Ch65 - Do you like me?

Edited by kat

At lunch, no one brought up anything about the competition, so Jiang Xinyi also wasn’t in a hurry to mention it.

When he returned to the hotel, he was finally unable to resist the urge, and used a light tone to ask, “I will direct the squad match in the afternoon?”

“You can.” The one who answered him was Mo Chen, but the words that came out of his mouth were beyond everyone’s expectations.

Jiang Xinyi looked at him in disbelief, but before he could react, he heard Mo Chen add a light sentence, “However, this is a formal competition. If you commanding doesn’t let us win the championship, and instead leads to the destruction of the team, are you psychologically prepared to bear the consequences?”

With these words, Jiang Xinyi was struck speechless.

To be honest, he wasn’t psychologically prepared, and he truly couldn’t guarantee that he could command better than Mo Chen.

The coach had taught him the playing styles and habits of everyone in the CLM team, and he knew where the strengths and weaknesses of each player lay.

But at the same time, he knew that these people were his teammates, not cards in his hands.

The numbers on cards were certain, but the performances of actual teammates were volatile.

He couldn’t guarantee that his teammates would definitely fulfill his orders, and he couldn’t guarantee that his command would definitely help the team to win the championship.

In the end, it was because he had joined the team in a hurry and hadn’t teamed up with everyone, so he was unsure.

It was the same feeling as not studying before an exam.

Mo Chen obviously knew this, which was the main reason why he said something like that to him. Seeing him shrink back, Mo Chen directly announced his decision, “For the spring competition, I will still be the commander. The only thing you have to do while playing is to obey my orders. When the spring competition is finished, and training starts, I can give you the command position. If you command well, I won’t mind giving you command for the summer competition.”

Everything must have a gradual process.

Of course, Jiang Xinyi understood this truth, so he let out an “en” and didn’t say anything more.

But he was still a little upset.

——He really wanted to take over the command position as soon as possible, in order to experience the audience’s applause and cheers as soon as possible.

Seeing that Jiang Xinyi didn’t make a fuss, everyone there was secretly relieved.

Only God knew that when Chen Xiao heard Mo Chen say, “You can,” his heart had dangled from a precipice—Letting a newcomer who has only played SGH for half a month take command?! Was he crazy?

Fortunately, Mo Chen immediately “dissuaded” the newbie.

Jiang Xinyi had a single room that was separate from the others, so after he failed to claim the command post, he quickly left the lobby and went back to his room.

As soon as he left, Chen Xiao couldn’t help saying, “You scared me. I thought you were serious.”

He said this to Mo Chen, but he never thought Mo Chen would reply, “I was serious.”

Chen Xiao: ???

“The captain means that if Xiao Xin had insisted on the command position and didn’t give up halfway, the captain would have given it to him?” Ling Shuyi helped him to translate. After speaking, he became unsure, and hesitantly asked, “Is that right?”

Mo Chen let out an “en.”

Chen Xiao was speechless. “You weren’t afraid that if he really had the courage to take command, he might pitch the entire team into a pit?”

“If something really went wrong, there’s still me. I’m not dead,” Mo Chen responded, “I just felt that someone who is as smart as him and cares so much about other people’s opinions wouldn’t risk destroying themselves. If he truly had the courage to take command, it would show that he was very confident in his own command ability, and that he also recognized our team’s strength. In that case, what would be the problem with letting him take command?”

“That makes sense.” Chen Xiao was convinced.

However, no matter what, Jiang Xinyi chose to retreat, so Mo Chen would be the one to direct the squad match.

Before the afternoon match began, Chen Xiao was worried that Jiang Xinyi would disobey orders.

After all, Chen Xiao had the impression that he was quite independent.

During the meeting last night, Chen Xiao had clearly stressed that in the next day’s solo competition, the two players would jump to different places. However, in this morning’s solo match, Jiang Xinyi hadn’t even thought about it before jumping to the same place as Ling Shuyi.

Yes, it was an unauthorized decision made by Jiang Xinyi, and hadn’t been agreed upon in advance.

Although the final result was good, this kind of disobedient player would undoubtedly make the whole team feel uneasy, especially the coach.

However, after the squad match really began, the CLM team’s jumping, occupying an area, and running from the poison circle were all done in an orderly fashion, and there were no major problems. Chen Xiao let out a long sigh of relief.

