within one year, win the women’s singles title in the city-level figure skating club league! Task 2: Within two years, win the National Women’s Figure Skating Championships! Task 3: Within three years, win the World Junior Women’s Singles Figure Skating Championships! Task 4: Within six years, win the World Championships, the Grand Prix Final, and the Four Continents Championships! Task 5: Win the 2022 Winter Olympics! Yu Simeng, who in her previous life had been an heir to a martial arts tradition and had upset the odds by defeating the world’s top boxing champion at a fighting tournament, found herself with a splitting headache after hearing the System’s tasks. What even was figure skating? And what was an Olympic champion? In her previous life, she had clearly practiced Huaguo martial arts! It was 2020, and the Winter Olympics would be held in the capital in just two years. Yu Simeng had started out skating on outdoor rinks. She began figure skating at twelve, and even after joining the national team, the person in charge had little faith in her. “What future can someone who only started figure skating at twelve possibly have? She’s just taking up a spot.” Yu Simeng heard this and wasn’t fazed. At the National Figure Skating Championships, she astonished everyone with a series of superb triple-triple jumps. The person in charge refused to give in: “The biggest danger for women’s singles skaters is puberty. They gain weight, their spin speed slows, and their performance on the ice just gets more and more inconsistent!” Yu Simeng heard this and stayed calm. At the World Championships the following year, she skated at tremendous speed and performed a hands-overhead quadruple jump, reaching nearly eighty centimeters in height and breaking the world record! After being thoroughly face-slapped, the person in charge started nitpicking. “Have you ever studied dance? Figure skating isn’t just a jumping contest. Technique alone isn’t enough; you need a foundation in ballet and gymnastics, too.” Yu Simeng, wearing a flowing Hanfu skating costume, heard this and swept out her long sleeves. “Do you know what Guofeng figure skating is?” Before 2020, women’s figure skating was dominated by R Country. Its women’s singles skaters monopolized quadruple jumps, sweeping the field and claiming gold, silver, and bronze at major competitions around the world. Who could have known that in 2021, an unknown Huaguo women’s singles skater would burst onto the scene and become the sport’s biggest dark horse? Every skating fan adored her, not only for her talent and her results, but also for the presence she brought to the rink, unlike anyone else, and for her dedication to figure skating, despite the constant doubts she faced. She not only pioneered a whole new style of figure skating, but also developed new skating techniques and a new training system. Years later, when Yu Simeng looked back on everything, she felt that being reborn and living this life had been worth it. She had found the pursuit she truly loved, achieved what no one else could, and gained a happy and fulfilling life. All of it told her that her hard work had never been in vain. A Note Before Reading Martial Arts Heir [Important note before reading] None of the figure skating programs in this novel are based on·any·real·person or program! The novel may mention music selections used by real-life figure skaters, but every description of the programs is one hundred percent original! Please respect the original work and do not speculate in the comments about any real-world figure skating programs. None of the characters in this novel, in either the real world or the fictional world, are based on·any·real·person! Please respect the original work. Don’t use your admiration for real-life athletes as an excuse to make unfounded assumptions or force real-world comparisons under my novel. I’m an original author. Unless I explicitly say otherwise, suspecting that my characters are based on real people insults my ability as a creator. If anyone takes things too far, I will pursue the matter through legal channels, regardless of whether they are a minor. The figure skating rules in the novel are drawn from the ISU technical handbook published in 2022, and the technical scores are based on the ISU scoring table published in 2019. There are no absolute villains in competitive sports. Some characters’ views and positions represent only their own perspectives. Please discuss things rationally and don’t get overly emotional. The Class A competitions and age divisions mentioned in the novel may differ from reality to suit the story. The author will do their best to point out any fictional changes in the author’s notes. The setting is broadly an alternate world based on reality. Some descriptions of place names and addresses may not match the real world, so please bear with me. If you enjoy the novel, please add the author’s column to your collection! Happy reading! ----- Upcoming Work ----- Miss Mapple’s Improvised Theater [Hey, have you heard the legend