Ch36 - Shameless double-standard dog!

Edited by yuuki and kat

After lunch, they went back to the club, and Mo Chen directly took Wen Xi up to the second floor.

“Getting a room right after you finish eating?”

As soon as Chen Wei said that, Chen Xiao slapped his back and warned, “If you keep acting like this, you’re going to get killed by A-Chen sooner or later, I’m telling you.”

“Hiss—Before the captain can finish me off, I’ll be slapped to death by you!” Chen Wei gave Chen Xiao a plaintive look and said in a tsundere way, “Help me rub my back!”

Chen Xiao glared at him, before laughing helplessly and kneading his back.

They had a break at noon and afternoon training at 1 o’clock, so they all dispersed after everyone entered the club.

Chen Xiao and Lan Yan went upstairs to their rooms, while Chen Wei and Ling Shuyi closed their eyes for a bit on the sofa in the lobby.

And Mo Chen directly brought Wen Xi to the room he had organized.

The room was bigger than Wen Xi had thought.

There was a bed, desk, and wardrobe…. Not a single piece of furniture was missing, and they were all made of solid wood, which made the room look particularly fresh and natural.

The bedsheets and curtains also used a more simple and elegant color palette, all colors close to Wen Xi’s heart.

“Beautiful,” Wen Xi couldn’t help sighing. Somehow, he felt like his room had been arranged according to his preferences.

Mo Chen smiled and replied, “As long as you like it.”

He had noticed that Wen Xi always wore light colored clothing, and that when he livestreamed, the wallpaper behind him was also light green, so Mo Chen had guessed that he might prefer a fresh and elegant decoration style.

Wen Xi looked around, and the more he saw, the more he liked it. His face unconsciously showed his satisfaction and want on his face, but he soon remembered something. His eyes darkened as he explained, “The lease on my place hasn’t expired yet…”

“What does it matter?” Mo Chen thought nothing of it, “Even if it’s not expired yet, you can still move over. I won’t charge you rent after all.”

That was true.

Wen Xi blinked, and already began to imagine everything he would do after he moved in.

Mo Chen looked at him, and was unable to stop the corner of his lips from rising. He also couldn’t help imagining everything they would do after he moved in….

It took a while for both of them to snap out of it.

Wen Xi said, “But I haven’t signed the contract yet.”

“That’s fine. It’s the same if you move in before signing,” Mo Chen said, “I don’t know how much stuff you have, but call me in advance if you need help, and I’ll drive over and pick you up. It’s fine if you want me to help you pack up as well.”

Wen Xi let out an “en” sound.

He had to admit that Mo Chen was very kind to him.

However, this also placed Wen Xi under a lot of pressure—he was really afraid that he wouldn’t play well in the competition and let Mo Chen down.

In the end, he felt that Mo Chen was being good to him because he hoped that Wen Xi would lend him a hand in the competition ba.

“I’ll show you around some more,” Mo Chen suddenly said.

Wen Xi replied, “Okay.”

Mo Chen took Wen Xi around the entire club. Let alone the training and conference rooms, he even took him to see the toilets in the bathroom.

“It’s really like a hotel oh,” Wen Xi couldn’t help sighing emotionally, before asking a question he had been curious about, “Do you live here too?”

“Of course.”

“Can I go to your room and have a look?” Wen Xi asked tentatively.

If it was someone else asking, Mo Chen would definitely refuse.

He hadn’t even let his mother in when she had wanted to see his room.

However, he didn’t know why, but under Wen Xi’s curious gaze, Mo Chen hadn’t even realized what was going on before he blurted out, “Okay.”

He was stunned for a moment after speaking, before thinking that, since he had already agreed, it wouldn’t be an issue to let Wen Xi take a look….

In this way, Mo Chen took Wen Xi to his room.

It was only then that Wen Xi learned that his room was next door to Mo Chen’s.

Hm?

Wen Xi gave Mo Chen a deep look before he followed him into the room.

The layout of Mo Chen’s room was similar to that of next door, but the interior design was completely different.

If the neighboring room was fresh and elegant, then Mo Chen’s room had a simple and bright feeling.

——Wen Xi felt himself going blind after stepping into Mo Chen’s room.

He had pure white furniture and wallpaper, sky blue curtains, and the sheets and quilts were all clean and bright colors.

And then…there were lights everywhere.

It was normal to have a fluorescent light on the ceiling and a lamp on the desk, but why were there also lamps on the bed’s headboard and the wardrobe?

There was even a little night light in the outlet!

Under Wen Xi’s gaze, Mo Chen looked at all of his lamps and coughed, explaining, “I’m afraid of the dark.”