“Who is CLM’s current commander?” Caster Bunny Ji was very curious.

In order to satisfy her curiosity, and also to satisfy the curiosity of the majority of the audience, the director showed a split shot of Mo Chen and Jiang Xinyi’s perspectives. They could see that it was Mo Chen who had been directing them the entire time, while Jiang Xinyi didn’t say a word during the whole process.

“It’s still Momo in command,” A-Yi said, “But that is to be expected. After all, we haven’t seen Newing in previous games, so he should have just joined CLM recently, and is a real rookie.”

“It’s a bit of a pity. I was looking forward to seeing him command, “Bunny Ji said, “But according to this trend, if this newbie can develop, he will be the leader of CLM in the future!”

In fact, that’s also what Mo Chen thought.

His e-sports career was likely to end after winning the championship. After that, he may play while he attends university, or he may just directly retire. However, the CLM club would continue to exist. Therefore, he needed to find someone to inherit his position as commander, as well as his position as captain.

According to the current situation, although Jiang Xinyi had just joined, he was the most suitable candidate.

His arrival not only solved one of CLM’s urgent needs, but he also brought a ray of hope to CLM.

*

Soon after the fourth circle was refreshed, YEY and CLM had an unavoidable confrontation. YEY was forced into retreating step by step, until finally the entire team was wiped out.

After the team was wiped out, all of the members had imposing looks on their faces.

Lightning almost roared out—your stinking rogue team is too stinking rogue-like ba! Once again, without any warning, you managed to recruit another troublesome newbie! What kind of luck was this?!

You had to know that there was no shortage of strong and skilled players in the e-sports circle, but there was a shortage of players with personality and expertise. Archer assassins like Wen Xi and on-the-spot strategists like Jiang Xinyi were both people that you could only meet, and couldn’t beg for.

After the YEY team was destroyed, the competition continued, and in a blink of an eye, it became the final circle.

CLM and MQ went against each other in a gun battle, and finally CLM exchanged two people to take out the opposing four, and win first place in the match.

As a result, all of the CLM fans on the scene felt their blood boil with excitement.

“AHHHHHHHH!”

“CLM, go for it! This time we must make it to the global competition!”

“CLM will just get better and better!”

Perhaps they were infected by the cheers of the audience on the scene, but the voices of the casters were also a little excited.

“The CLM team is so amazing. Yesterday, the whole team turned into a lootbox upon landing, but today they won first place and obtained the most kills!” Bunny Ji said, “After today’s matches, CLM’s total points should once again place them at first ba?”

“Let’s take a look at the big screen!”

With A-Yi’s words, the total scores for each major team were calculated and displayed neatly on the big screen.

At the top of the list was CLM!

Even if he had already calculated these results, seeing the rankings, Chen Xiao couldn’t help but pump his fist and exclaim, “Beautiful!”

At the same time, surpassing everyone’s expectation, MQ’s total points had actually exceeded YEY and they took second place!

In other words, the current rankings were:

First place: CLM

Second place: MQ

Third place: YEY

Noticing this change in rank, Chen Xiao couldn’t help pausing his excitement to let out an emotional sigh.

Nothing was certain, and anything was possible—Their CLM had won the domestic trials and then had been completely wiped out. Now, it was the same for YEY. They had won the championship last year, but one couldn’t say that it was impossible for them to be eliminated this year.

But that’s not what he, the CLM coach, needed to care about.

Surrounded by the cheers of the audience, the CLM players took off their headphones one by one.

After Jiang Xinyi took off his headphones, he heard the cheers from the scene and was stunned for a long time.

He knew the audience was cheering for CLM, but at this moment, he suddenly had the illusion that he was standing in the spotlight—No, it wasn’t an illusion, it was real. He was also one of the people the audience was cheering for!

Realizing this, his blood boiled up in an instant.

Was this the legendary feeling of a team’s glory?

Ling Shuyi heard the cheers and sighed with relief. There was no special expression on his face, but he screamed wildly in his heart:

Ahhhhh, we finally got the points back! How thrilling!

After screaming in his heart, he instinctively glanced at his teammates. As a result, he saw Mo Chen and Wen Xi who were “looking at each other affectionately”.

Ling Shuyi: …..

Pretty much after every game, Wen Xi would immediately look towards Mo Chen, wanting to know whether Mo Chen was as happy as himself at the moment.

