Zhang Xinjie x Reader

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You went over the blueprints and rubbed your eyes.

Stars, stars were all you could see.

You felt tired, exhausted and all sorts in shambles craving for your bed.

Yet here you were at 10.50pm, still working. Training late, even doing an all-nighter was nothing for a pro player but you weren't one, so screw that.

Usually, working in R&D meant you could leave earlier but lately that wasn't the case. Ever since the championship started, it meant nights and nights of overworking.

Especially with a punctual demon of a vice-captain Zhang Xinjie! Of course, because of the latest match, he was shaken up, not that he'd show it on his blank and expressionless face. So, he wanted to do extra research and sent all of the map data and new weapon ideas to the R&D department.

They went over it many times, how much more thorough can a human being get?

10.54- a knock on the door. Speak of the devil.

Zhang Xinjie appeared- so brief before his bedtime, you were surprised.

"Any progress?"

You shook your head.

"I see, you should go to bed early. Leave it for tomorrow. It's almost 11."

"11 is your bedtime, vice-captain. It has nothing to do with us common folk," you yawned.

"It doesn't seem like your body wants to go against this rule," Zhang Xinjie pulled his glasses up.

He looked through the blueprint and then gave you a little smile, "I'm sorry, I'm making you work so much."

"It's fine, the other guys have their own stuff to do," you waved his apology away.

Zhang Xinjie stood in the door frame, the light from the hallway illuminated him while you sat in the gloomy dark. He really looked like an other-worldly being.

"Oh, by the way, can you give this to captain Wen-" you looked through the mess of documents on the table before he cut you off.

"It's almost 11, I need to be exactly at 11 in bed, still need to brush my teeth, change myself an-"

You face-palmed.

He actually left in the middle of the conversation, the audacity he had! Unbelievable!

Frustrated you got up and made your way, quite reluctant, to the training room to talk to Wenqing.

Ah, that vice-captain could be so much more useful if he didn't have this habit. You shook your head and entered the lion's den.

The next day:

It was 9 am. You slowly made your way to the department. You didn't sleep much and yet you felt like it wasn't too little to make you hallucinate like this!

When you opened the door to the room, you had to blink quite a few times to be really sure you were properly alive at the moment to witness this scene.

Zhang Xinjie stood there at the table and seemed like he waited for you. He checked his watch and said:

"You're late, it's already 9 am."

You dropped your face, you couldn't deal with this, what was he doing here so early?

"No one's here, so why are you picking on me?"

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