Tong Yao staggered with all the shopping bags back to her room. Before she could open the door, she got a call from her best friend, Jinyang, and her first words were, "Your future team lost the final."
"Hum." Tong Yao absent mindedly answered. She still remembered the back of that young man walking out of the elevator. Somehow, she felt that his back was silently mocking her.
"I heard that Ming god wasn't in a good shape after the fourth match so they replaced him with some random guy for mid, and his overall map awareness wasn't very good either-- --"
"What are you, a Platinum, talking about map awareness."
"I was going to say that 'he's totally not as good as you,' now I'm going to take that back. What's wrong with the fact that I'm a Platinum! At least I wash my hair every day!"
"......"
Tong Yao twitched the corner of her lips, with the cell phone lodged between her arm and face, and pulled out the card key to open the door. Tong Yao walked into the room and used her foot to kick the door close. She heard her friend over the phone, "What's that sound? You're back at the hotel? By youself? Aren't they going back to the base right after the match today? Haven't you gone with them?"
"They were busy preparing for the finals earlier and no one get a room ready for me. So I'll stay in the hotel for two more days. Besides, it's in between seasons, there's no hurry-- --What exactly are you trying to say?"
Her friend paused at the other end, then as if she couldn't hold it in any longer, "Have you seen Cheng Ge yet?"
Tong Yao, "......"
She struck right at her sore spot.
She twitched her lips and spoke reluctantly, "You already have a boyfriend, why do you keep mentioning Lu Sicheng? I saw him. I was in the same elevator as him just now. He lives below me. I had my hands full and he asked which floor I'm on, then pushed the button for me."
She heard an excited scream from the other side of the phone, "Did he know who you are?"
Tong Yao, "He doesn't."
It sounded like Jinyang was jumping on the other end, "Oh my god! It's so romantic. It's just like a scene where the male and female characters meet from a shojo manga. Ahhhhh, Yaoyao, breaking up with Jian Yang led up to this moment, you know? !"
Tong Yao, "......I like it when you're full of imagination."
Was this how the male and female characters met in your shojo manga? She could imagine that Lu Sicheng pushed the elevator button for her simply because he was sympathizing with her heavy load......She scratched her head and looked down to all the bags next to her foot. It was fortunate that Lu Sicheng didn't see her face, otherwise, she couldn't face the embarrassment when they meet next time......
Tong Yao heard the speaker in an airport from Jinyang's side and asked in puzzlement, "Are you at an airport?"
"That's right. Ah Mao's mom and dad divorced. Now mom is going to deliver the son, Ah Mao, to his dad, my ex." Jinyang said.
Ah Mao was a Ragdoll cat raised by Jinyang and Ai Jia together.
"You two haven't got back together? His base will let him keep the cat?"
"If there's no one at the base allergic to the cat, then it should be ok. Ai Jia's place will allow it. If you want to bring Dabing with you, you could ask your manager first." As Jinyang spoke, Tong Yao could faintly hear an announcement in the background, "I'm boarding now. Can't talk anymore. I'm just calling to let you know that I'll see you in Shanghai."
After she hung up the phone, Tong Yao sat on the bed lost in thought. Finally, she couldn't resist the urge to bring her cat to Shanghai and turned on WeChat, hesitantly opened a chat group-- --It was the group that the team manager, Rui Ge, had just invited her to about an hour ago. At the time, Tong Yao noticed the group was for the five players of ZGDX, coaches, data analyst, and so on......
When she was invited, the team was still playing on stage and there's no one talking in the group.
Right now, the group was still quiet.
Tong Yao bit her lips and started typing-- --
[smiling: Hi]
She got a few responses soon after-- --
[maomaomao: New mid little sister! How are you!]
[ZGDX, xiao rui: Hello.]
[ZGDX, k: Welcome to the team.]
[round fatty: Aiyo, look who's here! The new mid! Smiling, we're going back to the base now, when are you coming? Are you coming with us? I haven't met you yet!]
