Xiao Yi paused as his eyes met Xiao Qiu’s, his left arm was supporting his side already as he was about to curl up on the bed once more but it stiffened.

He blinked.

Xiao Qiu blinked.

Xiao Yi shot back up and scurried off the bed, nearly falling over himself as his feet hit the cool ground. His hands shook slightly as he affirmed. “You’re awake.”

Not even thirty seconds later, he was being pushed out of the room as the resident doctor, a few nurses, and two policemen entered, likely hoping to get Xiao Qiu’s statement from that night.

V stood next to him and sighed in relief. “He woke up just in time to reign you in.”

Reign in…

Xiao Yi groaned and didn’t grace V with a response as he walked through the hospital corridors once more with a noticeable bounce in his step.

Xiao Qiu was awake.

But…

He’d have to explain his actions later on.

He hummed and entered the elevator with V following him.

Why not add to the damage before Xiao Qiu gets the detailed list of all the trouble he’d made, though?

The two swiftly headed to the apartment but took drastically different paths. V, likely the one who lost the most sleep through these few days, practically ran to his room and crash-landed on his bed without changing into pajamas.

Xiao Yi also sat on his bed, using the laptop that’d been placed on his nightstand to scroll through the trending topics. The public was indeed not stupid, they were like little detectives on their own and had practically confirmed that Xiao Yi was the little boy getting beaten up in the video, the little brother who slept on Q’s stream, and Frost.

The little streamers' video from the other day wasn’t solid evidence on its own, but as viewers combed through old footage they were able to pinpoint 3 images together.

Taken from Royal Road, this narrative should be reported if found on Amazon.

A screenshot from the trending video with a small line drawn over by an editor pinpointing the scar's approximate location.

A screenshot from Xiao Qiu’s stream showed Xiao Yi’s sweater ridden up slightly before Xiao Qiu panicked and pulled it down.

Lastly, a clip from one of Mu Yichen’s old streams had only a few viewers who weren’t paying attention to the camera as Mu Yichen sneaked behind an enemy player. In the background, Xiao Yi could be seen leaning back in his chair for just a moment as he lifted his shirt and wiped at his neck.

It took nearly ten hours for viewers to connect the dots.

‘Smart little detectives.’

He hummed as he scrolled through some of the comments.

[Frost = Sleeping God = Young Master… I’m conflicted.]

[No wonder he turned out to be scum with parents like those.]

[Although he was harmed, it doesn’t make what he did right. He has loose morals but he’s an adult now, is Xiao Qiu still standing beside him despite knowing his character?]

[Above has a good point… Frost’s misdeeds are known everywhere, he’s an esports player himself, so how can he support him?]

[I feel betrayed. I hate Frost but I’ve been gushing over Sleeping God as a mother fan for so long.]

With lowered eyes, Xiao Yi looked through the photos saved on his cloud and began his work. His fingers fluttered over the keys without pause and three minutes later, a large text was posted with ten photos attached.

[X-Frost]: “I didn’t scam my previous teammates, I didn’t steal their money, I didn’t knowingly cooperate with the company to abandon them, and I received no money by disbanding the team.

What I did do was knowingly deceive them and let them believe these things.

Before I go on, I’d like to state that I am knowingly breaking part of a contract and I will pay the fines… If the Xiao Group feels like having our home issues aired in another courtroom.

After our team won the world championship, the company was planning to sell off our contracts to the highest bidders overseas. We had signed five-year contracts and it was up to the company to decide what to do with them, whether they kept or sold them was their decision and we would have to follow it.

I made a deal with the devil, my biological parents, you can see the photo of the contract below.

Also linked below, are the disownment paper between me and the Xiao family, signed on the same day.

The reason Team X disbanded was because of the message exchange between my teammates and another company that was ongoing whilst I was signing the contract.

Team X was disbanded before I stepped foot out the door. Again, not their fault as I didn’t properly inform them of the contract as I had no knowledge of the conditions beforehand.

You can also see the contract I signed allowing a portion of my earnings to be split between the four members of my team, along with some text message threads with the staff.

That’s all. Don’t question my brother’s morals or put your opinions of me onto him, he is his own person, not a clone of me.”

With that, Xiao Yi cleared his name so his brother wouldn’t have troubles in the future because of him whilst simultaneously breaking the esports circle.

If he thought about it clearly - wasn't this all Lee's fault? He wouldn't have walked in with a mask if it wasn't suggested by him!

Ah, he was set up.