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

Li Zhi turned around and looked at her with a puzzled expression.

The newcomer was a handsome young man whose gender was not readily apparent, wearing a loose white team uniform jacket.

At this moment, his expression as he looked at Li Zhi was absolutely fascinating, a mixture of excitement and fear, joy and apprehension.

It was like someone who had walked for three days and three nights in the desert finally seeing a water source, or like seeing a water source and then discovering that the Black and White Impermanence were squatting next to it.

Li Zhi: "..."

He didn't understand how he had brought so much emotional value to this person.

He lifted his eyelids expressionlessly and looked over: "Who is it?"

The visitor was clearly taken aback by his coldness, but quickly became agitated again:

"So you're Lychee, the Lychee from the QW youth academy team back then."

He became more and more excited as he spoke, his speech becoming faster and faster, "So you became a streamer after you left the youth training team back then, no wonder your Jhin's playstyle is so similar..."

As he finished speaking, he suddenly seemed to remember something, and his entire demeanor became visibly irritated:

"If I had known it would be like this..."

Li Zhi had no patience to listen to his rambling and directly interrupted his incoherent remarks:

"First, tell me who you are?"

Xiao Yu quickly stood up straight: "I am Xiao Yu, from the UUC team."

He stammered, "When you were trying out for RAK and arranging practice matches... we played against each other in the game."

Li Zhi narrowed his eyes dangerously.

He's a man who holds grudges, and he remembers them very accurately.

Thinking of what Xiao Yu had just said about Jin Ge, he gritted his teeth and said:

"You're the Jhin who couldn't beat me in a one-on-one fight, so you called a bunch of guys to ambush me in the mid lane bush?"

Xiao Yu scratched his head sheepishly, his voice softening: "It's me."

He then hurriedly explained, "I learned all my Jhin songs from you. I've been a fan of yours ever since you were playing mid lane for QW! I really wanted to prove myself in front of you, so I played a bit recklessly that game and got carried away..."

Li Zhi snorted coldly, her tone chilling: "My Jin Ge won't target you like you would."

After saying that, he didn't bother to look at the man again and turned to leave.

"Lychee!" Xiao Yu called out to him again from behind.

Li Zhi paused, turned around, and glanced back.

Xiao Yu stood under the corridor lights, his expression even more unpredictable than before.

Her face flushed red and then turned pale, her lips pursed, as if she was holding back something momentous, wanting to do something but not daring to.

Li Zhi looked at him suspiciously: "Are you constipated? The restroom is in the opposite direction, you've gone to the wrong place."

Xiao Yu's face flushed bright red instantly. After several seconds of hesitation, he finally stammered out:

"sorry."

Kurichi exclaimed "Ah!" thinking he was referring to the game.

"If it's just because of that game, there's no need to apologize. It's just a game strategy. There's nothing shameful about wanting to win."

But what Xiao Yu said next completely surprised him.

"It's not because of the game..." Xiao Yu's voice trailed off, his head drooping lower and lower, as if he knew he was ashamed. "That post on the forum... was mine."

Li Zhi:?

The air was silent for two seconds.

Seeing that Li Zhi's face had visibly turned cold, Xiao Yu quickly stepped forward to explain:

"Lychee, I was a fan of yours when you were in the youth team, but it's a pity you stopped playing esports so soon. Later I found your account online, and I thought..."

"I thought someone was deliberately imitating you, and since I saw a lot of people saying the same thing in the comments, I had a sudden inspiration..."

Li Zhi stood there, listening to this confession that could only be described as a logical genius, and was almost brought to tears by how stupid this person was.

He was already furious enough, but Xiao Yu kept adding fuel to the fire, revealing everything completely:

"I was worried the post wouldn't go viral enough, so I bought 500 yuan worth of promotional material. I only wanted it to go viral a little, but I didn't expect it to become so popular. Almost the entire league knows about it now."

Li Zhi took a deep breath and told herself to stay calm.

He hasn't played professionally for two years, and he can't be suspended for assaulting a fellow player without even playing a single match as soon as he comes back.

"So what? What are you trying to achieve by telling me all this now? Are you trying to provoke me to my face?"

Xiao Yu shook his head frantically, his eyes welling up with tears: "No, Lychee! I just found out you two are the same person, and I realized what I did wrong. I've been a fan of yours for many years, and I really like you, which is why I confessed all this to you..."

As he spoke, he took two steps forward, his emotions running high.

Just as he was about to reach Kurichi, a hand suddenly pressed down on his shoulder.

The hand simply rested there, and Xiao Yu was unable to move.

It felt like a mountain was pressing down on my shoulders, my bones made a faint sound under my palms, and I was frozen in place.

Immediately afterwards, a cold voice rang out above, carrying a chilling sense of oppression:

"What are you doing?"

Xiao Yu turned around, and upon seeing who it was, his eyes widened in surprise, his voice trembling: "You...you're River?"

Xie Jichuan subtly tightened his palm, and only slowly released his grip after seeing the obvious pain on Xiao Yu's face.

She nodded slightly: "It's me."

He stepped in front of Li Zhi, subtly creating distance between them, and looked down at her: "What are you talking about?"

Even from several steps away, I could hear this reckless young man confessing his love to his daughter, Zhizhi.

What's with the likes and dislikes? In broad daylight, how could anyone do something as underhanded as poaching someone's partner?

Xiao Yu was already emotionally devastated because he realized he had targeted the wrong person. Now, under the pressure of the Alpha's aura, he panicked even more and blurted out whatever came to mind, recounting the whole story in a jumbled mess.

Xie Jichuan listened to the whole thing in silence, then laughed in exasperation.

He kicked the person in front of him, not with much force, but enough to make Xiao Yu stagger.

"Go back and delete the post before apologizing. Lychee doesn't need your fans who are just randomly attracting online bullies."

Xiao Yu was an underdeveloped Alpha, with a slender build like a Beta.

When Xie Jichuan got angry, wisps of pheromones would leak out.

Xiao Yu only smelled a little bit, and he couldn't help but panic and feel scared. This was the hierarchical suppression engraved in the Alpha's bones, a fear that crushed him from the genetic level.

His face was pale. He glanced at Li Zhi one last time, his lips trembled, and he finally spoke his mind:

"Lychee, no matter what... I really like you, and I'll always be your fan."

Xie Jichuan never expected that he would be able to confess his feelings to him again at the last minute.

He had a sour face, and his Alpha pheromones pressed down on him without hesitation, like an invisible giant wave crashing against a small boat:

"Aren't you going to get lost?"

Xiao Yu was so overwhelmed by the oppressive feeling that he could barely stand, so he had no choice but to walk away, looking back every few steps.