Framed by My Captain, Reborn on My Rival's Team novel · Chapter 8 of 24
Chapter 8: The Man Who Didn't Write
Ji didn't say anything for a long time.
His hand stayed in Lu's hair, and his chest went up and down under Lu's cheek, even and slow.
"Tell me," he said at last.
Lu told him.
He told it flat and fast, looking at the ceiling, because it was the only way he could.
The Vanguard contract, and clause fourteen.
The six games the league called fixed, and the betting slips with his ID number on them.
The ban at twenty-one, the rented room, the night car he drove through the same streets where people knew his face.
The woman at the noodle stall, and the shoe.
The red light, the truck, the bar TV, and Cheng with the world trophy over his head.
When he stopped, the window had gone from black to blue.
"Cheng did it," Ji said.
"Cheng did it."
"You can't prove it."
"I couldn't then."
Ji sat up.
He swung his legs off the bed and sat with his back to Lu, elbows on his knees, his shoulders very straight.
"Your neck is locked," he said, without turning around. "Sit up. Keep talking."
Lu sat.
Ji's hand found the back of his neck and pressed a thumb into the knot there, hard.
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