Wen Xi replied, “…I can see that.”

In fact, ignoring all of the lamps, Mo Chen’s room looked very clean. Even the quilts were folded neatly, causing Wen Xi to feel a bit ashamed.

Other than during his military training, Wen Xi never folded his quilt well…

They chatted for a while in Mo Chen’s room. When they went down to the hall, they found that Ling Shuyi and Chen Wei were awake.

Glancing at the time, there was less than 5 minutes until 1 p.m.

Wen Xi was a bit surprised.

He didn’t know if it was because of Mo Chen, but he kept feeling like time was passing especially quickly.

Soon, Lan Yan also woke up. As soon as he came down he saw Ling Shuyi timidly ask Wen Xi, “Um… I want to fight solo with you. I was wondering if that would be possible…”

Lan Yan didn’t know whether to laugh or cry— He had never seen someone issue a challenge so dispiritedly.

“A solo fight?” Wen Xi didn’t know what was going on and responded, “I don’t get into fights.”

“Pfft…” Chen Wei laughed on the spot. He was glad that he hadn’t been drinking water when he heard this sentence— He didn’t know whether he should call this newbie silly or cute?

Or, they were so silly that they were cute?

He had just wanted to speak up and help Ling Shuyi translate when Wen Xi had already figured out what was going on. “Oh, in SGH?”

“Yes, yes, yes.” Ling Shuyi was also having a hard time holding back his laughter— What? Did he really look like a bad boy who often got into fights? He obviously looked sunny and had such a positive energy!

“Of course.” Wen Xi breathed a sigh of relief.

He had never fought solo against anyone in SGH, so when he heard him say “solo fight,” his first thought was of a physical fight. He had even thought it was a special SGH initiation ritual for newbies.

Mo Chen laughed helplessly and gently patted Wen Xi’s back, “Let’s go to the training room.”

As a result, when Coach Chen Xiao came downstairs, he found that all of the members of the main SGH team had entered the training room, but they weren’t training. They were instead gathered around Ling Shuyi and Wen Xi.

Chen Xiao walked in and saw Wen Xi sitting in Mo Chen’s usual spot, and that he had just logged into the game.

At the center of his screen was an Asian female character with a black ponytail, with the ID of Wency hanging above her head.

Wency？

Why did that sound a little familiar?

On the other side, Ling Shuyi had also logged into his account and asked for Wen Xi’s ID, before directly initiating a PK with him.

Wen Xi took a deep breath and clicked accept.

In PK mode, the two people weren’t sitting in a plane, but in a helicopter.

The island they flew over wasn’t that large, and was only about one-tenth of the normal battle royale map.

The map was small, so of course there weren’t as many different types of terrains. The party initiating the PK could freely choose three kinds of terrain to form the map.

However, in order to avoid being kicked out of a window by Mo Chen, Ling Shuyi chose the random option— Whether or not he could draw the terrain he was good would depend entirely on his luck.

Since the two of them were PKing using the same network, the game ran especially smoothly, so smoothly that Wen Xi was nearly about to cry— He had been playing on the overseas servers for nearly a month now, and the game freezing had already become a regular occurrence.

After getting in the helicopter, both of them opened the map as soon as they could and took a look at it. This PK match just had two types of terrain, forests and mountains.

One had to admit that it was a pretty good coincidence—Ling Shuyi was good at forests, while Wen Xi was good at mountains.

Both of them jumped into the area they were good at.

At this time, Mo Chen suddenly left the training room. It was unknown whether he did it because he was worried about making Wen Xi nervous, or due to another reason.

Chen Xiao froze for a moment, looking between him and the two people PKing, before finally choosing to follow Mo Chen into the lobby.

“You’re not watching?” Chen Xiao asked him.

Mo Chen walked to the water dispenser and poured himself a cup of water. He didn’t even turn his head and said, “There’s no need to watch.”

Chen Xiao asked, “What do you mean?”

Mo Chen replied, “The winner will definitely be Wen Xi.”

Just as he spoke, Wen Xi shot an arrow. Ling Shuyi hadn’t even crouched in a good position before he was caught off-guard by this headshot.

“WTF?!” Ling Shuyi was confused for a moment, and thought for an instance that something magical had occurred.

Chen Wei and Lan Yan, who could see Wen Xi’s perspective, both had dumbfounded expressions—a bow?!

Chen Wei almost exclaimed in surprise, but afraid of affecting the two people’s play, he just forcefully swallowed the words he had almost blurted out.

