Framed by My Captain, Reborn on My Rival's Team novel · Chapter 18 of 24
Chapter 18: Seoul, Night Before
Ji Mingye hadn't slept before a semifinal in five years, and he did not expect to start now.
The hotel room was on the thirty-first floor.
It had a wall of window over the Han River and a bed too large for one man.
He sat on the end of it with the notebook closed on his knee.
Tong Yue's voicemail was on his phone.
Be at the Dome at ten tomorrow. Bring the book. Say nothing to the Vanguard people.
He had said nothing to anyone for three years.
He did not know how to start saying anything now.
Someone knocked, twice, and then a third time in a rhythm Ji knew.
"Lantern."
"Room service," Lu said through the door.
Ji opened it.
Lu stood in the hall in a hoodie and sweatpants, holding a small flat gift box with a yellow bow.
He wore a smile.
"Su Ran gave me this at the airport," he said. "He said it was for emergencies."
"What is it?"
"I haven't opened it. I wanted to make you do it."
He came in and shut the door.
Ji took the box.
Inside, on black tissue, lay a ring of dark silicone, flexible and wide, and a card in Su Ran's round writing.
FOR THE CAPTAIN. DON'T LOSE.
Ji looked at it for a long second.
Then he looked at Lu.
"I'm going to murder him."
"After the final."
"What's the bet?" Ji said.
Lu's smile spread.
"You're quick."
"You've never come into a room smiling like that unless there was a bet."
"I won the scrim."
Lu dropped onto the bed, boneless, and put his hands behind his head.
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