Chapter 61
A posture of total dedication; compared to desire, it was more like ingratiation.
Duan Mingyue touched his face, looked down, and found that Shen Yanjin was also erect.
Shen Yanjin tugged at the hem of his clothes shyly, as if trying to hide it. “I’m going to rinse my mouth.”
Duan Mingyue didn’t stop him, but simply stood up and followed him into the bathroom, where the two fooled around absurdly once more.
That night, Shen Yanjin lay under the covers and whispered, “Brother, what happened in the past isn’t that important anymore. The most important thing is that we are together now. I want to be good with you.”
Duan Mingyue hooked his arm around his waist and kissed him. “En, sleep. Goodnight.”
The next afternoon, Kai staggered from the dorm to the second-floor training room with two large dark circles under his eyes.
Song Yuan was startled by his half-dead appearance. “What happened?”
Tans rarely replied, “Probably got beaten up while gossiping about others.”
Song Yuan said, “Wow, who is so excessive! Kai, call me Daddy, and Daddy will avenge you!”
Ever since Shen Yanjin dragged Duan Mingyue away yesterday, Kai had been acting restless. Unable to sleep, he simply stayed up all night ranking. Six hours to gain two pointsâtragic.
Hearing Song Yuan’s words, he answered with lifeless eyes, “It was the Captain.”
Song Yuan paused and said, “Good beating.”
Tans chuckled.
A moment later, Lu Yuan walked in, and the three resumed silence. The atmosphere of the first team had become like this since last season. Unless streaming, one could basically hear no one talking. The hearts were scattered; it couldn’t be helped.
“Tomorrow is the official match. The scheduled training match later is against FTK, play well.” Mao Qiude walked into the training room flipping through documents. “FTK strengthened their roster this new season. I don’t need to introduce Peace and Alan in the bot lane, right? Now their top lane swapped for a Korean import… Hmm? Where are RedMoon and Sliver?”
Kai looked back; sure enough, it was empty.
His heart trembled: No way, did they really quarrel? Fight? Make a scene?
Just as he hesitated whether to speak, Shen Yanjin walked to the door. “…Sorry, Coach, I’m late.”
Mao Qiude glanced at him, accidentally spotting the red marks inside the youth’s collar. He immediately averted his gaze as if his eyes were burned. “Deduct full attendance bonus plus one day’s salary. Go train.”
After speaking, he frowned and asked again, “Where is RedMoon?”
Shen Yanjin sat in his seat. “Captain will be here immediately.”
Mao Qiude looked at the thin, silent back of the new Support, already regarding Duan Mingyue as a shameless beast. The match is tomorrow; how could he be so absurd!
With a gloomy face, he felt that given Duan Mingyue’s seniority and character, this shouldn’t happen before a match. Was he really befuddled by lust?
Not ten minutes later, Duan Mingyue walked into the training room. He didn’t wear the team jacket today, only a shirt paired with jeans. Long legs, narrow waistâhe looked youthful like a high school student.
Seeing him, Mao Qiude looked unkind. “So late, do you still want to train?”
Duan Mingyue knew he was in the wrong and coughed dryly. “My fault.”
There were too many people in the training room, so Mao Qiude couldn’t say much, waving his hand to let him prepare first.
As captain, there were many affairs before the season opener. Duan Mingyue would usually be so busy his feet didn’t touch the ground at this time of year, but he had never missed trainingâexcept today.
Facts proved that most teams’ ban on intra-team romance was correct. Even Duan Mingyue himself didn’t expect to oversleep just because he was intimate with Shen Yanjin twice.
He queued for a RANK game. Catching his little boyfriend’s somewhat guilty gaze in his peripheral vision, he didn’t speak, only gently squeezed his hand to offer comfort.
Facts proved RedMoon was not befuddled by lust. At the start of the training match, Duan Mingyue specifically targeted FTK’s mid lane weakness, ganking him to 0/3/0 in ten minutes. They didn’t play Jungle-Support roam this game; he picked a utility Jungler, giving all kills to Kai. Kai took off on the spot.
The monster raised in the mid lane ran bot after pushing the wave, causing chickens to fly and dogs to jump in the bot lane. Kai, having eaten two layers of turret plating gold, arrogantly recalled in the opponent’s vision, lamenting casually, “Moon God is so good at supporting Mid. I won’t need to walk myself in the future; just rely on support to finish the job.”
The voice channel went quiet.
Duan Mingyue gave a lazy “Oh?” and said, “Who else is good at supporting?”
“…” Lu Yuan was still in the voice channel. Kai was silent for a while and said, “Maybe I should just stop talking in the future.”
Tans gave him a way out. “En, sounds good. Throw your mouth away; after all, disaster comes from the mouth.”
Duan Mingyue smiled and didn’t pursue it.
FTK’s Korean top laner was named Lend. He was indeed fierce, playing a fighter-type top laner and pinning Song Yuan under the tower.
