Framed by My Captain, Reborn on My Rival's Team novel · Chapter 11 of 24
Chapter 11: Eleven Floors Up
Ji Mingye made it up eleven floors of the Dome's service stairwell before his legs told him to stop.
He sat down on the concrete landing with his back against the cold wall and his hands hanging between his knees.
The fire door two floors below was shut.
The only sound was the hum of the lights.
He thought: he asked how long.
He thought: I said I scout.
Three years ago, a sixteen-year-old with messy hair had played a qualifier on a cracked monitor.
It was in a Chengdu internet cafe that smelled of fried rice and wet carpet.
Ji had been eighteen, and in town for a different tournament.
He had stopped at the back of the room to watch one game, just one.
The kid had taken a breath, held it, and committed a champion to a fight nobody else saw coming.
He'd won it, and looked around, grinning, to see if anyone had noticed.
Ji had been the only one.
That had been three years ago.
He had never stopped.
Below him, the fire door banged.
Footsteps came up, fast, taking the stairs two at a time.
Ji did not need to look to know the rhythm.
He had heard it through headphones for three years.
"Eleven floors," Lu said, hoarse, on the landing below. "You went up eleven floors."
"I wanted quiet."
"You walked out on a press line."
"I know."
"You didn't answer me."
Ji stood.
He turned, and Lu was at the bottom of the last flight with his chest heaving and his face white with anger.
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