Those Sweet Times - Chapter 101 Part 3

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

Those Sweet Times

Chapter 101 Part 3

Extra: Shen Zemu and Yang Yin

The generous praise of Dw’s players from the commentators made Yang Yin nervous. She was afraid her players would get complacent.

Fortunately, her players didn’t let her down. They won another match.

The tight scheduling of the matches at the preliminaries demonstrated the advantage of insisting on daily physical exercise for Dw’s players. The high density of matches took a lot out of the players both physically and mentally. To play continuously at that intensity, it was easy for physically feeble otakus from other teams to lose their concentration and the ability to make good decisions.

In any case, Dw became the black horse of the preliminaries. As this outdated team regained its glory, the mysterious pretty coach of the team, Yang Yin, also attracted a lot of attention. Before the preliminaries were over, there were already other teams poking around to see whether she was interested in changing teams.

December 10th was the last day of the preliminaries. It concluded successfully. Dw, as expected, earned its ticket to play in next year’s major league spring competition.

All the players hugged each other and burst into tears.

Yang Yin said: “Stop crying, don’t be a crybaby.”

The next day, Yang Yin did an official interview with the organizer of the preliminaries.

The interview was live streamed. Shen Zemu was in the lab at the time. When it was time for the stream, he came out of the lab and sat in the staircase by himself, watching the stream on his cellphone.

The host of the interview was quite excited. He had learned more about her background by then and had a lot of questions to ask Yang Yin.

During the conversation with the host, Yang Yin was relaxed and spoke clearly. Her attitude was neither overbearing nor self-effacing. It was quite pleasant to watch her. The host chatted with her about the past, the present, and the future. In the end, he jokingly asked her whether she had something like an acceptance speech to make.

Yang Yin looked into the camera and said: “I actually do…… First, I want to thank my boss. It was the insistence of our boss not to give up on the team which gave us the chance to keep fighting on. In addition, I want to thank my players. You aren’t noobs, you are all great players, that’s from the bottom of my heart. Finally, I want to thank a person.” She suddenly stopped and blinked at the camera: “I……”

Yang Yin actually had prepared a lot of things to say. Yet when she thought about that person, she became sidetracked suddenly and lost her train of thought. She didn't know what to say.

She smiled embarrassingly at the camera.

Shen Zemu watched her silly smile on the screen, the corners of his mouth also curved upwards.

Then he reached out with his finger to touch the tip of her nose on the screen.

Yang Yin scratched her head and made a final statement: “Well, I’ll just buy you dinner.” 

After the stream, Yang Yin called Shen Zemu on the phone: “Shen Zemu, what are you doing now?”

“At lab.”

“Did you see my interview on the livestream?”

“No.”

“Oh.” Yang Yin felt a bit disappointed. “They said there were quite a lot of viewers in the stream today.”

Shen Zemu: “En.” Then he added: “Congratulations.” 

“For what. Hum, I’ll buy you dinner.”

“En.”

“And…… I finally have vacation now. I want to go skiing, do you want to go together?”

Shen Zemu sat on the stairs, his palm holding his knee, and answered with a light voice while casting his eyes downwards: “Ok.”

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