Mo Chen didn’t feel much the first few times. After all, he had won so many games, so to be honest, he didn’t really take the spring or autumn competitions to heart.

He felt that it was just necessary to win the championship. It was only if he couldn’t get it that his mood would start fluctuating.

So after taking off his earphones, his first action was usually to stand up, and his second was to help Wen Xi get his thermos.

However, after noticing Wen Xi’s gaze several times and noticing his little habit, Mo Chen gradually also developed the habit of looking at Wen Xi after the competition, and then when he met Wen Xi’s gaze, he couldn’t help laughing.

Two people tacitly met each other’s gazes and smiled at each other. In other people’s eyes, wasn’t this an “affectionate look”?

“I can’t hold on…” Ling Shuyi complained, jutting out his lower lip. He had just wanted to take a look at his other teammate, but as a result, he saw that little Jiang Xinyi was looking in the direction of Mo Chen and Wen Xi while covering his mouth with his hand, a very satisfied smile on his face.

Ling Shuyi: ???

Yeah, another crazy one.

This proved that shipping CPs could cause problems just like taking drugs.

When everyone went back to the rest area to pack up their things, Chen Xiao slapped everyone on the back and said, “Well done, there’s only the last two days left. Keep it up!”

After Ling Shuyi was slapped on the back by him, he bared his teeth and said, “Coach, do you really like to slap people on the back? Hiss—it’s killing me!”

Hearing his words, Jiang Xinyi instinctively retreated and dodged, but in the end, he still failed to escape from Chen Xiao’s great hand of Buddha. He was sent staggering from the slap for a while, and was almost knocked over.

After Chen Xiao finished slapping him on the back, he moved to slap Wen Xi’s back. Yet as a result, Mo Chen pulled Wen Xi into his arms while his hand was in midair. Then, Mo Chen gave Chen Xiao a cold look of “you dare”, and forcefully scared him away.

Wen Xi, who had just been pulled into Mo Chen’s arms, froze, then looked up and met Mo Chen’s gaze. It was very obvious that he hadn’t yet figured out what had happened just now.

However, Mo Chen didn’t have the slightest intentions of releasing him.

That was, until Chen Xiao reluctantly said, “Fine, fine, I won’t slap his back. Tch, if you’re going to dote on your wife, then pick an appropriate spot ba? The audience hasn’t even left yet!”

Hearing this, Mo Chen finally realized something and let go of Wen Xi.

Wen Xi looked around subconsciously, and sure enough, he found that some people were looking at them. Some had taken out their cellphones to take photos, and others even tried to rush over to them, but they were stopped by the staff on the scene.

Not waiting for him to react, Mo Chen then lightly said, “Let’s go back.”

“En,” Wen Xi replied almost reflexively and stopped looking at the audience.

Seeing the reactions of the two people, Jiang Xinyi couldn’t help but click his tongue—they really were together! Otherwise after being photographed holding each other, they should have some kind of reaction at least!

However, at this time, Mo Chen and Wen Xi truly hadn’t broken through to have that kind of relationship.

They actually broke through to have that kind of relationship the morning after the regular season ended.

During the last two days of the regular season, CLM played normally and finally secured first place, and advanced to the playoffs with the highest total score after seven days.

During the last day’s squad match, YEY bravely got into a face-to-face gun battle with MQ, and completely wiped out MQ, limiting their points and regaining second place.

So, after the regular season, the total points of the three strong teams were as follows:

First place: CLM

Second place: YEY

Third place: MQ

And Lan Yan’s QAQ, because of good luck, had almost never been paired up with any of the three strong teams during the squad matches, and therefore took fourth place.

After the regular season finished, the major teams left the hotel and returned to their clubs, and CLM was no exception.

However, there were three people who didn’t return to the club: one was Jiang Xinyi, one was Chen Wei, and the last was Liu Weizhe.

Jiang Xinyi went home directly after saying he needed to make his final sprint.

He was now in his last year of high school, and he would take the college entrance examination in two months. He had no way to concentrate on the team.

Fortunately, he was a substitute, so as long as Chen Wei could recover, it would be fine if he wasn’t with the team.

However, Chen Wei still hadn’t recovered from his cold, so in order not to infect his teammates, he didn’t return to the club, and instead went back home to recuperate, saying that he would come back whenever he recovered.

