His phone kept vibrating.
Lin Yan, who was lying on the bed, turned over and reached out his hand from under the blanket. Without opening his eyes, he reached for the phone and randomly swiped to turn off the alarm.
His head was still a little swollen, so he planned to sleep a little longer.
The next moment, he heard the sound of the door lock turning.
Lin Yan was stunned for a second, then he quickly lifted the blanket and got dressed.
In addition to him having a key to the house, Su Cheng and the housekeeper each had a key.
But he had already told the housekeeper that she didn't need to come today.
Only Su Cheng would enter the house.
Lin Yan buttoned up his white shirt before opening the bedroom door.
Su Cheng was sitting on the sofa in the living room with a fat white bun in her mouth as she flipped through an English book.
The girl was wearing a simple white dress that accentuated her graceful figure. The hem of the dress reached her ankles, revealing a pair of strawberry bear slippers.
When she saw Lin Yan open the door, she turned her head and blinked.
"You're up so early?" Lin Yan asked.
Su Cheng put down the bun in her mouth, "It's not early, right? Didn't you say before you left yesterday that I would come to your place this morning?"
"I slept too much," Lin Yan glanced at the clock in the room and found that it was already 10 in the morning. He patted his head, "My brain is a little fuzzy."
Su Cheng sneered and revealed a mocking expression, "You only know now that your brain isn't working well?"
Lin Yan heard this and ran over to tickle her. The two of them started to play around in the living room.
Although Su Cheng's legs were long, they were still not as long as Lin Yan's. After walking around the pillar for a minute, he was still successfully caught.
Lin Yan only used one hand to tightly hold Su Cheng's wrists.
He knew his girlfriend's sensitive spots, so his other hand moved like lightning towards Su Cheng's waist.
Her fair waist was so thin that he could grab it with one hand, but it didn't seem weak to the touch. Instead, it was supple and strong.
Lin Yan stroked Su Cheng and felt that he couldn't stop himself. He gently scratched her twice, and Su Cheng softened.
"I surrender, I surrender …"
He had the heroic spirit of a French soldier.
"Give me the buns."
"Okay, okay, okay …" Su Cheng wriggled her body and agreed. "Let me go first, and I'll get it for you."
Lin Yan gave up his control over her wrists and placed his hands on Su Cheng's waist.
Su Cheng handed the bag of buns on the table to Lin Yan. She had bought a lot of buns, more than enough for two people to eat.
"Do you want soy milk?" Su Cheng asked again.
Lin Yan had just woken up, and after running for a while in the morning, he felt that his mouth was dry.
He took the soy milk from his girlfriend, opened the package with a hose, and drank two mouthfuls.
After playing around, the two of them sat together and listened to English while eating the food that Su Cheng bought.
After eating two hot buns and drinking the warm soy milk, Lin Yan suddenly felt that the world was so beautiful.
"Let's eat two meals today," Lin Yan suggested. "Let's eat early in the afternoon and save dinner."
Su Cheng glanced at her watch. It was almost 10: 30, and they just had breakfast. If they still followed their normal schedule for lunch, it would definitely be unhealthy.
After the two of them ate and drank to their fill, they cleaned up the living room. Lin Yan took her to the study and pulled out a horror movie.
The Grudge 2.
"Are you scared?" Lin Yan rubbed his hands and asked expectantly.
He had never watched a horror movie alone with Su Cheng before. Those crowded theaters and domestic horror movies didn't count.
Su Cheng shook her head. "I don't know. We've always watched horror movies together. What's so scary about it?"
Lin Yan's face turned red.
The day before they left for Kaohsiung, he and a few teammates watched The Grudge 1 at the base. They were so scared by Kayako that they howled like wolves and ghosts. They didn't even get a good night's sleep.
Lin Yan looked up to observe Su Cheng's expression. He found that the girl didn't show any signs of laughing at him. Obviously, she didn't know what happened at the base that day.
