Part 2
Only after walking out of the base did Zhao Quan spit on the ground. “Pah! What is he pretending for?”
“This is the good son you gave birth to. Can’t even bear to spend one million on you!”
Li Fenlan pursed her lips and didn’t speak.
When the two returned to their rented room and the door closed, Zhao Quan suddenly kicked Li Fenlan to the ground.
“Stinking bitch, I haven’t settled the score with you yet!” Zhao Quan grabbed Li Fenlan’s ear and pulled her up. “Didn’t you say forty thousand?”
“Why is it sixty thousand now?”
“Where did the remaining twenty thousand go?”
Li Fenlan tried to argue. “I don’t know! I really don’t know!”
But she didn’t expect Zhao Quan to grab her hair directly and slam her head against the wall. “Do you know? Huh? Do you know?”
The pain instantly made Li Fenlan shed tears. “Stop hitting me, Brother Quan, stop hitting me. Brother Quan… I’ll talk, I’ll talk!”
“In the wardrobe, there’s a plastic bag with a card inside.” Li Fenlan said, “I didn’t mean not to tell you, I just wanted to keep it for our family’s emergency use.”
“Then you should have told me earlier, understand?” Zhao Quan squatted down, held Li Fenlan’s head, and hugged her into his arms. “We are husband and wife; there shouldn’t be secrets.”
“Understand?”
Li Fenlan nodded incessantly in fear. “Understood, understood.”
“Now that we didn’t get the money, what do you say we do?”
Zhao Quan said, “I knew that dead bastard wouldn’t be so easy to talk to. Doesn’t he need to show his face online every day?”
“Why don’t we use the internet?”
Li Fenlan and Zhao Quan’s entry today happened entirely in the tea room, so apart from Orange and Wen Ran, no one knew what really happened inside.
Although Wen Ran was in a bad mood, he didn’t tell Jiang Yan about this.
He didn’t want Jiang Yan to be troubled by his affairs again.
He also hated bringing his negative emotions to Jiang Yan.
His original family was his own, not Jiang Yan’s. There was no reason to let Jiang Yan be affected along with him constantly.
Every time Li Fenlan asked him for money before, she saw his hesitation. This time seeing him so firm, since she couldn’t get the money, she probably wouldn’t try anything else in the short term.
On the contrary, because Orange accidentally witnessed all this that day, he felt Wen Ran was remarkable.
In such a vampire-like original family, an average person would have been crushed long ago. Yet Wen Ran forcefully carved out a path and shone in his passion.
He had clearly experienced so much suffering, yet he never talked about it.
Orange suddenly had a guess: Does the Captain know this?
If the Captain knew, could this be exactly why the Captain treated Wen Ran so differently?
Essentially, it was admiration for him.
He seemed to understand a little bit too.
In the following days, Orange noticed that Wen Ran acted as if nothing had happened. He trained seriously every day, his condition didn’t decline, and their coordination was quite good.
“Next time is our home game against HG. Everyone knows HG’s strength. There’s no way to target Muse’s strength, so we can only try not to let him see through too many of our strategies.”
After arranging things, the coach said, “Orange, pay more attention. Muse is very good at observing everyone’s characteristics. You need to vary some of your habitual ways of initiating fights.”
Orange hummed an acknowledgment. He was actually under a bit of pressure. HG was the runner-up team, and Senior Muse’s support play—looking across the entire league—almost no support could match his level.
What’s more, it wasn’t just him who was strong.
There was a saying in the game: whether a team is strong or not depends on whether their total MVP count is distributed evenly.
The more even the team, relatively speaking, the stronger they are.
Because everyone can step up and carry.
Every player’s individual strength was very strong. In Muse’s hands, they were like a blade magnified infinitely, deadly sharp.
The coach was about to speak again when suddenly there was a rapid knock on the door.
“Coach Tao, urgent matter!”
The coach opened the door and saw Brother Wu standing there, holding an iPad.
“What’s wrong?”
“There wasn’t anything initially, but the girl from the promotion department sent me this tonight.”
Brother Wu placed the iPad in front of everyone. “It’s about Dawn.”
Wen Ran’s temple throbbed.
On it was a trending topic: #Popular League Mid Laner Dawn Exposed for Character Issues
And #Dawn Unfilial Son
Clicking in, there was a video.
The person in the video was Li Fenlan. Through tears, she accused Wen Ran of being unwilling to fulfill his duty of support as a son. She claimed that when she came to visit him just to see him, he even chased her out.
Finally, she said, “Ran-Ran, I don’t ask for anything else. I just want you to call me Mom.”
The video wasn’t very long, but it pointed the spearhead completely at Wen Ran.
Wen Ran scanned it; the comments below were also very unfriendly.
[I said it long ago, this tumor is disgusting. Now it’s exposed, right?]
[His mom is so pitiful, giving birth to such an ingrate son.]
[She’s so old and traveled specially to see her son, only to be disdained for being poor. I’m suffocating.]
[Pah! If I gave birth to a son like this, I would have died of anger long ago!]
[What a poor mother, boohoo, my heart aches.]
[Dawn is actually this kind of person. Unfollowing, unfollowing!]
[I don’t believe she’s talking about our Little Sprayer. Dawn wouldn’t be like this.]
[Fans above have lost their brains. His mom doesn’t understand these things; would she make it up?]