Ling Shuyi quickly manipulated his character to climb down the tree, moving to a safe place to apply medicine.

The arrow shot by Wen Xi was still stuck in his character’s head, and it looked a bit comical.

Hearing Ling Shuyi’s “WTF,” Chen Xiao looked in the direction of the training room before turning back to look at Mo Chen again. He said, “Tell me the truth. What exactly is the relationship between you and that newbie?”

Mo Chen carried his water and sat opposite of Chen Xiao. It was only after drinking a mouthful of water that he answered lazily, “We don’t have that much of a relationship with each other.”

“You personally cleaned up a room for him, personally drove to pick him up, ate alone with him, and allowed him to sit at your computer and use your keyboard and mouse,” Chen Xiao carefully counted out these unusual things, “And even gave him a ring!”

Mo Chen raised his eyebrows.

Chen Xiao continued, “Try saying that you don’t have that much of a relationship again?”

Mo Chen drank some more water before replying, “En, it does sound like I treat him very differently, but there is really nothing between us. If I had to admit there was something…” He paused, before concluding, “Then it would be one-sided on my side towards him.”

Chen Xiao: ???

Mo Chen followed that up with, “I saw the glory of a champion in him.”

As soon as he spoke, another scream came from the training room!

Wen Xi was hidden behind a rock and had shot Ling Shuyi with several arrows in succession. On the other hand, Ling Shuyi couldn’t see him at all. He had to risk leaving the forest area in order to try to enter the mountain area and face-off against him directly.

However, just like getting pitted against with a blocked bridge while racing against the poison circle, entering someone else’s attack range was a very dangerous thing.

After being knocked down by Wen Xi again, Ling Shuyi had completely lost his helmet.

He had remembered that the bow’s cooldown time was relatively long. He still had a chance to save himself with a bandage, so his mind could still be considered calm.

However, he had never imagined that just as he began to apply the bandage, Wen Xi had changed to a sniper rifle.

Aim, stabilize, shoot, headshot!

[System] You killed CLM-Cat with a headshot with a sniper rifle.

“Shit!” Ling Shuyi saw his kill prompt and felt his heart stop for a moment— He had received a shock!

In SGH, besides throwing weapons, you could only buy one of each of all the other weapons.

In other words, if a player bought a sniper rifle, he could only carry one.

Ling Shuyi was very sensitive to distance. He knew that at their distance the other party couldn’t use an assault rifle or a shotgun, so when his character was knocked down, he hadn’t panicked. He firmly believed that as long as his hands were fast enough, he could use a bandage to rescue himself and escape before the other party’s weapon cooldown ended.

He had never met a kind of player like Wen Xi, who could master two types of ultra long range weapons at the same time!

“WTF, this is too much of a cheat!” as soon as he took off his headphones, Ling Shuyi couldn’t hold back from complaining, “Why is a bow’s range that long?! And why is the damage so high?!”

Chen Wei prodded the back of his head and scolded, “Why do you think! The bow was originally the hidden weapon of mass destruction in SGH! You should be asking how someone can control a bow to this extent!”

“Right ah, how can someone control the bow to this extent!” Ling Shuyi now kind of had the feeling where he was suspicious of his life.

If he wasn’t sitting in the same room with Wen Xi, and Wen Xi hadn’t used Mo Chen’s computer, Ling Shuyi would have suspected that he had been botting!

In fact, Wen Xi didn’t expect that his hands would work so well today.

Generally, when he used other people’s keyboard and mouse, he had to go through a process of adapting to it, but Mo Chen’s keyboard and mouse were so comfortable to use that he adapted very quickly.

As for the last shot he had fired with the sniper rifle, he had honestly thought that he only had a 60% chance of making a headshot, so he could only say that he was lucky.

“Can I have another match?” Ling Shuyi refused to accept defeat, “It’s the first time I’ve run into someone using a bow, so I’m not used to it. Let’s have another match!”

“Bow…” Outside of the training room, Chen Xiao faintly heard this sentence while sitting in the lobby and showed a surprised expression. He suddenly understood why Mo Chen treated Wen Xi so specially.

It was because Wen Xi really was special.

Mo Chen could use almost all of the weapons in SGH. It was only the bow that he couldn’t master, no matter how hard he tried.

And this newbie had accomplished something that even Mo Chen, “the first sharpshooter god,” couldn’t accomplish.

Chen Xiao suddenly remembered where he had seen Wency’s ID before. “The archer assassin?”

The mysterious master who had shaken up both the SGH domestic servers and overseas servers, and had dominated the SGH player forums for the last few weeks!