His confidence swelled again.
Today, Lin Yan wouldn't be scared of ghosts!
This was an hour and a half on the line!
After the continental competition, Lin Yan had a total of three days of vacation. Naturally, he cherished this hard-won time alone.
The horror movie was the date he had planned for a long time.
When couples watch horror movies together, they can develop a deeper sense of dependence on each other. After all, people subconsciously seek a sense of security in times of fear.
Lin Yan vowed to show off his masculinity today. Kayako and the others could all stand to the side.
He could even imagine the scene of Su Cheng curling up in his arms out of fear and dread.
Lin Yan excitedly pulled the curtains to block out the bright and hot noon sun. Then, he pressed the play button.
Su Cheng opened a bag of chips and sat on the chair to munch on them.
This disrupted Lin Yan's plan of holding hands. However, he quickly set his eyes on another substitute.
"Can I touch your legs?" He calmly glanced at Su Cheng's lower body.
"What?" Su Cheng wasn't staring at the prologue on the computer. She didn't hear Lin Yan's words clearly.
Lin Yan coughed twice. "I said … can I touch your legs?"
Su Cheng was about to agree, but then she thought that it would be a loss to give herself away like this.
She glanced at Lin Yan and proposed a condition. "Then come over here and let me rub your face."
"Come on, come on." Lin Yan directly went over.
The girl used a wet wipe to clean the chips on her fingers. Then, she pinched Lin Yan's cheeks with both hands and continuously rubbed them.
She had been coveting Lin Yan's face for a long time.
She couldn't understand how a person could be so handsome.
She didn't stop until she rubbed Lin Yan's cheeks until they were red.
Lin Yan turned Su Cheng's chair around and let her legs rest on his thighs.
Her strawberry bear slippers slipped off, revealing her slender feet in white stockings.
"You're too thin."
Lin Yan couldn't help but sigh as he rubbed Su Cheng's slender and soft calves through the thin fabric of her dress.
"It's okay." Su Cheng fed Lin Yan a chip. "You're not that light."
"Don't compare yourself to people like Xiao Tian. You need to look more like a normal person." Lin Yan couldn't help but mock his teammate.
He gently stroked the girl's long and thin calves. Su Cheng was still munching on chips. The movie had just begun.
When the little boy Toshio first appeared, Lin Yan was shocked. He looked at the little boy's pale face and couldn't stop cursing in his heart.
He turned his head to look at his girlfriend and found that Su Cheng was chewing on chips non-stop. Her eyes were fixed on the little boy on the computer screen.
She looked extremely normal and even interested. It was as if she was watching an Autobot transform in Transformers.
It can't be?
Before Lin Yan could figure it out, Su Cheng lightly kicked his stomach.
He realized that he had just stopped and quickly continued to pinch Su Cheng's calves.
The girl hummed in satisfaction and fed him another potato chip.
The closed door and the thick and heavy curtains formed a gloomy and gloomy space.
The more Lin Yan watched, the more scared he became. However, his pride forced him to hold on.
"Sakai Noriko is so beautiful." He could only find another topic to divert his attention. "She's almost as beautiful as you."
Su Cheng beamed and swayed her legs left and right on Lin Yan's thighs.
Lin Yan looked down at the small and smooth soles of her feet exposed by the stockings. His hands began to misbehave.
On the screen, Kayako appeared and began a round of killing. Lin Yan noticed that Su Cheng's body began to tremble uncontrollably.
He sighed in relief.
As expected, this movie was quite scary.
"Don't touch my feet!" Su Cheng's exasperated voice suddenly sounded.
"Ah, this …" Lin Yan's fingers hurriedly moved away from the smooth soles of her feet.
Su Cheng's ears were red, and she quickly pulled her legs out. Her two small feet shrunk under her skirt, and she refused to show them again.
The atmosphere in the closed room instantly became awkward.
Su Cheng's face was burning. The redness spread from her ears to her entire face.
