Powerful Investment Chapter 11: Vote Brushing?

Chapter 11: Vote Brushing?

Translated by Addis of Exiled Rebels Scanlations

Editor: Karai

 

“How could this be my fault? What does this have to do with me?” Ji Jin said carelessly to his phone while holding Ji Xingxing in the airport’s mother-and-baby room and playing with his son. “I’ve already retired for three years.”

Ji Xingxing, still babbling in his father’s arms, instinctively repeated in a babyish voice, “What does this have to do with me? What does this have to do with me?”

The current president of the Legend Reappearance professional league, Xu Jinyi, was about to explain the seriousness of the matter over the video call—

“Retired for three years! Retired for three years!”

The baby voice nearly made Xu Jinyi faint.

Xu Jinyi was one of the earliest players of Legend Reappearance, and since he showed some talent, he smoothly entered the professional scene. However, because he was already older when professional competition just emerged, he retired to become a coach after the first year and occasionally worked as a commentator.

After struggling for several years, he had the luck to become the league president.

Unfortunately, he had known Ji Jin since they started playing the game, and they had been on decent terms. But this guy kept causing trouble for him day by day.

As soon as the All-Star Game voting results came out, many doubts appeared online, suspecting the league of taking money from MOE to rig the votes for Ji Jin.

After all, Ji Jin had retired for two years already, and several strong teams had not gotten any All-Star players. So why could Ji Jin get in right after his return?

Even the league’s official Weibo account was flooded with complaints, forcing Xu Jinyi to come out and clarify quickly.

When the player dads were dissatisfied, the one who always got blamed was him, the league president. The league once did statistics and found that one-third of all Legend Reappearance hot searches in a year were insults aimed at him.

“Can’t you be a bit more low-key? Can I just call you brother?” Xu Jinyi said, feeling his heart might need a checkup. “By the way, where are you now? The background looks… a bit off?”

The background was all soft pink, decorated with light pink hearts.

“What do you mean by low-key? I’ve always been low-key,” Ji Jin blinked. “This is the airport mother-and-baby room. Brother’s here with his son.”

“You’re in the mother-and-baby room?” Xu Jinyi felt like his worldview was flipped upside down.

“What, I can’t go to the mother-and-baby room?” Ji Jin retorted.

“Can you at least respect a single, soft Omega who’s raising a child?”

Xu Jinyi: ??? You? Single? Soft Omega? Respect?

He had to admit, this was some real showing off.

“You don’t even look like an Omega,” Xu Jinyi muttered. “If it weren’t for the professional player registration, no one would’ve known you were an Omega.”

When Zhao Ze had asked him to do player registration, he nearly popped his eyes out when he saw “Omega” behind Ji Jin’s gender on the list and confirmed it several times with Zhao Ze.

Only after getting a definite answer and checking IKW’s original materials did he truly confirm Ji Jin really was an Omega.

Ji Jin ignored Xu Jinyi’s rambling: “Besides, the voting thing isn’t something I can control, and I didn’t rig the votes. Also, I already posted a Weibo to explain and clarify. Don’t come looking for me.”

“When did you post it?” Xu Jinyi was preparing for the All-Star Game venue and shuddered at the question. “What did you post?”

“Just now,” Ji Jin replied casually, showing a hint of schadenfreude but mostly a dismissive attitude: “Alright, enough talk. I have to board the plane. We’ll talk when we meet. Check it out yourself.”

Then Xu Jinyi heard the call disconnect.

Xu Jinyi: ???

He quickly logged onto Weibo, dodged tens of thousands of messages tagging him, and hurriedly searched Ji Jin’s Weibo. While searching, he silently prayed that Ji Jin was just bluffing and hadn’t actually posted anything.

But the search results disappointed him.

Ji Jin’s first post was—

@Ji JinKing: “Brother still needs to brush votes? Isn’t being number one well deserved?”

The second post, already popular, was—

@Ji Jin Press-Head Recommendation Squad: Well deserved. //@Ji JinKing: Brother, do you still need to brush votes? Isn’t being number one well deserved?

In just a short while, these two Weibo posts had over fifty thousand comments each.

Xu Jinyi felt his vision go black.

Checking the time, Ji Jin had already hung up and carried Ji Xingxing out of the mother-and-baby room, then immediately turned into the VIP lounge next to it to meet up with the MOE team.

The All-Star Game was only a few days away after the voting ended, held this time in S City. Ji Jin was invited as an All-Star guest, and Cheng Pian was also invited as a rookie candidate. Since it was rare for the MOE small team to get this opportunity, the team management generously funded the entire team’s travel and accommodation.

“Let’s go, it’s time.” Team manager Zhao Ze stood up and started counting the people.

