It was another bright and sunny morning.
Without realizing it, he had already been in Madrid for a full five years.
Yang Yang still remembered the grand occasion five years ago when he arrived in La Liga and made his public debut at the Bernabéu. The number of fans who had attended still held the world record—and it had been seriously underestimated.
Real Madrid's fans had given him all their passion and support, and he had repaid them with the best and finest five years of his career.
Over the past five years, he had experienced far too much.
There had been the peak of Real Madrid's three consecutive Champions League titles, as well as two trebles in three years. There had also been old friends leaving him one after another, along with unfamiliar new signings arriving in succession...
What was even more interesting was that the media had already begun hyping up how Real Madrid had their eyes on some young player and hoped he could replace Yang Yang in the future as the club's leading star. It made Yang Yang feel as though he was not about to turn twenty-eight, but thirty-eight.
But that was simply the ecosystem of football. The media made their living from this.
In recent days, after Casillas had announced his free transfer to Porto and given his Real Madrid era a dignified ending, the media had once again begun hyping up the news about Real Madrid's new captain.
Before that, some media outlets had even fabricated stories claiming that Yang Yang had called the club's management to pressure them into making him captain for the new season, and had threatened not to return if they refused...
It was utter nonsense!
Still, there was no smoke without fire. Yang Yang had returned on schedule,