Secret Room Book 3 - Chapter 30

Translated by Team DHH at http://dhh-workshop.blogspot.com

Playing Fish Trapped in Secret Room

Book 3: Glory on the Other Side

Chapter 30

The car was parked a bit further than she’d like.

Dt dragged her luggage and kept his other hand inside his pocket.  
He looked at her hand, dangling by her side, but he did nothing as he
noticed the other pedestrians passing them by……

At the front of the stairs, a tall man jumped down from the steps and
walked straight towards them.

Ai Qing looked at his face and stopped to ask,  “Why are you here?”

They didn’t know how long All had been watching them in the dark.  
All didn’t show any surprise on his face.  He nodded to Dt slightly as
a greeting, then turned to look at Ai Qing.  “I’m not in a good mood
and want to chat with you.”

Before Ai Qing could response, Dt put her luggage besides her.  “I’m
going now.”

Ai Qing looked at him gratefully and whispered,  “I’ll call you later.”

Dt nodded silently.

After the short conversation, he turned around and left immediately
without saying anything extra.  Ai Qing took All back to her home.  She
dropped the luggage in the living room and went to the kitchen to find
juice for All.  “What do you want to drink?”  All stood at the doorway to
the kitchen.  “Are you with Gun’s cousin now?”

Ai Qing paused with her hand holding the juice:  “Uhm.”

“When did that happen?”

“Before we went to Guangzhou.”  She took out orange juice and filled
two glasses.  She gave one glass to him,  “We just started.”

Among these old friends, All was more inclined to Solo and had never
stopped the idea of having the two reconcile again.  She could almost
guess what All was going to say, but surprisingly All said nothing.  He
was silent for about one minute and said, “There was one thing which
has been dug out on the internet.  I think you will know it sooner or later,
so I want to chat with you first.”

Ai Qing looked at him, puzzled.

All was a very straightforward person, but he behaved very differently
tonight.  He was always hesitant, finally he touched his bald head
habitually and sighed,  “Never mind.  Let me be straight.  Several days
ago someone broke the news that Su Cheng is the biological mother of
Solo’s daughter, then the grievance match round of ‘08 was also dug
out afterwards.”

Ai Qing was shocked, then she got ahold of herself.

She held the glass and walked out of kitchen. All followed her, “This was
the beginning, then I came back to Shanghai and talked to Solo about this.  
He’s under a lot of pressure…...the reason why Su Cheng came back this
time was to take his daughter away.”

Ai Qing stopped and asked,  “What did Solo say?”

She understood more than anybody else the weight of Solo’s daughter in
his heart.

During those days in ‘08, the picture of how Solo patiently talked to his little
daughter using sign language was so deeply carved in her head.  It was a
Solo, as a father, she had never seen before, and that was the time she fully
understood that she and him could never be together……

“She already took the daughter away.”  All said,  “Su Cheng also resigned
as the K&K’s Chinese region manager of Secret Room today.”

All left shortly after he briefly told her what had happened, without drinking
the orange juice at all.

Ai Qing thought it was a waste, so she drank both glasses.  But her stomach
was displeased with two glasses of icy juice so late in the night and so she
turned on her computer to pass the time.  She hadn’t paid much attention to
Weibo since Xiaomi’s incident a couple days ago.

It was simply just a mess.  It still was.

In annoyance, she closed Weibo and went to her streaming channel.

Because she didn’t give any prior notice in advance, the fans who were always
online were surprised to find her online.  They kept posting questions asking
her whether she was going to stream?

Should she stream?  As the manager of a Secret Room team, it seemed a little
strange to play any other game.

However, Secret Room was a group battle game and she was alone here.  How
could she stream?  She could only think of Dt, but she thought it would be
inappropriate.  After all, they belonged to two different clubs and shouldn’t interact
too much.  Her own team was like All, just arriving at Shanghai and needed rest.

But if she didn’t stream, she would feel sorry that there were so many passionate
fans waiting for her.

As Ai Qing was at loss about what to do, there was someone online who took
the initiative to send an invitation to a match.

She moved her mouse to see the name-- --

Taotao?

Translated by Team DHH at http://dhh-workshop.blogspot.com