[ZGDX, ming: I just retired and you guys are welcoming the new......Aiya, I'm so angry!]
[ZGDX, xiao rui: Don't whine, Ming god. You aren't going anywhere, just a data analyst for the team......And Little Fatty, we haven't gotten the girl's room ready yet. Are you going to let her sleep in the bathtub if she comes with us now?]
[smiling: Hehehe, how are you all! Actually, I just want to ask if I can keep my cat at the base. I heard that other teams would let cat stay at the base if there's no one allergic to cats.]
When she reexamined her message, she felt that it might have been a bit intrusive......Just as she was thinking of deleting it, she saw replies like, "No problem.", "What kind of cat? How old? Male or female?", "I love cats." Tong Yao was so surprised that she was about to thank the friendliness of her teammates, when another line popped out at the bottom of the screen-- --
[fhdjwhdb2333: No way.]
Tong Yao, "......?"
Who was this gibberish guy?
[fhdjwhdb2333: There's something that's allergic to cats.]
Tong Yao, "......"
Ah.
Tong Yao disappointedly cast her eyes downwards.
[smiling: If that's the case, then forget about it......]
[round fatty: Wait, it doesn't make sense, Cheng Ge. How come I don't know that there's something allergic to the cat at our base?]
Cheng Ge?
Lu Sicheng?
So the gibberish guy was Lu Sicheng.
Tong Yao blinked and remembered that harsh face. She lost any will to fight back and started to type a new message "then, let's forget about it since Cheng Ge is allergic to cats", but before she could finish typing, a few more messages appeared-- --
[fhdjwhdb2333: There is.]
[fhdjwhdb2333: My goldfish.]
Tong Yao, "......"
What?
Goldfish?
Tong Yao was stupefied.
[ZGDX, xiao rui: Cheng Ge, don't make trouble.]
[fhdjwhdb2333: ? I care very much for my goldfish. They're like my sons.]
Tong Yao, "......"
She had no words to describe him.
Tong Yao wiped her face and heard in the distance the sound of a tall statue called 'Lu Sicheng' slowly crumble in her mind...... She really wanted to post screenshots of their chat online to tell the whole world that the Cheng Ge they all admired was actually an idiot who treated creatures with only 7 seconds of memory as sons-- --
[ZGDX, xiao rui: Don't mind him. You can bring your cat here.]
[fhdjwhdb2333: ?]
[ZGDX, xiao rui: You have something to say?]
[fhdjwhdb2333: What if that cat eats my sons?]
[ZGDX, xiao rui: Buy some more. You can't afford it? Smoke less, the money you save can buy a whole school of fish. By the way, did you sneak out to smoke again? When everyone had gone back to their rooms, you were the only who was lagging behind. And when you came back, I could smell the smoke which you tried to cover with liquid soap......]
[fhdjwhdb2333: I hate cats.]
[ZGDX, xiao rui: Then?]
[fhdjwhdb2333: I hate you too.]
[ZGDX, xiao rui: I like you. Thank you for saving three thousand RMB for the club. I'll let the accounting know about the deduction in a while.]
Tong Yao, "......"
What followed was a discussion about "whether Lu Sicheng smoked or not just now." Everyone acted as if they were third grade students......Tong Yao couldn't bear to look at them and got off WeChat. She opened a bag of potato chips to munch on in order to calm herself down. Then she called home to have the cat shipped over to Shanghai.
......
Three days later, Tong Yao headed out to the ZGDX base with a suitcase in one hand and a cage with Dabing inside on the other hand.
She found herself excitedly riding inside the taxi. Her heart, which had been quite calm in the past few days, was throbbing again......All she could think was "I'm going to play professionally. Damn, I'm going to be playing professionally. Aiyo, why am I so awesome, I'm playing professionally." She couldn't stop herself from sending a post on Weibo-- --
[smiling: Going over to ZGDX base! ZGDX, Smiling are coming together......to be continued.]