The Esports Big Shot Wants to Cuddle His New Teammate Every Day chapter 36

Chapter 36

It seemed that from the very beginning, aside from being a bit cold with his words, Xie Wei’s actual actions had always been considerate and gentle.

Xu Ziyan had already delayed a bit in the training room, and after returning to the dorms, he showered and scrolled through Weibo before finally starting his stream. The fact that Xie Wei sent a team invitation the moment he logged into the game meant he had clearly been waiting for a long time.

Xie Wei had countless opportunities to tell him about this beforehand—in the meeting room, the training room, or via a message on Line—instead of waiting here aimlessly.

But Xu Ziyan likely wouldn’t have agreed. Even if he had received a heads-up, he probably wouldn’t have checked it. It hadn’t been long since that photo incident with Xie Wei. Although they hadn’t clarified anything at the time, the subsequent PR efforts had intentionally or unintentionally steered the narrative of their relationship toward being “good teammates.” Now that things had finally calmed down, Xu Ziyan couldn’t risk dragging Xie Wei into this again.

Xie Wei probably knew this, which was why he chose to catch him off guard right now.

At this moment, the chat in the live stream had already exploded. With so many eyes watching, Xu Ziyan couldn’t click that reject button no matter what. He tried his best to keep his tone calm and smiled, “It looks like the program content is changing temporarily. I guess I’ll be duo-queuing with the Captain today.”

[??? Is this really Captain Xie?]

[OMG ahhhhh! As a fan who dreams of being Captain Xie’s wife, I’m screaming and dying!!]

[Captain Xie, do you remember that you also have a live stream channel and a bunch of starving viewers waiting to be fed…]

For a moment, the barrage of blaming and abusive comments was actually suppressed by the fans and viewers who had rushed over upon hearing the news about Xie Wei.

Xie Wei rarely streamed. In the beginning, when TWG wasn’t famous enough, he would reluctantly stream to build some popularity for the team. But now that they had results, he rarely streamed anymore. His contract was for the minimum thirty hours, and he would only turn it on when fans pushed him hard enough. Xu Ziyan used to be one of those people waiting bitterly in his channel.

Not streaming wasn’t because Xie Wei was lazy, but because he was genuinely too busy to turn around.

It wasn’t until Xu Ziyan joined the team that he learned Xie Wei’s schedule. Aside from routine training and replay meetings, he would stay after meetings to analyze other teams’ data with Yu Guangzhou and the data trainers, as well as work on methods to improve mistakes. Occasionally, there were endorsements and team promotions that required Xie Wei to run around everywhere.

Plus, his status was special. Strictly speaking, TWG was an asset under the Xie family’s name, and the Xie family intended to hand the team over to Xie Wei to manage as a form of training. Therefore, certain affairs within the team required him to handle them personally.

It was fine when things were quiet, but if everything collided at once, Xie Wei truly couldn’t divide himself; he wished he had three bodies to handle all this mess separately.

After today’s replay meeting, Xie Wei had stayed in the coaching room for quite a while as usual.

It was getting late; he should be very tired.

Xu Ziyan entered Xie Wei’s party.

The two IDs, Shining and Ice, were aligned together, looking very neat and harmonious.

A moment later, the microphone icon next to Shining lit up. Xie Wei’s voice came through the headphones, slightly raspy: “Pick your role.”

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Xu Ziyan snapped back to reality and hurriedly ticked “Medic” on the role selection screen to the side.

The flexibility of The Resistance lay in this feature. A player’s account wasn’t bound to a class. Instead, they could check boxes independently during ranked play—selecting multiple roles or just one. If you selected multiple, you’d be assigned a random position upon entry; if you selected one, you’d get exactly what you wanted, directly avoiding all sorts of unhappiness caused by role conflicts.

Xie Wei ticked “Sniper,” and then the ranked icon lit up as the queue timer started.

Because their rank was high and it was late, the queue time was a bit long. Afraid the audience would get bored, Xu Ziyan muted the party mic and picked comments from the bullet screen to chat.