“I feel like God Ji just came out of the mother-and-baby room?” He Jia stood up and whispered beside Cheng Pian.

“Don’t talk nonsense,” Cheng Pian glanced at He Jia and lowered his voice, “Don’t let God Ji hear that, people will say it’s disrespectful to a senior. The mother-and-baby room requires Omega or Beta verification, there’s no way God Ji could get in.”

“Yeah, yeah, God Ji couldn’t possibly be an Omega, and Omegas wouldn’t come out to play esports,” Du Xi interrupted.

“True,” He Jia nodded thoughtfully.

Omegas are naturally delicate, with fixed heat cycles. Sex and childbearing are instinctively very attractive to Omegas; it’s encoded in their genes and can’t be changed. Because of this, most Omegas marry and have kids early, as work is too draining for them.

Also, if an Omega is already claimed, an extremely possessive Alpha wouldn’t let their Omega go out.

“But having an Omega is really nice,” Du Xi said enviously, “Xingxing is soft, cute, and smells good. Every heat cycle I feel uncomfortable and have even prepared Alpha-inhibiting patches.”

“Me too…” He Jia said with a grimace, “I want to try the latest artificial Omega pheromones.”

“Omegas are so rare now, stop dreaming,” Cheng Pian patted Du Xi’s shoulder and mocked him.

Yet, Cheng Pian glanced back at Ji Jin, who was at the end of the group.

Today Ji Jin wore the team uniform, which was rare. Although MOE was a small, poor team, their uniforms were very exquisite and expensive. Black was the main color with gold accents; the gold paint sparkled, looking very high-end and elegant.

Wearing this uniform made Ji Jin look otherworldly. Opposite the elegance was the tear mole at his eye’s corner, which made people instinctively desire him.

If he were an Omega, probably every Alpha in the world would go crazy for him, Cheng Pian thought.

After getting off the plane, Zhao Ze led the team directly to the hotel sponsored by the league. Ji Jin, as an All-Star player, was arranged a room on the fifth floor separately, while the other players who weren’t selected had to pay for their own rooms and couldn’t stay with the All-Stars.

Ji Jin took his room card and carried Ji Xingxing upstairs to the fifth floor.

The league had money to burn and provided a much more luxurious hotel than MOE’s dorms. Ji Xingxing’s eyes went wide when he was carried inside.

“So big, Daddy!” Ji Xingxing flapped his short legs, wanting to walk, but only dared to move around near Ji Jin, afraid to touch anything else. “Big house, pretty!”

Ji Jin lifted Ji Xingxing by his leash to the bed and sat him down, then squatted next to the bed to take off the boy’s shoes and wiped his hands with a wet wipe.

While wiping his son’s soft little hands, Ji Jin softly asked, “Xingxing, do you like the big house or our little house better?”

“Like the little house,” Ji Xingxing raised both hands, waiting for his dad to finish wiping. “Because Daddy is there.”

Ji Jin was momentarily stunned, then smiled, “What if Daddy was also in the big house?”

“Both are good,” Ji Xingxing said instinctively, then tilted his head and looked puzzled, “Big house can’t find Daddy.”

“Too big a house means you can’t find Daddy?” Ji Jin rubbed his son’s little head. Even though he was so small, his words sounded heavy with thought.

“What if there was one more person in the house?” Ji Jin asked again.

This was beyond Ji Xingxing’s thinking range. The little baby pondered for a long time and eventually forgot what Ji Jin had asked.

“Daddy hug,” Ji Xingxing stretched out his chubby little arms and hummed softly.

Ji Jin took off his jacket and hugged the little bundle who smelled of milk. Ji Xingxing, rarely able to be held like this lately, quickly buried himself in Ji Jin’s arms and gave a loud kiss sound.

“Such a spoiled brat,” Ji Jin pinched Ji Xingxing’s little nose.

The boy hummed again like a kitten asking for attention, looking sleepy after a half-day of flying.

The little baby smelled of milk and was soft and tender, his plump little face like jelly, squishy and bouncy.

Ji Jin put Ji Xingxing down on the bed and lay beside him, coaxing him to sleep.

Hearing Ji Xingxing say that made Ji Jin suddenly feel uncertain. Since the press conference, he’d been thinking about Lu Yao’s proposal — after all, they had slept together before. He came back to play the game seriously and win championships. Lu Yao’s path didn’t require marking, wasn’t binding, and was purely give-and-take. It didn’t seem bad.

Also, he had to consider Ji Xingxing’s future.

After all… he couldn’t always hide Ji Xingxing’s origins.

 

Author’s note:

God Ji: Hesitating whether to try being a friends-with-benefits

Spoiled Ji Xingxing: No way, no one can come between me and Daddy!

 

 

 

 

 

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