The Esports Big Shot Wants to Cuddle His New Teammate Every Day chapter 27

Chapter 27

The moment their lips met, the surrounding pheromones instantly became denser.

Xie Wei’s pupils constricted slightly, his mind going blank from the sweetness so close at hand. However, he reacted immediately after, raising his hand to grip Xu Ziyan’s shoulder and pushing him away.

He frowned at the Omega before him.

“Xu Ziyan,” he didn’t use Xu Ziyan’s ID but called him directly by name, “last time was an accident. What about this time?”

After being pushed away, reason finally returned to Xu Ziyan’s mind a step too late. He bit his lip and said, “This time it wasn’t.”

Raising his head, he looked straight into the Alpha’s eyes, suppressing his nervousness and shyness, and said clearly, word by word, “Xie Wei, I like you.”

His heartbeat drummed in his ears like thunder, each beat stronger than the last.

Xu Ziyan’s fingers unconsciously tightened, gripping the hem of his clothes. Beside him, the gift Xie Wei had just given him sat quietly—goose-yellow packaging, beautiful ribbon, clearly chosen with care.

In these short few minutes of silence, Xu Ziyan thought about many things, mostly about Xie Wei.

They had shared a temporary mark and the most intimate relationship. Xie Wei helped him join the team, recommended him for the Newcomer Cup, and took care of, comforted, and accompanied him during the competition preparation.

Had Xie Wei ever done this for anyone else? Had he ever been this good to other Omegas?

The answer was undoubtedly no.

Did this mean that in Xie Wei’s heart, he was different, special?

Was it possible that Xie Wei also had feelings for him…

An unbearable silence fell inside the car. After a while, a slightly husky voice sounded.

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“Sorry.”

Spoken in this situation, there was no other possibility besides rejection.

However, the person who said this wasn’t Xie Wei, who had just been confessed to, but Xu Ziyan.

Xie Wei couldn’t help but look stunned for a moment.

Xu Ziyan was no longer flustered and shy as before. Although his cheeks were still slightly flushed, his expression had clearly calmed down. The corners of his lips curved up slightly into a smile. “Captain, I just wanted to tell you, not to ask for an answer. Um, if you’re not interested in me, it’s better not to be too nice to me. Otherwise, if I overthink it, accidents like just now are prone to happen.”

Accident.

The mark last time was an accident; this kiss was an accident.

He certainly distinguished them clearly.

Xie Wei didn’t speak.

When Xu Ziyan leaned in for the kiss just now, he could have completely dodged it.

But at that moment, smelling the sweet candy scent on the Omega, Xie Wei’s body seemed to freeze. He couldn’t move a muscle, stiffly staying in place as he watched Xu Ziyan nervously and carefully bring his lips closer.

Logically speaking, Xie Wei should have calmly and coldly rejected this confession like countless times before, and then put distance between them.

But when the words reached his lips, he inexplicably hesitated.

What Xie Wei couldn’t deny was that he was indeed very good to Xu Ziyan, a kindness far exceeding the relationship between a team captain and a member.

However, Xie Wei couldn’t distinguish whether this kindness was for someone he liked or for an Omega he had a marking relationship with.

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One was a beautiful emotion, while the other was merely pure pheromone attraction, born from beast-like instincts.

He looked at the young man forcing a smile in the passenger seat, sighed, raised his hand, and ruffled the other’s soft, fluffy black hair.

“Don’t think too much,” Xie Wei said. “Go back and sleep well. There’s training tomorrow.”

His act of not giving a clear answer made the initiator of the reckless confession breathe a sigh of relief.

Xu Ziyan looked at the Alpha beside him, whose expression was as usual, no different from normal, and thought with a bitter smile in his heart: This is probably the best outcome after my confession.

After dropping Xu Ziyan off, Xie Wei didn’t return to the training room but drove directly back to the dormitory.

Inside the car, the sweet scent of the Omega hadn’t completely dissipated. Xie Wei took a cigarette from the storage box, held it in his mouth, the lighter’s flame flickering in the darkness.

He actually rarely smoked. Only when he was occasionally tired, weary, or encountered unsolvable problems would he sit alone in the car and quietly smoke one.

Soon, the smell of tobacco covered the remaining Omega pheromones. Xie Wei’s tense nerves relaxed a little. He exhaled a puff of smoke, gazing at the night sky, slightly lost in thought.

Since he was sensible, Xie Wei knew his family was different from others.

Not only because of his prominent background but also because both his father and mother were Alphas.

The Xie family was an old, wealthy family with deep roots, and the Xie Corporation was a large enterprise ranked nationally and even globally. Therefore, when outsiders saw the Xie couple, this AA combination, they inevitably murmured in their hearts, thinking it was a business marriage.

