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    It seemed that from the very beginning, despite Xie Wei’s cold words toward him, his actions were always considerate and gentle.

    Xu Ziyan had been delayed in the training room for a while, and after returning to the dorm, he first took a shower and checked Weibo before finally starting his stream late. The fact that Xie Wei sent a team invitation as soon as he logged into the game clearly showed he had been waiting for a long time.

    In the meeting room earlier, or in the training room, or even by sending a text message on Line, Xie Wei had countless opportunities to tell him about this beforehand, instead of waiting dryly here.

    However, Xu Ziyan would most likely have refused. Even if Xie Wei had sent a reminder, he wouldn’t have looked at it. Xie Wei had been involved in those photos with him a while ago. Although they hadn’t clarified the situation at the time, the subsequent marketing had subtly pushed their relationship toward that of good teammates. Now that things had finally calmed down, Xu Ziyan couldn’t risk getting entangled with Xie Wei again.

    Xie Wei probably understood this, which was why he chose this moment to catch him by surprise.

    The live stream chat was already exploding. With so many eyes watching, Xu Ziyan absolutely could not click the reject button. He struggled to maintain a calm tone, smiling as he said, “It looks like the program content needs a temporary change. Then let’s Duo Queue with the Captain today.”

    ??? Is that really Captain Xie?

    I’m shocked! Ahhh, Captain Xie’s wife fans are screaming and dying!!

    Captain Xie, do you remember that you also have a live stream and a crowd of hungry viewers…

    Suddenly, the original barrage of blaming and cursing comments was overwhelmed by Xie Wei’s fans who had rushed over upon hearing the news.

    Xie Wei rarely streamed. When TWG first started and lacked fame, he would reluctantly stream to build some visibility for the team. Now that they had achieved success, he rarely streamed anymore. His contract was for the minimum thirty hours, and he only streamed when fans urged him fiercely. Xu Ziyan himself used to be one of those who waited anxiously in his stream.

    He didn’t stream because he was lazy; he was genuinely too busy.

    After Xu Ziyan joined the team, he realized that besides the routine training and review meetings, Xie Wei would also analyze data from other teams and discuss methods for improving mistakes with Yu Guangzhou and the Data Analyst after the meetings. Occasionally, there were endorsements and team promotions that required Xie Wei to travel around.

    Furthermore, his identity was special. Strictly speaking, TWG was an asset under the Xie family name, and the Xie family intended to hand the team over to Xie Wei to manage as a form of training. Therefore, some internal team affairs also required his personal attention.

    It was fine when things were slow, but if everything piled up, Xie Wei was truly stretched thin, wishing he could have three versions of himself to handle all the troublesome matters.

    After the review meeting today, Xie Wei stayed in the Coach’s office for quite a while, as usual.

    It was late now; he should have been very tired.

    Xu Ziyan entered Xie Wei’s team.

    The two IDs, Shining and Ice, were neatly and harmoniously arranged together.

    After a moment, the microphone icon next to Shining lit up, and Xie Wei’s voice, slightly hoarse, entered Xu Ziyan’s ears through the microphone: “Select your role.”

    Xu Ziyan snapped back to attention and quickly checked “Medic” in the role selection panel.

    The most flexible aspect of Resist lay here. Each player’s account was not bound to a specific class but could be freely selected during Ranked Matchmaking. They could choose multiple roles or just one. Choosing multiple roles meant they would be randomly assigned a position upon entering the match, while choosing a single role guaranteed that position, thus avoiding the unpleasantness caused by role conflicts.

    Xie Wei also checked “Sniper,” and then the Ranked Match icon lit up, starting the queue countdown.

    Because of their high rank and the late hour, the queue time was a bit long. Xu Ziyan, worried that the audience would get bored, turned off the squad mic and chatted by picking out comments from the barrage.

