Volume 2 - CH 35

Playing Fish Trapped in Secret Room

Book 2: You’re Beautiful

Chapter 35

He saw her lower her head and type on her cell phone.  Shortly afterwards, he heard his own cell phone ring.

He hurried looked for his phone, not even had the time to thank the woman reporter who had passed over some napkins.

Ai Qing texted, “Have a good interview.  I’ll be waiting for you in the second floor to settle our bet.  In addition, please make sure to get rid of your fans.  Two tables, one o’clock.  Four tables, six o’clock.  One table, eleven o’clock.”

Ten minutes later, Ai Qing was still looking at the price list for massages.  That man who just won the championship stood in front of her with a somewhat pale face.  He looked like he was a little short on breath.  Did he run over here?

“Your head……”

“I fell down.”  Ai Qing touched her head depressedly.  “Too cruel.  Ah.  Do you think I can take the airplane with my wounds?”

“......You can.”  He couldn’t laugh at all.

She looked at the serious face he was giving her and decided to continue playing the role to ease the atmosphere,  “Can I treat you with a massage?”

Dt had spent ten minutes to find an excuse to finish with the reporter and get rid of thirty fans.  It had taken him a lot of effort.  He had to walk through almost every floor of the hotel to lose them.  When he saw her wholly unconcerned for her injury, even inviting him to a massage, he unconsciously grew more agitated.  “You can’t go to a spa right after you hurting yourself.”

“Not the spa. Just a massage.”  She waved her hand and asked for the basic massage package.  There was no other choice.  Only the basic and the cheapest one didn’t require you to take off your clothes…...The receptionist led two very gentle Asian girls to them shortly and introduced them.  Ai Qing looked at the masseuse for Dt who looked very cute and lovely.  She joked, “Your masseuse has dimples when she smiles.”

Dt was quiet.  He didn’t bother looking at the masseuse who was introducing herself.

They were led to a massage room.  She comfortably lied down on the massage chair and closed her eyes.  “Do you understand Chinese?”

The two masseuses thought she was talking to that handsome guy with a poker face who was visibly in a bad mood.  Either way, it was a language they didn’t understand, so they didn’t answer.  Instead the masseuse asked her in English, “Is this intensity ok?”

Ai Qing was very satisfied that they didn’t know Chinese and replied with a few words.

“Wu Bai.”  She said.

“En.”

“Tell me about our bet.”

Silence.

She closed her eyes and waited for his response patiently.

She didn’t expect for him to tell the masseuse in English, “This girl just hurt her forehead. Don’t massage her head.” Ai Qing’s masseuse agreed . But Ai Qing laughed.  “The bandage is so obvious.  She can see it.”

They fell into a new bout of silence.

The strange silence got to her and she opened her eyes to see what he was doing.  She saw that Dt had moved to a massage chair not far from her.  His eyes nervously stared at Ai Qing.  He didn’t care that the masseuse girl with two lovely little dimples behind him was very embarrassingly trying to massage his shoulders to accommodate his new sitting position……

The masseuse moved down from his shoulder to pinch his arm.

Dt’s body stiffened and refused rapidly in English, “I’m not used to be touched by others.  Would you please just leave.  I will pay the bill.”  His masseuse was so embarrassed, wondering whether he was unsatisfied with her ability.

Ai Qing could only added, “He’s old fashioned.  Never mind.  Could you both please leave.”

The two masseuses bowed and left the room.

She also changed her supine position and rolled over.  Using two hands to support herself up on the massage table, she sat upright with her feet dangling in the air.  She sat on the massage chair looking at him.

Dt began to feel uncomfortable from the staring match.  Because of the massage, he had already taken off his baseball hat and hung on the clothes rack next to the door.  Now it was impossible to hide his expressions.

They stared in silence for what seemed like a century.

Then finally Dt spoke,  “Why did you sign with SP?”

Why?

This was the second time he asked this question and he was asking the same way as last time.

Ai Qing lightly blew her bangs out of her face. “Alright, I’ll give an earnest answer.”

It was a complex answer.  “There are two main reasons.  You know the first reason very well.  SP has the best platform, resources, coaching system, and sponsors.  Its position in esports is like a national team in sports.  I’m also an athlete.  Serving the ‘National Team’ in the esports circle is also my dream.”

There was no doubt about it at all.

Dt understood what she meant.  As an esports player, being able to enter a team with the most outstanding players was a dream everyone wanted to have.  Even K&K couldn’t compare with SP.  At least currently in China, K&K was only involved in StarCraft and Secret Room Storm, not having the resources to move into other events.

“The second reason…...did your cousin ever mentioned to you how Solo’s team got started?”