You're Beautiful When You Smile (Falling Into Your Smile)

Chapter 16

When Tong Yao heard 'skirmish', she reflectively straightened up to look at
Xiao Rui. Lu Sicheng, on the other hand, simply replied, "oh," then continued
with his game without even raised his eyes to look at Xiao Rui.

Little Fatty pushed Xiao Rui's foot away, "Rui Ge, the Spring Tournament just ended.
Who plays skirmishes during the off season? We're still here because we played the
finals, all the other teams have finished their after-season games more than half of
month ago. They've all gone home now?"

"Most of the teams aren't happy with the result of their after season games, so no
more vacations." Xiao Rui shrugged. "See how hard they are trying. Then look at
yourselves. You're still happily going about your lives after losing the championship
in the Spring Tournament. Not even annoyed by CK......"

Little Fatty: "Yang God and them are all so happy, they are grinning from ear to ear."

Xiao Rui: "They can go play MSI, sure they're happy. This year, the MSI will be
here in Shanghai, right in front of our home."

MSI is a mid-sized international competition held after the Spring Tournament,
attended by the Spring Tournament champions from each of the six regions:
Korea (LCK), China (LPL), Taiwan (LMS), Europe (LCS, EU), and North America
(LCS, NA), along with wild card teams (formed by teams from areas other than the
above 5 regions)-- --

This year was the second MSI, held in Shanghai.

Last year, the champion of the 2015 MSI was the team from LPL. After they won
the championship, everyone felt that LPL teams were so strong that they would win
in the worldwide finals a few months later as well......However, a few months later,
the three teams from LPL all performed badly at the S worldwide finals, two teams
were eliminated in the group matches, the other didn't even qualify for the final eight.
It was the worst record that LPL had ever experienced.....

After the defeat, the opinion of MSI had changed. Some still thought it was an
important tournament, only next to the world finals. Yet, some others insisted that......

-- --It was only a tournament for the purpose of entertainment!-- --The other regions weren't taking it too seriously, otherwise, how could LPL win
the championship? !-- --Garbage LPL! Garbage MSI!

With the bad experience from last year, most people still didn't have much confidence
in this region's teams. No one was optimistic for the result of this year's MSI......

Little Fatty was exactly one of those people.

Little Fatty: "What is there to be happy with when you'll get punched into the dirt right
in front of your own home?"

Xiao Rui pointed at Little Fatty's nose, "Don't you talk."Xiao Rui then turned to ask Lu Sicheng, "Cheng Ge, you don't have any problem with
a skirmish, right?"

When Xiao Rui asked, Lu Sicheng was busy moving his champion, Kalista,
to destroy the enemy's Nexus. The red glow of the nexus reflected in his eyes,
but his face was very peaceful. He simply replied with an "en." He clicked
"continue" from the victory screen-- --

Then he started to check the stats of the match.

He didn't even raise his head the whole time.

Tong Yao felt his reaction to be quite odd. He wouldn't react this way if he
was unhappy about playing skirmishes during his vacation.

She turned to look at her other teammates, none of whom seemed willing to
speak but were sneakily checking Lu Sicheng's expression-- --Then Old Cat
turned his chair around, "Why do you suddenly want us to play a skirmish?
It's still early for the Summer season. Usually, we won't start training until after
the midseason tournament."