    Perhaps due to Xie Wei’s appearance, most of the audience’s attention shifted from the competition for the A-Team Medic slot to the relationship between Xie Wei and Xu Ziyan. Although both topics were sensitive, the latter was clearly less confrontational and carried a hint of ambiguous intimacy.

    There was no helping it. As a Top Alpha with such outstanding qualities, Xie Wei was inevitably the dream lover of many Omegas and some Betas. Yet, in all his years since debut, he had never been involved in any scandal, nor was there any sign of him getting close to any Omega. The only exception was probably Qu Qingyue, who was on the same team.

    Therefore, Xu Ziyan’s appearance was nothing short of a bomb dropped among Xie Wei’s fans.

    As a result, the barrage inevitably became gossipy.

    Streamer, Streamer, what exactly is your relationship with Captain Xie?

    Xu Ziyan maintained his usual tone and replied, “Teammates. He’s the Captain, and I’m a team member.”

    Do you two Duo Queue often?

    “Me and the Captain? No, no, you can check the match history.”

    Did you suddenly queue together today because of the Clear situation? Is Shining taking a stance, showing support?

    “No.” Xu Ziyan suddenly recalled what Yu Guangzhou had said earlier: “It’s just that we have a lot of team spirit within TWG.”

    …?

    I’ve been eating all sorts of palace intrigue gossip about the TWG Medic slot these past few days and I’m deep in thought.

    Does the Streamer even know what he’s saying?

    Xu Ziyan cleared his throat. “Palace intrigue gossip? What does that mean?”

    If he hadn’t asked, it would have been fine, but the moment he did, the barrage immediately became lively.

    Same question about the gossip. I’m an old person who just arrived in the city. Can someone explain?

    Same question plus one.

    Soon, a kind, extra-long comment was pinned above Xu Ziyan’s live stream as a paid message.

    To briefly summarize, the TWG management was divided. Captain Xie supported Ice, God Xiao supported Clear, Bai Chen was neutral, and finally, the Coach couldn’t choose between the two, so he had them take turns playing. In the end, Captain Xie’s influence was greater, and Clear reluctantly left.

    Xu Ziyan’s pupils contracted in shock. He was utterly astonished.

    He couldn’t help but exclaim, “There was such a thing?”

    ? Why is the person involved so surprised?

    Can Player Ice please stop eating his own gossip with such relish?

    So is it true or false?

    Xu Ziyan said, “False, of course it’s false.”

    Streamer, can you please tell us what happened between you and Captain Xie before T T I’ve been wondering for so long.

    Xu Ziyan said, “I’ve answered this question. We are teammates, purely teammates, good teammates.”

    “Good teammates,” he was chatting animatedly with the barrage when Xie Wei’s voice suddenly came through his headset, “Stop looking at the comments. We found a match.”

    Xu Ziyan instantly froze.

    He glanced at his squad microphone.

    …It was lit up. He hadn’t turned it off.

    Finally noticed. I sent several comments to remind you.

    I’m dying of laughter hahahaha I didn’t want to remind him at all, I just wanted to see when Ice would finally realize.

    Although we went out alone on New Year’s Eve during the first snow, we are good teammates.

    Thank you, I’m so embarrassed that I’m helping the streamer build a Barbie Dream Castle with my toes.

    “…” Xu Ziyan clamped his mouth shut.

    On the other end, Xie Wei was also slightly amused.

    He was indeed a bit tired today. He was the Captain of TWG and also the nominal boss. Most of the daily affairs were handled by Jiang Yuxin, and internal team personnel decisions were entirely left to Yu Guangzhou and Lu Donglou; he did not interfere.

    But when it came to matters like transfers or endorsements, which involved millions, Xie Wei had no choice but to handle them personally.

    Moreover, the person transferring this time was Qu Qingyue.

    Xie Wei had kept in mind the matter of streaming that Yu Guangzhou had brought up in the meeting. He understood Xu Ziyan’s personality somewhat, knowing he was someone who disliked troubling others and would likely not accept an invitation to stream together to share the online pressure.

