Lin Jing stared at the screenshot Sheng Kuang sent for a long time, then suddenly brought the phone to her lips and let out an inexplicable laugh.
Lan Tingting, sleeping beside her, heard her laugh and glanced over, "Xiao Jing, what are you grinning about?"
Lin Jing tried her best to press her lips together to hold back the laughter, but after a few seconds, she couldn't resist anymore. She buried her head in the quilt and giggled again.
...
After forming their CPs, Lin Jing felt that the biggest change between her and Sheng Kuang was the increased frequency of their WeChat conversations.
Sheng Kuang would message her every morning when he woke up, and if she replied, he would always respond. Back and forth, if you counted, their chats, aside from sleep, had barely stopped.
Sometimes he was busy with training and didn't have time to reply, but after training ended, no matter how late, he would still reply.
In the beginning, it was all text chats, then it evolved to voice messages, and later Sheng Kuang would send her photos from his end, or some videos.
After the second round of matches concluded, teams that dropped to Group B were directly eliminated. The upcoming third round of matches would determine the playoff groupings. The competition venue, as before, was not in Beijing. Sheng Kuang and his team flew to Shanghai on Wednesday of the second week, and to avoid their performance being affected by constant travel, they stayed in Shanghai thereafter.
In short, after Sheng Kuang and Lin Jing parted ways at the airport that day, they basically had no opportunities to meet, but Lin Jing knew about his daily life.
Lin Jing had always felt that in some aspects, she was quite passive. When she had Sheng Kuang's WeChat, she really wanted to chat with him, but she had too many reservations, worried about disturbing him, worried about appearing like an obsessive fan, and had never dared to initiate contact.
After Sheng Kuang took the initiative, she gradually let go of these worries. Perhaps influenced by him, she slowly started sharing some of her daily life with him.
For example, reading in the library, the maple leaves turning red on campus, or Beijing's first snowfall, or her getting a cute little duckling...
In the third round of matches, the yLs team performed as steadily as ever.
When yLs entered Group S, many people online said that the level of Group B and Group A was too low. With Sheng Kuang and Chen Jing, two star players, who had known each other and trained together for many years, their synergy was unbeatable. If they couldn't win with this, they might as well retire. In the esports circle, results spoke for everything. You only earned the right to speak by defeating others.
So, no matter how much yLs fans tried to argue that their team was strong, it was futile.
As the third round of matches progressed, the yLs team first defeated Li Ran's hjC team with a score of 3:2, and then defeated last year's kpL Autumn Championship winner, CeC, with a score of 3:1. The doubts from people online about the yLs team began to decrease, and more and more people started to favor the yLs team.
Group S had a total of six teams. yLs had won four consecutive matches, meaning that since the start of the Autumn Championship, the yLs team had not lost a single match up to this point.
In this Autumn Championship, there was another team that had also not been defeated.
That was Sheng Kuang's former team, the gdt team.
Coincidentally with the yLs team, before encountering yLs in the third round of matches, the gdt team had also won four matches in Group S.
Even more coincidentally, the total points for both teams were the same.
It was as if a script had been written in advance; the number of wins and losses for both teams was exactly the same.
When Sheng Kuang was with gdt, his grievances with Yang Sinian had been a constant online topic. Although Sheng Kuang had now established his own team, he had come from gdt.
With both teams having impressive records, yLs's four consecutive wins in Group S had already made them one of the most likely contenders for this year's kpL Autumn Championship title.
Whether from the perspective of past grievances or the current clash of strong teams, the encounter between these two teams had become the biggest hype in kpL.
The match order was determined by a draw. The more everyone anticipated something, the later it would arrive.
There were only three matches left in Group S, and the last one was between yLs and gdt.
With a week left before the two teams competed, many people online were already looking forward to it. This match was undoubtedly the first major highlight of the kpL Autumn Championship.
The two undefeated teams were about to face each other, and whoever lost would be the first to break their winning streak.
Sheng Kuang's and Yang Sinian's fans, who were already at odds, were now engaged in a fierce online battle. In short, virtually every major forum and super topic in the entire esports circle was discussing yLs and gdt.
Sheng Kuang, with his large female fanbase, ensured that yLs's support rate did not fall behind gdt.
At this time, various marketing accounts were also jumping on the bandwagon. About two days before the match, a marketing account broke the news about a training match between yLs and gdt.
The two teams only played two games. The third game could not be concluded because the gdt base experienced a network outage. The first two games saw gdt completely dominate yLs in the first game. The reason yLs won the second game was pure luck, as gdt hadn't banned any heroes, essentially going easy on yLs.
This revelation immediately made gdt's fans proud and confident, leading to rampant boasting and mockery of yLs. The already high heat surrounding the upcoming match between the two teams surged, and this incident directly propelled it to trending status.
#yLs Utterly Defeated by gdt in Training Match#