She didn't expect Lin Yan to be so strange.
Didn't the novel always say that one should touch the calves?
Why was Lin Yan doing the opposite?
Rubbing feet or something … Su Cheng's face became redder when she thought of this.
Just now, when Lin Yan's slender fingers gently stroked her smooth soles, the shuddering feeling of skin touching skin made her breath stop for half a beat.
Her ten toes clutched the slippers tightly under her skirt and didn't move.
Lin Yan didn't say anything.
He just made two new discoveries.
First, Su Cheng was afraid of other people touching her feet.
Second, Su Cheng wasn't afraid of ghosts in horror movies at all.
Right now, his girlfriend was looking straight ahead. She had a panoramic view of Kayako's strange crawling posture and was constantly chewing on potato chips in her mouth.
She wasn't afraid at all.
F * ck!
Lin Yan suddenly felt that all his previous plans were for naught.
Lin Yan, who had no hands, legs, or feet to touch, could only watch the horror movie on the computer screen.
The climax of the movie was when Kayako was born again in the form of a vengeful spirit. The doctors and nurses in charge of the delivery were all scared to death.
Lin Yan watched this scene. He finally couldn't suppress the fear in his heart and softly hissed.
Although his voice was very soft, it was particularly abrupt in the silent room.
"You're afraid of ghosts?" Su Cheng's eyes widened as if she had discovered a new world.
"What's there to be afraid of!" Lin Yan refused to admit it.
Su Cheng's expression was as if she had seen through the truth. "Tsk tsk tsk, a movie can also scare people?"
"No way, no way, right?"
Lin Yan was poked where it hurt. He got up to grab Su Cheng's feet.
Su Cheng put on her slippers and ran out the door. Lin Yan chased after her. He caught up in a few steps and picked her up.
"I surrender, I surrender!"
Su Cheng learned her lesson this time. She surrendered faster and faster. If this continued, the French would probably feel ashamed.
"You only want to surrender now?
It's too late! "Lin Yan didn't hold back this time and went for the kill.
"Lin Yan, let go of my feet!"
Su Cheng's shameful and angry cries echoed in the living room.
…
July 16th afternoon.
Zhengda Plaza.
It had been a week since the continental competition. Today was YM's first match since their return.
Their opponent was a TOP team that had a lot of history with them.
Knight ran early to YM's lounge to catch up with everyone.
Other than Lin Yan, he was the closest to Phyllostachys Pubescens. The two of them sat together, their faces pressed together as they watched the highlights of the competition on Xiao Tian's phone.
"Want some soy sauce pancakes?" Jack handed over a bag of his favorite delicacies.
Golden Left Hand Zhuo Ding hesitated for a moment before picking up a soy sauce pancake and stuffing it into his mouth under Jack's urging.
"You guys have been doing pretty well recently."
Lin Yan had just finished going to the bathroom and came back with a cup of milk tea. He was holding it and sucking on the taro balls inside.
"… It's alright." Zhuo Ding scratched his head out of habit.
TOP's current results were indeed pretty good.
They had a record of 2 wins and 3 losses in Group B's first round robin. In the previous round robin between groups, they had also won 2: 0 against JDONG. Although their record of 3 wins and 3 losses couldn't compare to the top teams, they weren't a team in the relegation zone. They could be considered mid-tier in the league.
A newbie mid laner who had just come from the LSPL was able to gain a foothold in the LPL with four previously unknown teammates. This was already beyond the expectations of many spectators.
"Where did your manager find this guy?
He's pretty good. "Lin Yan took the initiative to ask.
"This …" Zhuo Ding stammered.
"If it's a secret, then don't say it." Lin Yan considerately patted his little brother's shoulder. "I understand."
"No, it's definitely not a secret …" He pursed his lips. His words were still unclear. "If you guys don't laugh, then I'll say it."
"We won't laugh at you. Hurry up and say it so we can have some fun."
