After the Transfer, I became the Team’s Favorite

“Sugar, who are you playing with?”

This voice was familiar to Jiang Min.

The bullet comments were also familiar.

【Oh no! Caught a big case of cheating on camera!】

【The queen is exploding with anger!】

【Deep-water torpedo, Little Fish is online!】

The bullet comments seemed like they were just watching the excitement without minding the seriousness of the matter.

Little Fish was Jiang Min’s fixed duo teammate, always sitting steadily in the main spot on his friend list, no matter which account Jiang Min used. After disappearing for a few days, Little Fish suddenly appeared again.

Jiang Min’s voice chat room was originally password-protected.

But Little Fish knew that his passwords were always the same few, so he easily tried them out and entered.

Jiang Min didn’t think much of it, but after seeing the bullet comments, he inexplicably felt a bit guilty.

Hmm? Wait a minute! Why should he feel guilty? It’s not like there was anything going on between him and Little Fish.

It seemed like he needed to turn off the bullet comments to protect his IQ; he was almost assimilated by them.

“Ah, Little Fish, you’re here,” Jiang Min greeted awkwardly.

“Mhm… Who are you playing with?” Little Fish pursued this point without letting go.

【Uh oh, the queen won’t let it go!】

【Little Fish is jealous! Sugar, go comfort him~】

“Uh, it’s nothing, just found a gaming partner,” Jiang Min mumbled.

“A gaming partner? If you need someone to duo with, you can just ask me,” Little Fish’s voice seemed a little unhappy. “Why call it a gaming partner?”

“… You said you had something to deal with, and I didn’t want to disturb you.”

“Well, I’m free now… Hand me the team leader position.”

“Oh.” Jiang Min didn’t know why, but he always listened to Little Fish.

Little Fish had an outgoing personality, while Jiang Min belonged to the more passive type in social situations. In a way, they complemented each other in character.

Jiang Min often let Little Fish take the lead, and he had gotten used to it.

Jiang Min obediently handed over the team leader position to Little Fish.

Unexpectedly, the next second, Jiang Min was dumbfounded.

【The team leader has kicked Lolita out of the team forever.】

The system notification appeared on the screen.

Lolita was the gaming partner who had been kicked out, and naturally, he was kicked out of the voice chat room as well.

Jiang Min: ???

【Angry Little Fish, Sugar, you better apologize quickly~】

【Jealous Little Fish hahaha】

“Why did you kick him? I still have a few games left to play with him…” Jiang Min said weakly.

“Do you need money?” Little Fish suddenly asked.

“No, I don’t.”

“Then, there you have it. Why bother about a little money?” Little Fish said, “Let’s go, duo queue.”

While thinking that he must apologize to the gaming partner who was inexplicably kicked away, Jiang Min started his duo queue journey with Little Fish.

On the other end of the game screen, controlling the hero Centaur War runner with the ID “LifeLivingMidLane” in the middle lane, was a young man dressed casually, sitting in a hotel room.

With handsome sword-like eyebrows, brown-dyed hair, angular facial features, a handsome and sunny appearance, tall and slender without looking muscular, he was the typical type that looked thin in clothes and well-built without clothes.

JW team’s captain, Yu Hao, ID: JW.Honor, the 4th position player, was another male god in the esports circle.

He was recruited by JW when they formed their WOC branch from the second-tier league.

Young and talented, skilled in the game, and even more importantly, had a very clear mind, he held the commanding position within the team.

And Little Fish was his username.

Jiang Min didn’t know that the person playfully called “the queen” by his viewers was actually the captain of the JW team.

At this moment, in front of Yu Hao, there was a gaming laptop with gaming headphones on, and he was playing duo queue with someone using the ID “WavesInMidLane.”

“WavesInMidLane” was Jiang Min’s secondary account.

In a way, Yu Hao’s “LifeLivingMidLane” was linked to Jiang Min’s ID.

JW had just lost their group stage match, and the players were all feeling down, some crying in frustration, while others wanted to vent by playing ranked matches.

As for why Yu Hao suddenly teased Jiang Min, we need to rewind the time a bit.

———–

After losing the match, JW’s youngest player, the 3rd position player, Hao Qianyi, was feeling very upset and declared that he would dominate the ranked matches tonight to prove himself and express his emotions.

At this moment, they were in Country M, where it was already late at night, while the Chinese server was still in broad daylight.

Hao Qianyi’s professional ID was JW.QOne. He was known for his aggressive and impulsive playstyle, and he loved to use flashy language.

He logged into his main account, preparing to gain some points.

Confident in his skills, he didn’t care about the latency. Tonight, he was going to dominate the Chinese server!

During the champion selection phase, he chose the mid lane and locked in the Dark Assassin.

When he saw the opponent pick the Elemental Elf as their mid laner, Hao Qianyi initially mocked them, even thinking he had won already.

But then, he got swiftly beaten.

He was brutally defeated in the mid lane, being constantly suppressed.

Hao Qianyi felt frustrated and ran his fingers through his hair. “Ahhh, why can’t I, a Dark Assassin, beat an Elemental Elf!?”

“So, who asked you to play the second position and try to gain points? Why not stick to your main role as the third position?” JW’s coach, Bai Yin, ID: JW.White, silently approached the players who were playing ranked games late at night in the specially modified room provided by the event organizers in the hotel.

“Coach!” Hao Qianyi was startled.

Oh no, the coach saw his terrible record, he’s definitely going to get scolded!

However, the “Coach’s Rage” that Hao Qianyi anticipated didn’t come down upon him.

Bai Yin only observed his record and calmly said, “You lost the match, why are you playing ranked instead of analyzing the game?”

Hao Qianyi shrugged. “Coach, didn’t you lead us in analyzing it?”

