Perhaps because the World Table Tennis Championships had concluded, everyone felt a great release of pressure; perhaps because the overall results at the World Table Tennis Championships were quite good, everyone had reaped rewards. Although the flight home involved the usual travel fatigue, the players' faces wore smiles and they bantered playfully with one another, creating an atmosphere entirely different from the one when they first set out.
During the half-month in Durban, Wang Datou had once again become Shasha's exclusive guardian deity—training together, eating together, returning to the hotel together, and playing matches together.
When leaving Durban, the two of them stepped out of the hotel room together, queued up together for assembly, boarded the bus together, and went through airport security together. Since relatively few people recognized them abroad, they didn't have to be too guarded, and their teammates were long used to it.
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