As for Liu Weizhe, since the regular season was over, there naturally wasn’t anything left for him to do, so he went back to school.

All of a sudden, so many people had left. When they returned back to the club, they even felt a little lonely.

They arrived at the club at night. Since it was difficult to do a replay with so few people, they directly took baths and went to bed.

Since they went to bed early, they woke up early.

Wen Xi slept at around 9 p.m., and the next day, he woke up before 6 a.m. He tossed and turned in bed, but couldn’t fall back asleep, so he just resigned himself and got up before 7 a.m.

He went downstairs after he finished washing up, but he found that there was no one in the lobby, so he felt a bit at a loss.

Thinking that there was nothing to do anyway, he took the initiative to go out and buy breakfast for the whole team.

Yet in the end, after buying breakfast, there was still no one in the lobby.

Eh? Why?

His teammates couldn’t have gotten up earlier than him and gone out to play together ba?

That was not very likely…

In this way, Wen Xi finished his breakfast suspiciously, then left the rest of the breakfast on the table and pushed open the glass door to the training room.

Since becoming an anchor, Wen Xi had developed the habit of turning on his computer as soon as he woke up.

So, even if it was before it was time to train, he would go into the training room right after breakfast and turn on his computer.

However, after turning on the computer and entering the game, he suddenly didn’t know what to do.

Gun training? He felt tired as soon as he thought about it, and didn’t want to practice at the moment.

Farming points in solo matches? Even if he managed to farm his way into first place, it would only be temporary. It didn’t feel like it held any meaning.

Then….livestream?

It really had been a long time since he had livestreamed.

In this way, although Wen Xi had not yet made a decision, he had already skillfully opened up a livestream.

He had originally thought that no one would be on at this time, so he had never thought that as soon as he started the livestream, many people would pour in.

[Holy shit! The stream started?!]

[When I saw the prompt, I thought I had mixed up times. I didn’t expect the stream to have really started!]

[AHHHHHHH XIXI, MAMA MISSED YOU SO MUCH!]

As more and more lines appeared in the barrage, more and more people threw grenades at Wen Xi, and some even smashed down some deep water torpedoes.

In this way, Wen Xi had just started the stream but had already made a lot of money. The situation made him unsure of whether he should laugh or cry.

“Long time no see. How are you all?” he asked with a smile.

[Now I’m fine!]

[I’m okay again!]

[Congratulations on your promotion to the playoffs!]

“Thank you.” Wen Xi picked some lines in the barrage to reply to, and then he opened his friends list and looked at it. Seeing that the people on the list weren’t online, he could only choose to solo. “I’ll just casually play two matches. If you feel bored, you can go at any time oh?”

[As long as I can hear the voice of God Xi, I will be very happy!]

[No matter what you play, I will support you!]

[Where’s Momo?]

At this time, Wen Xi had already entered the solo queuing map. He was slightly stunned after suddenly seeing Momo’s ID, and it took a while for him to react, finally replying, “The captain shouldn’t have gotten up yet.”

It would have been fine if he hadn’t mentioned Mo Chen, but as soon as he mentioned him, the lines in the barrage changed their style, and the lines blotted out the entire screen as they all asked about Momo.

[Did the captain change his ID for you!]

[Xixi, tell me the truth, are you and Momo real!]

[What base have you guys gotten to? Holding hands? Kissing? Or…]

These questions were getting increasingly outrageous, and Wen Xi had no idea how to reply.

While he was still at a loss, the screen suddenly went black—The game started, and he got on the plane.

Almost at the same time, a line in the barrage smashing him with a deep water torpedo caught his attention: [Do you like Momo?]

Wen Xi saw that line in the barrage at a glance, and then blurted out, “I like him ah.”

If he didn’t like him, then why would he take the risk of being flamed while giving commentary to say rainbow farts for Mo Chen?

If he didn’t like him, then why would he come up with the idea of helping Mo Chen win the championship?

If he didn’t like him, then why would he change his original career plan to join CLM and become a professional player?

Mo Chen was his idol, the fundamental reason for him becoming a professional player, and the biggest driving force for him to pursue the championship.

How could he not like Mo Chen?

However, the word “like” in his mouth, to his stream followers, had completely become “like” in another sense.

【!!!]