Song Yuan wasn’t anxious. He insisted on being the “grandson of the tower,” sticking underneath to farm minions. If really necessary, he’d go play games with himself in the “autism brush.” Anyway, he was a blue-collar initiator. It didn’t matter if his growth was poor; as long as he pinned down Lend and didn’t die, it was fine. Leave the remaining advantage to teammates. Win and get carried; lose and go down with the team.
This didn’t mean he lacked spirit or mechanics; it just depended on the lineup and team needs. When Song Yuan first joined KW, he also made his name with fighter top laners, being the infinitely glorious Solo Kill King of the top lane back then.
But WL was a team game, and resources in a game were limited. In this game, what he had to do was sustain the lane and initiate fights, giving resources to teammates to grow. If given resources and a carry role, Song Yuan could also carry.
Duan Mingyue’s command was calm and decisive. After gaining an advantage, they pushed down FTK’s three outer towers, forced vision around the Baron pit, and when FTK arrived, they rotated top to take FTK’s tier-2 top tower without any loss. Pushing the minion wave in, they started running around the Baron pit again, using vision advantage to walk FTK around like dogs.
The advantage was already huge. Without even taking Baron, there was already a five-thousand gold lead, and this five thousand was all on the two carries. Perfect distribution.
Shen Yanjin, watching from the outside, suddenly frowned. “Something’s wrong.”
Mao Qiude looked over. At first, he didn’t notice anything wrong, but after a while, he realized the problem.
KW was walking FTK around, but FTK secretly sent Lend, who had Teleport, to split push the bottom lane. Lend had good farm in the early game. Although he had no kills, he had bounty solely from farming minions. He quickly demolished KW’s bottom tower. Now KW fell into a passive position and had to start a team fight.
Duan Mingyue was experienced in dealing with split pushing. He started Baron directly without nonsense, simultaneously commanding Song Yuan to use his ultimate to keep people there.
FTK was prepared and retreated quickly, appearing unwilling to fight. Mao Qiude rubbed his chin. “Do they want to let the Junglers duel with Smite?”
“No,” Shen Yanjin shook his head. “They want to brute force it.”
They say one feat of strength subdues ten techniques. Although KW’s overall strength was far higher than FTK’s, a Challenger’s prediction couldn’t handle a Bronze player who didn’t position correctly. Lend started demolishing the tier-2 tower in the bot lane. Baron’s health bottomed out; Duan Mingyue’s Smite fell, securing Baron almost inexplicably smoothly.
Weren’t these FTK guys sticking around just to fight a Baron team fight? What happened?
Duan Mingyue thought somewhat absurdly: Could it be these people were just distracting us, wanting to rely on the solo laner’s split push to win?
That’s too crazy.
Facts proved FTK was just that crazy.
Cutting the minion wave bot, Lend tanked the tower shots to destroy the tower with a sliver of health, reaching the inhibitor directly. Baron recall reduced time by half; going back now would definitely be in time. But just then, the four members of FTK suddenly pounced.
Alan and Peace’s bot lane duo was famous throughout the league, second only to Shi Feng and Aiai. Now that Shi and Ai had fallen out, they were in a tier of their own.
Lu Yuan positioned poorly and didn’t adjust in time. Alan seized the opportunity to CC her; Peace followed up seamlessly with damage to delete her. Song Yuan had used his ultimate and could only be a nuisance at this point. Duan Mingyue turned to grab Peace, fighting back with Kai. Peace died, the Mid laner died, the Jungler died. Before dying, Alan used Ignite to take Kai’s shutdown bountyâbounty plus kill gold meant one thousand, just enough to complete a major item upon respawning.
On the surface, it was a tragic 4-for-2 trade, and they lost Baron, but KW’s bot lane was pierced. The inhibitor tower was ground down to half health by the suicidal Lend, and Kai lost his shutdown bounty. Both sides suffered.
Both sides suffered, but for FTK who had a massive disadvantage early on, they basically won this fight.
Later, pushing with Baron buff, Lend and Peace cleared waves to defend towers while Alan and the Jungler protected them. KW didn’t gain much advantage, taking two tier-2 towers. In the end, they had to fight another Baron team fight to secure the victory.
They won, but there was not a trace of happiness on the faces of the KW members.
FTK’s strength had improved too much. If not for the opponent’s mid lane development being too deformed early on, feeding Kai, the outcome of this game would really be uncertain.
And in an official match, FTK would have the chance to fix their mid lane weakness.
If they had played Jungle-Support dual roam just now, Duan Mingyue wouldn’t have needed to be a tool man. He would have damage, could suppress FTK’s top lane growth, and prevent Alan’s entry from being so free.
Lu Yuan knew that Baron fight was largely her fault. She tucked a loose strand of hair behind her ear. “Brother Moon, let’s play Jungle-Support roam next game.”
Duan Mingyue looked at her thoughtfully, then revealed a faint smile. “Okay.”
Lu Yuan’s heart bumped like a fawn from his smile. “Then next game I’ll pickâ”
“You step out.” Duan Mingyue tapped the table, his smile unchanged. “Let Sliver come in.”
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