Zhang Jun will still go to Milanello with Yang Pan and Kaka to train, but he is obviously much silent and has less smile than before.

The atmosphere inside the team is pretty normal, at least it looks like this. No one accused Zhang Jun of doing what he shouldn't have done or saying what he shouldn't have said.

Ancelotti was as expressionless as usual, neither looking for Zhang Jun to talk to him nor expressing her dissatisfaction with the reporters.

Everything seemed normal until two days before AC Milan went to Rome to challenge Lazio, Ancelotti did not have Zhang Jun's name on the 16-man roster, from the starting eleven players to the bench, there was no such thing as the starting eleven players.

Ancelotti gave an explanation for more than a dozen Chinese journalists: "Zhang's current state has obviously not adjusted to a suitable situation for the game, so he does not participate in the game between us and Lazio, it's that simple."

Some people questioned whether this decision was related to the previous penalty incident. Ancelotti just glanced at the reporter coldly but refused to answer.

※※※

Zhang Jun watched Yang Pan put his sneakers in his bag in his living room. He would fly to Rome with the rest of the team tomorrow morning to adapt to the venue and prepare for the day after tomorrow's game, and he would not have anything to do with this game.

This is the first time he missed AC Milan without any injuries, illness and falsification after he came to AC Milan.

Yang Pan pulled the bag up and was finished packing. Then he poured himself a glass of water and returned to the sofa to sit down.

Next he looked at Zhang Jun, Zhang Jun looked at him, and the two of them looked at each other, but said nothing.

Yang Pan looked at Zhang Jun's lifeless face and defeated first. He stood up and pretended to stretch: "I'm going to Rome tomorrow, I'll go to bed first. You can rest early too..."

As soon as Yang Pan went upstairs, Zhang Jun received a call from a beautiful woman.

"Zhang, are you free the afternoon after tomorrow?"

The call was in English, and Zhang Jun didn't hear who it was: "Is it..."

"Elaria, I am Eralia, I forgot me so quickly?" Elaria Damiko smiled.

"Elaria?" Zhang Jun was even more surprised after knowing who the other party was. "How do you know my phone number?"

"The reporter knows everything. Haha, this question is not important. Are you free the afternoon after tomorrow, Zhang Jun?" Eralia shook her hair. After Pipo was warming up with her, she had time to call Zhang Jun.

"The afternoon after tomorrow..." Zhang Jun thought for a while, there was no interview appointment, nor a competition task. On the game day that will be full of Italy, he was as leisurely as a retired old man. "No arrangements, are you doing anything?"

Eralia turned her head and saw the bathroom with the door closed. She heard the sound of water from it. She sat back and said to the phone: "Actually, there is nothing important. I want to treat you to a meal, it's a date."

Zhang Jun was almost scared when he heard this. "Ask... a date? Don't joke, okay? Eralia..."

Eralia smiled: "Little idiot, where have you thought of? In Italy, the word date is normal, not what you Chinese think. I just saw that you have been in a bad mood for the past two weeks and want to talk to you."

Zhang Jun was very moved when he heard this. Eralia cared about him like his elder sister. "Okay, I will go. Tell me the specific time and location, uh, try to be remote as much as possible."

"I know, I am a reporter myself, I know how to do it, hehe!" Eralia smiled a little naughtyly. "I will send you a text message when I set the location down, okay?"

"OK."

"So good night."

"Good night."

Zhang Jun closed his phone and finally felt some warmth. In Milan, an unfamiliar city, there was an Italian beautiful sister caring about him.

Now he has a very stiff relationship with the entire AC Milan team, so he naturally can't feel the care of Yang Pan and Kaka.

※※※

After calling Zhang Jun, Elaria looked at the bathroom again, and the sound of water was still wafting. She lowered her head and dialed out a set of numbers: "Hey, Mr. Krianson, I have called him, and he agreed, I don't think there will be any problem. OK, just choose the location, it meets his requirements, is secluded, and no one will disturb you. But sir, do you really think that this way you can ask the scoop from him? Well, I understand, I will do it. Then I should edit it on Monday. OK, good night."

Elaria, who had just put down the phone, saw Yingzaji standing at the door with a bath towel around her lower body, which scared her. "It's so late, who are you talking on the phone with?" Yingzaji looked at Elaria and asked.

Eralia was a little panicked, but she quickly recovered from calmness and threw a dry towel to her lover: "Wipe your hair, I won't let you go to Chang before it's dry. I'll talk to the boss in the station and he asked me to stay in Milan on Sunday to work overtime."

