But he didn’t actually see Ren Jian. He saw Ren Jian’s poster on the huge underground advertisement.
Yu Qinghuan stared at the poster for a full minute, then couldn’t help but shout out, “Oh my God, I slept with some kind of immortal last night ……”
The young man who happened to pass by and hear this was so frightened that he almost dropped his phone.
So can you not speak with such ambiguity?
Yu Qinghuan then moved his gaze to the bottom right corner of the poster, which had a few big words written on it: The best, Wilful! The best, TKOW team!
Yu Qinghuan stared at the words “TKOW Team”. The expression on his face suddenly faded a bit as he remembered something in a trance. He looked at Ren Jian in the poster again and muttered, “Is that him ……”
Then Yu Qinghuan silently withdrew his gaze. He lowered his head and walked into the underground, blending into the shoulder-to-shoulder crowd, a vast sea of people, bumbling around.
The TKOW team, on the other hand, had unsurprisingly won the friendly tournament. After receiving their awards, thanking their fans, and being interviewed, the team found a place where they planned to celebrate in a lively manner.
Gu Zhixiao was still obsessed with the fact that someone was in Ren Jian’s room that morning. He kept asking him about it as if he would not stop until he found out.
When he was fed up with the questions, Ren Jian said, “I usually make these jokes, but I haven’t seen you get so worked up about it, have I? Why do you keep asking today?”
Gu Zhixiao said, “If it were anyone else, I would have stopped caring, but I didn’t think the person in your room would be him!”
Ren Jian frowned lightly, “What him? You know him?”
Gu Zhixiao rolled her eyes, “You’re still pretending, Ren Jian! I really didn’t recognise him before. After all, the last time I saw him was three years ago, but the competition just ended and I remembered right away. So how did you get in touch with him?”
Ren Jian: “……”
Ren Jian felt that he and Gu Zhixiao were not on the same page, so he let out a long breath and said, “I don’t know him.”
Ren turned his head to leave, “If you don’t believe me, forget it.”
Gu Zhixiao hurriedly reached out to stop him, “Damn, no, Ren Jian, did you really not recognise who that was? This is the first time meeting after three years of killing each other and then loving each other [1], yet you can’t remember who he is after sleeping with him? You’re a scumbag! And weren’t you always asking about him the first year you were on the TKOW team?”
Ren Jian, who was inexplicably branded as a scumbag, was speechless: “I met him in the lobby last night. I came to try to change rooms ……”
Ren Jian’s voice came to an abrupt halt.
Gu Zhixiao said he always inquired about him the first year he was on the TKOw team.
Three years ago, he had only inquired about one person.
When Gu Zhixiao saw that Ren Jian suddenly didn’t speak, he asked, “You remembered? Hey, say something. Speak friend. Do you remember or not, ah? Three years ago, in order to find youth trainees for the TKOW team, we ran a tournament. At that time, you placed first, and him second!”
Ren Jian’s face changed instantly. His face was grave and he turned his head and walked out. Gu Zhixiao couldn’t even stop him.
The team members, coach, and assistants could not help but feel strange: “What’s wrong with Wilful all of a sudden? Where are you going? The celebration party isn’t over yet.”
Gu Zhixiao was also confused and didn’t know how to answer.
About ten minutes later, a person barged into the hotel lobby, startling the lady on duty at the front desk of the hotel. After easily understanding the person’s needs, the lady checked the information and then said, “Sorry, sir, the one who was staying with you had already checked out this morning.”
Ren Jian frowned and gritted his teeth slightly, his face full of resignation.
“Ah, right.” The receptionist suddenly remembered something. She took out a file bag and handed it to Ren Jian, “I was still struggling with what to do before, just when you came, sir. This is something that the auntie found when she was cleaning the room this morning and the resident left in the room. “ This story is hosted at g.com.
Ren Jian was stunned, thanked her and took it. He opened it and found that it contained an office document.
The document was headed with the name of a company that was based in the next city, an internet business.
It was not something of his.
Then it could only be something of Yu Qinghuan’s.
Ren Jian walked out of the hotel and made a phone call to the coach: “Hello? Coach, we just played in the summer tournament. Don’t we have a month of leave to take?”
The coach felt baffled: “Yes, where are you? Why are you running away before the celebration party is over? “
“I want to take a month off.”
“So suddenly? And a month is a bit long. Is there something urgent?”
Ren Jian looked at the paper in his hand. The dark yellow kraft paper bag was clutched in his fingers. He could feel the roughness of the paper when he rubbed it slightly. Ren Jian suddenly hooked his lips and smiled: “Well, it’s very urgent. I have to go to the next city to look for someone. “
“Looking for someone? You need a month off to find someone? Okay, okay, I’ll report to the club. Just remember to keep four hours of solo training time every day. “
“And go live on time, Ren Jian. If you don’t go live, the platform will be after me to cut me! It’s so hard for me! ” The assistant’s voice came through, audibly yelling out into the phone.
“Okay.” Ren Jian smiled in response. He hung up the phone as he flipped through the papers in his hand, before murmuring softly, “The city next door, what a coincidence…”
This was indeed too much of a coincidence. Wasn’t the city next door his home town?
“It’s been three years ……” Ren Jian looked up and saw the traffic lights on the tarmac, the dazzling neon between the buildings, the pedestrians hurrying by the zebra crossings, and the hazy night.
“It’s been three years, but I finally caught you.”
[1] this will be explained later on as it’s a spoiler