Vol 1 Chapter 24 (1/2)
G.o.d's Left Hand - Book 1: Chapter 24
She thought Grunt was just asking casually; she hadn’t expected the sudden invitation. After Ai Jing came into the room, Ai Jing mysteriously told her, “He didn’t tell you everything; the one who’s playing against him this time is Solo.”
“You have found a man who likes to gossip.” Ai Qing sulkily threw herself onto the bed. “I warn you, don’t tell him anything about my past. And, I’ll go home tomorrow; I need to report to the place I’m going to intern at.”
“How come I haven’t heard you mention this before?” Her sister also laid down besides her.
“It’s an excuse. Can’t you tell?” She turned away, not wanting to bother with this person who had been carried away by love.
Her sister insisted on staying. She went online to book an airline ticket and found out that for the next two days, all the flights to Hangzhou were sold out, the flights to Shanghai were sold out too.
“See, even heaven wants you to stay.” Ai Jing was solicitously peeling the skin off of some grapes and put the green flesh into her mouth. It was too sweet. “His daughter is almost 7? Maybe she will get close to you in an instant…...but I still think he’s not right for you. You just turned 20 and going to be a stepmother just like that? Do you know how to be a mom?”
She quietly gazed at her sister.
“I’ll go get some midnight snacks.” Her sister soon realized that she had spoken too much.
“Didn’t you eat a lot when we were at the internet cafe?” The food Dt bought was enough for more than ten people and they had shared it with other people at the cafe.
“It’s an excuse. Can’t you tell?” Her sister returned her words right back to her.
She shrugged. Before her sister left the room, she abruptly added. “The biggest difference between a master player and a not so great player is, except skill, their mentality.” Her sister was at a loss from the words which came out of nowhere. “What about mentality?”
Ai Qing waved her index finger back and forth in front of her face. “Buddha once said, can not say can not say. You can go ask Grunt…... Maybe you two can talk about the topic for the whole night.”
Ai Jing finally understood, smiled to the point that her eyes narrowed into slits, and smoothed her short hair to the back of her ears. “Good idea.”
After Ai Jing left, the room became totally silent. She put on her earphones and went online aimlessly. She searched for the game that the owner of the internet cafe had told her about in the afternoon. While she was captivated by what she found, she seemed to hear someone knocking on the door. She took off her earphones and sure enough someone was knocking on the door.
She went over to open the door.
A big, tall man stood in front of the door and smiled like a delinquent young man. “Little Apple Dog, are you showing up in Chengdu suddenly just for the Beat It invitational?” Ai Qing looked at him in shock, opened her mouth, and didn’t even know how to answer. He was All, a member of Solo’s team six years ago. They hadn’t seen each other since the disbandment of the team five years ago.