Lin Yan didn't expect his confession to go so smoothly.
He gently held Su Cheng's hand and felt the warmth from her soft and warm hands.
Sure enough, what he gained was luck, and what he lost was the lock in his heart.
"Gouzi, you didn't act like you just now."
Su Cheng let Lin Yan hold her hand with one hand and carry the box with the other. Her tone was much more cheerful now that she had gotten rid of the knot in her heart.
"Weren't you a coward before?"
Su Cheng's white sneakers gently rubbed against the tiles of the square outside the high-speed rail station. She looked up at Lin Yan's handsome side profile.
Lin Yan felt that he had to give Xiao Tian a big red packet. Although he was usually eccentric and disgusting, Phyllostachys Pubescens had done a great job tonight.
The two stuck together for 15 minutes. It was close to 10 o 'clock in the evening when the two reluctantly separated.
After sending Su Cheng to the high-speed rail station, Lin Yan watched her disappear into the crowd with the small box. He waited for the train to depart on time. He only left after Su Cheng sent him a WeChat message saying that she was safe.
Sitting in the taxi, Lin Ran sent a bunch of red packets to the YM group, flooding the screen.
There were not only a few members of YM in the group, but also analysts, coaches, managers … Chubby was also there.
He never expected that Jin Gong would be the fastest at snatching red packets. After Jin Gong came to LPL, he learned WeChat Alipay very quickly. His speed at snatching red packets was even faster than his captain, Erlian Bucket. Lin Yan suspected that he had installed some kind of red packet snatching script.
He transferred the money to Xiao Tian separately. He had to reward Phyllostachys Pubescens for his kindness.
When Xiao Tian saw the amount, he knew that Lin Yan must have made a breakthrough. He took the money and typed.
[Congratulations to Brother Ran for getting out of singlehood.]
[Too much.]
Lin Yan replied.
After distributing the money, Lin Yan remembered the post that Su Cheng had read before. He went to the app store and downloaded a Baidu Tieba.
Lin Yan had never used Tieba before. Usually, only JKL used this social app. Big Head AD would go online every day after a match to see how he was praised by his Tieba buddies.
However, JLK seemed to be a masochist. After being praised for a long time, he no longer enjoyed it.
He had evolved a special ability. After the match, he would use a smurf account to make a post to flame him. Then, he attracted a lot of JKL's fans and haters to fight in the post.
Sometimes, this genius fisherman would take out his phone and read out some retarded replies to his teammates during lunch, treating it as a joke.
Lin Yan fiddled around for a minute to figure out what was going on with Tieba.
He opened the search box and entered the title of the post in his memory.
[Is it time to reevaluate the strength of YM's mid laner?]
The title of the post was Pressure Resistance Bar.
Lin Yan had heard of this bar before. It was known as the Luo Palace of Esports. The brothers inside were good at pointing out the world. Their pen skills were no weaker than that of a steady stick. It was normal for them to flame each other five to six hundred times in a night.
He clicked on the thread and saw that the OP had attached two GIFs under the title. They were the two famous scenes of Lin Ran's double Q and the thousand-yard hack.
"LPL's Naruto's Tribulation. Brothers, do you have any objections?"
"It's not as good as Faker, but it's one of the best in LPL."
"The double C of the troll army is indeed the face of LPL now."
"A newbie who hasn't even won an LPL title can boast about it?
A BO3 doesn't mean a BO5. Don't be eliminated in the first round of the playoffs. It'll be a slap in the face then. "
"What do you mean by that?
Who are you implying that he can't do it?
Ouze hasn't won an LPL title yet. "
"I didn't expect Ouze to be able to do that."
The post after that deviated from the main topic. Most of it was discussing whether Ouze would be able to win his first LPL title this year.
RNG's current situation was not optimistic. All of this could be attributed to Hanyi.
His plot to deliberately show off the Ember system had finally succeeded.
Now, all the teams, including RNG, had raised Ember to the T0 level. Most of the teams were building a system around this new ADC. From the training competition to the competition, LPL had completely become an Ember League.
