CHAPTER 89
[fhdjwhdb2333: Shorty.]
[rabbit holds tight of carrots: What?]
[fhdjwhdb2333: Your account is back to Master again, come play duo with daddy.]
[rabbit holds tight of carrots:..........I'll change my password tomorrow. Lu Yue logs onto my account everyday to mess it up. I still want to get to the top on the Korean server. What is he up to!]
[fhdjwhdb2333: Get back to Challenger first, come.]
Lu Sicheng put down his cell phone and turned to look at Tong Yao's direction. Tong Yao's eyes met his dark brown pupils when she looked up from her cell phone. She then put Dabing on Xiao Rui's lap and walked back to her own seat.
She suddenly had a wild idea: "Cheng Ge, let me play support for you?"
Lu Sicheng: "...Don't you want to be the number one on the Korean server? Why play support? Trying to help the enemy team?"
Tong Yao: "Let's do it, I'm very good at support!"
Lu Sicheng twitched the corner of his lips: "As you wish."
Tong Yao used her official account and eagerly accepted Lu Sicheng's invitation to form a team. She selected support as her first choice, then mid as the second choice for her position preference. They entered the queue. Tong Yao chose Thresh as her champion. Before the match started, Lu Sicheng took a look at Tong Yao's stats-- --Number of times playing this champion: 0.
…...He thought maybe she had played Thresh while she was playing on the Chinese server.
He turned to glance at her and found Tong Yao had opened another window and was quietly asking Little Fatty about items for Thresh…...She seemed to sense Lu Sicheng was looking at her and quickly clicked back to the game. She asked uneasily: "Gee, what are you looking at me for? Look at your own computer!"
Lu Sicheng: "..."
Lu Sicheng spoke slowly as if he was talking to a disabled person: "Thresh's q can hook the enemy, you do know that, right?"
Tong Yao: "I'm a god at Thresh, don't talk."
It took quite a while for the god at Thresh to find her items at the beginning of the match. Judging from how clumsily Tong Yao played Thresh, Lu Sicheng could tell this support was at best a Silver player and mentally prepared himself to play a 1v3-- --
Just as he had anticipated, he had to play a 1v3.
Farming, which he could usually do at a leisurely pace, was nothing like he was used to. Not only did he have to watch out for the enemy's AD, he also had to keep a watchful eye on his own support. When he wasn't paying attention-- --
Lu Sicheng made a hissing sound and kept pinging on the map: "Give my siege minion back to me."
"Out of habit." Tong Yao shrank her neck: "When I saw a weakened siege minion, I couldn't let it go."
"You're ramping the difficulty of the match for me."
"You won't even let me have a siege minion."
Lu Sicheng grabbed his car key which was hanging on the ear of a lucky cat and put in on Tong Yao's deck: "I can give you the car out there, but not the siege minion."
"Alright, from now on that fancy blue Maserati has the last name Tong."
"Take it. If you ever take my siege minion again, I'll break your leg."
"..."
Tong Yao's support and Lu Sicheng's ad weren't coordinated at all. They'd played for fifteen minutes, but the laning phase hadn't ended yet-- --They were able to last for 15 minutes because of Lu Sicheng's efforts. Otherwise, bot would have been taken over long ago thanks to Tong Yao fighting for resources with her own team's ad from time to time...
Within those 15 minutes, Lu Sicheng suggested three times that Tong Yao should just roam the map and two times for Tong Yao to go AFK. One time he even suggested to let Little Fatty finish playing the rest of the match-- --
By the 20th minute, Lu Sicheng bent over to check Tong Yao's internet cable.
He wanted to unplug it.
The match lasted for 40 minutes. In the late game, once the laning phase had ended, Lu Sicheng avoided his support like the plague throughout the rest of the match. Wherever the support went, he would go to the other end of the map. When the match ended, they naturally lost. During the match, Lu Sicheng struggled but didn't go back to base and go AFK. When their base was being ripped to shreds, Lu Sicheng said meaningfully: "Don't ever let me see you as support again."
"...I'm tired of playing mid and just wanted to have a change of pace."
"Alright, please get lost at top then."
"..."
Tong Yao had heard that playing League of Legends, more than any other game, together was the most likely thing to cause a breakup. In order to not lose her boyfriend, she changed her position preference back to mid when then queued up for another match.
When they were waiting to get on a match, Tong Yao leaned back in her chair to play with her cell phone. A short time later, Lu Sicheng's cell phone lit up.
[rabbit holds tight of carrots: Won't even let me have a siege minion, I can't feel any warmth from a boyfriend.]
[fhdjwhdb2333: If it was anyone else playing support that way, I would have gone back to the fountain within 5 minutes and gone AFK there.]
[fhdjwhdb2333: If you smash my car now, I would be concerned whether you've hurt your hand or not-- --But this is about the siege minion, it's a matter of principle.]
[rabbit holds tight of carrots: Then next match I'll play Ezreal, give me the red buff.]
[fhdjwhdb2333: First warning.]
[fhdjwhdb2333: Don't go overstepping the line, you'll soon lose your boyfriend.]
[rabbit holds tight of carrots: ......…..Alright, alright, alright, my fault.]
[fhdjwhdb2333: No, it's only that you're having a self-awareness problem. God at Thresh, that's my fault.]
[rabbit holds tight of carrots: What do you mean?]
[fhdjwhdb2333: Love makes a man blind.]
Tong Yao: "..."
