Ch51 - I like him.

Edited by kat

After Wen Xi took a bath, he listened to what Mo Chen had said and blow dried his hair. After that, he went back to his room and lay down on the bed instead of going downstairs.

At this time, it was past 10 o’clock in the evening, and Ai Zhe, Ruby, and Blue Wolf were still livestreaming as a team of three. They had combined their names together to make “Wolf Pig Deer.”

After watching their livestream for a while, Wen Xi casually smashed some gifts and messaged them to prove that he still existed. He then resolutely withdrew from the livestream app, covered himself with his quilt, and turned off the light.

He was really tired today. It had been his first time playing against a strong team, and his nerves had been in a tense state for a long time, resulting in him seriously overtaxing his mental resources. He felt that he could sleep for a whole day and night.

On the other side, Mo Chen was still replaying the footage with Ling Shuyi and Chen Wei.

He spoke very fast at first, but after Wen Xi left he acted as if he was no longer worried, and spoke increasingly slowly and in more detail. On the other hand, Ling Shuyi and Chen Wei became more and more desperate as they continued to listen.

However, they knew that Mo Chen was also very tired and was resolutely holding on to try and help them go over the replay. Therefore, in order to live up to the expectations of their team captain, they listened very carefully even though they were tired and sleepy. They didn’t raise any objections or make any further interruptions.

(In fact, it was mainly out of fear.)

Finally, when it was past 11 pm, Mo Chen finished everything he could say. Everyone that should take a bath took a bath, and everyone who should sleep, slept.

After Mo Chen emerged after taking a bath, he remembered that he had left his cellphone in the meeting room, so he went downstairs to get it. As a result, he found that Coach Chen Xiao was sitting alone in the lobby and smoking.

“Not sleeping?” Mo Chen casually asked and walked into the meeting room.

He didn’t turn to look when he grabbed his cellphone, but he heard Chen Xiao say, “It’s always easy to think too much at night…. Wen Xi is here, so we can win the championship next year ba?”

Mo Chen let out an “en”, and his tone didn’t have the slightest hesitation.

Chen Xiao continued, “So I’m just filled with regrets… We used to be so close to the championship that it was pretty much at hand.”

Mo Chen froze, and immediately guessed what he was melancholy about.

Sure enough, Chen Xiao’s next sentence was, “Sometimes I feel bad for you. If I were stronger back then…”

“Stop talking about meaningless stuff,” Mo Chen blurted out, “It’s the same to win the championship next year.”

Then, without waiting for Chen Xiao to respond, Mo Chen continued to say, “The past is already in the past. No matter how you look at it, or how I think about it, it is meaningless to discuss what has become a foregone conclusion. It is better to think about how to win the championship next year.”

Chen Xiao had no choice but to chuckle and agree, “That’s true…”

“And,” Mo Chen paused before continuing, “If I won the championship last year, I would not have met Wen Xi.”

Chen Xiao was startled for a moment. When he finally realized what Mo Chen had said, he immediately asked, “You really like him?”

“En.” This time, Mo Chen not only didn’t deny it, but also he readily admitted it.

He had finally determined that he truly liked Wen Xi—Not a kind of simple like, but the kind of like where he was deeply attracted to the other party, and wanted to have a deep relationship with him.

He could feel his heart beating.

When Ling Shuyi and Chen Wei shipped their CP, he instinctively wanted to refute them, but his heart was happy and satisfied, and he even hoped that they would say more.

When he invited Wen Xi to his home, the first scene he had imagined was him sharing the treasures that he had collected over many years with Wen Xi—That definitely crossed the boundary of ordinary friends.

Therefore, Mo Chen carefully reviewed and contemplated his feelings for Wen Xi, and determined that this was indeed the feeling of liking a person.

Chen Xiao didn’t expect that he would admit it so crisply and cleanly this time, and was stunned for a long time before he reacted. He asked instinctively, “When will you confess?”

“It depends on the situation ba,” Mo Chen said casually, “If he’s mine, then sooner or later he’ll be mine.”

Mo Chen sounded arrogant, as though he thought of Wen Xi as his prey.

But from another point of view, it was also Mo Chen indulging Wen Xi.

——He wanted Wen Xi, but he wouldn’t choose for him. Everything would depend upon how Wen Xi chose.

Chen Xiao didn’t say anything else. After taking another drag of smoke, he put his cigarette out on the ashtray, before getting up and heading upstairs. “Go to sleep ba. I’m going to sleep too.”

