The Green Tea Captain Keeps Fighting for Everything (Esports)

A teaser for my next novel: Let Go of That Fluffy One and Let Me Sniff Them

A catboy in women's clothes who can detect yin energy, a silly little disaster × a yang-energy-bursting exorcist who loves to quip

(The blurb is after the main blurb)

Here is this novel's blurb:

Sharp-tongued, sardonic, smiling-fox bottom × jealous, vengeful, scheming, loyal puppy top

Su Qi, nicknamed "the smiling fox of esports," once swept past Shang Xianqing with a dark expression at an offline event. Ever since, the whole internet has stamped them as bitter enemies.

During the transfer period, Su Qi's right hand was physically exorcised by his substitute, and his former team kicked him out. So he headed to a newly registered "amateur outfit" instead, only to open the door and find the new team captain was none other than his "mortal enemy," Shang Xianqing!

The comments in Su Qi's head:

[Stay calm. He doesn't actually think I see him as my mortal enemy, right?]

[He's so handsome.]

[Given his character, he probably won't deliberately target me, right?]

[He's so handsome.]

[Can I still retire now?]

[...He's so handsome.]

But Shang Xianqing merely handed him a cup of coffee and said gently, "Unlike my former team's management, I prefer to win people over with reason and change my teammates with love."

At the revenge match, the former captain put on a phony show of concern alongside the substitute who had "taken out" Su Qi's right hand. "Xiao Su, once your hand's healed, come back next transfer period. This is your real home."

Su Qi smiled sweetly, with every word a blade: "Your words are taking up all the oxygen. Keep going, let my captain hear your lies too~"

The former captain was about to blow up when Shang Xianqing crushed a water bottle and put on a masterful performance of playing the victim. "He's so mean! If it were me, I couldn't bear to let Su-Su go. I'd just buy him the latest gaming gear and watch three hundred match replays with him..."

Su Qi: ...This scheming green tea is annoyingly fragrant.

Until one day, Su Qi found a collector's edition video of "Su Qi's Greatest Roasts" by Shang Xianqing's bed, along with The Green Tea Top's Guide to Self-Cultivation and Level Ten Tea-Sipping Conversation Skills in the second drawer of his nightstand.

Just as he was about to run, he bumped into Shang Xianqing, smiling in the doorway. "Too late to run now~ The whole world knows you're the sharp-tongued little fox I've chased through three hundred matches~"

^ Cover art by my dear friend Apple Pope

My next novel: Let Go of That Fluffy One and Let Me Sniff Them

A catboy in women's clothes who can detect yin energy, a silly little disaster × a yang-energy-bursting exorcist who loves to quip

Ya Xuan is a good-for-nothing black cat whose cultivation is difficult and whose transformations always leave him with a tail. His yin energy is so strong that he comes with a built-in ghost-attracting buff. There's just one way he can see ghosts: dressing as a girl. The prettier the dress, the more clearly he can see them.

One day, Ya Xuan hears about an ancient book that can balance the yin energy in his body. So he sneaks into a villa at night, one supposedly so haunted that even a ghost would die of fright all over again upon entering. But his lace hem gets caught on a wire, leaving him dangling upside down in a perfect hook, face-to-face with the homeowner who's just returned.

Ya Xuan: "M-Meow?!"

Cen Wu calmly snaps a picture and posts it in the exorcists' group chat: Help, there's a cat burglar in a dress in my house. It's really cute. What should I do? Waiting for answers, urgent.

[Attached: High-res photo of a shocked, upside-down cat burglar.jpg]

Ya Xuan: "!!!" Humiliated beyond belief.jpg

With his book theft exposed, Ya Xuan gives up trying to save face. "That dual cultivation method in your ancestor's ancient book is a scam! It doesn't ease my yin energy at all!"

Cen Wu raises an eyebrow and checks the book, his tone calm. "The method is fine. You practiced it backwards. It says 'use a yang body to support yin cultivation'..." His gaze sweeps over Ya Xuan's skirt and tail. He speaks slowly. "Not 'all-you-can-eat yin buffet.'"

Ya Xuan: ??? I didn't! I haven't! Don't make things up!

He thinks that's the end of their connection, but one bizarre paranormal incident after another begins to unfold, all of them tied to the secret of the extremely yin and extremely yang bodies of Cen Wu and Ya Xuan.

The higher-ups of the mystical sect slap their foreheads. "Team up! You have to team up! Put our most yang-filled fighter together with our most yin-heavy radar, and they'll complement each other perfectly!"

So, facing a haunted house's fierce ghost:

Cen Wu: "Where?"

Ya Xuan, wearing a little dress and pointing at the corner with a trembling finger: "O-Over there! The one in red! I-It keeps staring at me!"

Cen Wu throws a punch without changing expression. "Done. Next."

Ya Xuan: "..." Is this exorcism or demolition?

Investigating a headless corpse case:

Ya Xuan changes into an elegant qipao and bonds with a Republican-era female ghost to get information. "I see... Thank you, big sister!"

Cen Wu leans against the wall with his arms crossed, looking at his cat holding hands with the ghost. His voice turns inexplicably cold. "...Are you done asking? It touched you."

Chasing the mastermind:

Ya Xuan's yin energy runs out, and he shivers. "I can't see the ghosts clearly anymore..."

After a moment of silence, Cen Wu hands him a delicate lace dress. "Put it on."

Ya Xuan bristles. "?! You're still thinking about that at a time like this!"

Cen Wu says without expression, "It's for work. Or we can 'dual cultivate' to replenish your yin energy. Pick one."

Cen Wu is a once-in-a-century genius of the mystical sect. His yang energy is so strong that ghosts flee at the sight of him. He exorcises ghosts through sheer physical force, taking them out with one punch. His skills are top-notch, but his constitution means he's forever unable to use the basic skill of seeing ghosts.

Until one late night, when Cen Wu comes home and finds a... creature? hanging upside down in his study. A black lace petticoat, a fluffy tail, and a pretty face flushed red but trying to look composed. The moment it sees Cen Wu, it blurts out, "Meow?!"

At that moment, Cen Wu feels himself falling in love...

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