Translated by Team DHH at http://dhh-workshop.blogspot.com.
Playing Fish Trapped in Secret Room
Book 4: The Return of the King
Chapter 5
Their unscheduled dinner came with two unexpected visitors.
Grunt and Ai Jing locked themselves inside the study after dinner, leaving
the owner of said house and the owner’s boyfriend out in the living room.
It would’ve been perfectly fine if not for the fact that the walls weren’t soundproof,
the conversation inside the study could be heard clearly out in the living room.
The topic of their conversation changed from the details of their last quarrel, to
all the long-standing issues between them, and finally about their first night together.
Ai Qing couldn’t stand listening to it anymore and knocked on the door.
The interruption stopped their quarrelling. They opened the door and found an
excuse to leave.
They came quickly and left just as quickly.
Ai Qing saw them off, then went back to the kitchen to see Dt doing some housework.
He did everything at a five star level. He washed the dishes three times, then
wiped them clean one by one before putting them into the dishware disinfector[1]
and turning it on to begin disinfection. Ai Qing thought he was too professional.
She passed the towel to him to wipe hands. “Do you do it very often at home?”
She simply couldn’t believe it. “I never did.” He accepted the towel and wiped his
hands clean.
…...All right.
Ai Qing went to the bathroom to get the hand cream and passed it to him. “Here.”
Dt obviously thought that he wasn’t fit to use this type of girly stuff. He coughed and
didn’t accept it. She took it back and put it into her pocket a little bashfully. She then
leaned on the kitchen door, watching him continue to clean while chatting with him.
During that time, there were several moments that made her feel like relying on him
even more whenever she glanced at that pair of valuable hands performing the most
ordinary movements.
This feeling grew stronger when she turned on the computer to watch videos of other
commentators.
She typed on the keyboard and soon after the home page displayed.
She began to look through the videos she wanted to watch.
The man beside her put one hand on the edge of the table and bent over to watch her
type on the keyboard.
“......There’s only one chair in my study.” She was so used to being single, that everything
she had was just for one. “Maybe, can you move the small sofa from the living room here
to sit on?”
“I don’t need it. I usually sit too much anyway.”
“Oh.” She opened a video.
The picture popped out.
It was one of his games.
Oh, she didn’t notice the title.
But the video had already started playing, it didn’t seem nice to turn it off. So she could
only embarrassedly sit on the chair with the man beside her watching a video of him
together while the popular hostess kept calling him “My Emperor.” Actually, almost every
hostess would give him a new name when they commented on his gameplay, from Rookie
King, to D God, D Devil, to My Emperor……
But obviously it looked like he wasn’t aware of it. He didn’t care at all about the excited
voices coming from the speaker.
Training and competitions consumed 90% of his life.
He didn’t want to spend the remaining little time he had on more video games.
His lips were hot when kissing her forehead.
Ai Qing slightly bent her fingers.
Right in the middle of the hostess’ worshiping narration, he moved down little by little,
boldly. Being too tall had its disadvantages. Like right now, he was thinking whether he
should kneel down with one leg to accommodate her height, or if he should bend down.
His final choice was to stretch his arms over her underarm and pick her up. He sat down
on the chair himself.
He switched the position and let her sit on his left leg.
He took off the hat and threw it onto the desk. His fingers clasped her chin so he could
look at her. His hair was a bit long which blocked his eyes. She couldn’t see his eyes
clearly but there was one thing that she was certain of, he wanted to kiss her.
They didn’t get a lot of chances to see each other in the past two months.
Both of them were too busy.
The content of their phone conversations included each other’s elementary school, middle
school, high school, college, to each other’s family, and the details of their interests and
hobbies. They let themselves assimilate into each other’s life. Sometimes she would ask
him suddenly during their midnight phone conversation, “Xiao Bai…...Why do you like me?”
Why?
He lightly bit her and stretched the tip of his tongue to find hers.
In the quietness, they were doing such a simple thing but it wasn’t the first time they did it.
It allow them both to lose all sense of the outside world. Nobody noticed when the video
finished playing. He shouldn’t start. Once, he began it was like an addiction, especially
when facing the girl who had existed in his heart for so many years. But this time, he had
learned to be smarter.
He knew he had to take it easy.
Nibble on her ear. There was no resistance. Very nice……
The warm feeling slipped to her clavicle. He lightly bit and bit. Ai Qing grew dizzy from
the burning sensation. She lightly twisted her body. “You little pervert……” He responded
with an “En.” He even admitted himself.
“Did you…...Did you have a girlfriend before?” She was really curious.
He choked on the question, then suddenly laughed. “Of course not.”
“Ah? Haven’t you like anybody before? Didn’t you have any sort of confused puppy love?”
“Yes, I did.”
Ai Qing: “Oh.” She lightly blew her bangs.
A little bit…...jealous.
After quite a while, she kept asking, “What kind of girl? Did you like her?”
“It’s you.”
……
“I’m asking a serious question. Watching my competition videos doesn’t count. It has to
be the one you really like.” She was chuckling and wanted to escape away from his leg.
But he held her very tightly and didn’t give her a chance. His chin pressed on her shoulder
while looking at the computer screen. “It’s true.”
It was when I was at an age when I didn’t even know what love was yet.
I had already fallen in love with a girl named Ai Qing.