Mo Chen let out an “en.”

*

The next day, Mo Chen got up before 8 o’clock as usual.

Chen Wei came downstairs at 9, and Mo Chen stared at him coldly.

Chen Wei was shocked. “I’m just going to buy breakfast! Captain, what would you like to eat? ”

“Whatever,” Mo Chen said faintly, drawing back a bit of his chilly air.

When Chen Wei came back after buying breakfast, Ling Shuyi came downstairs.

Just after reaching the lower level, he was frightened by the icy gaze of Mo Chen. “Captain, I was wrong! I’ll go get you some water!”

Mo Chen didn’t say anything and silently looked away, starting to eat breakfast.

Then, around 10 o’clock….

Mo Chen asked, “Wen Xi is still sleeping?”

Chen Wei replied, “He seems to be.”

Mo Chen said, “Oh.”

“Shall I go and wake him up?” Ling Shuyi asked tentatively.

“No need,” Mo Chen blurted out, his tone not containing the slightest hint of blame. “He was too tired out yesterday, so let him sleep more.”

Ling Shuyi & Chen Wei: ….

He spoke as if they weren’t tired….

But what could they do? Who let Mo Chen’s wife be Wen Xi instead of one of them?

Wen Xi originally already had difficulty getting up, so adding on the fact that it was getting colder and colder, even if he was woken up by the alarm clock, he would hide in bed and not want to come out.

He would think to nest there for a while, just a little while, and then unconsciously fall asleep again.

When he woke up again, he glanced at his cellphone, and saw it was already almost lunch time!

“Wtf!” He was so startled that he instantly woke up, lifting up the quilt and wearing his clothes before going downstairs at his quickest speed.

He had thought that everyone would be training at the moment, but when he went downstairs, he found that while Ling Shuyi and Chen Wei were training, Mo Chen was sitting in the lobby, as if waiting for him.

Wen Xi coughed a bit awkwardly, and tried to surreptitiously sneak past him.

However, before he could sneak past him, he heard a laugh.

“What? You’re moving so quietly. Did you want to sneak past me?” Mo Chen said without even turning his head around. He used the back of his hand to push the breakfast in front of him over to Wen Xi. “Eat casually first and pad your belly.” He paused for a bit, before continuing, “Did you brush your teeth?”

“No…” Wen Xi overslept for so long, so where would he get the courage to brush his teeth before coming down?

Mo Chen said helplessly, “Go brush your teeth and wash your face first.”

“Oh…” Wen Xi stuttered, almost instinctively returning the way he came. He had gone up two steps before he remembered something wasn’t right, and turned back to look at Mo Chen, asking, “You’re not going to scold me?”

“Why would I scold you?” Mo Chen turned his head and met his gaze, his face not showing the slightest displeasure. “It’s just oversleeping for one day, and I know you didn’t do it on purpose.”

Having made sure that Mo Chen really wasn’t angry, Wen Xi finally put down the burden in his heart, and gave a long sigh of relief. “Sorry, I will get up early tomorrow.”

Mo Chen replied, “En.”

Wen Xi asked, “Then I’ll go brush my teeth and wash my face first?”

Mo Chen let out another “en.”

Having gotten permission, Wen Xi quickened his pace and went upstairs. Therefore, he didn’t know that soon after he went upstairs, the corners of Mo Chen’s lips unconsciously rose, and he looked very satisfied.

——Today’s Wen Xi was also so cute!

Wen Xi did what he said and didn’t oversleep during the next few days.

Before New Years, they made more plans with other teams for training matches, and both won and lost some.

And then in a flash, it was time for the Spring Festival.

The club had the week off, and the team members went home one after the other.

When he returned home this time, Wen Xi finally explained that he was playing video games professionally. Although the process was difficult, he finally got the understanding and support of his family.

His mother had three main concerns.

“What can you do after you retire?”

Wen Xi replied, “Livestream.”

“Can you support yourself?”

Wen Xi replied, “Yes.”

“Can you save money to buy a house and get a wife?”

Wen Xi replied, “…I can buy a house, but I have no plans to get married at this time.”

“Do you like men?”

Wen Xi: “….”

This question was a bit out of line. Wen Xi completely didn’t know how to answer it.

However, even if he didn’t answer, his mother knew his answer from his face. “Okay ba, do whatever you want. As early as when you graduated, I said that I have only one requirement for you, which is to live a happy life. It’s up to you to decide how you want to make money, and it’s up to you whether you get married or not. As long as you don’t break the law or borrow money you can’t return, we want nothing else from you.”