But the truth was, Xie’s father and mother grew up together as childhood sweethearts. Their feelings weren’t affected after presenting as secondary genders. Once the time was right, they quickly confirmed their relationship, got married, and gave birth to Xie Wei.

Xie’s father had a cold personality and rarely smiled. Xie’s mother was relatively gentler but was also a strong woman; usually, her decisions were final. Because of this, Xie Wei often saw his parents argue when he was young, but more often, he saw them being affectionate.

His parents’ deep feelings had a profound impact on Xie Wei, leading him to believe at one point that human love could conquer pheromone attraction.

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This naive thought stopped that summer.

That day, he finished his college entrance exams and returned home early. The moment he opened the door, intense Omega pheromones hit him in the face, along with the scene in the living room, deeply etching into Xie Wei’s mind.

His always tall and steady father lay on the sofa, disheveled, holding a fair-skinned, charming Omega in his arms.

Stimulated by the unfamiliar Omega pheromones, Xie Wei entered a rut on the spot. His face turned pale, the blood in his body boiling almost to the point of burning, yet his heart felt like it had fallen into an icy abyss. His mind went blank, even forgetting about injecting inhibitors.

In the end, it was Xie’s mother, who returned home right after, who maintained the last shred of a noble lady’s composure upon seeing everything. She helped Xie Wei inject inhibitors, drove the Omega away, and calmly went into the study with Xie’s father for a talk.

Xie Wei didn’t know what they talked about that day. He only knew that when Xie’s father and mother walked out of the study, their faces bore unprecedented coldness and distance.

Later, they didn’t divorce, but it was practically the same as divorcing. Both had other partners outside. In external work and social engagements, they maintained the illusion of a model couple flawlessly, but that home once full of laughter could never return to its former harmony.

Xie Wei still remembered that day when his mother held him, looking down and suppressing her tears, saying, “Xie Wei, you must never be like your father, thinking you’ve fallen in love with someone just because of pheromone attraction. Love is the attraction between hearts, not between pheromones.”

At that time, Xie Wei nodded and remembered those words until today.

He couldn’t help but wonder, which kind did he and Xu Ziyan belong to? Was it the attraction of hearts, or simply the attraction between pheromones?

Initially, Xie Wei indeed felt guilty toward Xu Ziyan because of the mark, leading him to pay attention to this Omega again and again.

Later, the care and companionship during the Newcomer Cup preparation were also because Xu Ziyan felt unwell after being marked by him; that was why Xie Wei did those things.

More importantly, was Xu Ziyan’s liking for him due to the instinctive dependence an Omega developed for an Alpha during the marking period?

Xie Wei shook his head, laughed, and snubbed the cigarette butt out in the ashtray.

The next day, Xu Ziyan arrived at the training room with two huge dark circles under his eyes.

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He acted relatively calm in front of Xie Wei, but his heart had long been in chaos. Back in the dorm, he tossed and turned in bed, his head filled with regret.

Why couldn’t I hold back?

Why was I so impulsive?

Although Xie Wei acted as usual later, as if the confession never happened, Xu Ziyan knew this reaction was essentially the same as rejection.

Just because of the initial accident, Xie Wei treated him slightly specially, yet he thought Xie Wei might like him… So stupid!

Bai Ke was startled by his soulless appearance and muttered in his heart. Yesterday he saw Xu Ziyan run out happily and thought he was going on a date. Looking at him today, it didn’t look like a date; it looked more like attending a funeral.

He didn’t ask Xu Ziyan what happened yesterday and also stopped Yuan Shaofeng and Meng Cang, who wanted to ask. Patting Xu Ziyan’s shoulder, Bai Ke smiled, “Ice, duo queue? We play KW tomorrow. Their second string loves cutting the backline. Let’s practice some cheeky strategies to target them.”

Hearing about the match, Xu Ziyan perked up a bit. “Okay.”

After playing two ranked matches with Bai Ke, his gloomy mood was somewhat relieved. Just as Xu Ziyan was preparing to continue queuing, the training room door suddenly opened, and Lu Donglou walked in hurriedly.

He stood in front of Xu Ziyan without speaking but gestured to the others in the training room.

Xu Ziyan didn’t understand, but Bai Ke knew this gesture meant for anyone streaming or in a voice call to mute their mics.

Usually, when this happened, something big was going on.

What happened? Bai Ke frowned.

Lu Donglou placed his phone in front of Xu Ziyan, looking serious. “Ice, what is this?”

Xu Ziyan was completely confused and looked down blankly.

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On the phone screen, a blogger proudly posted a photo. In the photo, a tall Alpha looked down, saying something to the Omega beside him. The photographer found a great angle; it could be seen that both had smiles on their faces, their posture intimate, appearing very ambiguous.

The moment he saw the photo clearly, Xu Ziyan’s brain almost exploded with a “boom.”

The two people in the photo were exactly him and Xie Wei.