February 13, 2026.
The New Year approaches, and another snow season is nearing its end.
While snow enthusiasts should be lamenting “one less day to ski,” social media platforms across China are flooded with news about the Winter Olympics happening overseas.
[Men’s Parallel Giant Slalom Event of the National Snowboarding Team: Medal Prospects]
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[Battle Report: Parallel Giant Slalom – National athlete Jiang Ran secures first place in Group A of the qualifying round with a time of 37.34 seconds, advancing successfully.]
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[Gold Medal Outlook: Snowboard Park Big Air and Parallel Giant Slalom]
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[Coach Wang Jiaming of the National Snowboarding Team’s Parallel Giant Slalom Event: If the Heilongjiang Provincial Team coach had been faster to react, this could have been a gold medal opportunity four years ago.]
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[Nie Xin, Head Coach of the Heilongjiang Provincial Team’s Parallel Giant Slalom Event: Wang Jiaming’s remarks are baseless and his intentions are deplorable.]
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[Jiang Ran, Athlete of the National Snowboarding Team’s Parallel Giant Slalom Event: Is this something that can be a news headline? Don’t jinx me, I’m scared aaaahhhhhhhhh please stop, thank you so much.]
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February 17, 2026.
Milan, Italy – the venue for the Winter Olympics Snowboarding Parallel Giant Slalom Final.
Across major media platforms, CCTV5 Sports Channel, and various live-streaming apps, anyone tuning in on any viewing device at this moment can easily watch this highly anticipated national event.
The gold medal in snowboarding parallel giant slalom will be decided today.
And those who had barely paid attention to this event at the previous Winter Olympics were now glued to their television screens, waiting for the broadcast to switch to the athletes on the competition stage.
On the television screen, the commentator’s voice remained calm—
[Welcome back. Dear viewers, you are watching the broadcast of the 2026 Milan Winter Olympics Snowboarding Parallel Giant Slalom Women’s Final brought to you by China Central Television Sports Channel.]
[Yes, today’s final features the Russian athlete Klosoneva on the red course competing against our national snowboarder, Jiang Ran, on the blue course.]
The camera slowly zooms in from the cheering audience to first focus on the athlete on the blue course—an Asian face in the finals of a snowboarding event is a rare sight.
At this moment, standing by the starting line, the young woman with her long black hair braided down her back is seen lowering her head to adjust her goggles and helmet. She turns slightly sideways toward the camera; Milan’s overcast sky makes her fair skin appear even paler than snow. She seems nervous—her pale lips are pressed tightly together, and from the side, her usually soft jawline appears more defined than usual.
[We can see that athlete Jiang Ran is preparing for the race.]
[We wonder if she’s nervous.]
[I’m nervous even if she isn’t. It’s said that Jiang Ran focused on mastering general snowboarding techniques for years until she was discovered by Heilongjiang Provincial Team coach Nie Xin four and a half years ago, and then entered the national team…]
[Yes, coming from a non-professional background, reaching this stage today, perhaps no one knows how much sweat and tears she has poured into it. Those who work hard always deserve respect.]
[Needless to say, the girls on our national team are incredibly beautiful… Now we can see Jiang Ran preparing to put on her goggles and helmet—]
As she pulls the goggles down, the elastic strap snaps against her nose.
Jiang Ran silently covers her nose, grimacing in pain as she crouches down.
With the commentators muttering, [Looks like she hit her nose,] and live-streaming platforms flooded with lines of [………………] and […………] as bullet comments, the Russian athlete on the adjacent track is startled as well and walks over to check on her.
Jiang Ran waves her off, stands up, lifts her goggles to wipe away the tears, and then, perhaps in response to the friendly gesture, shakes hands with the Russian athlete.
[We can see Jiang Ran shaking hands with Klosoneva—ahaha, although the other side looks a bit confused.]
[True embodiment of the etiquette of a civilized nation. I’ve heard from the snowboarding team coaches before that the female athletes are very polite and lovely.]
[Their unspoken meaning is that the male athletes aren’t quite as adorable.]
