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【67】 Who Told You to Bully Our Mid Laner?
Wind already possessed immense influence, so the moment Jiang Yan’s interview video was released, fan comments instantly flooded the section.
[Woo woo woo, Hubby is so handsome I could explode! I wish I could screenshot every single frame. Lick lick~]
[I hope Wind realizes that we fans were just dormant, not dead.]
[If you didn’t have fans, what would we be? Air?]
[Wind said he’s practicing new heroes! I’m so looking forward to seeing them in the arena.]
[Seeing him still so confident makes me so happy. My Wind is back!]
The comments were packed with praise for his looks and assertions that “Hubby’s” dominance hadn’t diminished, but the most discussed topic was still that one specific answer.
To find a partner.
It was common knowledge that professional players, especially star players with such massive fanbases, were almost always a combination of good looks and high skill—like STE’s Yue Yang and Ling Han. There were also players like Ye Xin, whose skills were good, even if their looks weren’t particularly outstanding.
However, within their fanbases, “girlfriend fans” occupied half the territory.
Jiang Yan’s sentence was like a single stone stirring up a thousand waves.
[Is this a joke? It has to be, right?]
[What? Wind is actually looking for a partner? Would it be someone inside the circle?]
[Good lord, I’m speechless. He was so amazing before, retiring whenever he felt like it, and now he’s coming back just to find a partner? Is there something wrong with him?]
[Shouldn’t esports be about ideals and championships? I can’t believe Wind has a ‘love brain.’ What a turn-off.]
[Yeah, but… Wind already has championships…]
[Can we not blow this out of proportion? Maybe he’s just making a joke?]
[I think so too. Wind is so straight that if a telephone pole saw him, it would have to offer him a cigarette out of respect. Even when a rich and famous streamer beauty like Xiang Si publicly courted him, he rejected her completely.]
[How do you know they didn’t contact each other privately?]
[Come on. Someone asked Xiang Si in her stream if she knew what Wind was up to recently, and she almost got anxious, saying, “You guys just want me to humiliate myself again, I won’t fall for it!”]
[Are you crazy? Did Wind say anything wrong? Since his debut, he said that as long as he’s in the arena for a day, the championship is his faith and he will keep moving forward. Now they asked for the reason he returned, and he said ‘partner.’ So what?]
[Exactly. Rather than Wind finding an outsider who looks down on or doesn’t understand esports, it’s better to find someone in the circle.]
[But the problem is, the pro circle is full of rough dudes. You can count the female players on one hand.]
[Reverse Seal’s Mid laner Jiang Nan, Right’s Support Xing Yue, YTR’s ADC Little Pomelo… who would Wind like?]
[Except for Jiang Nan, none of them are from Wind’s generation. They haven’t even played together. How would Wind know them?]
[Jiang Nan and Wind would make a talented and good-looking couple, though. A cool beauty and a male god. Tsk tsk tsk.]
[There are female commentators too. Ying Li seems to like Wind a lot; she’s always gentlest when commentating WK’s matches.]
[Uh, what if Wind likes men?]
[Where did this idiot come from? Even if you’re bent, Wind couldn’t possibly be, okay?]
[Stop spreading rumors about my husband. Did shipping CPs make you stupid?]
[Forget it, Wind can like whoever he wants. He said “coming to find a partner,” he hasn’t found one yet, so what’s the rush?]
[Hahaha, I’m also leaning towards him not finding one!]
……
A side account named “wxhjy” piggybacked on the trending topic and posted a Weibo: [Even if you can’t find one, he won’t fail to find one, okay? He has me!]
Because the account weight was too low and the number of posts was scant, it didn’t even make it to the main feed. Plus, it sounded too much like a delusional fangirl’s rambling, so not many people paid attention to it.
This was Wen Ran’s side account.
He had registered it after unilaterally misunderstanding that Jiang Yan had “broken up” with someone, and he had posted some very melodramatic text on it.
He didn’t know what kind of psychology drove him to post this kind of Weibo—probably because it was inconvenient to post from his main account.
If it were about flaming people, he would use his main account without hesitation. But since these matters involved Jiang Yan, Wen Ran could only use a side account to express his emotions.
However, he had to hide this side account well. It absolutely could not be discovered by others, especially Jiang Yan.
Just treat it as writing a diary, Wen Ran comforted himself.
The storm of blood and wind on the internet didn’t affect Jiang Yan in the slightest; training matches still had to be played as usual.
Today’s scheduled scrim was against STE. STE used to scrim often with WK, and now that Wind had returned and Dawn had been brought in, STE was also very concerned about their opponent’s current strength.
As soon as Wen Ran entered the room, a person with the ID “Sweet” on the opposite side kept typing in the chat.
[STE.Sweet: Dawn, hello hello! Where did you get your hair dyed? What is this color called?]
