Jian Rong had duo queued with Lu Boyuan before, so it was fine even if he played with him on his main account, as long as he didn’t reveal the fact that he was at TTC’s base.
Lu Boyuan invited him to party and asked, “Do you want to let your fans know? When your livestream was suddenly stopped before, quite a few people ca to ask about it on my Weibo.”
Jian Rong instantly rembered that top comnt he had seen before.
At that ti, he had reported the comnt using two different accounts, but up until now he still hadn’t managed to successfully get that comnt taken down.
But, did Road also look at Weibo comnts?
Didn’t they say that these professional players didn’t really go to their own comnt sections and discussion forums to seek out abuse??
“No need. It’s been so long since I last stread, they should’ve all moved on to other people’s streams.” Jian Rong swiftly chose the roles that he wanted to play, wanting to quickly move on from this topic. “I’m ready.”
Lu Boyuan gave an “en” and started the livestream before entering matchmaking.
Their in-ga voice chat was on, so Jian Rong turned off his mic.
Upon entering the ga, Jian Rong saw that he was fourth to choose.
He had just finished banning when he heard Lu Boyuan say, “Your fans are all AFKing here in my livestream room.”
There was a trace of laughter in his voice, and it sounded like he didn’t actually mind it.
Usually, Jian Rong always wore his headphones crookedly; he didn’t like to wear them properly, disliking the stuffy feeling.
He tugged his headphones up a bit, thoroughly concealing his burning ears.
[Just Watch My Gaplay: I don’t have any fans, even if I do they’re all anti-fans.]
After sending that line, Jian Rong still couldn’t resist pulling up StarTV’s website. He created a new side account in half a minute, and he saw Lu Boyuan’s livestream the mont he entered the recomndation page.
Normally, Lu Boyuan was too lazy to co up with a stream na, so it was always the system’s default “TTC ་ Road’s Livestream Room”.
But today—
[TTC ་ Road: Duo Q, with Soft.]
Jian Rong: “…”
His heart thumped wildly, and he stared blankly at it for a few seconds before clicking on it.
The club’s equipnt was much better than his outdated computer at ho. Even as the barrage flew across like an army ten thousand strong, his interface perford as crisply and smoothly as before, no lag whatsoever.
[??? Why are these two people duo Q’ing together again?]
[Damn, this unfilial son. In order to help him hold on to Road, Dad camped out in God Lu’s livestream room every day, specifically targeting that crowd of girlfriend fans. And then he calls Dad an anti-fan??]
[Who is Soft ah. Where did all these people called “Soft’s Dear Dad1”, “Soft’s Ancestor” co from? Tieba? Why do they speak so unpleasantly? Can the room mod do sothing?]
[Little swallow, dressed cheerfully, coming here every spring. You ask the swallow why it cos, the swallow says, mind your own business2.]
[The swallow says, never you mind where your dad cos from.]
[The little dumbass definitely created a new side account and is spying on us in Road’s livestream. Let dig him out.]
Who the hell is spying on you all!
Jian Rong’s side account was originally called “Jian Er3”. After he saw that comnt, he silently opened his profile and randomly changed the ID to a string of nonsense characters.
After switching back to the ga, he saw that Road had picked Rengar.
Rengar, also known as “Lion Dog,” could cause explosive damage by staying in the brush; it was equally reliant on snowballing. As players put it, Rengar was “a lion during a tailwind, a dog during a headwind.” Whenever this champion killed soone, the enemy mid laner and ADC would feel their hearts tremble.
Because this champion couldn’t engage or run away easily, he rarely made an appearance in competitions.
[Really playing Lion Dog!!!]
[I’m not exaggerating, this is the first ti I’ve seen a pro player pick Lion Dog this year. I even thought that this champ was about to be removed.]
[Road actually also knows how to play this kind of brainless champion?]
Lu Boyuan finished adjusting his runes and said lazily, “It’s been a long ti.”
Usually, Lu Boyuan didn’t talk a lot, and it was the sa when he was streaming. If he was in a good mood, he would answer a few comnts in the barrage that he happened to see; if he was in a bad mood, he might not say a single word during an entire ga.
But that didn’t affect his livestream’s popularity at all. After only streaming for a few minutes, he effortlessly shot up to the top of the popularity ranking.
