You're Beautiful When You Smile

CHAPTER 107

It was midnight when they arrived at Xiamen. After checking into the hotel and getting their room keys, everyone went to their assigned rooms to go sleep. Tong Yao, after washing up, exchanged a few words with Lu Sicheng on WeChat, then she fell asleep with her phone still in hand.

The last sentence Lu Sicheng said to her was to go and lock her door. Little Fatty happened to pass by behind Lu Sicheng while drying his hair after showering. Little Fatty stretched his head to take a look at the chat between Lu Sicheng and Tong Yao and asked: "Locking the door to keep thieves out or you out?"

".........................................." Lu Sicheng put down the cell phone and turned to look at his support who was getting into his bed: "Are you done yet?"

"I just couldn't get over the scene I saw today at the airport. I can only vent my frustration on you." Little Fatty pulled up the blanket to cover him and stared at the ceiling: "I treat Tong Yao as a teammate and you only want to get her pregnant."

Lu Sicheng: "......"

Little Fatty turned over: "Cheng Ge, Tong Yao is a very nice girl."

Lu Sicheng raised his eyebrows.

Little Fatty used one hand to support his head: "Look at Yang god, look at Ah Guang, look at Li Huanshuo......They're all eyeing our mid. They don't even bother to go to mid-lane to gank her during matches. If you ever act like a jerk to her, the junglers from half of the major league's 12 teams would station at our bot lane from now on-- --It's alright for you for you've brought it onto yourself but doesn't forget that I'm also a bot, that would be losing two lives! ! !"

Lu Sicheng sneered and also got ready to go under the blanket on his bed: "What exactly are you trying to say?"

Little Fatty sighed: "You have many competitors, don't keep thinking about your image just because you feel you're an idol."

Lu Sicheng stopped halfway into the blanket: "I'm not thinking of my image. The day when we're together, I wanted to announce to the world that I've found someone to be my queen, but she wouldn't let me."

"Why not?"

"At first, I thought maybe it was better to keep it under wraps so as not to affect her performance. Later on, I found that her ability is already well recognized. Nowadays if someone comes out saying she isn't good enough or this and that, then that person would be slapping their own face-- --The team has an all-win record at the group phase of the competition. And you can ask yourself when did we have a team with a solid three-man core ever since ZGDX was formed-- --I was figuring how to make this thing public then there came that incident with Ai Jia and his girlfriend. It created such a storm that my fans even posted some comments on Tieba and she happened to see them." Lu Sicheng thought about it and frustratedly said: "Now she keeps saying that if I declare that I'm with her, I won't have any fans anymore."

Little Fatty covered himself under the blanket to muffle his laughter, making sounds like he was farting.

He happily touched his face: "Young girls like to worry for nothing."

"Yeah." Lu Sicheng gave Little Fatty a glance with a stone face: "How's your face wash?"

"You even get jealous about the face wash, what a jealous guy." Little Fatty laughed with great satisfaction until he had enough fun with it: "What exactly do you like about her? Don't give me those superficial things like on the marriage oath-- --To tell the truth, Tong Yao's looks are pretty ordinary-- --compared to those pretty fangirls of yours."

Lu Sicheng turned off the light.

The room became dark.

After a long while, Little Fatty heard the person in the next bed turn over and heard his low and slightly sleepy voice-- --

"She's quite a strong player."

Little Fatty: "Nonsense."

"She's cute when she cries."

Little Fatty: "Pervert."

"......"

Little Fatty: "Anything else?"

"Yes."

Little Fatty: "What?"

"The spark of love comes from nowhere, but the feelings get deeper and deeper."[1]

Little Fatty: "................................................................."

Little Fatty: "This one is good, quite fancy."

The next day, the other teams participating in the competition also arrived at Xiamen one after another. Early in the morning, Xiao Rui went out to arrange skirmishes for the B team for the next few days. The players from both the A and B teams were led by their coaches to an internet cafe near the hotel to do some training matches.

