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Chapter 9\n\n
Qiao Yanzhou and the allied jungler coincidentally score 11/1/11 and
1/11/1 at the end of the game with Qiao Yanzhou receiving the
well-deserved MVP of the match.\nOf course, this is his first MVP since he started streaming for hours
in the afternoon. He scans through his chat window and finds his
viewers getting less toxic. His victory is also a hard smack in the
face of those who said that he was being carried.\nThough the game ended, the war between these two is still ongoing…\nFlowerPrince: come lets 1v1\nFlowerPrince: let daddy teach u a thing or two\nQiao Yanzhou is seriously getting a stomach ache in front of his
computer from laughing too hard. He eats two mouthfuls of cup noodles
and even chokes while drinking the soup.\nNo more words, he sits up straight and cannot wait to enter the
created by the opponent. Qiao Yanzhou chooses Rek’Sai
without any hesitation.\nThis is also known as The Siler’s Special.\nTypically, when Siler thrashes another mid laner hard in the first
match, in the next game he does not hesitate to choose the same
champion as his opponent in the previous match… and continues to
beat the crap out of him.\nThis is how Siler “schools” the opponent in playing a certain
champion, an effective way to completely crush the enemy
psychologically.\nHowever, whenever this happens, the “Mother Theresa” type of fan
chides Siler for being too narcissistic and disrespectful to the
opponent after the game and demands an apology.\nHah, what a joke. Siler is capable enough to be narcissistic, so
why should he apologise?\nVery soon, FlowerPrince is also finished selecting a champion. But
Qiao Yanzhou is stunned when he sees the loading screen.\nFlowerPrince chose Lissandra, the Ice Witch.\nThat punk actually dares to choose a mage champion with his
more-misses-than-hits mechanics? Qiao Yanzhou shakes his head and
feels a little sorry for him.\nSigh… such arrogance and ignorance…\nWhen the game starts, Qiao Yanzhou buys a and grabs
a potion before walking towards the mid lane. Typically, he would get
instead to play it safe, but facing such an
opponent, Qiao Yanzhou feels he doesn't have to.\nAlthough Qiao Yanzhou has never laned against him, just as expected,
he is playing in such a cowardly manner that it is becoming amusing.\nAfter killing two minions, Qiao Yanzhou sees a message in the
dialogue window.\n[ThoseStolenBlueBuffs is spectating]\nThoseStolenBlueBuffs: custom game?\nBoatIdlingBy: yeah, teaching my boy to respect his daddy\nThoseStolenBlueBuffs: wow\nSeeing that the Master himself is online again and even taking the
initiative to talk to him (though not much), Qiao Yanzhou feels
relieved.\nActually, it would be extremely difficult for Rek’Sai, the champion
that Qiao Yanzhou selected, to win over Lissandra in the early game.
Rei’Sai has a much shorter attacking range, deals lesser damage and
even has to risk losing some health by taking a combo of Lissandra’s
attacks just to kill minions.\nBut this opponent doesn’t seem to realise this and take an
advantage of it. He continues to farm safely under the turret.\nHe even misses a minion now and then.\nQiao Yanzhou feels that this 1v1 has become rather meaningless and
keeps still beside a minion wave.\nRei’Sai has a funny action command: after pressing Ctrl + 1, this
Void Burrower will stamp his feet making a “boom” sound.\nQiao Yanzhou starts triggering the command by
pressing Ctrl +1 whenever FlowerPrince misses one minion. Hence, the
game screen goes:\n-When he misses one minion
“Boom!”\n-Misses the second one
“Boom! Boom!”\n-Misses the third one
“Boom! Boom! Boom!”\nQiao Yanzhou is laughing so hard that his stomach
hurts even more, he can even feel his instant noodles coming out from
his nose.\nBut even in this situation, Qiao Yanzhou still
manages to win 20 CS more than his opponent. \nThe opponent realizes that he is being humiliated
and casts the to stun Rek’Sai. Ice gathers
around Rek’Sai’s feet before Lissandra throws a spear of ice.\n“Aw, damn!” Qiao Yanzhou was almost going to
lie down and chill as he did not expect his enemy to attack in rage
and humiliation.\nHe waits till the frozen ability is over and
launches a burst of attacks at Lissandra before giving her a hard
bite. Lissandra is taken aback by the attacks and retreats behind the
minion wave.\nRek’Sai then burrows into the ground and
retreats to the turret as well, before recalling back to base.\n“What a jump scare.” Qiao Yanzhou mutters. He
notices the amount of gold he has gained.\nAll the farming just now was enough for him for
buy a small item, but Qiao Yanzhou is torn between a defensive item
to continue bullying his opponent and a damage item to finish up the
game.\nIn the end, Qiao Yanzhou decides on getting the
damage item.\nHe leaves the base and swiftly moves to the mid
lane by diving and making a tunnel but does not see the FlowerPrince
anywhere.\n“Now, what is this brat up to…”\nAfter 20 seconds, the opponent shows up again, and
Qiao Yanzhou can’t contain his laughter anymore after seeing him.\nThe enemy is carrying a blue buff with half of his
health left, and his body is glowing with green light as he recovers
