My Four Superstar Ex-Boyfriends

Chapter 10: England's Past

In the end, Heinz didn't even remember to ask Emily to finish reading the contract for him, and froze, stumbling a bit, onto his bike, which went forward to break the news to his varsity teammates.

Apparently, Heinz, who was still a high school student until today, has never experienced the separation that comes with professional soccer, where your closest teammates can become your arch-rivals in the blink of an eye, and your mentor can turn around and move on to a different league after a fantastic season with you.

So when Emily voices her decision not to continue coaching the varsity team next semester and instead try out for a D-League, Heinz will need a cushion long enough to take in the news.

Though Heinz's back as he left would be a bit worrisome, an entire school year together had given Emily the confidence that the Czech boy would do well with what he had entrusted to him.

So Emily smiled and took the copy of the contract in Czech that Heinz hadn't even remembered to take with him when he left, brought it home and spent a long time looking up the words she didn't understand one by one again with her own Czech, and then translated the contents of the contract line by line, marking the places she thought were problematic and writing down her comments, which she intended to give to Heinz.

Once that was done, Emily went through one more good check of the clothes she would be wearing to the interview tomorrow as well as organizing the materials she would be bringing with her tomorrow.

And after that, she just sat down in front of her writing desk and let herself go quietly.

In this past year, she was always busy, busy, busy, she had to systematically learn what to do to become a competent soccer coach, she had to observe the progress of each of the eighteen members of the varsity team in each week and make a corresponding training plan for them. She also has to find time to visit their opponents and organize detailed plays for each game.

And on this particular evening, she seemed to be free just out of the blue.

So many things that she had deliberately suppressed over the past year, trying not to think, not to hear, not to see, came back to her.

She suddenly wanted to check in on her social media accounts, which she hadn't used in a long time. She wanted to know what had been going on in recent times.

During the year she had rarely even followed the Champions League matches, let alone the news and news related to the big five leagues and the Champions League matches. So when a thought like this came up, Emily would feel like she couldn't suppress it as well as she could.

Thus, after hesitating for a while, she finally turned on her computer and logged on to her f*******:, Twitter, and even downloaded the i********: application on her cell phone.

It was also when Emily finished logging into her f*******: and Twitter accounts, ignored the private message box that looked like it was about to burst, and then picked up her phone with the intention of logging into i********: that a message posted by a sports media reporter she followed froze her in her tracks.

[According to Borukorin's club teammates, his romance with movie star Ms. Roland had come to an end a few weeks ago. This is the third relationship Borukorin has ended within a year. After breaking up with his "superstar ex" Ms. Emily, Borukorin's love life seems to have entered a strange circle. He has never been in a relationship with any of his girlfriends for more than three months.] Emily read the news three times in a row, and after making sure that she understood the information contained in the news, she searched the news by keywords, only to find out that the news, which was almost sensationalized in her opinion, was probably true!

Emily then searched for Borukorin's three girlfriends after her.

The first girlfriend Borukorin had after he broke up with her was Miranda, a beauty pageant girl who was secretly photographed by the media. The 19-year-old beauty queen, who was so gorgeous that it was hard for people to take their eyes off her, began to complain to the media almost two weeks into her relationship with Borukorin, saying that if Manchester United accounted for 99% of Borukorin's life, she only had 0.1% of the time left for her! What does she need a boyfriend for if he can't even hang out with her during the week, watch movies with her, pick her up after she's done with work and give her little surprises every now and then! But just five weeks later, she was photographed drinking alone at a nightclub, and those who were around her at the time said that Ms. Miranda cried out after she got drunk and said that the breakup was initiated by Borukorin.

After a two-month hiatus, Borukorin began secretly dating a Finnish rocker based in the UK. Of course, this rocker is not the same one who was previously photographed by the British press. This time, the Finnish rocker moved into Borukorin's mansion after dating him for more than two months. Only a week later she left in a rage, leaving behind the following message: "I finally know what's so great about that Ms. Emily! She must be tough enough at least! Living with Borukorin is like living with a cold shoulder! If he wasn't good enough in bed, I wouldn't last a day!"

The things that Finnish singer said when referring to herself made Emily feel unspeakably embarrassed even across the screen and for the better part of a year. And because of that, she ended up not taking a breath to finish Borukorin's story with that movie star lady as well.