[I think we should wait and see the response. I don’t believe it either. Last time I played with Dawn, although his mouth was fierce, he took good care of me and even let me have kills.]
[I agree too. Last time Little Sprayer drew lottery gifts on stream, there was a Chibi Ren Ling figure on his desk. We tricked him saying we wanted that. He said, “If you want it, can’t you buy it? Bunch of unfilial sons robbing your Daddy’s stuff,” then he drew ten of them. He even asked if it was enough, saying if he was in a good mood he could give a few more. Offer valid only for a limited time.]
[Foolish fans, those are just means to win people’s hearts. You guys are still stupidly sending him money.]
[WK still won’t replace him? Still won’t replace him?]
[Can this kind of trash player appear on the field? Can any random person go now?]
[Suggest letting him step down to substitute immediately. To be honest, something like this happening will affect teammates’ mentality too, right?]
[Tch, didn’t look like a good person anyway. What ‘cursing persona’ is he setting up? Maybe he curses his parents like that at home.]
[Deserves to crash and burn. Found him an eyesore long ago.]
……
“Some fans have already rushed to the official blog, demanding Dawn be replaced.”
“The pressure from public opinion is too great.”
The coach frowned. The video was playing aloud. Except for Jiang Yan and Orange, everyone else was extremely shocked.
“This trending topic isn’t that simple,” the manager said. “Exploding with this right before the match—it’s hard not to be suspicious.”
“It’s certain someone is fanning the flames,” the coach said. “But…”
Everyone’s eyes turned to Wen Ran.
Once a player had a stain, it was very difficult for the club to let him play again.
Wen Ran needed great composure to steady his emotions now. He spoke without the slightest fear, “It’s not like what she said. I haven’t done it.”
Jiang Yan stood up, walked to Wen Ran’s side, and wrapped his arm around his shoulders.
The warmth from the shoulder made Wen Ran feel he had support, and his tense back relaxed a little.
“I believe Dawn.”
As a witness to the whole process, Orange also stood up bravely at this time. “I believe him too!”
“I didn’t say I don’t believe Dawn!” Brother Wu didn’t know whether to laugh or cry. “If I didn’t believe him, I would have issued a notice to take Dawn down long ago. I came here now to discuss with you how to solve the problem.”
“The trending topic won’t go down.”
“If it won’t go down, then let it be for now,” Jiang Yan said. “The top priority now is preparing for the match.”
“I’ll think of a way regarding the video.”
“They came to find Dawn!” Orange said. “Right in the tea room. Isn’t there a surveillance camera in the tea room?”
“Manager, we can release the surveillance footage as a statement.”
“As long as Dawn doesn’t mind.”
“I don’t care.”
Wen Ran had completely lost hope in Li Fenlan. Was there anything disgusting she couldn’t do?
“Alright then, let’s do that for now,” the manager said. “Dawn, for the next two days, don’t go online. Adjust your mindset.”
Saying that, he came over and patted Wen Ran’s shoulder. “Don’t worry, we all believe in you. We won’t take you down.”
Wen Ran hummed an acknowledgment and didn’t answer further.
“Then everyone rest early tonight.”
With such an incident, training naturally couldn’t continue.
Wen Ran returned to his room. After a while, someone knocked on the door.
It was Jiang Yan.
Wen Ran thought he would ask why he didn’t tell him, or ask what was going on with Li Fenlan.
But he didn’t do any of that.
Jiang Yan just came over and held him in his arms. “Ran-Bao, Brother wants to sleep next to you tonight, okay?”
Wen Ran didn’t refuse. He let Jiang Yan hold him in bed. Jiang Yan’s warm chest gave Wen Ran a great sense of security, and he slept particularly soundly.
Jiang Yan really understood him best.
He always knew clearly what he wanted.
The efficiency of the promotion department was very fast; the video was released early the next morning.
They edited some important dialogue parts.
The comment section soon erupted in arguments again.
[Are the faces of those before hurting? What kind of vampire parents are these?]
[Who wouldn’t pity our Little Sprayer? Don’t know what sin he committed.]
[Opening their mouths for three million, they really dare to dream. Dawn wandered outside for four years, yet isn’t worth a single apology from them.]
[Vomited. Disgusting to death!]
[And this stupid man, constantly fanning the flames. Does he want to die!]
[Heartache for my baby, why is he so pitiful?]
[No wonder his words are prickly; turns out he experienced all this…]
[Sigh, if it were me, I don’t know if I could have survived.]
[What if this is faked?]
[Are you sick? Go look at the mouth movements in the video and see if they match the sound.]
[Hope Dawn won’t be affected in today’s match.]
[Begging! My son has it so bitter!]
[Anyone can be a parent now. Really so disgusting. Why would they lay such a hand on their own biological son!]
[She just wants to ruin Dawn, right!]
The match was held in the evening. The players had stopped looking at what was said online since earlier to avoid affecting their emotions and performance.
After all, tonight’s opponent, HG, was absolutely not to be underestimated.
Before going on stage, Jiang Yan patted Wen Ran’s head in the restroom. “In the match later, just play according to your ideas.”
“Whether on the field or off, you can rely on me.”
Wen Ran sniffled and stepped forward to hug him.
Jiang Yan scratched his chin. “Tsk, the little kitten is about to go on stage and is still acting spoiled.”
“Who’s acting spoiled with you.”
Teased by him, Wen Ran’s mood improved a lot. “Later, keep up with your Daddy’s mechanics.”
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