Hearing this, Wen Xi was relieved and let out an “en” with a smile.

*

Wen Xi had already grown up and didn’t like staying with his parents, so he just went home to have a meal with his parents before slipping back into the club.

However, he forgot that the club was different from the apartment he had rented outside. The key to the main door wasn’t in his hand, so he couldn’t just go back whenever he wanted to.

Therefore, on that cold day, Wen Xi stood in front of the CLM club and looked at the closed gate for a long time in a daze.

In fact, the most correct action would be to go back the way he came and stay at home for another two days. However, Wen Xi felt that it would be shameless to go back right after saying goodbye to his parents. In addition, with all the time, energy, and money it took to get here…

Wen Xi sighed and pulled his cellphone out of his pocket with a gloved hand. He took off a glove and scrolled through his contacts.

When he scrolled to Mo Chen’s name, his finger paused, and he hesitated for a while before calling him.

At the moment, Mo Chen was attending a banquet hosted by his parents. When he received the phone call from Wen Xi, he picked it up almost immediately.

He had set a special ringtone for Wen Xi’s calls, so he could tell that the call was from Wen Xi just by hearing his phone ring.

“Wen Xi?”

“Well, captain…” Wen Xi didn’t know what to say. “When will the club open?”

“Two days from now. What happened?” Mo Chen asked. The wind coming from Wen Xi’s side was very loud, indicating that Wen Xi was now outside.

Wen Xi asked, “Who has the key to the main gate?”

“Me,” Mo Chen said, and immediately guessed what was going on, “You’re at the gate of the club?”

Wen Xi said, “En…”

Hearing this answer, Mo Chen really was both angry and amused. “You didn’t give me a call first before you went back there?”

Wen Xi replied, “I forget…”

“Find any store that’s still open nearby to stay out of the wind. I’ll pick you up right away.”

Mo Chen was worthy of being Mo Chen. Knowing Wen Xi’s situation, he immediately made a decision, hung up the phone, and went to the door.

After he got in his car, he remembered to send a message to his father to explain his reason for leaving the banquet. He only sent five words: Went to pick up someone.

Because of Mo Chen’s accident when he was a child, his parents doted on him. They pretty much let him do whatever he wanted to do, so his father only wrote back five words after seeing his message: Be careful along the way.

Mo Chen saw these five words, but when he thought of Wen Xi standing alone at the door of the club, lonely and shivering, he was both amused and worried, so he arrived at the club as quickly as possible.

Then he successfully received his Wen Xi.

Mo Chen’s car was equipped with heating. When Wen Xi got in the car and felt the heat hitting his face, he suddenly felt as though he came back to life. “Good afternoon ah, captain…”

Seeing that he had wrapped himself in a down jacket like a bear, Mo Chen couldn’t help laughing and asked, “Are you stupid?”

Wen Xi immediately raised up his face in protest.

“Okay, okay, okay, not stupid, not stupid.” Mo Chen was afraid of upsetting him and he backed up while asking, “So what’s going on? Did you quarrel with your family?”

“No,” Wen Xi replied, “I just don’t find it very convenient to live with my parents, so I wanted to go back to the club early.”

Mo Chen asked, “So you’re not planning on going back home?”

Wen Xi let out an “en” sound.

“Then what are you going to do these two days?” Mo Chen asked, not waiting for Wen Xi to respond before saying, “I could give you the key, but I won’t be at ease with you living by yourself in the club.”

Wen Xi said, “I won’t steal anything.”

He had never thought Wen Xi would respond like this. Mo Chen let out a “pfft” sound and nearly choked on his own spit.

“……It’s not that I’m afraid of you stealing something, but that I’m worried it’s not safe for you to live alone,” Mo Chen explained, then suddenly said, “How about you live in my house for these two days ba.”

He said this sentence very quickly and naturally, so Wen Xi let out an “en” before he realized what Mo Chen had just said.

Live in Mo Chen’s house?!

Originally, when he had called Mo Chen, he had just wanted to ask him for the key to the club. Yet as a result, Mo Chen saw him and let him get in his car without saying a word. He pretty much instinctively got in the car and completely didn’t think about what to do afterwards.

Now, when he returned to his senses after Mo Chen put forward this plan, his heart was moved but he was also a little uneasy. “Will I be bothering you?”

“No, my room is very big.”

Wait….?!

“You’ll let me stay in your room?” Wen Xi cried out in disbelief.

