The Sha-Tou pair had been partners for several years, but it was only in the past two years that they became a fixed pairing. Yet, with so many mixed doubles pairs in the Chinese National Table Tennis Team, why did they suddenly catch fire at the Hangzhou Asian Games?
There are quite a few real-life couples in the sports world; even Qin Kai and He Zi, who got engaged right at the Rio Olympics, never generated this level of buzz. This "Sha-Tou" pairing—which to outsiders looked murky, mysterious, and ambiguous—had an atmosphere so subtle that everyone from elderly aunts to junior high school students jumped on the bandwagon and started shipping them.
They seemed to be hiding it, yet they also seemed not to be hiding it at all.
Chapter 200