The birth of a new system made many teams very uncomfortable. Some weak teams also seized the opportunity to rise. The LPL points situation instantly became a mess.
Now, EDG and YM were far ahead in Group A and AB, and the teams behind them were quite close in terms of points.
The closer it was to the playoffs, the more the tension spread. Sometimes, a BO3 could even change the rankings of the four teams on the verge of the playoffs. The bloody situation was becoming more and more obvious.
RNG's AD Ouze had also played Ember quite a few times. However, he really could not play this kind of character that did not have any movement and did not rely on Attack. The effect was very poor.
After they lost to EDG, they were almost defeated by IM. Fortunately, Looper was brave and performed perfectly in the team battle. After killing the mid laner and chasing the AD out of the battlefield, he led RNG to a difficult 2: 1 victory over this new LPL team.
However, RNG had temporarily fallen to third place in Group B, while WE relied on a small point advantage to rank second behind YM.
After IG, YM did not have any matches to play for 10 days. Now that they had 8 wins and 0 losses, they had become the rising stars of the LPL. Commercial endorsements were constantly sent to YM's management.
The first to find them were the live streaming platforms.
Especially JKL and Lin Yan's old company, Fighting Shark Platform. The conditions they gave for the live streaming contracts were quite generous:
They signed the entire team as a package and required the entire team to have a minimum of 180 hours of live streaming time per month. If it was split evenly between each player, it would be 30 hours. This did not violate the rule that Fist had issued in S6 that players could not broadcast more than 45 hours per month after the start of the season.
Originally, Hao had opposed them signing the contract early in the LSPL. It was not only to calm the players down, but also to increase their commercial value.
After all, the team's live streaming contract was signed for a year. If your results during this period of time were to take off, how much would the platform give you?
Previously in the LSPL, Fighting Shark Platform gave YM a pre-tax package price of one million yuan.
However, it was different now. The pre-tax package price given by Fighting Shark Platform was only lower than RNG, EDG, and WE, the three veteran teams. The pre-tax price was close to eight figures. It was definitely a big deal in 2016.
Chubby did not hesitate. He handed a report to the investment boss and directly signed the contract after asking for the opinions of the team members.
Fighting Shark Platform acted very quickly. The day after the contract was signed, they advertised on Weibo and the platform's homepage and began to attract viewers from rival platforms.
They planned to start YM's premiere on Friday night. They made a big deal out of it and even invited many veteran streamers to help out.
During the period when there was no competition, Lin Yan's life was very regular.
He would wake up at 8 in the morning to play ranked games to maintain his familiarity. At noon, he would eat with his teammates who had just woken up and then take a nap for an hour. At 2: 30 in the afternoon, he would play a practice match. Most of the time, it would be a set of best-of-5 or two sets of best-of-3.
After the practice match, he would eat dinner and then review the day's practice matches. At 8 or 9 in the evening, the analysts and coaches would analyze the LPL videos. Lin Yan would play a few more rounds of ranked games until 11 o 'clock.
After washing up, he would run back to his room and chat with Su Cheng for 20 minutes before going to bed to maintain their relationship. After that, he would turn off the lights and go to sleep.
Lin Yan made sure that he could sleep for eight hours every day to maintain sufficient energy and focus. When he woke up the next day, he would repeat the previous day's work over and over again.
Professional eSports was like this. It was dry and boring.
Fortunately, Lin Yan now had Su Cheng as his emotional sustenance. Sometimes, he did not feel bored.
Now that the college entrance examination results had been released, Su Cheng was ranked 125 in the province's science department. She could go to Qing Beinian, which was not a popular major, but she still chose to stay in Fudan Mathematics.
However, Su Cheng was at a disadvantage. She could directly enter Fudan Mathematics with her bare marks. On the night of the rankings, she smiled and told Lin Yan that she should not have participated in Fudan's self-enrollment. If she had studied honestly at home, she might have been able to enter Peking University's Mathematics Department.