Early the next morning, Shasha forced her eyes open and stood in front of the hotel mirror to wash up. She patted her face in the reflection, trying to wake herself up a bit.
They had a flight back to Beijing at noon today from Macau, and there was now less than an hour before everyone gathered at the hotel to leave for the airport. It wasn't that she had overslept; rather, she and Wang Datou had sneaked out last night and didn't get back until 2:00 AM. Afterward, the two of them chatted on WeChat for a while, and she didn't fall asleep until three, leaving her severely sleep-deprived.
She was still brushing her teeth in a daze when the doorbell suddenly rang. She opened the door to find, to her horror, Coach Li standing there. Coach Li said he had come looking for her at nine last night to ask about her changing her racket, but hadn't been able to find her, and asked where she had been.
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