Tong Yao couldn't believe how flirty Lu Sichung could be. Compared to the seriousness he exhibited before, Tong Yao was a little concerned that her captain might have been pent-up for too long-- --
Behind them, Lu Yue noticed that Lu Sicheng and Tong Yao had stopped talking after one match. Lu Yue curiously turned to take a glance and found both of them looking down at their cell phones on their seats. Lu Yue raised his eyebrow and asked: "What happened? You two stopped being friends?"
Tong Yao confusedly looked up: "What?"
Lu Sicheng didn't even look up: "Be quiet, I'm busy."
Lu Yue: "What are you busy with?"
Lu Sicheng: "I'm taming my wife."
Tong Yao's hand shook and the phone dropped on her lap. Lu Yue had a change of expression on his face: "You're playing porn games?"
Tong Yao: "Pervert?"
Lu Yue: "Pervert!"
...
Tong Yao played duo with Lu Sicheng for 4 matches that night. She lost all four matches.
Tong Yao thought that the power of love was more powerful than she had imagined. Now she finally realized why her teacher in high school warned them against having a relationship too early. It not only interfered with their ability to study, but would also make a Challenger fall to Diamond one...
At midnight, Tong Yao finally had enough and logged off. She turned off her computer and went upstairs to get ready for bed. She checked the cat nest and found the two cats were huddling together inside. Dabing was sound asleep with Xiao Cong nestled against Dabing, also sleeping comfortably.
They looked very cute together.
Tong Yao took out her cell phone to take a picture of the two cats to send to Lu Sicheng. Then she turned to go into the bathroom…...Twenty minutes later, Tong Yao was sitting on the bed to put on body lotion and noticed from the corner of her eye that there was a reply from Lu Sicheng on her phone-- --
[fhdjwhdb2333: Cats have a better life than me.]
Tong Yao stopped what she was doing and couldn't help herself from smiling, her eyes turning into crescents. She took up the cell phone to ask Lu Sicheng what was wrong with him now.
Lu Sicheng's reply came after a little while-- --
[fhdjwhdb2333: Even a cat can sleep with his wife in his arms.]
[ZGDX, smiling: Dabing is an eunuch.]
[fhdjwhdb2333: Even an eunuch cat can sleep with his wife in his arms.]
[ZGDX, smiling: Xiao Cong is the little brother.]
[fhdjwhdb2333: Even an eunuch cat can sleep with his little eunuch wife in his arms.]
[ZGDX, smiling: And you, all you have is League of Legends.]
[fhdjwhdb2333: ...]
Tong Yao put down her cell phone and stopped talking nonsense with Lu Sicheng. She dried her hair and climbed into her bed. She checked her messages on WeChat while lying under the blanket. She noticed that Jinyang didn't leave any messages for her, which seemed rather unusual. She sent an emoji to tease Jinyang, then left WeChat to check some gossip on Tieba-- --
She indeed found one post which had some connection to her own club.
[Thanks to Xu Tailun, professional clubs have started making changes to how they manage their players. YQCB was the first one to set a curfew: players are not allowed to go out on their own after 10 pm]
OP: I understand some Korean. Today when I was watching Lu Sicheng's stream, he asked Li Junhe to go out to have a drink. Li Junhe told Lu Sicheng that because of his comments during the interview, now YQCB has made major changes and is forbidding players to go out by themselves after 10 pm during work days!
Shit, isn't that something!
Isn't it like being in a jail? Every night after they close the door at base, everyone could study for the college entrance exam and a few years later, after they win the championship, it would be like a piece of cake for them to get in Qinghua and Beijing universities, hahahahahahahahahaha!]
Most of the comments underneath all thought it was a good thing and praised the club for doing so. Tong Yao kept looking, then the opinions seemed to have changed somewhat. Someone suggested-- --
[I totally agree with what Lu Sicheng said. In reality, it isn't just the problem with the Korean help. Some of the Chinese players are also having affairs with their fans, with the advantage of speaking the same language, hehe...]
[That's right, that's right.]
[No need to praise that relegation team, YQCB. Take their mid, Ai Jia, for example, his girlfriend shows up at their base all the time. It seems that she isn't staff there. She's pretty, but doesn't seem to be working. I figure she probably lives off Ai Jia?]
[Ai Jia is good looking too.]
[Don't talk that way. It looks to me that Ai Jia and that girl are in a normal relationship.]
[It would be something if it's a normal relationship. Would any 20 year old girl wear luxury items all over her? Don't speak up if you don't recognize those luxury brands. One of the handbags on Ai Jia's girlfriend could pay for your food bills for a whole year.]
[Shit, are you for real? Xixixi, how much money does Ai Jia spend on his girlfriend. He would lose everything if she kicked him off after he retires.]
After reading up to this point, Tong Yao finally knew why Jinyang was so quiet tonight.
These overzealous people suspected that all relationships with players were improper affairs.
Tong Yao used her alternate id and commented under one of the posts which claimed that Ai Jia had to eat dirt and drink tap water in order to support his girlfriend: "Bullshit, that girl's monthly spending money is more than what you can make in 10 years." Then she received a message from Jinyang on WeChat-- --
[Ah Mao's mom: I got brought into this wave of gossip. You'd probably go down the rabbit hole if you see them. But I suggest that you don't go on Tieba and lower yourself to their level.]
Tong Yao thought about what she said and didn't know how to reply.
She switched gears and continued her battle on Tieba.
Then she suddenly saw a comment-- --
[Women are dreadful. I'm glad Cheng Ge is still single. I don't want any woman to influence his professional performance. I beg all men and women to do me a favor and stay away from him.]
Tong Yao: "..."
Tong Yao put down her cell phone and pulled her hair behind her ears.
She thought about it for a while then covered herself with the blanket. It was the first time she felt that declaring she had a normal and pure relationship was even more difficult than coming out of the closet.