“I can guide you, but I can’t replace you guys in finding the problems. Take a good look at the game replay and reflect on your weaknesses,” Bai Yin lightly tapped Hao Qianyi’s head.

Hao Qianyi winced in pain, holding his head. “Alright, got it, Coach!”

Bai Yin was also brought over from another team when JW formed their WOC branch and was considered an experienced “elder” in the WPL.

With a total of 12 teams in the WPL first division, JW’s young team making it to the global finals in their second year was already satisfying for Bai Yin.

The team still had many issues, and each loss helped them identify their shortcomings. Thus, losing a match was not necessarily a bad thing.

However, this year’s WPL global finals’ results were indeed quite unsatisfactory, and Bai Yin was mentally prepared to be criticized online.

At this moment, the door of the training room, which was transformed from hotel rooms, opened. Yu Hao, wearing a casual hoodie and light blue jeans, entered after changing out of his team uniform.

“Ca-Captain!” Although Yu Hao wasn’t much older than Hao Qianyi, the latter instinctively felt a sense of awe towards their captain.

The captain’s intense presence was truly terrifying!

Yu Hao had a cold expression, and it seemed that the loss in the match had a significant impact on him.

As a young prodigy, taking on the role of captain and shot-caller at less than twenty years old, the pressure on him was unimaginable.

“Yes.” Yu Hao responded and glanced around the training room. “Where is everyone?”

In the training room, besides Hao Qianyi and Coach Bai Yin, the other members of the JW team were not present.

Yu Hao had high expectations for his teammates, sometimes even stricter than the team leader and coach when it came to managing the players’ roles.

“Ya Bo and Ya Feng seem to be in their rooms, and I don’t know about Nan Ge, he’s probably somewhere smoking,” the usually mischievous little demon, Hao Qianyi, became as well-behaved as a cat in front of the captain.

Wei Ya Bo and Wei Ya Feng, JW team’s first and fifth position players, were a pair of twins with high popularity due to their good looks, despite their relatively short time in the professional scene.

As for Xiao Nan, referred to as “Nan Ge” by his teammates, he was the oldest player in JW, having switched from another MOBA game to become their second position player when the team was formed.

They lost the match in the group stage, and it was understandable that the players were feeling down. Yu Hao only asked about their whereabouts and didn’t say anything else.

Hao Qianyi breathed a sigh of relief; he thought the captain was going to summon everyone for some intense training.

There was a previous occasion where they lost a regular-season match, and Yu Hao gathered the players for a collective military-style training session, which left a lasting shadow on Hao Qianyi and the other players.

Yu Hao was about to leave when he suddenly caught sight of Hao Qianyi’s screen.

With a raised eyebrow and intense focus, he stared at the ID on the screen, which Hao Qianyi played skillfully in reverse.

Hao Qianyi felt uneasy under Yu Hao’s gaze and nervously swallowed a mouthful of saliva.

On his screen, the match results were shown, revealing his super low winning percentage. Would he even survive after the captain saw his record?

However, to his surprise, Yu Hao said nothing and simply left the room.

Hao Qianyi stood still, watching Yu Hao leave, murmuring, “Coach, our captain is acting strangely. I hope he’s not upset because of losing the match…”

Bai Yin was also puzzled until he saw the familiar ID on Hao Qianyi’s match result page.

Alright, Yu Hao must have gone to “catch someone.”

———-

Back in his own room, Yu Hao took out his gaming laptop.

Skillfully logging into the Chinese server with his secondary account, he immediately noticed the ID he cared so much about was online.

The interface displayed the opponent’s status: In a team.

An indescribable emotion surged within Yu Hao.

Without hesitation, he entered the password for the opponent’s voice chat room and joined the session.

Yu Hao used the alias “Little Fish” and had been duo queuing with Jiang Min for quite some time now.

Their meeting in the game was not coincidental; Yu Hao had made numerous attempts to match with Jiang Min during his livestream before finally succeeding.

There were various reasons why he didn’t reveal his identity, with the main one being that he didn’t want Jiang Min to feel any psychological pressure due to his status as a professional player.

He just wanted Jiang Min to enjoy duo queuing, nothing more.

The reason why Yu Hao cared so much about Jiang Min was that when he stepped into the professional circle, it was all because of this man with the ID “Lollipop.”

It was a cliché story.

Back when Yu Hao was in high school, his friends took him to watch an offline WOC match.

It was the regional finals between CC team and OVO team, the same match where CC won the championship two years ago.

During the game, he became fascinated by the mid-lane 2nd position player, who was serious and focused on the match.

When CC lifted the regional trophy, Yu Hao couldn’t hear anything, and his eyes could only see that mid-laner holding the trophy.

At that moment, Yu Hao developed a strong interest in the professional path of WOC.

He had great talent in WOC and had received invitations from professional teams in the past, but he turned them down for the sake of his studies.

After meeting Jiang Min, Yu Hao decided on his future path and set the goal of getting closer to that person and fighting alongside him.

However, reality was harsh.

CC team was at its peak at that time, and the 4th position player was shining brightly, not paying any attention to the still unknown Yu Hao. He wasn’t even considered for the youth training team.

In the end, Yu Hao joined a small team in the second division as the 4th position player.

Over the next two years, he and Jiang Min were in different teams all along.

After much thought, he came up with a way to disguise himself as a passerby to get closer to Jiang Min.

Undoubtedly, he succeeded. He could freely call Jiang Min “Sugar,” and Jiang Min indeed treated him as a close online friend and even added him on WeChat.

However, now Yu Hao was feeling unhappy. On one hand, it was because of losing the match and missing the world finals, but more so because Jiang Min was secretly duo queuing with someone else.

Deepwater Torpedo · Yu Hao decided to show off his fishing skills. Otherwise, his Sugar would never learn.

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