“No wonder…” Chen Xiao chuckled, “You’re really something ah, managing to get such a treasure of a newbie. When did you hook up with him? ”

Mo Chen replied, “I said it before, two months ago.”

Chen Xiao thought for a moment, and recalled that all of the discussions about the “archer assassin” had only appeared in recent weeks. Two months ago, everyone was still discussing the professional league….

Chen Xiao was a bit doubtful, but he remembered that before the league competitions, Mo Chen really had already become a little abnormal.

“You cultivated him yourself?” Chen Xiao guessed.

“No, I don’t have that much skill,” Mo Chen replied, “To be exact, I spared no pains and endured untold hardships and suffering, and through my own great efforts, I managed to trick him to join.”

Chen Xiao: “….”

So Mo Chen was actually capable of making jokes? It was really strange.

Mo Chen shrugged. He definitely wouldn’t admit that everything he had just said was the truth.

While they were talking, Wen Xi had killed Ling Shuyi again.

Ling Shuyi yelled, “Go again, go again, go again!”

Wen Xi looked up at the ceiling.

He really wanted to refuse.

However, he didn’t want to disrupt the harmony among his teammates, so he finally decided to agree.

He didn’t expect that just as he opened his mouth, he hadn’t had time to make a sound when he heard the door to the training room being pushed open.

Mo Chen came in and said, “Have you finished yet? Go train!”

Ling Shuyi almost instinctively shrunk down when he heard his voice, but Wen Xi gave a smile of relief as soon as he saw him.

Looking at his smile, Mo Chen couldn’t help laughing. When he opened his mouth again, his tone was obviously much softer. “Tired?”

“I wouldn’t go as far as that…” Wen Xi said. From the corner of his eye, he caught sight of Ling Shuyi and Chen Wei covering their mouth, as if…suppressing a smile?

Wen Xi looked directly at Ling Shuyi and found that the other really was holding back a smile.

Ling Shuyi was really going to laugh himself to death— The captain’s tone had just made a 180 degree turn, okay! That’s funny, too funny ba!

Mo Chen obviously also noticed the two people’s reaction, but did not pay attention to them, and instead spoke to Wen Xi, “Help me turn off the computer, and then I will take you out to have fun.”

“Eh? Is that alright?” Wen Xi asked, but his hands were already quickly closing the game and pressing the shortcut key to turn off the machine.

“En, today is mainly for you to visit. You don’t have to train with them,” Mo Chen said, “You have a rare day off, so of course you should have a good time.”

“Okay~” Wen Xi was most welcome to this idea.

He had truly thought that he had been carried away to have fun today. Although he would have no complaints if he had to train with Mo Chen, but managing to have a day where he didn’t need to touch the computer and could just openly have fun outside, he was happy just thinking about it.

In this way, Wen Xi was happily abducted by Mo Chen.

As the two people walked away, Ling Shuyi behind them couldn’t help but complain, “Actually, the captain just wants to skip training ba?”

Chen Wei sat down on the e-sports chair beside him and replied, “Young man, you have spoken the truth.” After a pause, he couldn’t help letting out a foreboding sigh, “I have to admit, this newbie is really strong ah… He really hasn’t played professionally before?”

“He hasn’t, he’s an anchor.” At this time, Lan Yan, who had remained silent this entire time, opened his mouth and said, “I can tell that you guys don’t visit the SGH forum much. There are many people discussing him in the forum these days.”

“Discussing who? Wen Xi?” Chen Wei was a little surprised.

“He’s an anchor?” Ling Shuyi was focused on that.

“En,” Lan Yan replied to both questions, “He’s a JJ anchor, and his regular weapon is a bow. When I first heard his name, I had thought that they just had the same name. It was only when I saw that his ID was Wency that I was finally convinced that he was the archer assassin from the forums.”

“Archer assassin, holy shit… That sounds really awesome!” Ling Shuyi said.

“Yes ah, it matches with the title of the number one sharpshooter god!” Chen Wei said before being glared at by Chen Xiao.

“Okay, okay, don’t keep praising the newbie and train well ba,” Chen Xiao said while looking at Ling Shuyi, “Especially you, Kitty. You suffered two consecutive losses to the newbie, and summing up the total time spent, you didn’t even last 30 minutes. Is that disgraceful or not?”

“Okay la, okay la! I’m training now!” Ling Shuyi exclaimed with a pout.

Chen Xiao was silent for a while, then opened his mouth and suddenly said, “Train well, and maybe….next year we’ll win the world championship.”

