The Esports Big Shot Wants to Cuddle His New Teammate Every Day chapter extra side couple 6

Extra 1: Side Couple Warning!! Li Huanbin x Shen Xiao (6)

Shen Xiao sat in the training room, fingers dancing on the keyboard. Accompanied by the crisp sound of mechanical switches, enemies on the screen fell one after another.

A wave of wonderful 1v3 kills.

The bullet comments were already full of “666” and gift effects. While thanking them for the gifts, Shen Xiao was absent-mindedly calculating another matter.

His current signing fee was fourteen million.

If he transferred to WOF midway, the breach of contract fee he needed to pay was ten million.

Shen Xiao asked himself; his condition was maintained quite well. At the very least, he could play for another two or three years, and he still held a world championship trophy. Since WOF was willing to use ten million to buy that trash Jin, they would definitely be willing to use it to buy him.

WOF would help pay the penalty fee; the annual salary would be calculated separately, plus bonuses from the streaming contract…

Shen Xiao calculated back and forth and finally determined: If he transferred to WOF, he wouldn’t lose or gain much.

With the financial problem solved, next was handling the formalities. How to bring it up with the captain, manager, and coach; the procedures for listing on the transfer window, and so on.

Most importantly, if he left, how would TWG’s Assault gap be filled?

Several questions tangled messily in Shen Xiao’s brain. Questions popped up one after another, making him forget to focus on the most important question instead.

Li Huanbin mentioned the transfer that day, sounding like a casual remark. And Shen Xiao had been with TWG since his debut; there was absolutely no need to bring so much trouble upon himself because of someone else’s casual remark.

Speaking of which, Shen Xiao himself found it strange. Over the years, countless people had tried to poach him. Direct messages, asking people to pass messages, formal club invitations… he rejected them all without exception, never even giving them a proper look.

But Li Huanbin’s casual sentence made Shen Xiao think about this matter seriously.

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He had to admit, Qu Qingyue’s departure undoubtedly had a huge impact on Shen Xiao, and coordinating with Li Huanbin also shook him.

It wasn’t to say Bai Chen was worse than Li Huanbin or anything. Bai Chen and Shen Xiao had been teammates for years; their tacit understanding went without saying. But the tacit understanding with Li Huanbin was another feeling.

It was like, through years of hard work, you and your teammate finally reached a telepathic connection where one look conveyed meaning. But then another person appeared. You clearly had never communicated, coordinated, or run in with him, but when together, every action fit seamlessly, as if it were meant to be.

Compared to the former, the latter made one’s soul tremble more.

Shen Xiao was almost obsessed with that feeling.

More importantly, right now at WOF, Li Huanbin needed him very much.

He licked his lips, fingers moving lightly to clear all enemy players within his field of view, capturing the last point and securing victory.

One of Shen Xiao’s worries was quickly resolved—the second team transferred a new Assault up.

The new Assault was named Yuan Shaofeng, a big Alpha boy with a very cheerful personality. Handsome person, tough gunplay. And according to Yu Guangzhou’s evaluation, his biggest advantage was having the “stability” that the entire TWG team lacked right now.

Shen Xiao and Ice were both too unconventional, their aggressiveness too high. Xie Wei was originally someone who controlled the situation from the back, but ever since Ice joined the team, he also changed his nature and started playing various flashy maneuvers. When playing matches, the situation rose and fell drastically; Yu Guangzhou had to take several quick-acting heart relief pills after one match.

A trial match. Shen Xiao stepped down, Yuan Shaofeng went up. In the new member’s first scrim, he displayed strong ability and room for improvement. Yu Guangzhou didn’t say it out loud, but the wrinkles on his face bloomed into a smile.

Shen Xiao looked at the screen. What surfaced in his heart surprisingly wasn’t a sense of crisis, but relief.

If Yuan Shaofeng’s condition is stable…

He might really put the transfer arrangements on the agenda.

At the WOF base, Li Huanbin leaned back in his chair, wearing headphones, a playful smile on his lips.

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Playing in the headphones was the recording of Manager Chen bringing Jin into the conference room for a second negotiation two days ago.

The conference room was full of cameras and recording equipment, but ordinary team members didn’t know this. This was also why Li Huanbin asked Manager Chen to bring Jin into the conference room.

“Gameplay isn’t great, but his ability to read the situation is used quite well.” Li Huanbin finished listening to the recording and put down the headphones. “Doesn’t want five million this time, changed it to one million? Heh, really thinks this is a discount sale?”

Manager Chen had been behaving exceptionally honestly ever since being warned. He also figured it out. Jin playing this acting game would at most pit WOF this one time. But if they really agreed to Jin’s request, once this matter got out, WOF would be completely finished.

He said, “I didn’t reject him immediately, just told him I needed to discuss it with the higher-ups again. Captain Li, look…”

Li Huanbin’s smile didn’t diminish. “Mm, I’ll go find him personally later.”