Jack sat down next to Zhuo Ding. His current weight was enough to collapse the sofa's cushion. He was starting to look like a god.
Zhuo Ding looked at everyone's expectant gazes and finally said, "League Master found it."
"What's that?" Lin Yan almost turned into a Tianjin man.
"League Master, that League Master …" Zhuo Ding still wanted to show them what he was talking about, but then he remembered that he had such an app on his phone.
League of Legends on his phone.
Su Cheng's sudden appearance shocked everyone. She pointed at Zhuo Ding's phone and asked in disbelief, "You can find a teammate like this?"
Zhuo Ding controlled Little Mi Six and clicked on the "Nearby" tab in his friends list.
"This will show the players nearby and their ranks …"
Lin Yan leaned over to take a look and saw that the "Nearby" tab on Zhuo Ding's phone was filled with Master Kings.
The players who were about to participate in the competition in the stadium were all listed. Lin Yan even saw his own ID.
"Our manager used this trick to catch our jungler Sorrow next to his house. Then he found Zoom at the Jingan Sports Center, which is the LSPL competition venue," Zhuo Ding said with a red face.
(In reality, Sorrow was caught by the WE Youth Training Manager using this trick. That was ridiculous.)
"As for Old Dream and ppgod, one of them was a high score player I found in the Korean server, and the other one volunteered himself."
This completely refreshed Lin Yan's understanding. "What the hell, is your manager playing Pokemon?
Throwing pokeballs everywhere to catch little elves? "
"It's not that simple …" Zhuo Ding waved his hand. "At that time, there were a lot of resumes and people from the Youth Training Camp who submitted their resumes. The manager also screened them for half a month, going back and forth to form teams and play custom games. He used that …"
He couldn't say it out loud.
"Control variables," Su Cheng added.
"Yes, yes, yes, we were the only control variables." Zhuo Ding couldn't stop once he started talking. He continued to talk non-stop. "Then he played with other teams for more than a week. After confirming that there was no problem in staying in the league, he signed the contract with us."
Lin Yan couldn't help but be impressed by TOP's courage.
"Hao, look at their manager." He immediately went to find his own manager. "Watch and learn!"
Guo Hao shrugged. "Learn what?
Draw cards?
Tell me who you like, and I'll buy it. "
"You're that confident?" Everyone present was shocked by Guo Hao's arrogant words.
"There's still this amount on the books this year." Guo Hao held up two fingers. "It's not like last year. We're rich."
"Twenty million?
Can we buy another half Brother Ran? "Jack's eyes lit up.
"BMW is still awesome." Guo Hao closed his glass. "They're not careless about money at all. As long as you have results, they'll have enough. Although they signed you guys last year and your salaries weren't low, they were all contract renewals. There was no transfer fee."
In the professional sports player market, the transfer fee was much higher than the player's salary.
For example, Lin Yan's pre-tax salary was a little more than ten million, excluding the live broadcast contract. However, if he wanted to go to another club during the transfer period, the transfer fee would be more than thirty million — this money had to be paid to the club.
After the YM four-man team became free players last year, Guo Hao only needed to give each member a few million in signing fees to renew their contracts.
In this way, although YM's salary was very high, their actual expenses were not as high as those teams that transferred strong players.
Moreover, in the past six months, YM had earned a lot of money from advertising sponsorships. After selling the YMA quota, BMW had invested another sum of money. Guo Hao was not worried about money at all. He walked with his chest out and head held high, full of confidence.
Not long after Zhuo Ding left the lounge, the door was pushed open and the staff's voice came in.
"YM is ready to go on stage through security!"
"Let's go, let's go."
Jack stuffed the last piece of soy sauce cake into his mouth, wiped his hands, and followed Lin Yan onto the stage with his keyboard.
"Good luck, brothers."
As usual, Guo Hao walked them out of the lounge and didn't stop until they were a wall away from the stage.