"..."
Lin Jing touched her ears, which were starting to get warm again, and silently jumped off Sheng Kuang. After her skill cooldown, she used her ultimate to jump onto He Wang: "...Oh."
This was the game where Lin Jing died the most in one night and also the longest game she had played.
In the late game, Yang Sinian and his team played very defensively, basically guarding their crystal on the high ground.
It was clear that Yang Sinian really wanted to win against Sheng Kuang in this kind of match. Even when the game reached twenty minutes, Yang Sinian, who had been aloof throughout the entire game, finally spoke.
[All] gdt·sinian (Tachibana Ukyo): Brother Kuang, after you left gdt, I thought we wouldn't have a chance to play together anymore. I didn't expect to meet you in-game.
[All] gdt·sinian (Tachibana Ukyo): Brother Kuang, the names of the other three are quite familiar. July said they are from yLs?
[All] gdt·sinian (Tachibana Ukyo): Brother Kuang, why are you playing with them? I thought after you left gdt, you would usually play ranked matches with Li Ran and Chen Jing.
[All] gdt·sinian (Tachibana Ukyo): yLs got relegated, right? I heard two people left, and the team is about to disband. It might be difficult to even get back to kpL, right?
…
Chen Jing, who was squatting in Yang Sinian's livestream, became furious when he saw these messages.
CeC·senced: Damn, this bastard is being a scumbag again.
CeC·senced: What do you mean "won't have a chance to play together"? Is he implying you're retiring in his livestream?
CeC·senced: What's wrong with playing with these guys from yLs? Who is he looking down on? He's always spreading rumors online about your bad character, saying you're a team bully and always pick on people. He's even started to believe it himself. He's been implying that after you left gdt, Li Ran and I don't care about you anymore, and you're reduced to hanging out with the worst team in this kpL.
CeC·senced: Look at the comments in his livestream, his fans are saying some nasty things.
…
None of the three yLs members responded. They were indeed very weak last season, and they could only remain silent when being mocked.
Sheng Kuang also remained silent.
Throughout the game, apart from the sound effects, it was eerily quiet.
Lin Jing watched Yang Sinian pop up with a message every now and then, pursed her lips, and couldn't help but type.
[All] Little Jing Jing Jiang (Yao): Are you playing with your mouth?
[All] gdt·sinian (Tachibana Ukyo): ?
[All] Little Jing Jing Jiang (Yao): No need for a question mark, I'm talking about you.
Lin Jing angrily tapped on the keyboard and continued to type.
If people didn't know, they'd think your World Champion title was licked into existence with your tongue...
Before Lin Jing finished typing, Yang Sinian's crystal exploded.
…
Before playing this game, they had agreed it would be the last one. After it ended, Sheng Kuang put down his equipment and picked up his phone.
Chen Jing had sent him dozens of messages. He skipped all the rambling nonsense he had written to himself and directly looked at the newer messages.
CeC·senced: Yang Sinian is really shameless. He actually said Little Jing Jing Jiang is a girl, so he went easy on her for one round.
CeC·senced: Damn it, we've already destroyed three of his high ground towers. Does he need to go easy?
Sheng Kuang opened the screenshot Chen Jing sent, which was from Yang Sinian's livestream.
【Sheng Kuang fans, get out. This is not your territory, please don't make yourself at home everywhere!】
【Sheng Kuang's character is indeed bad. He only deserves to play with trash teams like yLs.】
【Who is that Yao? Why is she talking so stupidly?】
Perhaps to avoid his expletives from being censored into "little rice flowers," the messages mentioning Lin Jing deliberately used misspellings. Sheng Kuang stared at them for a while when his phone suddenly vibrated.
It wasn't a message from Chen Jing. He exited the chat window, and it was Xiao Mo.
gdt·momo: Bro, did you just match with Yang Sinian?
miracle: Mm.
gdt·momo: He went crazy and is cursing at you.
gdt·momo: I'll forward a chat group over to you.
Just as Sheng Kuang was about to look at the chat records, another message from Xiao Mo came in.
gdt·momo: Bro, you haven't left that group yet. Just go to the group chat to see.
As Xiao Mo reminded him, Sheng Kuang finally noticed that there was indeed a group where people were constantly talking. It was gdt's chat group. Because the group name didn't include "gdt," he had forgotten it was a gdt group.
There were many messages in the group chat. It seemed that he had left many gdt groups before, so the people inside thought he was long gone.
gdt·sinian: I'm speechless. It's just a ranked match, and someone is playing so seriously, as if they've never won before.
gdt·sinian: Maybe he hasn't been on the stage for a long time and is treating this ranked match like a real competition.
gdt·sinian: We were just playing for fun, not really serious.
gdt·sinian: If he's really that good, he should go back to kpL and we'll see each other in a real competition.
gdt·sinian: As far as I know, no team has invited him yet.