    After much thought, he felt he couldn’t ignore it. So, after finishing his work and resting briefly, he logged into the game and started waiting for Xu Ziyan to come online.

    He just hadn’t expected Xu Ziyan to carelessly forget to turn off his mic.

    At first, Xie Wei hadn’t noticed, thinking he was just chatting normally to liven up the atmosphere. Only later did he realize that this little idiot probably didn’t know the mic was on, thinking Xie Wei couldn’t hear him, and was just spouting nonsense.

    He chuckled softly, entered the map, and quickly selected his primary and secondary weapons.

    Xu Ziyan felt like he had been thrown into hot water, radiating heat all over. His mouse was shaking in his hand, and it took him several tries to click on the healing flask and the pistol.

    It feels like very few people bring healing flasks in Ranked Matches. What are you thinking, Streamer?

    Forget Ranked Matches, even in professional matches, he’s the only one who brings that thing.

    Don’t ask. If you ask, it means he has a special way of using it.

    There was no special way of using it, but there was a special way of being lazy.

    When the live stream audience saw Xu Ziyan throw a healing flask forward to heal someone and immediately switch back to output with his pistol for the third time, too lazy to switch from his pistol back to his healing gun, the barrage was filled with question marks.

    But Xu Ziyan couldn’t be blamed.

    This map was a defensive control point map, and one where the front line held significant importance. However, their two Assault Players were, well, somewhat lacking.

    He had played solo queue for years and frequently encountered such unreliable teammates. If the front line couldn’t hold the pressure on this map, their back line would immediately collapse.

    Xu Ziyan, with his foresight, hadn’t brought a stun gun. He directly entrusted the back line defense to Xie Wei behind him and used his pistol to supplement damage on the front line.

    He hadn’t stopped doing this in Ranked Matches; he had just restrained himself a lot since joining TWG. Xu Ziyan’s aim was naturally steady, and combined with the sneaky positioning he had developed from years of playing Medic, after one or two rounds, his damage output panel actually reached the second highest in the team.

    The highest was Xie Wei.

    The two Assault Players were firmly suppressed by the damage output of one Medic and one Sniper.

    Once the actual fighting began, the trolls and haters in the live stream chat significantly decreased. Xu Ziyan made almost no mistakes. When the match ended, the barrage was much more harmonious.

    Coupled with Xie Wei’s massive fan army showering them with praise and compliments, Xu Ziyan was surprised to find that what he had expected to be the most turbulent day turned out to be the most peaceful day of his streaming career.

    “What do you say?” Neither Xie Wei nor Xu Ziyan had joined the team voice chat; they were communicating in their private squad voice chat. “For this round of offense, are you still going with the healing flask and pistol?”

    Xu Ziyan replied, “I’ll take the stun gun. Let’s finish this quickly.”

    Xie Wei said, “Mm.”

    The barrage was already getting excited.

    Is it going to happen?

    Holy crap, first-person perspective, I’m so excited!

    God knows how many times I’ve watched the recording of that match against YNG.

    ? Question mark from a newbie, what is “that”?

    It’s that!

    Hahaha it’s the Medic flanking the back line.

    Wuwu Captain Xie is so strong, I truly love him.

    I feel like Captain Xie has been chatting with Ice all day. Their relationship is really good.

    In the voice chat, Xie Wei’s voice sounded a bit tired, yet he was still talking to him about trivial matters. Xu Ziyan smiled and answered each one, and the atmosphere between them was harmonious, truly resembling “good teammates.”

    But Xu Ziyan knew clearly that Xie Wei usually barely spoke during Ranked Matches. Even when Duo Queuing or playing in a group, he would only respond lazily with a few sounds.

    Moreover, he was very tired right now.

    There was only one reason he kept talking: to maintain the atmosphere, to make the audience in the live stream feel that their relationship was good and harmonious, and that TWG fully accepted Xu Ziyan’s presence.

    His gentleness was always like this.

    Not expressed in words, but proven through actions.

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