Inzagi took the towel and wiped his hair obediently, but when he heard Eralia's words, he frowned: "Alexander Krienson? That person..." He had seen the general manager of the Italian Sky TV station, and always felt that his eyes were lustful when he looked at Eralia, which made him very uncomfortable, so he never liked this person. In fact, he had been urging Eralia to leave the Air TV station. Anyway, Italy's One has her program, so he would not have to worry about not having a job. "So you won't go to Rome to watch my game?"

Eralia breathed a sigh of relief. She knew that as long as she mentioned her boss' name, she would successfully divert Pipo's attention. There was no problem now. Eralia, who solved the crisis in front of her, jumped out of the bed and walked naked to Yingzaji: "Little fool, I have no choice but to do anything about work. But I will cheer you in Milan. This is your first starter since your comeback. Be good, um..." She gently kissed Yingzaji's still wet lips, and then walked towards the bathroom. "I'll take a shower. You have to get up early tomorrow. Don't wait for me, go to bed first."

Inzaji turned his head to look at Eralia's graceful figure, and was still savoring the entanglement with her on the bed just now. This girl, who was only 22 days younger than him, fell in love with her hopelessly after meeting a year ago. Although Eralia took the initiative to chase him at that time, he actually followed the situation.

After countless frustrating romances and scandals, Philip Inzagi found the feeling of love in Eralia Damiko again, and it was the kind of passionate love.

※※※

It's lunch break now. After eating the lunch box, Sophie lay on her desk and planned to take a nap. But others in the office were grabbing the precious time of lunch break - Doudizhu. The constant noise made her unable to fall asleep at all. In the past, she had to use music to cover up the noise, but today, unfortunately her MP3 was out of power and forgot to charge last night.

After struggling for fifteen minutes, the depressed Sophie finally decided to give up her nap plan today and get up to fiddle with her camera.

In a blink of an eye, I had been working in this tabloid for three months, and the internship period was about to come. However, Zeng Yi refused to let her sign a formal contract because he had agreed with Li Yan to let him go to Beijing and study sports photography and interview work for a few more months as the assistant and photojournalist of Li Yan's former partner Yan Wei.

Unexpectedly, he would face separation so soon, and Sophie was reluctant to part with him.

This newspaper is not big, but the colleagues in the agency are not bad to her. Except for the surprise at the beginning when she heard that she was the girlfriend of football star Zhang Jun, she did not do anything that embarrassed her. Everyone saw that she was still regarded as an ordinary colleague, after all, it was annoying to make a fuss about whether she was a football star.

At first they would invite Sophie to play cards, but Sophie didn't know how to play, whether it was mahjong or poker. Later, everyone stopped calling her, and she was happy and had time to do what she wanted to do and think about her thoughts.

Sophie is a little absent-minded today. She already knows Zhang Jun's performance after the Milan derby and is not optimistic. She is often scolded by Zeng Yi for this distractedness.

Sometimes, Sophie really wanted to fly to Zhang Jun now and spend this difficult time with him. However, after this impulse, reason still defeated emotions because the idea was too unrealistic.

Zeng Yi came over and saw that Sophie was not sleeping, so he decided to talk to her about the matter: "There is almost the same contact in Beijing. You can go there to report on your work in two weeks."

"Thank you, Brother Zeng."

Zeng Yi nodded: "You have to do it well when you arrive in Beijing. You really have talent."

Sophie was a little surprised. This was the first time she had heard Zeng Yi praise her so clearly. She opened her eyes and looked at Zeng Yi in confusion.

Zeng Yi felt a little embarrassed when she saw it: "I'll leave if I have nothing to do. You have a good rest. There is still an interview task in the afternoon. Oh, by the way, I'll lend you this to you." He put his MP3 on Sophie's table.

Of course, Sophie understood what Zeng Yi meant, which was to let her fall asleep listening to music.

"Thank you, Brother Zeng."

Zeng Yi waved his hand gently and said nothing.

Sophie put on her headphones, turned on the MP3, and lay on the table again. The music started quickly and she fell asleep quickly.

※※※

When Yang Pan and Kaka warmed up against the booing of Lazio fans at the Olympic Stadium in Rome, Zhang Junzheng and Eralia Damiko were "dating" in a Western restaurant.

"Sorry, I'm late." Eralia sat down in front of Zhang Jun and tweaked her hair. She always had to be deliberately late when dating. From this point of view, Eralia quickly got into the state.