Seeing all these entertainment news that made her feel doubly embarrassed, Emily thought with bittersweet amusement while feeling embarrassed and uncomfortable in her heart that those ex-boyfriends of hers would probably be in a somewhat similar mood as she was right now whenever they read the news about the new boyfriends that she had found again.

But honestly, Emily still couldn't tell if the feelings she had for Borukorin were love or not.

All she knows is that for a long time, Borukorin was a special and important person to her.

This man, who was extremely sensitive to the outside world and who was able to turn all doubts about him into a strong motivation and ultimately invulnerable, was for a long time the support of her spirituality.

Emily and Borukorin met three summers ago, but it was eight years ago that Borukorin and Emily first met.

Borukorin's rise to fame began early, when he was a teenager and was already known throughout the British Isles. He came from the youth academy of the Premier League giants, Manchester United. At a very young age, he received the most rigorous training there. At the age of fourteen, he was the captain of the England U15 (under-15) national team. He was considered the future star of England by everyone in the country, and everyone thought he had a bright future ahead of him.

But what happened after that was not to be.

At the age of seventeen, Borukorin, who had already been promoted to Manchester United's first team and scored in the Champions League, was eighteen when he traveled to the Bundesliga in order to get more playing time. It was perhaps the worst decision he had made since birth.

After only half a season in Germany, Borukorin would go on to have some of the worst years of his life. During those years, he suffered a variety of bad years and ups and downs in the soccer world, changing eight leagues and playing for eight different clubs in five years. First England, Germany, France, Portugal. After a poor performance in the Portuguese Super League he was finally "sent" to the third world of European football, and since then he has played in the Polish First Division, the Belgian First Division and the Ukrainian Premier League for half a year to a year.

As is always the case, he was forced to leave before he could settle into a new team, familiarize himself with the different ways of playing in different leagues, or even make a few good friends.

The gap between his youthful successes and what he experienced afterward seemed like a huge chasm. So he was no longer the confident little prince with a smile and a little bit of pride.

When Emily met Borukorin, the young prince was already 23 years old. He hadn't even been called up to the England national team for a long time, and even when he returned to his hometown, few passers-by would recognize him. But that's not surprising, after all, he's a far cry from the young prince he was known for.

After five years like that, Borukorin's face was tired. His light blue eyes were filled with confusion about the future. He was young, handsome, gifted, but without a future.

Emily had just broken up with her third boyfriend and returned to her home in Southampton, and as she was walking home with a cardboard box full of groceries, she ran into Borukorin, who had come to visit her grandmother on vacation.

Emily, who had been through three failed relationships with people who were not at all in the same world as herself, almost found a look similar to her own in the Englishman's face when she struck a chord with him. That took her by surprise.

In fact, she remembered the young man from when she was still with her first love, Hermann, whom Borukorin played for at Leverkusen in the German Bundesliga. Borukorin was a young prince who had just come from the Premier League to the Bundesliga, and at the age of 18, she was impressed by Borukorin's performance on the field.

Later on, Emily, who followed the soccer world closely because of her boyfriend, was saddened to read that Borukorin changed clubs every six months or so, and that was never the case again.

It was for this reason that when Emily recognized him, she was shocked at how much the boy had changed.

"Need some help?"

Borukorin asked gentlemanly after their eyes met. Emily, still stunned, took several seconds to come back to her senses before nodding her head. Letting the man who could easily pick her up with just one arm take the case from her hand.

"You look ......"

Obviously, Borukorin thought that Emily looked very familiar, but he couldn't remember who the girl in front of him was. Borukorin, who had just signed a contract with a Russian club, had been away from the center of the soccer world for a long time, so he really didn't remember that the person in front of him was the legendary "superstar's predecessor," Miss Emily.

Emily's biggest fear was being recognized, so before Borukorin could remember anything, she immediately asked, "Does that look familiar?"

Borukorin nodded, so Emily looked a little nervous and said, "Maybe I look like someone you know. So you might have recognized the wrong person."

Not retorting, and not trying to think of something else, Borukorin just smiled and nodded. As he helped Emily carry her things to the door of her apartment room, Emily suddenly voiced, "Excuse me, are you Mr. Borukorin?"

Emily couldn't say exactly what kind of reason she had for asking this on purpose. Perhaps it was because the kind of confusion she saw in the man's eyes was all too familiar, or perhaps it was empathy for the same state of affairs, and she hoped to make the Englishman feel better. So she pretended she was this man's fan.

"I've seen you play a few games before, could you sign an autograph for me?"