Perhaps due to Xie Wei’s appearance, the attention of most viewers shifted from the fight over the First String Medic spot to the relationship between Xie Wei and Xu Ziyan. Although both topics were sensitive, the latter clearly lacked the hostile smell of gunpowder found in the former, replacing it with an ambiguous, unspoken vibe.

There was no helping it. As a top Alpha with such outstanding qualities, Xie Wei was inevitably the dream lover of many Omegas and some Betas. Yet, in all his years since debuting, there had never been a single scandal. You couldn’t even find a trace of him being close to any Omega; the only one was probably his teammate, Qu Qingyue.

Therefore, Xu Ziyan’s appearance was tantamount to dropping a bomb among Xie Wei’s fans.

Consequently, the content of the bullet screen inevitably became gossipy.

[Streamer, streamer, what exactly is your relationship with Captain Xie?]

Xu Ziyan kept his tone normal: “Teammate relationship. He is the Captain, I am a team member.”

[Do you guys duo queue together often?]

“Me and the Captain? No, no, you can check the match history.”

[So you just suddenly queued together today? Is it because of the Clear situation? Is Shining stating his position, taking a side?]

“No.” Xu Ziyan didn’t know why Yu Guangzhou’s previous words suddenly popped into his head: “It’s just because our TWG internal environment is full of teammate love.”

[…?]

[Having eaten all sorts of palace drama gossip about the TWG Medic spot these past few days, I have fallen into deep contemplation.]

[Does the streamer know what he is saying?]

Xu Ziyan coughed lightly. “Palace drama gossip? What does that mean?”

It was fine if he didn’t ask, but the moment he did, the bullet screen instantly became lively.

[Asking for the gossip too. I’m an elderly person just entering the city, can someone explain?]

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[Asking +1.]

Soon, a kind-hearted, super-long bullet comment hung at the top of Xu Ziyan’s stream as a paid message.

[Brief summary: Within TWG management, people took sides. Captain Xie supported Ice, God Xiao supported Clear, Bai Chen was neutral. In the end, the coach couldn’t choose between the two sides, so he had them rotate. Ultimately, Captain Xie had more power, and Clear had to leave helplessly.]

Xu Ziyan’s pupils quaked; he was incredibly shocked.

He couldn’t help but exclaim in surprise, “That actually happened?”

[? As the person involved, what on earth are you surprised about?]

[Can contestant Ice please not eat his own gossip with such gusto?]

[So is it true or false?]

Xu Ziyan said, “False, of course it’s false.”

[Can the streamer explain what was going on with Captain Xie before? T_T I’ve really been wondering for a long time.]

Xu Ziyan said, “I’ve answered this question. Just teammates. Pure teammates. Good teammates.”

“Good teammates,” suddenly, Xie Wei’s voice came out of the headphones, catching him off guard while he was chatting enthusiastically with the chat. “Stop looking at the bullet screen, the match popped.”

Xu Ziyan instantly froze in place.

He glanced at his party microphone.

…It was lit up. It wasn’t muted.

[He finally realized. I sent several comments to remind him.]

[Laughing to death hahahahaha. I didn’t want to remind him at all, just wanted to see when Ice would notice.]

[Although we went out on a date alone on the night of the first snow of the New Year, we are good teammates.]

[Thanks, I’ve already cringed so hard I carved out a Barbie Dreamhouse with my toes for the streamer.]

“…” Xu Ziyan shut his mouth tight.

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On the other end, Xie Wei found it a bit funny too.

He was indeed a bit tired today. He was TWG’s Captain and also the nominal boss. Usually, Jiang Yuxin handled most affairs, and personnel decisions within the team were decided by Yu Guangzhou and Lu Donglou; he didn’t interfere.

But when it came to things like transfers or endorsements, which often involved millions, Xie Wei had to handle them personally.

Especially since the person transferring this time was Qu Qingyue.

Xie Wei had kept the streaming matter Yu Guangzhou mentioned in the meeting in mind. He understood Xu Ziyan’s personality somewhat and knew he was a guy who didn’t like troubling others. There was a high probability he wouldn’t accept an invitation for someone to stream with him to share the online fire.

