"Ginkgo nuts taste sweet, bitter, and astringent."
Bai Guo is just like those three words. In her short twenty years, bitterness and sorrow have taken up thirteen of them, perhaps more.
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When Mo Ran sees Bai Guo again, she is a champion, brimming with confidence. He is only a newcomer to the sport. She doesn't notice him, and no longer recognizes him.
The second time Mo Ran meets her on the court, they are teammates standing side by side on the champions' podium. But his little butterfly still doesn't stay.
Mo Ran thinks this may be for the best. At least his little butterfly can fly freely. But fate has always been cruel to her. They have just won the mixed doubles championship at the Metaverse Games, and before they can even begin celebrating,
his little butterfly gets a call telling her that her mother has died. From then on, she develops auditory hallucinations.
This time, the little butterfly stops, but in the most devastating way.
The overwhelming online abuse, her playing techniques being cracked, the conspiracy behind her mother's death, and a genetic test report showing a 99 percent chance of inheritance: one thing after another seems set on breaking the little butterfly's wings.
That day, the sunlight was fierce. The little butterfly said, "My wings will never be broken by outside forces."
That day, the little butterfly stood on the champions' podium again.
That day, the little butterfly spread her wings and soared once more.
Theme: Fight for our country, and share the glory with you.