of “Miss Mapple”?] [At the Holland Opera House, Miss Mapple is a dazzling actress and the star performer who carries the whole company.] [But people don’t know that behind the glamorous face of the stage, a much darker legend haunts the Holland theater…] [They say Miss Mapple is a witch with red hair and black eyes. Her skin is as white as snow, but her temper burns like the fires of hell;] [They say Miss Mapple has strange powers. She can bring the dead back to life and speak with the spirits.] [They say Miss Mapple has a steady stream of “followers,”] [and every one of them is madly in love with her, willing to risk life and limb for her…] Ji Xinglian first came across the legend of Miss Mapple in the promotional booklet for a newly released video game. The moment she saw the blurb, Ji Xinglian scoffed. “Tch. Faux-retro fantasy? Dark fairy tale? It’s just a dating game dressed up in horror. What a joke!” That is, until she woke up one day and found herself in a lavish Gothic bedroom, with a handsome man in a crisp uniform kneeling beside her bed, his long hair falling to his shoulders. “Miss Mapple, the Holland Theater’s new script has arrived.” His low voice seemed to brim with tenderness. When Ji Xinglian first found herself inside the Western fantasy game Miss Mapple, she wasn’t nearly as panicked as she might have expected. No more early-morning classes, a leading role at the opera house, and countless dignitaries following her around like mad. All she had to do was beat the game to go home. It couldn’t get much better. In her spare time, she even rescued a poor boy covered in blood, with eyes as green as emeralds. After that, she often ran into him on street corners. During performances, she met a charming, witty troubadour with an open, handsome face. From then on, she often received tender love letters wrapped in pink paper. When she returned home, the handsome butler with shoulder-length hair and a crisp uniform was always there to look after her… Just as her acting career was taking off, Ji Xinglian began to realize that things weren’t quite so simple. Odd. Why was the theater manager exploiting her more and more, even as her acting grew more captivating and her fame soared? Odd. Why were the letters written on pink paper, yet their contents revealed an increasingly twisted and dangerous possessiveness? Odd. Why did the boy she kept running into on street corners gaze at her with eyes like emerald glass, his expression enraptured yet dangerously unhinged? … And then there was the attentive, courteous butler… One night, Ji Xinglian jolted awake at dawn, drenched in cold sweat, and found herself face-to-face with the silhouette kneeling beside her bed. Through the hazy curtain, the handsome, devoted butler gently smoothed her hair by her temple, speaking with a smile in his voice: “Stay, miss. Stay. You can never go home again.” As time passed, by the time Ji Xinglian finally realized something was wrong with the game, it seemed too late. And it was then that she finally remembered the lines she had read at the very beginning [They say Miss Mapple has a steady stream of “followers,” and every one of them is madly in love with her, willing to risk life and limb for her…] [They say Miss Mapple is a witch with red hair and black eyes. Her skin is as white as snow, but her temper burns like the fires of hell…] It was a dark age. Under the blood-red moonlight of Astar City, carriages and rickshaws rolled slowly along cobbled streets. Smoke and noise filled the air overhead, and the factory chimneys in the distance had stained the pale sky a dull gray. Nobles mingled in the central square, workers labored under the factories’ dim lights, and cultists and members of secret sects lurked in every corner of the city, drawing strange, forbidden runes that lured people toward madness and depravity. Then one night, a great fire suddenly broke out at the famous Holland Theater. From that day onward, more and more strange things began to happen in Astar City. Sometimes, cultists responsible for countless murders were found hanging from crosses atop towers. Sometimes, a prestigious church was left strewn with corpses overnight. Sometimes, nobles who treated human lives as worthless were found dead in the street the next morning. And amid all the chaos, a new faith was born in silence. The legend of Miss Mapple began to spread through Astar City. More and more people saw the dead rise again, the spirits return to life. Some even said that Miss Mapple and her followers prowled the streets at night. … Note before reading: 1. There is a romance, but this is primarily a serious drama. The romance and plot are roughly in a 1:1.2 ratio. The Western fantasy setting includes Lovecraftian elements, mystery, and a small amount of horror. 2. Overall, this is a story about going off the rails. Themes: 1. Go beyond yourself and break through your limits. 2. Break free of rigid thinking and dare to question. 3. Cultural treasures should not be kept within a closed circle, but shared with the world.