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

After leaving the UUC base, the two walked side by side.

The setting sun cast long shadows of them, one in front of the other, occasionally overlapping.

Xie Jichuan would occasionally glance at Li Zhi walking beside him out of the corner of his eye, his heart beating slightly faster.

He secretly wiped the sweat from his palms and gave a helpless smile.

This was the first time the two had been alone together peacefully since their reunion, which made him feel like a naive young man experiencing his first love, unsure of what to do with himself.

He cleared his throat, breaking the silence: "Would you like to have dinner together?"

He paused, then added with a perfectly reasonable excuse: "I'll talk to you about forming the new team while we're eating."

Li Zhi's eyes widened, round and incredulous as she looked at Xie Jichuan: "A new team?"

No wonder Xie Jichuan could so brazenly invite him to join; it turns out it was a newly formed team.

Xie Jichuan felt a warmth on his nose from the cuteness of his expression, quickly looked away, and his voice sounded a little unnatural:

"Yes, before I returned to China, some senior executives from the group contacted me, wanting to build a new team with me as the core."

Seeing that Li Zhi was listening attentively, he calmly led her towards the parking lot.

"There are no teams in the WPL that are short of junglers right now. No matter where I go, I will have to start over and get back into the team. So I might as well start from scratch."

He joked, "Besides, the boss looked very rich, so I agreed."

After finishing this, they arrived right next to Xie Jichuan's car.

The mint green supercar had sleek lines and a glossy sheen in the sunlight, making it extremely flashy—definitely not Xie Jichuan's style.

Suddenly, Li Zhi's eyes lit up.

"Your car?" His voice rose a half octave as he circled the supercar.

Xie Jichuan stood to the side watching Li Zhi, sporting a head of green hair, looking at the little green car with a look of wonder, and a slight smile appeared on his lips.

It was worth the high price he paid to have this color custom-made.

"Hmm." He pressed the key, and the car door opened upwards like two wings.

"Get on board if you like it."

Li Zhi was still excitedly touching the car after getting in. The mint green interior matched the exterior color scheme, even the stitching was light green.

He exclaimed how handsome he was, showering him with praise:

"It's genius to come up with this color; mint green is simply the most beautiful color in the world."

Xie Jichuan suppressed a laugh and hummed in agreement, "I also think he's a genius."

Li Zhi shook her head, and a few mint-green strands of hair fell from the small braid tied at the back of her head.

Then, tragedy struck when his finger was cut by a screwdriver placed under the seat.

He hissed in pain and quickly raised his hand in front of him.

It wasn't a very deep wound, but my fingertips were already sensitive, and a bead of blood immediately appeared, standing out starkly against my fair skin.

Xie Jichuan caught Li Zhi's movement of withdrawing her hand out of the corner of his eye, immediately turned on the turn signal, and neatly parked the car on the side of the road.

Upon seeing the wound, he frowned. "I'm sorry, I just picked it up from the dealership today and didn't notice the tools were in the car. It was my oversight."

Before Li Zhi could say that everything was alright, Xie Jichuan had already pushed open the car door.

The hem of the black trench coat was lifted and then fell back by the evening breeze, forming a hurried arc.

Sitting in the passenger seat, holding up the finger that was still bleeding, Li Zhi watched Xie Jichuan's back as he almost crashed into the glass door of the pharmacy, and suddenly found it a little funny.

Oh, we have to buy it quickly, otherwise he'll heal.

At the same time, something indescribable and soft bumped against his chest.

After waiting idly for two minutes, Xie Jichuan returned in a hurry.

He was clutching a small plastic bag containing band-aids and alcohol swabs.

He got into the car and closed the door as usual, but Li Zhi still noticed that something was wrong with him.

His face was pale, his lips were pressed into a thin line, and there was a sense of irritation between his brows. He was much more tense than before.

"What's wrong?" Li Zhi asked, frowning.

Xie Jichuan placed the plastic bag on the center console, and while unpacking the alcohol swabs, he replied:

"There's an Omega in heat at the pharmacy who's being treated urgently, and his overflowing pheromones are affecting me."

Li Zhi's heart tightened. She immediately thought of his pheromone allergy and subconsciously leaned forward, her voice tense:

"Are you alright? Are you feeling particularly unwell?"

Xie Jichuan admired that worried little face for two seconds, then shook his head:

"It's okay, just a little irritable."

After two years of treatment, he has almost recovered and no longer faints from the slightest smell of Omega pheromones like he used to, but that instinctive feeling of irritability still comes up.

As he spoke, he unwrapped the alcohol swab and took Li Zhi's hand.

The hand was small, with distinct knuckles yet still somewhat fleshy, and lay obediently in his palm.

Xie Jichuan suppressed the urge to pinch and play with it, focusing his gaze on the bleeding area.

A few tiny beads of blood clung to her fair, pinkish fingertips, and wisps of pheromones oozed from the minute wound.

The sweet aroma of lychee gradually unfolded inside the enclosed carriage.

In the past two years, during desensitization tests, the medical treatments used on him all had the scent of the Lizhi pheromone.

Artificially synthesized lychee flavor, code CS-067.

He smelled it for two years and underwent hundreds of desensitization treatments; that smell was almost etched into his neural memory.

The high compatibility, coupled with two years of substitute companionship, caused Xie Jichuan to be exceptionally sensitive to Li Zhi's pheromones, to an almost pathological degree.

So even though the pheromone scent emanating from that blood was very faint, he still managed to detect it all.

Although artificial products try their best to imitate the taste, they always fall just short of that fruity aroma.

At that moment, the genuine lychee was right in front of him.

It's real, fresh, and carries body heat as pheromones.

Xie Jichuan's pupils gradually dilated, turning completely black, with the color of his iris almost invisible.

His gaze was fixed on the drop of blood, and a faint pink blush rose to his cheeks.

The burn started from the base of the ear and went all the way to the cheekbone, standing out especially against the pale, cold skin.

His Adam's apple bobbed up and down, his gaze deep and dark, as if he were hiding something that had been suppressed for a long time.

I really want to put it in my mouth.

Once this thought pops up, it grows wildly like weeds, impossible to suppress.

He wanted to lick that drop of blood full of pheromones, roll it into his mouth with the tip of his tongue, and taste whether its sweetness was exactly the same as the smell he had in his dream.

He's been using too many medical pheromones, and the real thing is right in front of him. How can he resist?