Living in Mo Chen’s house and living in Mo Chen’s room were two different concepts.

“In fact, there are other rooms, but since no one stays in them, there’s a lot of random things in them. It’s very troublesome to clean them up, so it’s more convenient to directly live in my room,” Mo Chen explained lightly, “It’s okay, my bed is very big. You’ll realize as soon as you see it. If you’re not used to sleeping in the same bed as other men, then I can sleep on the floor.”

“Well…” Wen Xi really did object to sleeping in the same bed as other men. It was simply a physiological conflict.

However, after Mo Chen spoke, he wasn’t so resistant to it?

Wen Xi thought that he was already troubling Mo Chen, so it was impossible to allow him to sleep on the ground, but he didn’t like sleeping on the ground….

Finally, Wen Xi gave way and said, “Okay ba, but my sleeping posture isn’t very good.”

Mo Che replied, “It’s okay, mine isn’t either.”

Wen Xi: …

Were they really going to sleep and then start fighting in the bed halfway through the night?

*

Mo Chen drove Wen Xi home directly.

After passing through a big garden and parking in the underground garage, Mo Chen got out of the car. Looking at Wen Xi, who had walked to the garage door and was looking around everywhere, he couldn’t help laughing. Suddenly, he felt like he had picked up a newborn baby cat who was curious about everything.

“Where’s your home?” Wen Xi looked across the wide stone road and only saw a garden stretching out boundlessly. Because winter wasn’t over yet, it appeared a little bleak.

“We’re here,” Mo Chen came to him and replied.

“Huh?” Wen Xi didn’t get it.

“I mean, this garden belongs to my family. Did you notice the door when you came in? When you go through that door, everything after that is my family’s territory.” Mo Chen said with a smile and gently pushed Wen Xi’s back.

Wen Xi was pushed forward by him for a few steps, and his eyes widened in disbelief.

Poverty had limited his imagination. His brain could only imagine a huge house, but he hadn’t thought to also make up a garden!

However, what he didn’t know was that Mo Chen was doing this on purpose.

Originally, Mo Chen could have just driven Wen Xi to the door of the house, and a valet would have helped him park the car.

However, he wanted to show off his home to Wen Xi, so he parked the car himself.

He took Wen Xi along the stone-cobbled path to the door and opened it with a key.

The nanny who was cleaning in the lobby on the first floor saw Mo Chen and bowed respectfully to him.

Mo Chen nodded at her, but didn’t say anything and pulled Wen Xi to the second floor.

The villa had a total of three floors. With so many rooms, it was like a maze.

Wen Xi followed Mo Chen silently. Although he suspected the reason why despite there being so many rooms, Mo Chen still wanted him to live in one with himself, he still couldn’t ask in the end.

“This is my room,” Mo Chen suddenly said, opening a door.

This familiar, simple, and bright layout style, because of the larger room, appeared very atmospheric. Wen Xi looked at it and froze for a long time.

Mo Chen hadn’t deceived him, and his bed was really big. Let alone two people, even three people would have no problem sleeping together in it. It could definitely be used as two beds to sleep in, with neither side interfering with the other.

Wen Xi let out a breath and felt relieved.

“You can sit anywhere. I’ll get you something to drink,” Mo Chen said, “What do you want to drink? Coffee? Tea? Milk?”

“Milk.” Wen Xi made a choice based on what he first felt like. “I want it hot…”

“Of course.” Mo Chen smiled, and his delusion of picking up a small milky cat intensified.

He went to warm the milk himself for Wen Xi, leaving the other alone in his room.

The nanny who had cleaned up to the second floor saw Mo Chen take someone to his room, and was a little surprised. However, she soon realized something and silently went up to the third floor.

——Before today, Mo Chen had never let anyone into his room. Not to mention these outsiders, even Mo Chen’s parents couldn’t enter his room.

It could be seen from this that the person he brought back was unusual.

Wen Xi carefully sat down on the edge of Mo Chen’s bed and glanced around the room. Finally, his gaze landed on the bookshelf with glass doors. He saw all kinds of books that he couldn’t understand, including computer related books and financial management books. They completely weren’t like books that an e-sports player would read.

However, he soon noticed that there were a lot of comics on the bottom shelf, all of which were complete sets. At last, he smelled a trace of humanity, and his tense body relaxed.

A few minutes later, Mo Chen returned to the room with the hot milk, and placed it on the desk before saying, “Come and drink it.”

It was just like calling out for a little nursing kitty that he had picked up.

