Unquenchable Fire (Table Tennis)

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He came to watch her match, but as her opponent’s coach. He watched her get swept in four games and lose to his own student. It happened to be the eighteenth year since they first met. At the age when love first began to stir in her heart, Jiang Siheng fell for the most dazzling boy in Jinling. She didn’t want to be a willow tree merely soaking up nutrients from an oak. She longed to become a silk-cotton tree, growing alongside the oak. She wanted to catch up with him, but the national team was brimming with talent, and she was just one of its lesser-known players. Carrying Chen Qi’s letter of recommendation, Jiang Siheng traveled from Beijing to Berlin, passing through the London, Rio, Tokyo, and Paris seasons. More than ten years passed. One familiar athlete after another retired, and wave after wave of new players came along, yet she remained at the table, waiting for the Los Angeles season to begin.

Theme: The legendary life of Jiang Siheng.