What Should I Do If I Have a Crush on My Teammate? [Esports]

[A Sensitive Younger Top at First, Then a Possessive One Who Fights and Competes for His Love, Paired with a Gentle, Resilient Captain Who Is Slow to Understand His Feelings]

If you asked which two players in the whole league had the best relationship, ninety-nine percent of the players would answer Chi Wenxu and Jiang Wenxing.

The two had been on the same team ever since they started playing professionally. From their days of obscurity to winning the championship and achieving glory today, they had always had each other.

You could say that looking back over REN's entire history, you would see the two of them side by side throughout.

Of course, plenty of people privately shipped their brotherly bond, too.

Their CP fans were practically unrivaled across the league.

After Chi Yi joined REN, he knew the two of them were close. They were very good teammates.

But he hadn't expected their relationship to go beyond being good teammates.

Even so, Chi Yi kept showing up around Chi Wenxu.

He tried to become the person who was even closer to Chi Wenxu.

His frequent appearances had even made Jiang Wenxing, Chi Wenxu's boyfriend, sense that something was off.

The two often practiced their aim together, and they trained in Chi Wenxu's room.

As usual, Chi Yi arrived right on time and knocked before pushing the door open, so accustomed to it that he might as well have been entering his own room.

He hadn't expected to catch the two kissing on the balcony. Chi Yi said nothing, and there wasn't the slightest hint of surprise on his face.

When Chi Wenxu stepped out of the play of light and shadow, he was still flushed. His voice, however, was as gentle as ever. "Didn't you say you weren't coming to practice today? The two of us... Did we scare you...?"

Being caught like this by a teammate, and one he thought of as a younger brother, left even Chi Wenxu at a loss for words.

Chi Yi stared at Chi Wenxu's lips.

"You didn't scare me. I'm just a little surprised..."

He broke the silence, his eyes fixed on the figure leaning by the balcony inside the room.

He didn't mention the message from "Chi Wenxu" that had arrived on his phone half an hour earlier.

Chi Wenxu smiled, his eyes curving as he tried to hide his embarrassment, completely unaware.

"Captain, Ming just asked us to play an elimination match. But are you busy right now, Captain?"

At some point, a hand still warm with the heat of youth had wrapped around Chi Wenxu's wrist.

"A Xu, we agreed..." came a voice from behind him.

Chi Yi covered Chi Wenxu's ears and turned to look at Jiang Wenxing with disgust.

"What is it?" Chi Wenxu had heard something and tried to turn around.

Chi Yi lowered his head and leaned closer, as if he hadn't heard anything at all.

"My hands are warm. Let me warm them for you, Captain."

Chi Wenxu discovered his boyfriend was cheating on him near the end of winter.

During the off-season, he stayed at the club as usual, while Chi Yi made lunch for the two of them in the kitchen.

The flowers Chi Yi had bought the day before and casually left on the balcony were still there. Chi Wenxu was about to find a vase for them.

But when he saw two figures downstairs, he froze for a moment.

His boyfriend, Jiang Wenxing, had told him just a few hours earlier that he was going to try out for ST.

Yet now he was standing downstairs in the residential complex.

Chi Wenxu thought of all the strange things Jiang Wenxing had done after the finals.

So it wasn't that he was still struggling to move on from the post-match emotions. None of it had been his imagination.

The next second,

a warm hand covered Chi Wenxu's eyes.

Chi Yi's warmth wrapped around him.

"Don't look at him. Look at me."

[A Peacekeeper Elite PEL esports novel. The author isn't a professional, so enjoy the read.]

Theme: Finding a new life through love