After thinking it over, he felt he couldn’t just ignore it. So after finishing his work, he rested for a bit, then started his stream and logged into the game to wait for Xu Ziyan to come online.

He just hadn’t expected Xu Ziyan to be clumsy enough to forget to mute his mic.

At first, Xie Wei didn’t notice, thinking he was just chatting normally to liven up the atmosphere. Later, he realized this little dummy probably didn’t know the mic was on and thought he couldn’t hear, spouting nonsense over there.

He chuckled lightly, entered the map, and quickly selected his primary and secondary weapons.

Xu Ziyan felt like he had been thrown into hot water, steam practically rising from his body. He couldn’t even hold the mouse steadily, clicking several times before finally selecting the healing bottle and pistol.

[I feel like very few people bring healing bottles in ranked. What is the streamer thinking?]

[Forget ranked, even in matches, he’s the only one who brings that thing.]

[Don’t ask. If you ask, it’s a special usage technique.]

There was no special usage technique, but there was a special laziness technique.

When the live stream audience saw Xu Ziyan—for the third time—too lazy to switch from his pistol back to the healing gun, and instead just threw a healing bottle forward to heal someone before turning his head to continue dealing damage, the bullet screen was filled with question marks.

But this couldn’t entirely be blamed on Xu Ziyan.

This map was a defensive point-capture map, one where the front line played an important role. But their two Assaulters… how to put it? They were really a bit lacking.

He played solo queue all year round and was extremely prone to encountering these unreliable teammates. If the front line couldn’t hold the pressure on this map, their back line would collapse immediately.

Xu Ziyan had the foresight not to bring the taser gun. He directly left the rear defense to Xie Wei behind him, using his pistol to supplement damage on the front line himself.

It wasn’t like he hadn’t done this in ranked before; he had just restrained himself a lot since joining TWG recently. Xu Ziyan’s aim was inherently steady, and combined with the sneaky positioning he had honed from years of playing Medic, after a round or two, the damage data on the output panel actually reached second in the team.

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First in the team was Xie Wei.

The two Assaulters were actually firmly suppressed in damage by a Medic and a Sniper.

Once the game really got going, the haters and trolls rhythm-baiting in the chat decreased significantly. Xu Ziyan made almost no mistakes. By the time the match ended and he looked at the bullet screen again, the content was much more harmonious.

Plus, with Xie Wei’s army of fans praising everything with “666” (awesome), Xu Ziyan was surprised to find that today, which he thought would be the bloodiest storm, turned out to be the most peaceful day since he started streaming.

“What’s the plan?” Neither Xie Wei nor Xu Ziyan entered the team voice chat; instead, they communicated in their two-person party voice chat. “For this attack round, are you still going healing bottle plus pistol?”

Xu Ziyan said, “I’ll take the taser gun. Let’s end this quickly.”

Xie Wei said, “Mm.”

The bullet screen started getting excited first.

[Are they going to do that?]

[Holy crap, first-person perspective! So excited!]

[Heaven knows how many times I watched the recording of that match against YNG.]

[? Newbie question mark, what is that?]

[It’s that thing!]

[Hahahaha, it’s the Medic cutting the backline.]

[Boohoo Captain Xie is so strong, I love, really love.]

[I feel like Captain Xie has been chatting with Ice all day today. Their relationship is really good.]

In the voice chat, Xie Wei’s voice was a bit tired, yet he continued to chat with him about irrelevant trivialities. Xu Ziyan answered each one with a smile. The atmosphere between the two was harmonious, truly looking somewhat like “good teammates.”

But Xu Ziyan knew in his heart that when Xie Wei played ranked games normally, he basically didn’t talk much. Even when duo-queuing with others, he would only lazily respond with a sound or two.

Especially since he was very tired right now.

There was only one reason for him to keep talking: to maintain the atmosphere, to make the viewers in the live stream feel that their relationship was good and harmonious, and that TWG had accepted Xu Ziyan’s existence.

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His gentleness had always been like this.

Not expressed in words, but proven through actions.