"You will always be the most perfect gymnastics princess in my mind." In May 2002, Huang Liping, a referee of China's international gymnastics competition, confessed his true feelings to South Korean gymnast Heo Zhaoying at the wedding.
"Gymnasts married gymnasts to gymnastics referees", "love at first sight", "nine years of hot love", etc. have been on the front page of Major Newspapers in China for a time, and they are blessing the two newcomers like gods and immortals, envying others.
However, south Korea's major news is full of "contempt", "traitor", "traitor" and other frightening words, and the South Korean people are obviously full of rejection and dissatisfaction with the people of China and South Korea, especially at the moment when they learned that Heo Chaoying married Huang Liping, the South Korean people can be described as extremely angry.
At first, Xu Zhaoying's parents also resolutely opposed their daughter marrying a Chinese, which made Xu Zhaoying sad, but her attitude was very resolute, indicating that the Chinese not marry huang Liping!
Under all kinds of pressure, the two still sweetly entered the marriage hall, so how did Huang Liping impress the Korean gymnastics princess Heo Zhaoying? How did he convince Xu Zhaoying's parents?
When he fell in love with Xu Zhaoying, Huang Liping was still a hairy boy, but this hairy boy had become famous at that time, and with his own hard work training, at the National Games in 1993, he won the championship of the horizontal bar, parallel bars and all-around three major competitions in one fell swoop, and successfully won the parallel bars championship at the next year's Australian World Championships.
In this game again and again, Huang Liping met the girl he wanted to protect for a lifetime- Xu Zhaoying.
However, at that time, the two did not have too many stories, and the love story of the two did not officially begin until After Huang Liping retired.
As a gymnast, his career is actually very limited, and the perennial training has caused Huang Liping's body to suffer many injuries, which makes him have to choose to retire early, but what is the plan after retirement?
At that time, China was not so powerful, and it was not once or twice treated unfairly internationally. For Huang Liping, the most direct feeling is that when these athletes who have won glory for the country participate in the competition, they are sentenced to unfair awards or even deprived of gold medals that belong to China and belong to themselves.
In order for the Chinese gymnastics team to no longer be targeted by international referees on the field, Huang Liping decided to become a referee after retiring.
Of course, there is also a reason that if you leave the arena, you may never see Xu Zhaoying who is deeply imprinted in your mind again.
So with his own efforts, Huang Liping became the youngest international level referee in China. After that, he served as the coach of the Chinese gymnastics team, training a new batch of gymnasts for the country.
Huang Liping's first competition as a referee was the Asian Games held in Thailand in 1998.
He knew that in this competition, Xu Zhaoying, as the main player in South Korea, would definitely come to participate, and the thought of seeing Xu Zhaoying again made Huang Liping's mouth can't help but rise.
But how can it attract Xu Zhaoying's attention? Huang Liping thought about it and involuntarily ran to a very famous shopping mall, wanting to choose a gift for Xu Zhaoying and wish her good results.
In order not to affect her participation in the competition, Huang Liping specially plucked up the courage to show her his heart after the competition, and gave her his thousands of gifts, hoping that she would know that someone had liked her for five years.
Huang Liping's thoughts at this time are very simple, just want to express his appreciation and praise for Xu Zhaoying, and whether to accept his own will, he believes that Xu Zhaoying has an absolute choice.
In fact, this is not the first time he has expressed his liking for Xu Zhaoying, but he has been rejected before, so this time Huang Liping did not have much hope.
But unexpectedly, Xu Zhaoying not only accepted the gift, but also gave a gift back to Huang Liping the next day. Huang Liping was very excited, which showed that Xu Zhaoying did not hate him and was willing to give him a chance to pursue her, and the five-year relationship finally waited for the two-way rush.
In the following days, the two people were like ordinary lovers in love, exchanging phone calls and telling the thoughts of each other. Although every day was just a simple greeting and discussion about gymnastics, Huang Liping was still very grateful to God for giving him such a happy moment.
