[Esports] Pheromones say we're a match made in heaven.

Qin Yi slept for a full four hours before opening his eyes.

He was about to board the plane, unaware that his mother had taken Chi Feifan's WeChat account from him last night and added him this morning to sell it to him.

He scrolled through Chen Yangyang's Weibo post from that morning with a grumpy expression, and found that someone commented that he was a man in his twenties.

Cherish these two years. The prime of a professional player's career is so short. Who knows, after a while, even live streamers might develop various occupational diseases, like lower back strain and tenosynovitis.

[Oh no! I just saw on social media a few days ago that a Brazilian player was forced to retire due to a severe back injury!]

[Oh my god, if Live retires, who will I watch?]

Wonder welcomes you

I feel like I'm getting old; sitting all day probably isn't good for my back anymore.

Despite everyone's concerns, Qin Yi ignored those who were worried about his wrists and cervical spine, and instead used his main account to reply to the person who said his back was bad.

Hawk-Live: [Don't spread rumors, my back is perfectly fine.]

After he finished speaking, he flipped through the photo album and found some footage that Chen Yangyang had taken before.

Compared to other professional players who sit in front of the computer all day and whose limbs are almost atrophied, Qin Yi is already considered self-disciplined. He used to often go to the gym at the Hawk base when he had nothing to do.

Chen Yangyang used to force Qin Yi to take photos of his abs as a fan service in order to boost sales of team merchandise. The photos were already taken, but Wang Kang, who was sticking out his butt and lifting dumbbells in the background, was photoshopped out. Later, Qin Yi got too lazy to post them and the matter was dropped.

Qin Yi hesitated for a few seconds on the photo, then swiped left to change to one that didn't show as much skin.

It was summer then, and the T-shirt he was wearing was very thin. When he lifted one corner slightly, the smooth and neat muscle lines of his waist were faintly visible, and you could even see two protruding veins disappearing into the loose waistband of his pants.

【？？？！！！】

Has the zoo gone out of business? Why is there a peacock displaying its tail feathers?

【Wait, you seem more flirtatious these past few days?】

You're so sexy!

[Live finally got it! Why is he so enthusiastic now?! Chen Yangyang, what did you say to him?!]

However, Chen Yangyang, who had just boarded the plane and put on an eye mask to prepare for a good night's sleep, had no idea what was happening in the comments section of Weibo.

Soon, the controversy sparked by Qin Yi became a trending topic. Many of Qin Yi's close acquaintances left a series of mysterious ellipses in the comments section after seeing the trending topic.

I don't know what's gotten into Qin Yi lately. What's he showing off for? Who is he trying to kill? I never saw him trying to prove himself like this before.

The flight from Shanghai to San Francisco took more than ten hours.

After landing at San Francisco International Airport, the group felt like their arms and legs were no longer their own.

The official hotel for the event was located near the venue. Hawk had just checked in when he ran into Wonder, who had also arrived in San Francisco that day, on his way to his room.

Fox was the first person in the esports circle to know that Qin Yi had someone he liked, but his last communication with Qin Yi was not pleasant, so he blocked Qin Yi. It wasn't until recently, when the competition was approaching and both of them were captains, that he was able to get Qin Yi to release him.

Fox now feels a mixture of love and hate towards Qin Yi. He loves him because they were once well-coordinated partners with a mutual respect between strong individuals, but he hates him because Qin Yi is disgusting. In the past, he was probably more restrained because he was afraid that Qin Yi wouldn't take a bullet for him.

Fox followed Qin Yi all the way to the door of the room.

Qin Yi glanced at him: "I don't do split-the-bill relationships."

Fox was disgusted again, gritting his teeth: "I'm not involved, I'm just curious and wanted to ask you, is the person you like that blond Omega from the World Cup qualifiers?"

Qin Yi frankly admitted, "Yes, so what?"

"I knew it." Fox's curiosity was finally satisfied, and he could finally get a good night's sleep. "I noticed something was off between you two, but he looked so young, just turned 18?"

Qin Yi: "Guess."

Fox automatically interpreted it as someone who had just come of age: "Damn it, you shameless bastard."

They were all teammates who had spent every day together, and they were all Alphas. No one understood Qin Yi's thoughts better than Fox.

Qin Yi didn't explain, but sneered and opened the door: "Sour."

*

Domestically, at the Hawk base.

Hawk landed in San Francisco two hours and forty minutes later.

Chi Feifan placed his phone flat on the table, put his hands in his pockets, leaned back in his chair, and said coldly, "What are you doing?"

In the video, Qin Yi's background is a hotel room, which he has probably just finished cleaning up, and he is holding a towel, preparing to take a shower.

Ever since he learned from Aunt Lu that Qin Yi's hand injury was not caused by making breakfast, Chi Feifan had been thinking about how to give Qin Yi a warning.

Chi Feifan clenched his fist.

For example, he warned Qin Yi that he must tell the truth from now on, and that he was not allowed to play tricks on him or tease him, otherwise he would...

"I'm so tired, I just wanted to video chat with you to recharge for a bit."

Qin Yi had just settled in when he saw that it was a new morning in China, so he made a video call to Chi Feifan. The phone rang for a long time, and he thought it was going to hang up automatically, but the other side answered in the last two seconds, with the camera pointed at the ceiling.

Chi Feifan: "..."

They're still charging it; you're lucky they didn't remove the battery.

Chi Feifan didn't speak, but after being interrupted like this, he couldn't bring himself to say the words he wanted to warn Qin Yi.

"Hmm?" Qin Yi frowned. "Is my phone broken? I can't see you. I just bought it recently, how come it's already having problems?"

Chi Feifan reluctantly picked up the phone: "Just listen to the voice, what do you want to say?"

Unexpectedly, the other person chuckled after I picked it up.

"It can't be faster, can you come closer?"

Chi Feifan stiffly raised his hand and moved a little closer.

"Come up a little higher."

Chi Feifan, his face tense, leaned up slightly: "What exactly do you want?"

Qin Yi stared at Chi Feifan on his phone for a while: "Let's see if your eyes are still swollen."

Chi Feifan's expression froze slightly, then he lowered his head somewhat awkwardly.

"It's not swollen anymore." He touched his nose, his confrontational tone vanishing instantly. "Can you forget about what happened that night?"

The other person fell silent, as if deep in thought.

After a moment, Qin Yi's lips curled up: "I'll try my best, but it might be difficult unless you get a VIP membership."

Chi Feifan looked at him, confused: "What do you mean?"

A sense of guilt welled up in Qin Yi's heart.

He stopped at the bathroom door, leaning slightly against the glass door: "Tell me you like me, and I'll never mention it again, as if it never happened."

With a "thud," Chi Feifan lost his grip on his phone and it slammed onto the table.

A few seconds later, when he reappeared on screen, his face was three shades redder than before.

"Ahem..." Qin Yi covered his smile with a light cough. "Well, let's change it. I never force people to do things against their will."

He seemed understanding, but in reality, he was afraid of going too far and Chi Feifan would hang up the phone.

Chi Feifan, holding his phone, asked slowly, "Change what?"

Qin Yi pondered for a while.

Aunt Jiang said that Chi Feifan is 22 this year, and his birthday is at the end of the year, so if you round it up, he's 21, which is quite young. Anyway, no matter how you calculate it, he's younger than her.

Qin Yi threw a slap in the face and laughed, "Then can you call me 'brother'?"