Playing Fish Trapped in Secret Room

Book 1: The Storm is Coming

Chapter 9

This was……

Her cell phone suddenly vibrated.  She pulled it out and glanced at it.  It was a call from Solo.

“Somebody wants to see you.”

“Who is it?”  She looked at the man downstairs.

He stood still.

“Dt.” There were some noises coming from Solo’s end.  “I was busy talking about business with Baona just now and forgot to tell you that K&K club was also staying in this resort village for the invitational tournament.  Their accommodations were arranged at the last moment.”

“Oh……”  Ai Qing had not moved her eyes away from the man downstairs.  “They also live here.  So you already knew from beginning that it was K&K playing the grievance round against us?”

Solo laughed, “Yes.  I knew that from the beginning. What about it.  Don’t you want to come out to meet old friend?”

“He’s right here, downstairs.”

“Oh?  How did he find us?”

Who knew.

Their rooms were not pre-a.s.signed.  Even the SP staff did not quite know about everybody’s room a.s.signment.

“Then I will go downstairs first.  You come here as soon as you can.”

It took about ten minutes to walk from Solo’s place to here.  Since an old friend was already here, she might as well walk down first.  Meanwhile, she could ask him what he was doing the past couple years before Solo got here.

She quickly changed clothes and walked down from the second floor by herself.

After she turned at the corner of the stairs, she could already see Dt standing not too far away.  Ai Qing put her hands inside the pockets of her jacket and walked down step by step.

Dt saw someone coming down.  After he recognized it was her, he finally moved and walked towards her.

At last.

She stopped and stood on the second to the last step.  She looked at the man walking toward her and she gradually began to smile.

When she met him the first time in Singapore, he was only a little bit taller than her.  Now she still needed to look up at him even when she stood on top of two steps of the stairs.  He really had grown up.

“Your commentary was splendid.”  It was rare for him to speak first.

Because of the angle of the moonlight, his whole face was hidden underneath the brim of his cap.  She could not tell his expression specifically, but he was probably smiling judging from his voice.

He had finished watching the video so quickly?

“No, you just played splendidly.”  Ai Qing was telling the truth.  She exhaled lightly.  She pointed to the brim of his cap using her finger, then she moved down to point to her own forehead to indicate the difference between their heights.  “Now I have to look up to both your height and skill.”

“Not necessary.”  He said.  “Today’s game was not a professional match up.  You can’t tell the difference in actual ability.”

She knew that what Dt meant was that tonight’s game was not done by professional DotA teams. They were loosely organized teams on the spur of the moment.

Though he was right to say that, but it really…...was unfair to all of those top notch players who had played tonight.

“I watched many of your commentary videos this year. They were all brilliant.”  Right before she was trying to find the next subject to talk about, he surprisingly asked first,  “Why did you sign on with SP?”

Why?

n.o.body ever asked her about this question.  After all SP China was the dream to every player.  There had the best resources, sponsors, environment, coaches, managers, teammates…...it was only natural, wasn’t it?

She lowered her head and took out some chewing gum from her pocket.  She opened one and bit it in between her teeth.

Then she answered with a mumbled voice,

“I just want to keep staying in this circle and watching you guys play games.”

She opened her hand to him after she finished.

There was another chewing gum in her palm.  It was for him.