After Leaving the Sports Circle, I Became a Cooking God (Completed BL)

Chapter 4 - Untie Emotional Knot & Su Bai Officially Joins

Translator: dapotaturs
Release Date: 08/27/2023

Although Sun Xiangdong had said he would talk to Zhao Heping about Su Bai's matter, early the next morning, Su Bai earnestly went to Zhao Heping's office after his morning routine.

"Coach," Su Bai knocked on the office door, and Zhao Heping inside looked up, grunted, and then waved him in.

"That kid Sun Xiangdong told me about your situation last night. He said he has no objections, and he even praised your cooking skills," Zhao Heping, used to being a coach, spoke to Su Bai, the child he had watched grow up. He couldn't help but add, "Since he praised you, then work hard from now on. You know the treatment in our team."

Pausing for a moment, Zhao Heping continued, "Also, don't forget your own expertise just because you've become a chef... Since you're staying in the team, there's still hope for other paths in the future."

The latter part of this sentence was spoken softly by Zhao Heping, but Su Bai understood it clearly.

Su Bai hadn't expected that his coach wanted him to stay in the team, with such meaning behind it... He knew his coach had always cared for and looked after him. When he was younger, he had often been brought to his coach's house for meals.

Throughout the journey, as he gained an understanding of the limits of his own achievements, he realized that his disappointment wasn't due to his limited talent, but rather the fact that his potential couldn't live up to his coach's expectations.

Now that he had chosen to retire, his coach still hadn't given up on him and was still making the best possible plans for him.

Su Bai opened his mouth, wanting to say something, but he wasn't good with words, and he felt he couldn't express his genuine gratitude to Zhao Heping.

After hesitating for a while, Su Bai finally looked at Zhao Heping seriously and said, "Master... Can I come to your house in a few days? By then, I'll cook a meal for you and Master's wife. Let you both try my cooking."

Master, these two words were spoken. Zhao Heping, in front of his office desk, looked up at Su Bai deeply, then slowly revealed a smiling face, pointed at Su Bai, and said, "Alright, both your master and I will be waiting for you to come to our home."

Su Bai's eyes were slightly red. He blinked as if nothing had happened, bowed to Zhao Heping, bid farewell, and turned around.

The titles "master" and "master's wife" had not been uttered by him for many years.

When he first arrived at the provincial team, he was one of the only two members under Zhao Heping. The other member didn't pass the trial assessment and left later, leaving only him.

At that time, he used to address Zhao Heping as "master" and his wife as "master's wife."

For him, who was still young at the time, these terms gave him a sense of familial warmth.

Later on, more and more members joined under his master's leadership, and they all respectfully addressed Zhao Heping as "coach." Although no one objected to him using "master" to address Zhao Heping, as an orphan, he naturally felt sensitive and resistant to this "different from others" uniqueness.

He couldn't remember when exactly he started, but he stopped calling them "master" and "master's wife."

Times had changed, and looking back now, he realized he had been overly sensitive when he was young. But he was different now from his younger self.

His thoughts were somewhat jumbled, but in the end, he pushed these thoughts aside. Although he had retired, he could treat his master and master's wife better from now on, making up for his avoidance over the years.