But one in South Korea and one in China, the two are thousands of kilometers apart. And because of the peculiarities of their professions, the two simply did not have the opportunity to meet each other several times. At that time, the means of communication were not developed, so the number of telephone calls per month was fixed and countable.
Falling in love but not being able to stay together makes the two people who are in love very sad, thinking about it, both of them feel that waiting will not be the solution to the problem.
This time Xu Zhaoying was brave, and she made a bold decision when Huang Liping was embarrassed by this matter, she was going to sun yat-sen university in Guangzhou, China for Chinese study.
But at that time, Xu Zhaoying was already studying at a university in South Korea, and suddenly making this decision was bound to be met with the resolute opposition of his parents. Xu Zhaoying's parents, like other ordinary Koreans at that time, had an inexplicable dislike for China, and even felt that as such a noble Korean, how could they be so desperate for a Chinese man?
Heo Zhaoying's parents, who looked down on Chinese, were just a microcosm of the millions of South Korean people at that time. But nothing could stop the girl in love, Xu Zhaoying came to China without hesitation. Since then, the two people have naturally met often, and their feelings have gradually warmed up, once to the point of talking about marriage.
Because South Korea is among the developed countries, while China is in the developing countries. In the eyes of Xu Zhaoying's parents, Huang Liping climbed his daughter high. And transnational marriage, thousands of miles apart, in case the daughter is bullied in China, there is not even a person around to support her.
When Huang Liping got along with Xu Zhaoying, he never ordered Xu Zhaoying like a Korean man to support a Korean woman, and told her that in China, it is about equality between men and women, and that husband and wife can exist relatively independently, have each other's space and the right to choose freely, and it is not who must suppress whom, but mutual understanding and support.
Huang Liping said and did this. In getting along with Huang Liping, Xu Zhaoying deeply felt that he was cared for by this Chinese man and lived happily every day.
Love is inadvertently revealed, and what impresses Xu Zhaoying's parents is Huang Liping's meticulous care and love for her daughter. At that time, Huang Liping accompanied Xu Zhaoying back to South Korea to visit his father-in-law and mother-in-law, and listened to a person who said that it was better to watch a person do it, and Huang Liping's respectful way of getting along with Xu Zhaoying deeply touched Xu Zhaoying's parents.
In China, the concept of equality between men and women has long been deeply planted in the hearts of every Chinese son and daughter, but South Korea's oppression and bondage of women is everywhere, Huang Liping and his daughter Xu Zhaoying get along, little by little Xu Zhaoying's parents are in the eyes, as a parent, what can be more important than the happiness of their daughter's life?
Hearing their daughter's laughter, Xu Zhaoying's parents were finally deeply touched by Huang Liping and were willing to marry their precious princess to him and wish them a happy family.
In May 2002, the girl he had liked for more than nine years finally married himself, and until the moment of marriage, Huang Liping could not even believe that the happiness that belonged to him had arrived.
In order to reassure Xu Zhaoying's parents, Huang Liping specially set the wedding venue in Seoul (Seoul), South Korea, and Li Ning and Li Xiaoshuang came to congratulate and serve as Huang Liping's groomsmen.
During the wedding, a Korean guest asked how Huang Liping captured the heart of their gymnastics little princess?
Huang Liping immediately lowered his head after hearing this, and when he looked up after a moment, he obviously saw tears filling his entire eyes, and told the love story of the two to the audience in Korean, which he had been practicing for many years.
"At an international gymnastics championships in Birmingham, England, in 1993, I met this girl who was standing in front of me and marrying me..."
Huang Liping did not achieve good results in this tournament that year, but it was also when he was depressed that he suddenly saw a beautiful and exquisite, elegant and calm girl, leaving a touch of warmth in Huang Liping's heart. Because of the loss of the game, Huang Liping at that time did not have the courage to express his love for her to the girl.