"Ah... it's okay, I've only been here for ten minutes." Zhang Jun said this not out of comforting the lady, but because he did only came ten minutes earlier than Eralia. He had gone out very early, but because he was not familiar with the streets, he was afraid that Eralia would have waited for a long time when he came.

Eralia smiled at Zhang Jun: "Do you want something to eat?" The joke indirectly passed the menu handed over by the waiter.

Zhang Jun shrugged: "Whatever you want, you look familiar with the appearance here. This is my first time here."

Eralia looked at the menu and said to the waiter: "Two sets, thank you!"

When Eralia explained to the waiter, Zhang Jun was watching the window. Now that the waiter has left, he is still looking out the window, not knowing how to start the topic.

Elaria looked at Zhang Jun's embarrassment and was a little funny: It was indeed a little brother who had not grown up. She decided to take the initiative: "It's your first time dating a woman outside of your girlfriend, right?"

Zhang Jun's face turned slightly red: "Yes...yes."

"So let's try it today. Should I go to the hotel to check in a while?" Eralia blinked her charming eyes and smiled at Zhang Jun.

"This... Eralia..." Zhang Jun's face turned even redder.

"Little fool, I'm joking." Eralia reached out to her hand and pointed Zhang Jun's forehead. After several contacts with Zhang Jun, she fell in love with this young man who was only 24 years old. This kind of love is not the kind of love between men and women, but the same love as her sister for her younger brother. She always regards this somewhat shy Chinese boy as her younger brother.

After Zhang Jun understood what Elaria meant, he smiled embarrassedly, but soon he fell into silence again.

Eralia knows that Zhang Jun has been in a bad mood recently and has not had a good relationship with the team. According to Pipo, Zhang Jun now feels like a person in quarantine, and he himself will not try to break the barrier between them.

But today she was not here to help Zhang Jun deal with these problems. In fact, she just interviewed Zhang Jun under the name of a date and dug out some "insider information". This inside story refers to Zhang Jun's heart.

Many reporters who have interviewed Zhang Jun know that he has a bad attitude towards the news media. His polite smile is a symbol of keeping people from thousands of miles away. How many of those who talk about Zhang Jun every day in newspapers, magazines and TV broadcasts can understand his heart?

Elaria couldn't either, so this time she planned to see it. His smile, his sorrow, his pain, his helplessness, in short, everything, she wanted to understand clearly.

But...how to start the topic?

Eralia remembered the short story Zhang Jun told about his successful comeback after recovering from injury in the Netherlands. In it, he was very grateful to his girlfriend. It seems that this girl named "Sophie" should be someone he cared about very much, so let's start with her.

"I think you care a lot about your girlfriend..." Before Eralia finished speaking, she saw Zhang Jun nodding: "It seems, it is just about caring. You may not know that Eralia Sophie is the most important person in my life. I can have my current status and it is also inseparable from her."

"So...what kind of girl is she?"

"Uh... I can't say it either. It's very excellent, it's very excellent anyway." Zhang Jun gently scratched the back of his head.

"The last time we were doing a show, you kept praising her. I think she is such a happy girl who can make you love her wholeheartedly."

Zhang Jun quickly waved his hand: "No, no. I am the one who is happy."

Eralia smiled, this infatuated person.

"I know you don't seem to be very smooth lately..." After a simple chat, the atmosphere was relieved to a certain extent, and Elaria also decided to get to the point.

Zhang Jun's expression immediately changed from happiness to sadness. He still couldn't let go of his father's death. That feeling would always come to him in the middle of the night.

Eralia decided to strike while the iron was hot and penetrated into Zhang Jun's heart. "I'm very sorry about your father... but I don't think you need to be immersed in this kind of grief. After all, life always needs to continue..." Eralia found that she couldn't continue because there was tears in Zhang Jun's eyes.

"I know, I know you're right. Everyone advised me to look forward and life will continue... But sometimes I still can't control my emotions, just like... like now." Zhang Jun sniffed and wiped his face with his left hand. He was trying not to let himself cry in front of Elaria.

※※※

"Beautiful! Philip Inzagi! This is his second goal this season, and he scored in two consecutive games!" Sky TV's commentator excitedly said. "Pipo, who has returned from injury, is in good condition! Lazio's defense is equivalent to zero in front of him! After receiving Kaka's pass in the penalty area, he turned around and shot. The football passed through goalkeeper Peruzzi's feet and rolled into the goal!"

Inzagi ran excitedly at the Olympic Stadium in Rome. For more than two months, he has never been as happy as he is today. What kind of performance can make people more excited?
To be continued...