[Holy shit, an official announcement!]

[AHHHHHHHH FINALLY ADMITTED IT!]

[System] Xixi’s Mama has smashed you with a deep-water torpedo with a message: “Cub, you two must be happy ahhhhhh!”

[System] The Umbrella in God Xi’s Hand has smashed you with a deep-water torpedo with a message: “Oh my God! Finally, it’s official! God knows how long I’ve been waiting for this moment!”

[System] The MoXi CP Constitution is Good smashed you with a deep-water torpedo with a message: “Wishing you happiness!”

By the time Wen Xi finally realized what he had just said, it was already too late. The barrage in the livestream was crazily filled with the words “Wishing you happiness.” All the shallow torpedoes and deep-water torpedoes complemented each other beautifully, their explosions making him speechless.

His hand twitched, and he jumped before the plane even arrived over the island, diving straight into the water.

[System] You died.

A textbook example of turning into a lootbox upon landing, a mistake that even a newbie at the game would feel ashamed of.

However, the current Wen Xi already couldn’t see the screen full of [Utterly discredited] ridicule. His mind was full of the words he had blurted out just now—I like him ah.

He looked at the gray screen, and only found his voice after a long time, “It’s not…”

[It’s not what?]

[Mmhmm?]

[Wtf! Don’t just say half of it ahhhhh!]

Facing the unease filling the entire screen and looking at the deep water torpedoes he had just received, Wen Xi couldn’t say anything like, “You guys misunderstood.”

In the end, he pretty much raced to quit the game and said, “I need to go train! Let’s call it a day, goodbye everyone!”

After speaking, he didn’t dare to look at the howls covering the entire screen and decisively turned off the livestream.

As he looked at his computer desktop, his entire person seemed lost in confusion—This was the end, he seemed to have done something wrong, what to do?

Just like this, he suddenly heard the sound of the door for the training room opening.

Wen Xi was startled and abruptly turned around, meeting Mo Chen’s probing gaze.

“What’s the matter? You look like you’ve done something wrong,” Mo Chen said casually, biting the egg pancake in his hands, “You bought breakfast?”

Wen Xi let out an “en”, his gaze unconsciously shifting away for a bit. He didn’t quite dare to meet Mo Chen’s gaze. “You got up la….”

Mo Chen had originally just said that casually, thinking that Wen Xi’s reaction was a little funny.

However, seeing that Wen Xi was truly absent minded, he was instantly alert. “What happened?”

He didn’t think anything in the direction of Wen Xi’s “slip of the tongue official announcement.” His first reaction was that Wen Xi’s account had been hacked, so he took a few steps to Wen Xi’s side, put his half-eaten breakfast on the table, and then moved Wen Xi’s mouse.

Standing beside Wen Xi, he somewhat overbearingly took over Wen Xi’s keyboard and mouse. His whole person was now leaning in front of Wen Xi, and their distance was almost negligible.

He opened the game interface and found that Wen Xi had already logged into his account. After being stunned for a moment, he couldn’t help but feel more uneasy.

“What’s the matter?” he could only look back and ask Wen Xi. “It’s okay. No matter what happens, I’ll help you solve it.”

These words could be regarded as striking a chord in Wen Xi’s heart, giving Wen Xi a lot of courage. Therefore, without hesitation, he told Mo Chen what had just happened.

“……Sorry, I didn’t mean to.” He bowed his head and looked as if he had done something wrong.

Mo Chen felt it was a bit funny after listening to him.

And he had actually thought something big had happened…

He had even changed his ID for Wen Xi, and almost the entire e-sports circle admitted that they were a pair. What was the difference between Wen Xi saying “like” or not? It was just icing on the cake.

However, for their CP fans it was the icing on the cake, but for Mo Chen, these words had a different meaning.

So, after listening to Wen Xi’s words, Mo Chen didn’t think of a solution at all, but asked him a question, “So, you don’t like me?”

Wen Xi was stunned for a moment and looked up at him suspiciously. “I like you ah, but not that meaning…”

“Then, what if that was the meaning I was asking about?” Mo Chen said, and looking at Wen Xi with a serious expression, he asked again, “Do you like me? Wen Xi.”

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Juurensha: !!!! Confession time!

kat: ahhhhh they’re so sweet even before being official, patiently waiting to see how much sugar they’ll spread after making it official

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