with a potion.\nNeedless to say, this smart aleck went to take on
the blue buff alone and has almost gotten himself killed by it.\nQiao Yanzhou bangs the table as he laughs. What
a retard! Am I playing with a monkey?!\nUnable to stand any more of such stupidity, Qiao
Yanzhou does not give Lissandra any chance to kill, or rather, miss
any more minions. Instead, he flashes in and bites the enemy, taking
away more than half of the remaining health before the potion could
recover any more health.\nLissandra wants to cast a and claw
Rek’Sai, but she manages to side-step and successfully dodge the
skill.\nRek’Sai then follows up with a which
makes her untargetable and gives her a series of attacks that push
Lissandra into an inescapable fate. Now, Qiao Yanzhou is only an
auto-attack away from killing his opponent, but he makes a tunnel and
retreats to the turret.\nRek’Sai stomps her feet at the turret.\n“Boom!”\nFirst Blood!\nIt turns out that Qiao Yanzhou used the Ignite
spell on Lissandra just 0.1 seconds before he tunneled away. He
reaches the turret
just in time for the spell to
take away Lissandra’s remaining health.\nThe blue buff that Lissandra painstakingly took is
now on Rek’Sai.\n[All] BoatIdlingBy (Rek’Sai): thank u sir for
the blue buff!\nFlowerPrince (Lissandra) leaves the match\n“Tsk.” Qiao Yanzhou sees his opponent fleeing with tail between his legs and says, "Why bring this upon yourself?!\n                                           \nAt EG Esports Club.\nGu Zixing stares at the computer screen slightly
amused by how Rek’Sai has managed to make a fool of that Lissandra.\n“Whose match are you watching? You look so
serious.” Qi Chen walks in and gets curious as he sees Gu Zixing
staring intently at the computer monitor.\n“Nobody’s.” Gu Zixing turns around and looks
at Qi Chen. “Done with your push-ups yet?”\n“Nah.” Qi Chen gulps down a mouthful of water.
“I’m only done with one creep’s.”\n“A hundred?”\n“A leg of it.”\n“Fifty?”\n“A hair of the leg.”\n“Wow.”\nGu Zixing snickers.\n“Why am I the only one doing push-ups when
everyone has their own share of mistakes?!” Qi Chen plops down on
the sofa in Gu Zixing’s room.\n“Because you are our dearest little darling!”\n“Don’t make me gag,” Qi Chen says, rolling
his eyes. “Coach Chen is now letting you off because he is making a
request from you. Otherwise…”\nGu Zixing does not answer.\n“So… did you give him an answer?” Seeing
that Gu Zixing is avoiding the subject, Qi Chen questions him
directly.\nGu Zixing frowns and says, “You’re annoying.”\n“Okay okay okay, no more questions.” Qi Chen
notices a familiar ID on Gu Zixing’s monitor as he comes closer.\n“BoatIdlingBy…” Qi Chen thinks for a second
and it dawns on him. “Ohmylord! Are you keen on this guy?”\n“Take a look at his positioning and movement
predictions.” Gu Zixing points at the monitor and explains, “I
played another game with him after you left, and his game sense isn’t
bad.”\n“You like him?”\n“Not really.”\n“Don’t be stubborn,” Qi Chen chuckles.
“Wanna ask HR to find out more?”\n“Maybe next time.”\n“Oh c’mon, are you that shy…” Qi Chen
cannot stand Gu Zixing being overly reserved and always hiding
everything at times.\nBut before Qi Chen can continue, someone knocks on
Gu Zixing’s door.\nYao Le appears this time around.\nQi Chen is mildly surprised, but he takes a look
at Yao Le and Gu Zixing before standing up.\n“I’ll go now. You guys can talk.” Qi Chen
heads out leaving Gu Zixing and Yao Le alone in the room.\nGu Zixing remains silent. He stands up and takes a
bottle of drink from the shelf and puts it in front of Yao Le before
sitting on the computer chair.\n“Yes?”\n“Coach told me about it…”\n“Oh.” Gu Zixing lights up a cigarette looking
uninterested.\nYao Le sighs and says, “Zixing, I know you’re
unhappy with me. But this arrangement is made by the higher-ups. No
matter how god-like you are in game, you can’t possibly not follow
their instructions.”\nGu Zixing looks up, and Yao Le zones out
momentarily as his eyes meet Gu Zixing’s innocent-looking puppy
eyes with long lashes. Yao Le swiftly shifts his gaze away in the
next second. But this unnatural avoidance in eye contact makes the
atmosphere even more awkward than it is.\n“Our personal grudge or the team’s survival,
you make the call.” Yao Le stands up and pushes the door after
finishing his piece.\nBefore coming to this room, Yao Le had come up
with hundred and one things to tell Gu Zixing, but he swallows
everything the moment he sees Gu Zixing. He has a strong feeling that
he will be eaten alive if he does not leave this place immediately.\nMaybe it is because only Yao Le knows that this
man is not as innocent and pure as he seems.\nJust as Yao Le is leaving the room, he hears Gu
Zixing’s cold voice.\n“I don't mind being the ADC.”\nYao Le spins around in surprise when he hears
that. He sees Gu Zixing looking at him while leaning on the back of
the computer chair with a smirk across his face.Â
“But I demand my support to kneel down and lick my feet.”
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TN: Didn't include the author's notes this tiem around as it is self-explanatory in the translated text.\n\nChapter 10