[Ha ha, maybe we can ask about that during the post-race interview.]
As the commentators exchange light-hearted banter, Jiang Ran and Klosoneva part ways, like dueling cowboys in a Western film, both smiling at each other simultaneously, then turning around and walking toward their respective starting points.
Bending down, securing the bindings, hands gripping the starting gate.
The race is about to begin.
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The commentator’s voice, the roaring cheers from the stands, and the frantic encouragement from Wang Jiaming at the end of the course all blend together, only to vanish completely as the helmet clicks shut with a “clack.”
Jiang Ran takes a deep breath, hearing only the steady, powerful beat of her heart.
This is the final battle.
Success or failure hinges on this moment.
When the second starting beep sounds, she launches off the starting gate decisively and resolutely like an arrow released—
The heavy thud of snowboards landing echoes almost simultaneously on both the red and blue tracks!
For the finals, to provide the audience with a visual spectacle, the Olympic organizers generously prepared the course—making and compacting snow, setting up the gates—
The snow is in perfect condition.
Athletes can fully demonstrate their skills on this stage.
[The leaning angle is just right—you see it, right? In good snow conditions, you don’t need to press too hard for speed.]
[The route is excellent. Jiang Ran’s current route is very good, almost identical to Klosoneva’s. This is the fourth gate, and they are neck and neck!]
Indeed, they are neck and neck.
At this elite level of competition, where the world’s top athletes gather, there is no significant difference in ability—everyone competes on skill and a bit of luck.
From the corner of her eye, Jiang Ran can always see her opponent on the adjacent track matching her rhythm and pace exactly.
The loud, dull sound of snowboard edges slicing through the machine-groomed snow echoes through the course, the firm snow providing the best support for the boards.
Passing the midpoint timing gate, Jiang Ran’s racing heart suddenly calms. The relentless presence of her opponent on the adjacent track sparks a sudden impulse: accelerate early and pull ahead.
—It’s hard to imagine someone thinking this way in a competition of this level.
But Jiang Ran actually does it, and acts accordingly.
[Accelerating! Jiang Ran suddenly starts accelerating!]
[She’s fast, really fast—it’s almost the speed you’d expect from the men’s division… Did you see that edge change and the board flipping mid-air?]
[What a beautiful line—Jiang Ran!]
As the commentators shout excitedly, Jiang Ran begins accelerating after passing the midpoint. About three gates later, amidst even louder cheers from the crowd, she gradually gains a half-body lead over the athlete on the adjacent track.
In the final third of the race, Klosoneva begins her usual acceleration, believing this will help her close the gap—
Only to see Jiang Ran accelerating again!
This reminds her of four years ago, when Aliklossov, a male Russian parallel giant slalom snowboarder, stood atop the podium at the Beijing Winter Olympics with his aggressive, explosive double acceleration technique!
Now, the slender figure on the adjacent track seems to overlap with that memory—
The aggressive style remains, but the movements are more decisive and graceful. As the snowboard barely grazes the third-to-last gate at the smallest possible angle, Jiang Ran is nearly a full body-length ahead of Klosoneva!
[GOLD MEDAL!!!!!!]
[It’s here! It’s here! GOLD!]
[Ahhhhhh Jiang Ran!]
As the commentators’ voices rise higher and higher, almost everyone clearly sees the figure on the blue course cross the finish line with absolute dominance, reaching the end first!
On the stands, the Chinese delegation and self-funded spectators rise in unison, waving flags of various sizes high above their heads—
[This will surely be a sleepless night. There will always be a time to ride the waves and conquer the world—let’s congratulate Jiang Ran and the Chinese delegation for adding another gold medal!]
As the commentators deliver their thrilling commentary, it’s already evening in the hotels and apartment buildings near the ski resorts, and cheers pour from every window glowing with light—
Excitedly, people throw open their windows and shout: “Carving turns are alive again!!!!!!!!!!”
This cry sparks laughter, and more people join in, occasionally accompanied by primal, ape-like howling.
Meanwhile, far away at the competition venue in Milan, Italy, Jiang Ran, of course, has no idea about the celebration outside the stadium.