Wen Xi almost instinctively followed his words, sitting down in front of the desk before he picked up the cup of milk with both hands and took a sip. The temperature was just right.

His cold hands covering the warm cup had a kind of prickling and numbing feeling, which was very comfortable.

Mo Chen looked at his satisfied appearance and couldn’t help but laugh. He had just wanted to ask him whether he should turn on the heater or not when his cellphone suddenly rang.

Mo Chen froze for a moment, then instinctively picked up his cellphone to look. He saw it was his mother calling and picked up. “Mom.”

“Where are you? Did you pick up who you were going to pick up?”

Mo Chen replied, “I picked them up and went home directly after. I forgot to tell you.”

“That’s good. We’re also coming back now.”

Mo Chen replied, “Okay.”

After speaking, Mo Chen immediately realized that his mother had called him to tell him that the banquet was over, and that he didn’t need to make his way back after he picked up the person.

However, in fact, after picking up Wen Xi, he had long since forgotten that there even was a banquet…

After hanging up the phone, Mo Chen asked Wen Xi whether he should turn on the heater. Wen Xi said yes, so Mo Chen turned it on.

Although Wen Xi didn’t know what Mo Chen’s mother had said to Mo Chen, he was vaguely aware that they were coming back, and suddenly became a little nervous. “Do I need to greet your parents?”

“No need,” Mo Chen blurted out.

“Uh, isn’t it still better to say hello ba?” Wen Xi insisted.

After all, he was going to stay in Mo Chen’s house for two days—Although his teammates had said this was Mo Chen’s house, this villa wasn’t necessarily under Mo Chen’s name, so it was still better to say hello to the master of the house.

Mo Chen thought about it and thought that he was right, so he nodded.

However, although it was Wen Xi who said he wanted to say hello, when Mo Chen’s parents really came back, Wen Xi shrank almost entirely into Mo Chen’s side. After greeting them as “auntie and uncle”, he didn’t know what else to say. Finally, Mo Chen patiently explained the whole situation to his parents.

“Staying in your room?” Mo Chen’s mother listened to the whole situation and raised her eyebrows in surprise. However, she reacted quickly, and in the next second she smiled gently and said, “Okay, we know now.” After a pause, she said, “Wen Xi.”

Hearing his name, Wen Xi raised his head nervously, opening his eyes wide as he looked at Mo Chen’s mother. He suddenly remembered the feeling of talking to his boss at work. The pressure was as heavy as a mountain weighing down on him.

Mo Chen’s mother gazed at him meaningfully for a while, and then said, “Since you’re a friend brought back by A-Chen, it’s fine if you regard this as your own home.”

“Thank you, I’ll try my best not to give all of you any trouble,” Wen Xi responded cautiously. At this time, he didn’t realize what Mo Chen’s mother’s words meant.

Mo Chen was perceptive and looked up at his mother. He thought that she may have misunderstood something, but… Maybe it didn’t count as a misunderstanding either.

Later, when Wen Xi went to the bathroom to take a bath, Mo Chen took the initiative to find his mother and said frankly, “I like him.”

“I saw.” His mother didn’t even blink when she said this.

Mo Chen was a bit surprised. “You have no objections?”

Mo Chen’s mother replied, “It’s better to say that you have never messed around, so that already has made me very happy.”

Mo Chen: “…”

He had to say, it was no wonder that she was his biological mother?

“This circle is very dirty and very messy,” she said, “I didn’t have high expectations for you. As long as you don’t get sick, you can do whatever you want. In this case, if you want to seriously date someone, then what can I object to?”

Mo Chen didn’t know whether to laugh or cry. At this moment, he didn’t know whether to be happy or sad—So it turned out that his own mother regarded him like that?

“Can’t you have a little confidence in me…”

He had never messed around or anything, not in the past, and he wouldn’t in the future either!

His mother laughed and said, “I’ve always been very optimistic about you.” Saying that, she took the opportunity to ask, “When will you come to work in the company?”

“I already said, after I graduate from college.”

“Then when will you go to university?”

“After I get the championship,” Mo Chen said, using a firm tone to say, “It’ll be soon. Next year, I definitely can.”

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The author has something to say:

Transition so hard to write…

But about after another half a chapter, we’ll be able to play in the spring competition!

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Juurensha: Hahaha, all the moms are pretty nice, even if Mo Chen’s mom is pretty unimpressed. (Boss mom, respect.) And of course Mo Chen made Wen Xi come live with him.

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