Looking at the icy smile on the man’s face in front of him, Manager Chen couldn’t help but shiver, simultaneously mourning for Jin in silence.

Of all people to provoke, he had to provoke this fiend Li Huanbin. Don’t look at how he always smiled, had a gentle temper, and looked easy to talk to. In reality, from methods to ruthlessness, no one could compare to him!

Manager Chen had heard about Li Huanbin’s family situation. A child of a wealthy family, but with an older brother above and a younger brother below, plus some illegitimate children outside. As the least favored second young master, Li Huanbin forcefully pressed down all the other brothers, became the first-in-line heir himself, and took over various company affairs.

The ruthlessness involved… went without saying.

With the situation stable in recent years, Li Huanbin had shifted his focus back to the esports team, restraining his sharpness a lot, so much so that Manager Chen almost forgot what the person in front of him was essentially like.

Jin’s matter gave him a solid reminder.

Manager Chen rubbed his arms, looked at Li Huanbin, and said sheepishly, “If there’s nothing else, I’ll go busy myself with other things.”

“Mm,” Li Huanbin rested his chin in his hand, saying nonchalantly, “Go ahead, I need to make a call.”

“Okay, okay.”

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Manager Chen walked quickly out of the room. When turning back to close the door, he saw Li Huanbin’s face through the crack.

He saw the man who was sneering just a moment ago pick up the phone and put it to his ear. The moment the call connected, his expression instantly softened. Speaking, his lips even carried a gentle smile, making one feel like bathing in a spring breeze. Even if he couldn’t hear what he was saying, it wasn’t hard to guess his tone was very relaxed and happy.

Who is on the other end of the phone?

Manager Chen couldn’t help but feel curious. Just as he wanted to look a bit longer, Li Huanbin’s gaze stabbed toward him like a sharp sword.

He shuddered and hurriedly closed the door.

Qu Qingyue announced it officially.

Shen Xiao suddenly saw this news on Weibo while going downstairs to pick up takeout.

In the photo, Qu Qingyue smiled exceptionally happily. The face of the man she leaned against couldn’t be seen clearly, but it wasn’t hard to tell he had a tall build. Their hands were overlapped, and the caption was also very romantic: “My lover.”

It should be a depressing thing for the object of one’s secret crush to find a lover. But looking at the photo, Shen Xiao felt unexpectedly calm inside.

He opened the comments and sent his blessings. While typing, what Qu Qingyue said that day suddenly echoed in his ears.

She said: Shen Xiao just likes her as a sister.

At the time, Shen Xiao was angry and aggrieved, certain his feelings were romantic love. He couldn’t listen to anything, feeling he was tactfully rejected by Qu Qingyue and his feelings denied, depressed for a long time.

But looking back now, he belatedly realized Qu Qingyue was right.

His feelings for Qu Qingyue were more like a dependency than romantic love.

Just as Shen Xiao finished sending his blessing, the delivery guy arrived. He took the takeout and was just about to put away his phone when his finger accidentally slid to another Weibo post.

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His dynamic vision was excellent. In less than a second, he caught Li Huanbin’s name from the large block of text.

Shen Xiao stopped walking and read it seriously.

It was actually a scandal.

The title was eye-catching—[Li Family Heir (Top-tier A) and Huang Family Eldest Daughter (Top-tier O) Meet Privately at Night, Suspected Marriage Alliance Between Two Families!]

Below was a GIF. Li Huanbin was in a suit and leather shoes, a pure black luxury coupe in front of him, bright lights behind him, and a valet waiting nearby. It should be some high-end hotel.

With a smile on his face, he reached his hand into the open car door. Soon, a beautiful, glamorous woman bent down and came out of the car, wearing a bright yellow long dress that outshone everyone. She placed her hand on Li Huanbin’s, and the two walked into the hotel in an intimate posture.

The marketing account wrote several large paragraphs of nonsense eloquently. First introducing the identities of Li Huanbin and that Eldest Miss Huang, then analyzing their family backgrounds, ages, and recent business dealings between the two families. Finally concluding: Golden boy and jade girl, a match made in heaven, extremely likely to be in a romantic relationship already.

Shen Xiao read ten lines at a glance, his face becoming ugly bit by bit.

He closed his eyes, tried hard to suppress the restless emotions in his heart, and put away his phone.

Very normal.

Li Huanbin is a top-tier Alpha after all; not finding a partner would be abnormal. Besides, the other party is a top-tier Omega and looks so beautiful. If it were me with such a girlfriend, I’d definitely be crazy happy.

And now that they’ve buried the hatchet and chat every day, their relationship is rock solid. As good bros, he should express his blessings even more.

But why was he so irritable and uneasy right now? Negative emotions kneaded into a black ball in his heart, expanding continuously.

Shen Xiao clenched his back teeth tight.

Clearly, when he saw Qu Qingyue’s official announcement just now, he was so calm and composed.

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But seeing Li Huanbin holding another woman’s hand, he couldn’t even maintain the most basic calm.