Mixed in with Yang Sinian's messages were some words of comfort from other gdt members.
Sheng Kuang leaned back in his gaming chair, lazily scrolling through the chat history to the end, then slowly typed with his fingers.
miracle: This group is quite lively.
The group chat instantly fell silent.
Three seconds later, many people started recalling their messages.
miracle: Don't recall them, I've already read them.
miracle: Just found out I'm still a moderator in this group. Everyone, my apologies.
After sending this message, Sheng Kuang directly entered the member list and began kicking people out one by one.
…
Lin Jing had been in a pretty good mood throughout the night playing with Sheng Kuang.
If it hadn't been for the last game where she matched with Yang Sinian, Lin Jing felt she would have been ecstatic.
She took a bath in a gloomy mood. After coming out, she stood at the sink, dejectedly scrubbing her underwear clean, hanging it up, and then drying her hair.
By the time she lay down in bed, it was almost midnight. She opened her phone and logged into Weibo. The first thing she saw was a Weibo forwarded by a Sheng Kuang fan, which was a heated argument between Yang Sinian's fans.
Yang Sinian's fans were defending him, saying he wasn't serious in tonight's game, and mocking Sheng Kuang for having fallen so low as to have to play with yLs, who had been relegated from kpL.
The two top comments on this Weibo were even more suffocating.
【Li Ran and Chen Jing probably don't think highly of Sheng Kuang anymore. After all, Sheng Kuang is too arrogant, and everyone has been displeased with him for a long time.】
【Rumor has it that Lan Bowen's retirement was also Sheng Kuang's fault. Pfft.】
Sheng Kuang's fans in the comments section were deleted by Yang Sinian's fans one by one. The forwarded messages couldn't be deleted, and all Sheng Kuang's fans could do was reply with insults. In the end, the argument always circled back to the same point: Yang Sinian's fans told Sheng Kuang's fans to stop showing off and let their achievements speak for themselves.
It was always like this.
The argument always ended with "let your achievements speak for themselves."
In the world of esports, without achievements, you could only be mocked.
Lin Jing felt that her mood at this moment was even more oppressive than when she was standing in the shower, rinsing with hot water.
She took a deep breath. After thinking for a long time, she couldn't come up with a single retort. This feeling of suffocation made her extremely irritable. She put down her phone, wanting to go to the balcony outside for some fresh air. As soon as she opened the glass door, her phone started ringing non-stop behind her.
It was messages from Lan Tingting, forwarding her Weibo posts.
【yLs Esports Club: First, our mid-laner Qin Yu @yLs·Qin remains unchanged. After serious consultation with the players, our former marksman Li Xiaozhou @yLs·zhou will move to the second team, and our former jungler He Wang @yLs·wang will switch to the marksman position.
Additionally, we welcome our new member @yLs·Qing Zui to join us as the team's starting top-laner.】
This was the first Weibo post from the official yLs Esports Club account.
About ten minutes later, the official yLs Esports Club account posted a second Weibo.
【yLs Esports Club: A special welcome to our new member @yLs·miracle to join us as the team's starting jungler.】
At the same moment, @yLs·miracle forwarded this Weibo post.
【@yLs·miracle: After two years, I'm back.】
Sheng Kuang not only changed his name but also his avatar.
He changed it to the avatar she had just finished drawing.
At the same time he forwarded this Weibo, the official CeC account also posted a Weibo.
【CeC Esports Club: After friendly negotiations and sincere attempts to retain the player, the club has decided to respect the player's personal wishes. After careful communication and sincere retention with player Chen Jing (original ID: @CeC·senced), the player has now transferred to yLs Esports Club.】
One minute later, the official yLs Esports Club account posted again.
【yLs Esports Club: A special welcome to our new member @yLs·senced to join us as the team's starting support.】
【@yLs·senced forwarded this Weibo: A new family, a new beginning.】
Lin Jing finished reading the Weibo posts Lan Tingting had forwarded. Without replying to Lan Tingting, she exited WeChat and entered Weibo.
Her homepage was filled with Sheng Kuang's Weibo posts forwarded by his fans. From there, she clicked directly into the official yLs account. Upon entering, she saw another newly updated Weibo post.
【yLs Esports Club: A special welcome to our new coach @yLs·Lan Bowen.】
【@yLs·Lan Bowen forwarded this Weibo: Just like Kuang Zai, I'm back too. This time not as a professional player, but as a coach.】
ps: I think I wrote a hot-blooded, awesome novel.