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


    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


    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?