The day he said those words, everyone thought he was joking.
It wasn't common for Xiao Yi to speak so much, and even his eyes were taken over in a veil of anger as if he were angry at them for making him spell his thoughts out for them.
Hence, when he stormed out of the meeting room that day and didn't return to say it was a prank, the realization finally began to set in, especially as they collected the torn-up contracts from the ground.
When the staff came to tell them about the company closing down, that's when his words finally finished setting in and they packed up their bags to leave.
At the time, no one realized that Xiao Yi's suitcase was lying in the kitchen. They just stormed past him when they left, throwing their own choice words at him.
Ji Wangshu looked at the words he'd written down and then looked at the group again. "So, you didn't mean what you said?"
Didn't mean what he said?
Xiao Yi thought about it and said. "It wasn't all a lie. I really didn't want to see them again, I was angry too."
"Why were you angry?"
"They didn't tell me they were looking at other teams to buy up our contracts, it's a taboo in the esports industry to begin with but it was because they didn't communicate with me."
Li Hao slammed his hand down. "If we told you, do you think you would have agreed? We wanted to surprise you, asshole."
Xiao Yi raised his hands. "I didn't say I don't understand!"
Ji Wangshu clapped his hands together. "So there are some trust issues, what else?"
Tang An sat forward. "I'm pissed at him, pissed at myself, and pissed at my friends, what should I do?"
"Why are you pissed at yourself?"
"Well, I didn't stop and think that Xiao Yi might have been hiding something. It's pretty well known that he's a non-confrontational type of person, but we believed him so easily and I wish we looked into it more after it happened."
"What do you want to do?"
Tang An's eyes flickered. "I want things to go back to normal."
The therapy session ended after that, with a promise to do another one, but no one talked on the drive back to the apartments, everyone evidently lost in their own thoughts.
Instead of bringing Xiao Yi back with them, they dropped him off in front of his apartment building bringing a deep sense of loss as he watched the car exit the parking lot.
He didn't know if he'd see them again, but at least he gave them his new phone number.
By the time he made his way to his apartment, he found that the door had been replaced and a note was stuck to the door that said. 'Go next door for the key, thank you for not turning us in.'
He turned to the door next to his and sighed.
Didn't he frame someone for destroying his apartment?
Didn't that person accept his accusation?
He knocked on the door and waited a few seconds before a man with pink hair opened the door. Seeing him, he laughed and said. "You're stronger than you look!"
Xiao Yi hummed.
He actually wasn't that strong, he just knew how to use his body effectively.
The man smiled and leaned on the door, blocking the apartment. "Are you here for your key?"
"En."
"It's actually not here, it's on top of your door frame, we just put the note there so someone would think we had it."
Xiao Yi nodded and thanked him before turning back to his own door.
Inside the apartment, the two people who'd broken into Xiao Yi's apartment sat on the couch, being questioned by the police. Xiao Qiu and Lee stood behind the police, staring down the men in front of them while the guests had all either spread out or sat around watching the show.
Letting them go? They weren't going to go back on the promise that Xiao Yi made, but they needed them to testify against the Xiao couple, hence, after they repaired the door, two cops walked out of the apartment next door and Lee stood in front of the staircase while Xiao Qiu walked out of Xiao Yi's bedroom in case they wanted to flee into the apartment.