It was Jian Rong’s turn to pick a champion. Since it was still his probationary period, he subconsciously treated this ranked ga as a part of the tryouts.
[Just Watch My Gaplay: What should I play?]
A sea of question marks floated across the barrage.
[Soft can’t be the one on his account right??]
[You need to teach you how to play this ga?]
[You need to teach you how to play this ga?]
“Anything works.” Lu Boyuan glanced at the barrage and saw what they were spamming. “What does ‘you need to teach you how to play this ga’ an.”
Jian Rong: “…”
A few months ago, an unthinking accompanying player platform had sought Jian Rong out for an .
For the publicity, the platform had arranged for a girl to duo queue with Jian Rong. The girl’s voice was sweet and tender, and she was good at acting spoiled; she could coax her boss until they obeyed her every word. She had hesitated on the champion pick phase for a few dozen seconds before she had asked, “Gege, what champion should I play?”
At the ti, Jian Rong had been eating noodles, and he had frowned, puzzled, when he heard that. He had blurted out— “You need to teach you how to play this ga?”
Jian Rong locked in LeBlanc, the Deceiver, and was about to say “I don’t know” when he saw that crowd of “Soft Ancestors,” bearing his livestream room’s icon, flood the barrage with the entire sequence of events in a few short seconds.
Lu Boyuan chuckled ambiguously. “So it’s like that…”
He heard the person sitting behind him type furiously away on his keyboard.
After typing unceasingly for half a minute—
[Just Watch My Gaplay: No need to gank mid during early ga.]
Lu Boyuan said, “I’ll co after level 6.”
[Who’s that typing behind God Lu? APM so fast.]
[The ID of the enemy mid laner is a little familiar?]
[Oh damn God Lu and Kongkong crashed cars!!]
Lu Boyuan hadn’t paid attention to the other side’s IDs when loading into the ga, and he had just finished killing a monster when soone from the other team spoke in the all chat.
[[All] Empty Without You4: Ge, are you solo Q? Want to team up after this ga ends? Let’s climb together QAQ]
Kongkong, MFG’s mid laner, was just under twenty years old and was one of the LPL’s fairly popular new mid laners in the past few years. He had pulled off quite a few outstanding performances in his recent competitions, successfully attracting much attention from the fans.
[[All] Road: Double Q]
Kongkong looked at the enemy’s IDs and, after confirming that no TTC mbers were present, he asked doubtfully: [With who?]
[[All] Road: Our mid laner]
Jian Rong hadn’t expected Road to use “our mid laner” as his introduction.
It was definitely just sothing typed without much thought, with no extra aning to it.
As he thought that, he lowered his eyes and read that line one more ti.
[[All] Kongkong5: This mid’s ID is a bit familiar ah.]
Half a minute later, Kongkong finally recalled who the other person was.
[[All] Kongkong: Ge……. blink twice if you’ve been kidnapped.]
Right after Kongkong sent that ssage, the enemy mid laner’s LeBlanc suddenly used W to dash forward and land a combo on him. He quickly retreated and consud a health potion to recover; he was about to say sothing else when that person spoke first—
[[All] Just Watch My Gaplay: ?]
Amidst Kongkong’s confusion, Soft’s anti-fan army dropped out of the sky.
[Allow to translate the aning of my son’s question mark: Shut up dumbass.]
[A little clearer: You talking about your mom?]
“…eh, I’m going to play properly, so I won’t interact with the barrage for now.” Kongkong coughed lightly. “I definitely have to win God Lu’s points this ga.”
Kongkong felt a bit gloomy after being attacked by the other person’s fans for no reason whatsoever, and he secretly wanted to recover so face from the enemy mid laner.
He had heard things about this strear before, and their team’s jungler had once praised this person. But no matter what his level of strength was, it could only be at a strear’s level. If he was really all that powerful, he definitely would’ve been scooped up by so professional club a long ti ago.
In addition, he was currently playing Lissandra, who had CC, self-defense abilities, and was very good at restraining assassin-type champions like LeBlanc. The teammates that he had matched with this ga also had decent win rates, and their team composition was pretty good, so if he played seriously it should be fairly easy to win.
But that thought of his was annihilated in less than fifteen minutes.
After the third ti his team’s jungler was jointly stealth-killed by LeBlanc and Lion Dog, the jungler finally couldn’t take it anymore and started to swear out loud.