Then learned that she is the Gymnastics Princess Heo Zhaoying held in the palm of the hand of the Koreans, Huang Liping's heart is full of excitement, but this heart-pounding feeling can only be deeply pressed in the bottom of his heart for the time being, Huang Liping with a firm goal of sweating and raining training day and night, just to get back his honor in the next competition.
The opportunity came, the 29th World Gymnastics Championships in 1994 was held in Australia, and Huang Liping successfully won the parallel bars championship for the national conquest, but unfortunately Xu Zhaoying did not come to Australia to participate. But it doesn't matter that in a few months, Heo Joo-young will definitely play as a south Korean team player.
Sure enough, Xu Zhaoying came! In the competition, Huang Liping won one medal after another with his own strength, and his name was also mentioned over and over again, even if Xu Zhaoying, who could not Chinese, involuntarily raised his thumb to praise when he heard Huang Liping's name many times.
At this time, Xu Zhaoying only participated in the second year of the national team, and also won the bronze medal in the team competition.
After winning the award, Huang Liping couldn't wait to tell Xu Zhaoying that he liked her, but he was afraid of scaring Xu Zhaoying, so he asked the Korean gymnast he knew to hand over to her the doll he was going to give to Xu Zhaoying.
Xu Zhaoying understood Huang Liping's intentions, a moment of helplessness, at that time she also had a 16-year-old high school sophomore, at this age she did not have any ideas about feelings, although she felt that Huang Liping was excellent, but she still wanted to find a boyfriend of the same nationality in the future.
After learning of Xu Zhaoying's response, Huang Liping was lost for a long time. But what I didn't expect was that Huang Liping actually took this feeling as a driving force for progress, as long as it didn't bring trouble to the other party, even if it was rejected, it didn't matter.
Everyone thought that Huang Liping's unrequited love relationship was over, but who could have imagined that four years later, Huang Liping became a gymnastics referee and coach with his efforts, and the relationship between the two also ushered in a turnaround.
What really touched the heart of this little gymnastics princess?
"How good does a man have to be to a girl to make this girl confident in front of the whole world?" Xu Zhaoying also burst into tears as he spoke.
When Huang Liping expressed his feelings for Xu Zhaoying again after five years, Xu Zhaoying was deeply moved, and there was certainly no shortage of girls who admired him around such an excellent man as Huang Liping, but he insisted on liking it for five years, which really deeply touched Xu Zhaoying.
In order to communicate normally with Xu Zhaoying, Huang Liping will pick up books to learn Korean as soon as he has time, and his care for Xu Zhaoying is meticulous, coupled with xu Zhaoying and Huang Liping's accumulation of getting along with each other day by day, Huang Liping has always maintained unlimited respect and support for her, which makes Xu Zhaoying more certain of his heart for Huang Liping, not touching, but true love.
Heo Joo Young won 4 gold medals for South Korea in her career as a gymnast of the Korean national team, because her outstanding achievements and exquisite beauty have always been the pride of the Korean people, but the little princess of her own country is bent on marrying a Chinese man, which makes south Korea really unacceptable.
From the Korean gymnastics little princess to become the target of public criticism, and even many media are hyped up Xu Zhaoying's traitorous behavior and become a traitor to the state, these sharp words are like a mountain pressing on Xu Zhaoying's body, but the indomitable character she has cultivated since childhood makes her unswervingly tell everyone - "I just want to marry Huang Liping, marry this Chinese man!" ”
The girl who had been in love for nine years finally achieved positive results, and the two completed this wedding full of emotion and happiness under the blessing of everyone.
In 2008, Huang Liping solemnly swore an oath as a referee representative at the Beijing Olympic Games, repeatedly emphasizing the word "fairness" and safeguarding the dignity of the Chinese people and all the participants, and now Huang Liping has taken the position of the first vice chairman of the executive committee of the International Gymnastics Federation to safeguard fairness and justice.
The love with his wife Xu Zhaoying has passed 28 spring and autumn today, and he is as considerate and caring for his wife as ever, so that Xu Zhaoying has never regretted being with his beloved in a scolding, maybe this is what love is.