*

After leaving with Wen Xi, Mo Chen first got him familiar with the club’s surroundings—where to buy breakfast, where to have lunch and dinner, and where the convenience stores and supermarkets were located.

There were actually bakeries and Starbucks!

Wen Xi followed Mo Chen on a tour and found that the shops around the club were more abundant than the place where he currently lived.

He originally hadn’t decided on whether to move in, but now he had finally decided.

“I’ll go back and pack today,” Wen Xi said, “I can probably move in after a week?”

“Okay.” Mo Chen heard his reply and tried to suppress the excitement in his heart, replying calmly, “If you want help, then remember to call me.”

Wen Xi replied, “Mhm.”

After that, Mo Chen drove Wen Xi to a nearby park, and after they went to karaoke for several hours.

By the time they got back to the club, it was almost dinner time.

In this regard, Mo Chen’s teammates and coach had all surrendered— You’re really capable of skipping a whole day’s training?!

Wasn’t he the one who had been constantly urging them to train well on weekdays, and even strictly prohibiting a single minute of extra break time!

Tch, that shameless double-standard dog!

Mo Chen completely ignored the other people’s resentment, his gaze falling on the people who suddenly walked out of the lobby.

Wen Xi also cast a curious gaze at the person sitting on the sofa in the lobby.

There was someone sitting there who he hadn’t seen before

It was a beautiful woman with long, straight black hair.

She was wearing a black long-sleeve dress with matching black leggings.

At this moment, she was sitting gracefully on the sofa, and leisurely drinking water.

It couldn’t be a more ordinary cup of water, but she gave off the feeling that it was an elegant wine glass when she drank from it.

On the way back, Wen Xi had asked Mo Chen, “By the way, does the team also have a manager ah? They didn’t come today?”

“Yes,” Mo Chen replied, “They pretty much don’t come when there’s nothing to do, and instead only come when there’s something urgent to do.”

“Is the manager a man or a woman?” Wen Xi then asked.

“A man.”

——En, that had been Mo Chen’s answer at that time.

But now, while facing this elegant wine-tasting…, pei, this elegantly water-drinking black haired beauty, Mo Chen introduced Wen Xi with a very calm tone, “This is our manager, Liu Weizhe.”

Wen Xi: ???

Did he just say that he was a man?

When he heard Mo Chen’s words, the beauty choked on his water, coughing several times before he turned his head to give Mo Chen a plaintive look. He exclaimed, “How many times do I have to say it! When you introduce me, just use my English name! ”

——En, the voice that said all of this was clearly male.

For better or for worse, Wen Xi had never thought that, as a person who had actually crossdressed before, he would actually be tricked by another crossdressing big boss!

However, it had to be said that this man named Liu Weizhe was both slender and had long legs. He looked more natural in women’s clothes than Wen Xi did— If he hadn’t spoken just now, Wen Xi really wouldn’t have recognized him as a man.

This was a real crossdressing big boss ah!

Wen Xi admired him greatly, but Mo Chen seemed to be used to it. He opened his mouth and asked in a very calm tone, “What did you come here for?”

Wen Xi was stunned.

Yes, Mo Chen had said that this manager wouldn’t come to the club unless there was something urgent.

Liu Weizhe glared at Mo Chen and opened his mouth again. His tone suddenly softened and became somewhat ambiguous, “There’s an upcoming competition, but I don’t know if you want to lead the team to participate in it.”

Wen Xi continued to be shocked—he dared to say that this was also a voice-changing big boss!

Mo Chen asked, “What competition?”

Liu Weizhe replied, “The first SGH Ice Cream Cup competition in S City— It’s jointly sponsored by many parties and still counts as a large scale competition, but it’s not a formal competition, so the points won’t be counted towards the league competition. Do you want to participate?”

The strong teams wouldn’t take part in this type of competition, let alone YEY and MQ that were already abroad.

Mo Chen instinctively wanted to refuse, but before he did, he suddenly thought of something and took a look at Wen Xi.

Aware of his gaze, Wen Xi gave him a puzzled look.

Mo Chen laughed and looked back at Liu Weizhe, saying, “Participate ah. Why not?”

A seemingly unimportant competition that would still count as large-in-scale would be the best place to test the waters.

It was perfect since he could also declare to the entire SGH Esports circle through this game—the archer assassin was his now.

No one else should get any ideas about Wen Xi again!

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Juurensha: Annnnd Liu Weizhe appeared! He’s one of my favorite characters guys, you’ll see why later! Also, happy to report that since my other project, PUBG Romance of the Century is wrapping up this week, starting next week, for BOW, we will be doing two releases a week, one on Monday and one on Saturday!

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