Just like at the base, the A-team players would sit behind the B team players during the match and tell the B team kids better ways to handle the situation, or when to cast abilities, or when to hold their position, or when to move up.

-- --The B team at the moment was playing a skirmish with a team called RMB, which was a junior league team. It wasn't too difficult for ZGDX's B team to handle RMB since they were one of the strongest teams in the junior league and very likely to move up to the major league this year......

Besides, RMB was ranked a second-tiered team even in the junior league.

"The other side has put a ward at red buff. Their jungler was at the top a few dozen seconds ago. If he wants to go to the bot, he would go get the buff first. You should place a ward so you don't get caught unaware."

-- --It was Little Fatty's voice and Alkaid responded with mhm, mhm.

"Is bot about to reach level 6? Check your farm, check the minimap; if your teammate ad is leading in the farm then you need to calculate the right moment, don't wait till your teammate calls you then teleport to support him. Look for the correct timing on your own. If your team's ad is under pressure, then you should prevent the other side's top from teleporting before you......"

-- --It was Old Cat's voice and the B team's top silently nodded.

"Don't bother looking at it. Stay safe at the bot. Your opponent is Speed Star and he has Jinx. You're no match for him."

-- --It was Lu Sicheng's flat voice. Dubhe didn't respond at all, only the sound of him clicking on the mouse became louder.

Tong Yao: "......"

Tong Yao turned her head to take a glance at the pair of ads who didn't get along, then turned back to reach over to click the keyboard of the person in front of her. She took a look at the stats amid the protest of the person in front. The game had started for ten minutes now and the bot was truly behind, with over 20 minions. The bot was in bad shape.

Tong Yao jabbed the back of the person in front: "Who's Speedy Star? How come your brother knows so much about the ad of a second-tiered team in the junior league?"

Lu Yue replied after a short silence: "You don't have anything more technical other than gossip to say to me?"

Tong Yao: "I do."

Lu Yue: "What?"

Tong Yao: "The opponent's mid obviously is afraid of you and you're so timid as well. Are the two of you prepared to stay put under each of your turrets and never cross the river? There's no lane phase in mid-lane in this match. I've watched for ten minutes and don't even know what skin the other side's Leblanc is using today. You two are really something, playing the game like this."

Lu Yue: "......Speedy Star isn't some third-rate ad. A couple of years ago when my brother just came back to the league, Speedy Star was the first ad of team CK and very strong, really strong, especially when he's using Jinx and Ashe. He is particularly good at using their ultimates. At that time, he was at least on a par with my brother."

Tong Yao widened her eyes: "Yi yi yi yi yi?"

Lu Yue handled his champion to walk out of the turret towards the other side and the other side's mid appeared: "See, it's the Elderwood skin, see it? Now that you've seen it, don't force me to come out or I'll go back to being timid. To develop steadily is halfway to winning the game-- --Back to gossip-- --Later on, CK didn't do well at the world tournament that year and Speedy Star was the one who took the blame. He died seconds into the team fight, messed up his team's positioning, stayed put in the lane, and couldn't fight against anyone. The audience at home was very disappointed in him. Tieba at the time almost exploded."

"How so?"

"Everyone was making an uproar to tell him to come back and stop shaming the country. Some told him to swim back, that he wasn't worth the price of the airline ticket." Lu Yue frowned while remembering: "Some cursed the airplane hoping it'd crash. Anyway, he was trashed pretty badly-- --After the team came back, CK couldn't take the pressure and switched Butterfly, the current ad, as its first ad for the Spring season next year. The original idea was just to let Speedy Star lie low for the moment. But he couldn't take it and switch to a club in the minor league......"

"......What's his reason?"

"Striving for vindication, he wanted to lead a junior team and fight its way back to the major league by himself and like giving a hard slap to those trolls."

"......And the result?"

"The result is that even you, as a professional player, don't know who Speedy Star is."

"......"

"It's quite common. And not necessarily for vindication. Sometimes it's because a player refused to take defeat or for more money than he would willingly move down to the junior league and always thought that since he's such a good player, he would fight back to the major league one day......"