After Kissing the Esports God, He Keeps Flirting With Me Chapter 119

【119】Roll Further Away, Your Daddy Faints at Needles

When Wen Ran arrived at the training base, Xu Jiajia and Ling Han had already arrived. They were in the same city, so it was normal for them to arrive quickly.

He just didn’t expect to run into Twilight at the door.

Twilight and Jiang Yan were old rivals, so naturally, they had some things to chat about upon meeting.

Xu Jiajia had recently dyed his hair a light yellow. Seeing Wen Ran enter, he couldn’t wait to rush over and hook his arm around his neck: “Dawn, look at my new hair color, isn’t it trendy?”

Xu Jiajia had fair skin, so he could pull off even this light color. His clothes were also very avant-garde, looking less like he was here for a competition and more like a cool street boy from a few years ago.

Wen Ran pushed his arm away: “Sorry, I have rheumatism, I can’t stand so much ‘trend’ (dampness).”

Xu Jiajia: “……”

“No, Dawn, I kindly came to welcome you and help you with your luggage, and this is how you treat me?”

Xu Jiajia had a lively personality and was a natural social butterfly. Although Wen Ran thought their relationship was just average—he even felt he was being exceptionally merciful by not beating Xu Jiajia up after the guy made him lose so much face on Lottery Night—in Xu Jiajia’s eyes, they were friends.

Although Xu Jiajia said that, his hands enthusiastically helped Wen Ran with his luggage: “Forget it, forget it. Your brother is a good person. Seeing that you came from afar, I’ll help you.”

“Honestly though, I really want to try coordinating with you.”

Wen Ran’s skill level in the League was obvious to everyone—fierce mechanics and superb awareness. Most professional players had decent relationships with each other; they were rivals but also friends. Naturally, they would appreciate other skilled players. Xu Jiajia held this attitude toward Wen Ran. He was the ADC with the most championships in the League and had won FMVP. He was quite curious about this FMVP Mid Laner.

Otherwise, he wouldn’t have repeatedly visited Wen Ran’s livestream and dropped gifts.

Because there weren’t many people, the accommodation this time was one room per person. After Wen Ran entered his room and put his things away, he saw a notification on his phone that he had been added to a group chat.

Named “National Team Expedition Group.”

The group owner’s avatar was a Q-version cow.

No need to guess, it was definitely Chairman Niu.

Wen Ran didn’t have Chairman Niu on WeChat, and they hadn’t added each other before. It was Jiang Yan who pulled him in.

The notification in the group said that players who had arrived should gather in the training room downstairs.

STE was indeed a wealthy team. This training room was a full two times larger than WK’s. Not only was there a water dispenser, but there was also a large refrigerator filled with various drinks, snacks, and fruits for the pro players to take at any time.

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Once everyone had arrived, Chairman Niu cleared his throat and spoke:

“Everyone knows the purpose of gathering here. It is to form a new team and go on an expedition for the country.”

“You are all players carefully selected from the League. You have teammates you are familiar with, and you know everyone sitting here. But today I want to tell everyone that here, we must all start anew.”

“Our goal is only one: to win the championship. But time is tight and the task is heavy. The training schedule ahead will be very arduous. Coach Feng Wei will arrange the specific plan.”

Chairman Niu glanced at the people sitting below. Everyone looked pleasing to the eye, except for that Wen Ran.

Even though he was sitting obediently in his chair now, Chairman Niu felt that Wen Ran might sarcastically roast him in the next second.

“During the training period, everyone will obey Coach Feng’s commands in all matters. Is there any problem with that?”

Everyone answered in unison: “No.”

“What about Dawn?”

Facing Chairman Niu’s roll call, Wen Ran had to brace himself and say it again: “No.”

Then Chairman Niu leaned in mysteriously next to Feng Wei and whispered: “Don’t worry, to ensure he doesn’t go back on his word, I’ve recorded it.”

“Coach Feng, if he doesn’t listen later, just tell me. I’ll turn this clip into an alarm clock and use it to wake him up every morning.”

Wen Ran: “???”

The people below: “……”

Is there a possibility, Chairman Niu, that your voice isn’t quiet, and we are all in the same room?

Wen Ran put on a fake smile and reminded him: “Chairman Niu, I heard that.”

“It’s better if you heard it,” Chairman Niu said. “I wanted you to hear it.”

Wen Ran: “……”

Then he watched helplessly as Chairman Niu pulled a piece of paper from somewhere and placed it in front of him.

“This is the pre-match slogan I compiled. Before training matches start every day, recite it once.”

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“Everyone else has one too.” As he spoke, Chairman Niu picked up four other sheets from the table and distributed them one by one to the other four people.

“Come, Xu Jiajia, you read it first.”

After Chairman Niu spoke, Xu Jiajia gave an “Oh” and stood up: “Rational and calm, obey commands, remember to check bushes, protect the Carry reasonably, don’t get heated, don’t be arrogant or impatient.”