“Didn’t their mid laner just go back to base?” Kongkong frowned. “When did he invade our jungle?”
Once that happened a few tis, Kongkong no longer sat around and waited for death. With his support, he slipped into the underbrush next to the enemy’s raptor camp, wanting to stealth-kill LeBlanc.
Not long after, Soft leisurely entered the jungle. Kongkong imdiately used his E skill to teleport to Soft while simultaneously tossing out his ult, wanting to stun him.
Unexpectedly, the mont that his ice was about to freeze on the enemy’s body, Soft instantly used his Stopwatch6. After the 2.5 second period passed, he turned around and instakilled the glass cannon support next to Kongkong, so fast that Kongkong didn’t even have ti to react.
Lastly, Lu Boyuan promptly arrived and coordinated with Soft to take Kongkong’s head.
[[All] Just Watch My Gaplay: ?]
[Allow to translate the aning of my son’s question mark: Just who are you trying to stealth-kill here?]
[A little clearer: Does soone like you even deserve to enter my family’s jungle?]
Kongkong: “…”
Can you crowd of Soft fans quickly leave.
When the ga ended, Kongkong’s score was 3/7/9, and he was the team’s SVP7.
Their ADC was even more tragic. Because of God Lu and Soft, he ended up with a 1/13/2 score, and he had already gone into seclusion on the spot.
Lu Boyuan returned to the lobby and was about to re-enter matchmaking, when he saw that Kongkong had joined his livestream at so unknown point in ti and had sent him gifts too.
Lu Boyuan almost never expressed thanks for gifts—he received way too many of them, so he would never finish thanking people if he did.
When he saw the familiar ID, Lu Boyuan said mildly, “Thank you for the gift. Don’t send any more, waste of money.”
[MFG-Kongkong: Ge QAQ I lost 16 points]
Lu Boyuan didn’t respond. His eyes were lowered as he read a few comnts that floated across the bottom of the screen—
[You start reciting a thank you speech just because Kongkong sent two Sea of Stars? Then what about those dozen or so Sea of Stars my son sent before??]
[My poor, lowly son. Can’t bear to switch out a computer that he’s been using for several years already, yet after smashing out the gift money that he diligently and frugally scraped together, he can’t even hear a single echo in return.]
[My heart hurts for that little dumbass.]
[Son, don’t be a bootlicker again in the next life, okay?]
After the ga still didn’t start, Jian Rong saw those comnts, and he pressed his head against his arms, his face burning fiercely.
In the future, he was definitely going to hold a fan et and greet.
Go carrying a knife.
Slaughter as many as he could.
“Thank you, Soft, for the eleven Sea of Stars.”
The man’s low and deep voice interrupted the swearing in Jian Rong’s mind.
“I didn’t look too closely before,” Lu Boyuan laughed, “I wasn’t ignoring it deliberately, don’t hold it against .”
Clang.
The spectators all heard the sound of a heavy object falling to the ground. Following close after, a cup slowly rolled out behind Lu Boyuan.
Ten seconds later, a slender arm appeared in the background of the video.
Jian Rong was afraid of entering the shot, so he strenuously covered his face and flailed his arm around energetically before finally managing to snatch his water cup back.
Besides ‘Dear Dad’ there isn’t really a good English translation for this that I could think of. Literally in Chinese it’s 亲爹 (qin die) which is supposed to an ‘blood-related father’, as in they’re saying they’re Soft’s actual dad, but it sounds really odd any way you translate it. Qin also ans ‘dear’, though, so I just left it at that ^I cannot do this line justice in English but I promise you it is so funny in Chinese. The original base is a children’s song called Little Swallow, but the fan alters the ending of the rhy into a very abrupt “GTFO” kind of thing. The original line: 小燕子，穿花衣，年年春天来这里，你问燕子为啥来，燕子说，管好你自己。^Rong 茸 without the 艹 becos 耳 (er). He uses a different character for Jian too (简 beca 间) but sa pronunciation (different tone) ^Play on words with Kongkong’s na, the ‘kong’ can an ‘empty’ ^I also don’t know why Kongkong’s ID suddenly changed to this LOL ^LoL equipnt: renders the user invulnerable to all damage for 2.5 seconds; the user is also unable to move or use spells/abilities during the period ^MVP of the losing team ^
Wei: Soft’s fans are truly the MVPs of this novel HAHA
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