Wen Ran: “……”
He pretended not to see it, but Sweet continued to type.
[STE.Sweet: Tell me~ I want to change my hair color too!]
[STE.Sweet: I have a salon membership card. Next time you come to City H, I’ll take you to change your color, and we can get a treatment too.]
Wen Ran was speechless. Was this person always this overly familiar?
He actually watched league matches, so he knew Sweet to some extent.
STE was one of the top wealthy powerhouse teams in the league. Sweet’s real name was Xu Jiajia. He was STE’s ADC, proficient in all kinds of marksmen. Whether it was a heavy gunner or a shooter with flexible mobility, he could produce excellent results with them.
What people talked about most with Sweet was his explosive damage output. His average damage share per game was 32%, which was terrifying. Generally speaking, the ADC occupies a core position in a game; strong late-game heroes are suppressed early on, and early-game strong ones are targeted even more.
So, regardless of the team, a common tactic was to target the ADC. Often, the team’s damage output relied heavily on the Mid laner.
But Sweet possessed super strong self-preservation skills. Even when targeted, he could still find ways to farm and deal his damage.
He could even start team fights, playing a squishy ADC like an assassin.
His playstyle was so explosive and fierce, yet the person himself had such a… cute ID.
And now he was asking where he dyed his hair.
However, Sweet had always been trendy—specifically in terms of dressing up. He was very exquisite; he had changed hair colors five or six times already, wore ear studs, and since he was handsome to begin with, his clothes were always at the forefront of fashion.
It could be said that Xu Jiajia contributed significantly to STE becoming the “Esports Boy Band Team.”
[WK.Dawn: Forgot the hair color. Don’t need treatment.]
[STE.Sweet: You…]
Wen Ran wasn’t lying to him. He really had forgotten. Originally, he dyed his hair just to go against Jiang Yan’s “ideal type.”
[STE.Sweet: What a cruel heart!]
[STE.Sweet: I even sent you a sea of roses in your livestream room before! I used a side account!]
[STE.Sweet: How can 37-degree lips speak such cold words?]
[WK.Dawn: Got it. Can you stop spamming? My eyes hurt.]
[STE.Sweet: ……]
Wen Ran didn’t expect that Xu Jiajia was someone who held grudges.
Once the training match started, he selected his signature hero, Star Rift.
Although training matches weren’t usually played with extreme seriousness, Xu Jiajia, under the escort of his Support, rotated lanes and suppressed Wen Ran by at least three waves of minions, leaving his economy second to last.
Forget about going out to assassinate people; even clearing his own minion wave was difficult.
Sweet said, “Yue Yang, camp Dawn in the R bush in a bit. He’ll pass through there.”
Yue Yang gave a hum of affirmation, used Smite to help him take the Red buff, and then went to ambush in the R bush. Sure enough, he caught a solitary Wen Ran.
Although Yue Yang was the captain, he spoke very little, practically the complete opposite of the noisy Xu Jiajia.
The opponent moved too fast; Wen Ran was taken away by a full combo before he could even react.
The strength of an S-Group champion team wasn’t just reflected in the pressure of their mechanics, but also in psychological warfare and the anticipation born of match experience.
Clearly, STE possessed all these points. Just from a training match, Wen Ran could already feel they were different from other teams.
After being killed two more times, Wen Ran couldn’t help but feel a bit annoyed. The hero he was playing was very gold-dependent. Having been targeted several times, he basically had no chance to farm up.
Suddenly, Jiang Yan’s voice came through the headset: “Mid, come take Blue.”
Wen Ran’s first instinct was to refuse. Giving it to him now had no effect, and he might even deliver it to the enemy.
“Tsk, take it if I give it to you,” Jiang Yan said. “You farm first, be careful yourself. Leave the rest to me.”
Once Jiang Yan said this, Wen Ran instantly felt much more at ease.
Xu Jiajia’s nightmare, however, had begun.
Under the attacks of Shadow—who had already completed nearly four items—Star Rift had almost no room to survive. Although Star Rift had high burst damage, the hero was extremely squishy; practically one touch meant death.
Although Xu Jiajia was already being very cautious, he was still killed at least six times.
And this was him; if it were anyone else, the death count might have been even higher.
After the training match ended, Xu Jiajia’s message immediately popped up in the room:
[Senior, why?]
[We have no grievances or enmity. You targeted me so many times I didn’t even get to play the game!]
[I’m just a pitiful little ADC enduring pain that shouldn’t be felt at this age.]
Jiang Yan smiled and typed a reply:
[Who told you to bully our family’s Mid laner earlier?]
[STE.Sweet: Targeting the Mid laner is one of the most common tactics. Senior, you should know this better than me!]
Jiang Yan: [I know, I know. But my tactic is: whoever bullies Dawn, I hit them.]
Xu Jiajia: “……”
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