Wen Ran flipped his own paper over in confusion. Strange, why was it different?

Before he could react to whether Chairman Niu had given him the wrong one, he heard the other party cue him: “Dawn, you read yours.”

Wen Ran could only stand up, looking at the bold printed text, and read aloud: “Respect teammates, no foul language, civilized unity, care for the Chairman, reject being a toxic tumor, start with myself?”

“Chairman Niu, did you take the wrong one?”

“Of course not,” Chairman Niu glanced at Wen Ran: “This is customized specifically for you. You just need to remember these.”

Wen Ran: “……”

Xu Jiajia couldn’t hold back and let out a “Pfft” of laughter.

“From now on, before starting training matches, Dawn will recite it once.”

“I will come over every morning to record a video and post it to your Super Topic for fans to supervise.”

Wen Ran: “……”

Posting it to that group of haters meant his dark history would increase by one more item.

Might as well kill me, right now.

Because fans were paying close attention to the national team matter, a special Weibo account was set up to post daily training room updates and player vlogs. The video of Wen Ran reading the slogan was edited into the first day’s vlog.

The Little Roses were laughing like crazy in the comments.

[Hahahahaha Dawn, as expected of you, your way of breaking out of the circle is always different from others.]

[Reflect on yourself. Why are you so handsome yet gradually walking down the path of a comedian?]

[That expression, completely dead inside hahaha.]

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[《Care for the Chairman》– Written by Chairman Niu.]

[Dawn, how much psychological shadow did you cast on Chairman Niu?]

[Chairman Niu: My four good treasures and one toxic tumor.]

[With these two live wires around, the pro players must be having fun.]

[By the way, do they not have substitutes this time?]

[It’s said to avoid delaying other players’ domestic matches. Besides, these few are already the top strength in the League. If a second team came, they wouldn’t have any chance to play anyway.]

[Fighting, players! Team China must win!]

Wen Ran initially felt ashamed and uncomfortable reading the slogan, but later he could recite it backward fluently. Chairman Niu only scared him for a few days. Aside from the first day being filmed for the vlog, none of the other videos were leaked. Eventually, Chairman Niu stopped recording.

Because they were simply too busy. Their training time was even longer than when they were in their own teams. Not only did they have to build synergy and practice systems, but they also had to familiarize themselves with foreign players’ playstyles. Foreign teams were also reformed, so there was no firsthand data to watch. They could only analyze playstyles from each player’s individual match videos. Every day when they returned to their rooms, they were so tired they almost fell asleep immediately.

After spending this time with Wen Ran, Chairman Niu discovered that he wasn’t as unruly as his first impression suggested. Instead, he was quite obedient and took training matches very seriously.

Chairman Niu got up in the middle of the night once and saw the training room light on. He thought someone forgot to turn it off, but upon going over, he saw Wen Ran clicking away at the keyboard, still training.

Chairman Niu sighed, took the initiative to get him a glass of milk, heated it up, and placed it by his table: “Don’t tire yourself out too much. Rest early.”

Once, he saw Wind order porridge for takeout and casually asked why he was eating so blandly. Wind told him it was for Wen Ran, as Wen Ran had a bad stomach and couldn’t drink cold things often.

Wen Ran looked up in some astonishment: “Thank you.”

“I’ll rest after practicing this combo.”

Only then did Chairman Niu realize that Wen Ran truly loved this game and was constantly working hard for this goal.

Later, when ordering takeout for this group of kids, he would bring an extra portion of porridge for Wen Ran.

The match time grew closer, and the coordination between the five of them became better and better, as they grew more familiar with each other.

All five were top professional players, each with their own unique playstyle, but for this occasion, they all made concessions for the team.

Especially Ling Han, the ceiling of the Top Lane known for his carry warriors, practiced tank/sustain heroes to perfection.

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The World Championship regular season was held in City H. The first match was against the Brazilian team.

On the night before the match began, Wen Ran finally had a rare chance to pick up his phone and scroll through Weibo. The first thing he did was switch to his alt account to check his Super Topic. Little Roses had left many messages, mostly telling him to take care of himself and cheering him on for the next day’s match. Although he was busy, he took time to perfunctorily reply to the “family members.”

Of course, there were also many hateful comments from anti-fans under his search terms. Wen Ran used his alt account to retort to a few.

He posted a lot of things on his alt account. Since no one really saw it anyway, Wen Ran would occasionally act emo and post photos, of course without showing his face—often just close-ups of his hands.

As a result, just after he posted a photo today, he received a private message.

[Gentle Gentleman: Baby, want to hook up?]

[wxhjy: ?]

[Gentle Gentleman: jpg]

Wen Ran clicked open that image and felt like he was about to go blind.

Not even half as good as what Jiang Yan was too shy to show?

[wxhjy: Roll further away, your Daddy faints at needles!]

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