Vol 1 Chapter 9 (2/2)

Solo was talking to the owner of the internet cafe with one elbow resting on the counter at the front of the cafe.  His face was full of smiles, from his eyes to his expressions, just like the bright sunlight in the height of summer.

She felt as if she’d been enchanted and immediately pulled her sister’s arm.  “Ai Jing, Ai Jing, look at that boy.”

Because she was wearing headphones, she forgot to control the volume of her voice.  Solo looked over at her even before her sister could turned her head……

The light in the hallway wasn’t turned on.

She looked down to take off her sneakers in the dark then walked into the bathroom barefoot.  She turned on the faucet and splashed water onto her face.

The cooling sensation quickly suppressed all the memories.

She pulled down the towel and said, “Men who play video game compet.i.tions are no good.  The amateurs totally have no future, the professionals are like athletes whose lives only consist of trainings and nothing else.  In the end, you’ll only suffer.  For them, only their teammates are their families, girlfriends and such are all outsiders.”

She thought about it more and added.  “Besides, in the future when you are introducing your boyfriend, someone would say that their boyfriend is in the banking business or works for the government, what are you going to say? My boyfriend plays video games?”

“I don’t mind.”  her sister leaned against the doorway of the bathroom smiling while biting her lip.  All of a sudden she looked at Ai Qing again.  “Seriously, have you ever regretted it?”

“I’m not sure.  Sometimes I regret it very much.  Sometimes I feel that it was a pretty nice thing to be able to solely focus on one thing.  But, it is true that esports will mess up your life.”  She walked out of the bathroom and saw the laptop on the table.  “Especially for those people who have reached the peak, it would be very difficult for them to adjust back to an ordinary live.”

There was a prompt for a new email on the lower right corner of the screen.

This email box was from the old days which she had subscribed to a large amount of news related to esports.  She did not have the heart to close it.

She opened the mail, for sure, it was news about an international tournament.

“The WCG 2010 qualifying tournament in China has come to an end.

The WCG 2010 qualifying tournament in China has already concluded in 13 locations.  The last two locations will be held in Guangzhou and Chengdu this weekend.  At the closing moment of the qualifying tournament, the WCG organizers have announced that this year’s final compet.i.tion in China will be held in July 23 - 25.  The location will still be Shanghai.”

The following was a long list of those who had qualified.

While she was reading, her sister came over and pointed at Grunt’s name.  “Let’s go see the compet.i.tion?  It happens to be in Guangzhou.”

Ai Qing did not respond.

She might see a lot of familiar faces at a compet.i.tion like this.

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