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From a small village aunt to a famous national general, from an affectionate lover to a virtuous wife and mother, her life can be described as ups and downs and dramatic wonderful. Li Nan savored the joys, sorrows, and sorrows of the past, and a faint smile gradually appeared on his face.
Today, the family of three is happy, and although she has been criticized, her dedication to love and family has finally been blessed with happiness.
Li Nan slowly opened his eyes and looked at his 12-year-old daughter Shi Zenan, who was laughing and playing not far away. Looking at this well-behaved and sensible child, her heart swelled with a warm current.
Inadvertently, a tall figure appeared in the field of vision, it was her husband Shi Zhihao. He put down his briefcase, walked up to him, leaned slightly in front of his wife, and tenderly imprinted a kiss on her forehead.
"It's been hard work, and I'm thinking about the past. Li Nan's eyebrows and eyes were crooked, and his face was full of happiness.
Shi Zhihao sat beside his wife, put his hands on the backs of her hands, and said in a sincere tone: "Although we have gone through hardships, we have finally come together, let's enjoy the joy of family now."
Li Nan nodded, leaned on her husband's warm arm, and looked back on her magnificent life with a smile......
"My love for table tennis stems from my father's influence. Li Nan talked eloquently, and his tone was full of nostalgia for the past.
Her father is a veteran table tennis enthusiast and tirelessly passes on this love to his daughter. When Li Nan was young and ignorant, her father took her to a nearby court, where she was first introduced to the sport of table tennis.
At first, Li Nan was not interested in this, but as time went by, under the influence of her father, she was gradually attracted by this "shuttlecock frenzy".
At a young age, Li Nan is tall and fit, and he is particularly eye-catching among many of his peers. Seeing his daughter's talent, the father resolutely sent her to the Fujian Road Youth Sports Club affiliated to Xiangjiangdao Primary School in Hexi District, Tianjin, hoping that his daughter could receive professional and rigorous training there.
At the beginning, the club's coach Xing Heli didn't take Li Nantai seriously, but finally reluctantly accepted this diligent and studious girl under his father's plea.
After several years of hard training, Li Nan finally joined the Tianjin table tennis team in 1994 and officially became a professional athlete. Since then, she has risen like a rapid rocket, and soon entered the national youth team with her extraordinary talent and tenacious perseverance, and successfully joined the Chinese national table tennis team in 1998.
That regrettable relationship, like a poignant sound, finally came to an abrupt end. Li Nan sighed softly, his eyes a little gloomy.
Her memory goes back to the end of the nineties of the twentieth century, when a major reform was taking place within the national table tennis team, and the young Li Nan and Hou Yingchao, who were two years older than herself, met and fell in love.
Hou Yingchao was born in Beijing and is 1 tall. At 82 meters, he used a unique chipping style to make many miraculous achievements in the international arena, and he was the hottest table tennis rookie at that time.
The two are both national players, full of enthusiasm for table tennis, and they hate each other and cherish each other.
In love, training, and competitions, in the busy and fulfilling days, the young people encourage each other and are happy. Li Nan's sunny, frank and lovely personality deeply attracted Hou Yingchao, and Hou Yingchao warmed Li Nan's inner world with delicate and considerate manners.
Both are obsessed with the sport they love, and both believe that love and career are not opposites, but complementary. So, in the passionate years, they blindly promised each other for life, full of longing for a better life in the future.
However, Liu Fengyan, the director of the sports center in charge of national table tennis at that time, was angry about the players' love behavior, and the national team had a strict ban, and any violators would be punished to varying degrees.
The reformist head coach Cai Zhenhua then took decisive action and severely punished many players who violated discipline, including Hou Yingchao, and their lovers were not spared.
In the face of this sudden blow, Li Nan wept bitterly and was helpless. Under the persuasion of her family, she was forced to leave the national team temporarily, and Hou Yingchao was subsequently punished.
The once sweet lovers have become strangers in this way, and they can only silently bless each other in their hearts, hoping to find their own happiness as soon as possible.
Two months later, with the support of his family, Li Nan returned to the national team, and Hou Yingchao, Bai Yang and others also returned to the team one after another. However, in order to avoid further expansion of the situation and for the sake of their careers, they all made a difficult decision, gave up their previous relationship, said goodbye silently, moved forward alone, and went their separate ways.
Although they had made an agreement to move forward side by side and struggle together in the passionate years, fate arranged for them to part ways when they needed support the most. With endless regrets, former lovers can only wish each other to get out of the haze and embrace their own happy lives.
It was precisely when the love between Li Nan and Hou Yingchao was shattered that fate opened a new chapter in her life. At that time, Shi Zhihao, who was over half a hundred years old, became the head coach of the national table tennis women's team, which became a ray of sunshine in Li Nan's heart.
It is worth mentioning that Shi Zhihao was the husband of the famous "table tennis queen" Cao Yanhua. In the 80s of the last century, the love between the two once added a romantic sound to the table tennis world.
In order to take care of Cao Yanhua's sports career, Shi Zhihao took the initiative to quit the national team and turned to coaching, and in 1986, the two finally married and had a son, Shi Zexi.
However, Cao Yanhua's irascible and decisive personality, coupled with the long-term separation of the two places, finally made the couple drift apart. In 2000, the two officially divorced, and the child was raised by Cao Yanhua.
Divorce for many years, Shi Zhihao has not remarried, focusing on coaching.
Just when Li Nan was forced to leave the national team and her life was gradually confused, she formed an indissoluble bond with Shi Zhihao. At first, the two got along like a teacher-student greeting, but as time went by, Li Nan became more and more fond of the elderly.
"I know that you have just come from the storm, and now that you are alone, I would like to walk side by side with you. One day, the brave Li Nan plucked up the courage to confess his love to the person he loved.
However, in the face of the dedication of the female players, Shi Zhihao, as a coach, was shocked, for fear that once this relationship was exposed, it would cause an immeasurable turmoil, so he categorically refused.
But the resilient Li Nan did not give up. She interprets her sincerity with her actions, not only devoting herself wholeheartedly to training, but also taking care of Shi Zhihao's daily life, so that this lonely middle-aged man can regain the warmth of home.
Shi Zhihao was extremely moved by Li Nan's thoughtfulness and understanding, and gradually accepted this beautiful and intelligent woman in his heart.
In the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, under the leadership of Shi Zhihao, the Chinese table tennis team won a big victory, and HIS became a well-deserved meritorious coach.
After the event, Li Nan said affectionately to Shi Zhihao: "Even if I don't marry for the rest of my life, I am willing to wait for you." This affectionate confession finally moved Shi Zhihao, and he solemnly promised Li Nan: "If you retire, I will go to dusk with you."
In 2009, in order not to trouble Shi Zhihao, Li Nan announced his retirement from his athlete career. The two were finally able to make their relationship public, but they were strongly opposed by Li Nan's parents, after all, the age difference between the two was as high as 23 years.
But Li Nan persuaded his parents with sincerity, and Shi Zhihao also explained the reason for remarriage to his son, who was still studying, and won everyone's understanding and support.
In this way, on December 26, 2010, Li Nan and Shi Zhihao walked into the palace of marriage hand in hand with the blessings of relatives and friends, and the hearts of the two good couples were closely connected.