Secret Room Book 4 - Chapter 20

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

Playing Fish Trapped in Secret Room

Book 4: The Return of the King

Chapter 20

The three of them arrived at the hotel where SP was staying.

Ai Qing took out her cell phone and called Solo.  She knew that Solo should
have already checked in by now.  After a short wait, it was Gun who answered
the phone. “Ai Qing?”  Gun’s voice was a little coarse.

“Han Shangyan?”  She was surprised.

“Is Xiao Bai with you?”

“Yes.  Should I give the phone to him?”

Ai Qing said and passed her cell phone to Dt.  Gun and Dt began to talk on
her and Solo’s phones.  Gun only spoke briefly to Dt. The first thing he said
was, “Let me borrow your girlfriend for ten minutes.  Let her come to Solo’s
room.” The second one was, “Xiao Bai, though I’m your cousin, over here it’s
my best buddy in my lifetime.  Sorry, do me a favor.”

Dt didn’t even make a sound before he hung up the phone directly.  He gave
the phone back to Ai Qing. “Han Shangyan is in Solo’s room.  He wants to talk
to you. Go up now, I’ll wait for you here.

His words came as a surprise to Ai Qing.  Yi Qian patted her shoulder, he would
be staying behind too.

She turned around, about to go in.

“Wait.”  Dt spoke suddenly.

She turned her head back.

“Give me your backpack.  I’ll hold it for you.” Dt pointed to her backpack.

Ai Qing blushed and handed him her backpack, then she took the elevator all
the way up to the twelfth floor.

Gun’s young girlfriend, who had only appeared a few times during competitions,
was hugging her own backpack outside Solo’s room.  She nervously reported to
Ai Qing in a low voice as soon as she saw her. “Seven bottles of beer and two
and a half bottles of hard liquor.”  The girl pointed to the room after she spoke,
“Han Shangyan wouldn’t let me go in. He’s inside with Solo.”

“Uhm, he told me to come up over the phone.”  Ai Qing patted the young girl’s
shoulder and comforted her in low voice,  “Don’t worry. Both of them have a
good tolerance for alcohol.”

The young girl still looked quite worried.  She took out her cell phone. “Can
you save my number?  If everything’s alright after you go in, could you send me…...
just send me a period.”

Amused, Ai Qing saved the girl’s cell phone number before she knocked on the door.

The door quickly opened.  There was light inside.

She walked in and closed the door…...hotel rooms had one disadvantage.  
Once you walked in the room, you saw everything inside the room. It wasn’t
like at home, where a person could hide in the bedroom or study.  But right now
she had a full view of Solo lying on the sofa with his face covered by one arm and
Gun leaning on the side of the sofa smoking. It was as if time had pulled back and
dragged her back to that day in ‘05.

Han Shangyan seldom smoked unless he was especially irritated.

“Gou Gou……”  Han Shangyan raised his head.  His eyes were bloodshot, she
couldn’t tell if it was because he had drunk too much or was too emotional.  “Come
over here.” He slowly waved his hand.

She walked over to him and asked lightly.  “Is he ok?”

“He’s fine.”  Gun’s dark glazed over eyes stared at the door.  “We won our first
championship right in Beijing.”  Ai Qing felt a lump in her throat. She raised her
head and looked at the night view of Beijing through the sliding door.  “I’m sorry…...
Han Shangyan.”

This was what she really wanted to say to Han Shangyan after suppressing it
for so many years.

The view of the city was filled with light.

When they first came to Beijing, they were just like Taotao’s team today, though
perhaps in a worse state, since the living standards now is much higher than before.  
That was the beginning of the peak of Han Shangyan’s professional career at the time.

“Ai Qing.”  Solo suddenly spoke with his face still under his arm,  “I’m sorry.”

His voice was soft and weary.

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