The world around her suddenly feels like a vacuum.
She stands still for a moment, dazed, unable to hear the outside world, unaware of the staff and coaches rushing toward her to embrace her tightly.
The surrounding noise seems to be completely blocked out. After a long while, she suddenly feels a chill on the tip of her nose—a snowflake lands gently.
She looks up at the sky, watching the snow begin to fall.
Unbuckles her board, turns around, and on the giant screen behind her, she sees the final rankings of the women’s parallel giant slalom snowboarding event appear all at once—
The words 【NO.1 RAN JIANG CN】 appear on the screen, accompanied by a small five-starred red flag, at the very top of the list.
Suddenly, large snowflakes begin to fall from the sky, and the light reflected from the screen makes every falling flake clearly visible.
Jiang Ran wipes away the snow from the tip of her nose.
She hesitates, then smiles.
“It’s snowing, Lin Shuang.”
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At the medal ceremony, Jiang Ran waits for her name to be announced before stepping onto the podium. But then she notices the Italians have inherited a certain European romantic flair.
Because when she looks up, instead of the expected three officials from the organizing committee walking onto the stage for the award presentation, one of them turns out to be her dog.
—Look, Dad, there’s a dog carrying a gold medal walking toward her on the red carpet!
The surprise lasts only a moment, but she feels this dog must be incredibly talented.
Standing on the podium, their eyes meet from a distance. She smiles at him, and he stands before her, steady and solid.
Tall and upright, his posture is impeccable.
She blinks.
“How did you get here?”
“I wanted to come, so I did.”
It’s a quiet conversation only the two of them can hear.
Jiang Ran wants to say something else, maybe tease him about his overwhelming possessiveness—how he insists on being present at every important moment of her life—but at this moment, she finds herself unable to speak…
She bends down, tears blurring her vision, watching the person closest to her smile, then holding up the medal, letting the dazzling golden plate swing gently before her eyes, finally placing it around her neck.
…Who knew a gold medal could be so heavy.
“So heavy,” she whispers, “Is this thing actually gold-plated? How can something gold-plated be this heavy?”
At this moment, he raises a finger to his lips, signaling her to be quiet.
Then, with a serious expression, he turns around and stands below the podium.
As the national anthem plays on foreign soil, its passionate rhythm is the highest tribute to an athlete.
Gazing at the five-starred red flag flying proudly in the wind, today, the dream of becoming a winter sports powerhouse shines brighter than ever.
As the national anthem ends, Jiang Ran feels she should smile, but she can’t help crying, and the tears keep flowing uncontrollably… Realizing this is a global live broadcast, she panics, tugging at Bei Jiao’s collar, trying to get him to turn around and hide her face—
But the moment her hand moves, her left hand is gently taken into his.
She pauses, suddenly feeling a chill on her ring finger. She looks down in confusion, and amidst the joyful cheers of the silver and bronze medalists beside her, she sees the dazzling diamond ring on her finger.
Like the most precious gem at the center of a queen’s crown, the ring features a pear-shaped diamond set in a white-gold band with smaller diamonds surrounding it, shining brilliantly even under the overcast sky.
At this moment.
Amidst the falling snow, a ray of sunlight breaks through the clouds, like the dawn breaking through the darkness, shining onto the course—
The sunlight spreads gradually, pouring over the land, the flags fluttering in the cold wind.
At the foot of the podium, the handsome man kneels on one knee and gently kisses the back of her hand.
“This is the only kind of diamond ring worthy of my incredibly amazing wife.”
A deep, magnetic voice murmurs in her ear, filled with gentle affection.
—At the peak of the Olympic Mountains course, the crown is placed.
—For you.
Author’s Note:
The ring is Chaumet’s “Morning Light – Crowned” (the keywords are hidden in the text).
……………………………… I wrote an 800,000-word soft advertisement for Chaumet. I’m so proud of myself 🙂
—Serious Author’s Note—
I love you all so much ahhhhhhhhhh I’m so happy to have you all here.
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