[Esports] Team Leader Xie, your mid laner is causing trouble again.

Xie Jichuan walked in amidst Chi Lie's despairing gaze.

He was dressed in all black today, which made his broad shoulders and narrow waist appear even more striking, and his imposing presence made the air in the training room seem heavier.

He first stared intently at Li Zhi for a moment, then walked over unhurriedly and stood beside her.

Without making a sound, he turned sideways and forcefully pushed Jiang Feng aside by a space.

Jiang Feng staggered, almost losing his balance: "..."

Shi Kai was the first to react, slamming his hand on the table: "You little brat, what do you mean by 'stealing your man'? Li Zhi really wants to join us, okay?"

Xie Jichuan chuckled softly, but the smile didn't reach his eyes.

He turned his head to look at Li Zhi, lowering his voice slightly: "Is that so?"

Li Zhi met his gaze and suddenly remembered that this person seemed to have invited him to join his team as well.

In an instant, a strange sense of guilt, as if I had been caught cheating, welled up inside me.

He didn't even know why he felt guilty.

He didn't agree to anything from Xie Jichuan, and the two of them have no relationship whatsoever. He can go wherever he wants to try out, what does it have to do with Xie Jichuan?

But he still looked away from Xie Jichuan's gaze, staring at the contract on the table, pretending that the terms on it had suddenly become very interesting.

Xie Jichuan stood at the door listening for a while before coming in.

Seeing Li Zhi hanging his round head and not saying a word, I wondered what he was thinking, but I felt a little sorry for him.

Like a stray kitten searching for its owner, it behaves obediently, doesn't pick at its food, doesn't make a fuss, and eats whatever it's given to it in order to prove that it's easy to take care of.

This idea broke Xie Jichuan's heart.

He took a step forward and stood in front of Li Zhi, like a guardian taking a child out.

But his tone was extremely impolite: "You want a genius mid-laner who excels at assassins to waste his talent here, playing a support role alongside your baby-like marksman?"

"Did you know that there are a total of 8 mage assassin heroes in the Arena of Valor, and Lychee holds the highest Score in six of them on the Chinese server?"

Upon hearing this, Shi Kai nodded in approval as if to express his admiration.

Indeed, who was it that was so foolish as to let a genius runner-up finish the race?

After I finished ordering, I realized that one of the things that little brat was cursing was him.

Shi Kai: "..."

The expressions of the remaining two coaching staff members changed drastically; one frowned, and the other's face fell.

Jiang Feng hurriedly stepped forward to try and ease the tension, but before he could even open his mouth, Xie Jichuan suddenly spoke up again.

The voice wasn't loud, but every word was piercing: "It's one thing to make us, Little Lychee, do this humiliating work, but all we get is 1.5 million in humiliation fees for the whole season?"

"You're all playing support characters and practically breastfeeding the marksman, why don't you give half of your baby-like marksman's salary to him?"

Jiang Feng: "..."

Jiang Feng couldn't laugh anymore.

But Xie Jichuan's every word hit the nail on the head, leaving no room for rebuttal.

An eerie silence fell over the training room.

All that remained was the low hum of the air conditioner and Chi Lie's breathing as he pretended to play on his phone in the corner, but actually dared not move.

Good heavens, the dog that's guarding its food has started biting people.

very scary!

After cursing everyone, Xie Jichuan turned to look at Li Zhi.

The latter was standing there blankly, his gaze level, as if he was seriously thinking about something.

Her eyelashes drooped slightly, casting a small shadow under her eyes, making her look as serene as a painting.

Xie Jichuan bent down, placed his hands on his knees, and lowered himself to eye level with Li Zhi.

Those phoenix eyes went straight into Li Zhi's line of sight, the corners of the eyes slightly upturned, and the dark pupils reflected only one person's image.

The two looked at each other.

Xie Jichuan said earnestly, "I cannot deny that UUC is a very good transitional platform."

He paused for a moment, "But if you stay in this kind of environment for too long, your courage and boldness in playing assassins will inevitably disappear, and you may get trapped as a tool and never be able to get out."

Li Zhi's eyelashes trembled slightly.

"I know you don't like playing those games." Xie Jichuan's voice softened, even becoming somewhat coaxing. "I want you to shine on the field."

"Give me a chance, okay?"

He stood there, knees bent, back bent, in an almost pious posture.

"If you say you don't want to sign with UUC, I'll take you away immediately."

Li Zhi looked at him, and her heart felt as if it had been squeezed lightly by something.

His chaotic thoughts suddenly became clear, as if someone had taken out all his unspoken words and laid them out on the table, word by word.

Xie Jichuan spoke for him all the things he couldn't say, didn't know how to express, and hadn't even figured out himself.

For some reason, he felt a sense of security, as if someone was backing him up.

It's not about making the decision for him, but about letting him know that no matter what decision he makes, there will always be someone on his side.

Li Zhi's tense back quietly relaxed a little.

He looked into Xie Jichuan's eyes, smiled with his eyebrows curving, like a sliver of winter sunlight peeking through the clouds.

Then he turned around, walked up to Shi Kai, and bowed solemnly.

"Brother Shi, thank you for your trust in me."

Li Zhi's eyes were very sincere. "I know you must have put in a lot of effort to put me, a newcomer, into the starting lineup right away. I also completely understand that you arranged for me to play a support role temporarily for the sake of the team's overall situation."

He paused for a moment, straightened up, and looked into Shi Kai's eyes.

"But as you know, I can't stick to things I don't like for very long."

He pursed his lips. "Sorry."

Xie Jichuan, who had been lost in thought for a long time because of Li Zhi's laughter, finally came back to his senses and belatedly realized what Li Zhi was saying.

Li Zhi rejected UUC.

Li Zhi wanted to go with him.

Xie Jichuan's mood, which had already been lightened by that smile, was now even more ethereal, and he couldn't suppress the smile on his face.

Then he met Chi Lie's disdainful gaze.

Xie Jichuan looked at him, a silent provocation:

"Kurichi, mine."

Chi Lie: "..."

Oh, got it.

No, who asked?