Chapter 12
Translator: Aafkee
Proofreader: ChaiTea
【(All) TS.CCCCH: Xiao-Lu, don’t use Q on me.】
Pei Lu is using Karma, an AP support who can deal a lot of damage to the opponent with her Q.
【(All) TS.Luu: Okay.】
Just as he sends out that message, his teammate speaks up.
【DepressedPrince: If you’re gonna throw a game, don’t come to the bottom lane, I can solo bot, thanks.】
She seems to be greatly angered.
【TS.Luu: …I have no plans to throw the game.】
Mu Wanwan does not reply any more and goes to her lane, minding her own business while Karma swings her hips and follows closely behind thick-armed Draven, who looks a little aggrieved.
True to his words, Pei Lu does not once use his Q on Caitlyn.
His Q would always land on Soraka. Before any of them even reached level two, Soraka has already gotten hit twice by his Q and is only left with half of her health.
Only then does Mu Wanwan’s expression soften. However, her comments are already filled with anti-fans. It is as if they have finally seized some evidence of her wrongdoing, accusing her of being petty, blaming her for holding grudges, and wanting to take revenge too readily.
After reaching level two, Soraka finally learns her Q as well to heal back her own health.
The skill range for her Q is not long so MeowMeow begins moving forward closer to them.
Mu Wanwan dodges her Q without much effort. Instead, she takes the opportunity to throw her axe at MeowMeow’s Soraka one after another.
Draven’s auto attack deals a lot of damage. Soraka’s health bar is almost empty after a few hits from Draven. MeowMeow decides not to use Q anymore and retreats to hide behind Caitlyn to drink health potions instead.
The bottom lane starts a team fight of about ten or so seconds, but the enemies are no match for them so the enemies decide to retreat instead. Since her equipment is not built yet, Mu Wanwan does not have enough damage to finish them off. Unruffled, she presses B and returns to her base to get a B.F.Sword.
Between poking Soraka on the lane and controlling her character to catch the axes from Draven’s auto-attacks, she practically does not miss a single last hit.
Pei Lu is a little surprised. He thought she would get even more unrestrained, but instead, she plays much more stable than before.
Mu Wanwan is about to ping on the map to indicate that she wants to start a fight but, to her surprise, Pei Lu makes the signal before she does.
【TS.Luu (Karma) is on the way】
They return to the lane. When the enemies appear, Pei Lu uses his skill to speed up, followed by a flash towards Soraka. He throws his W soul chain at her and uses Q right after to slow her down. Soraka uses her flash too, but she is unable to escape and is locked on the spot after a few seconds as Karma’s skill activates.
Mu Wanwan follows very closely behind. Thanks to Pei Lu’s damage, she only needs to auto-attack her three times before Soraka dies.
Chen He wants to counter-attack but who knew Soraka was already dead when he only has landed a few auto-attacks on Draven. In the end, he can only retreat immediately.
Mu Wanwan has no intention of forcing herself to kill a ranged champion like Caitlyn. The towers have really high damage at this stage of the game, so she will definitely run into trouble if she dives.
She does not want to die in this match ー at least not when she is laning against them.
【DepressedPrince: Kill Soraka.】
She adds on afterwards.
【DepressedPrince: Caitlyn’s reach is too far, we can’t win against her if we don’t kill Soraka.】
The viewers are entertained.
[Are you taking God Lu as an idiot? God Lu brought Ignite with him, alright?]
[You big asshole, even I, a Gold-ranked player, can’t watch on.]
[Are you trying to trick God Lu into targeting Soraka? What a scheming bitch…]
【TS.Luu: Okay.】
[???]
[Excuse me? Does Lu believe her? That shouldn’t be…]
And it is a massacre, of Soraka specifically, for the next ten minutes.
For example, when Soraka just returns back on the lane, Karma would accurately land her Q on Soraka before she could do anything else, an Ignite right after, and then are killed by Draven in a few hits.
For example, Soraka would hide behind Caitlyn, not moving away a single inch, but Draven would use his flash towards her and throws out his E to slow her down and finishes her before he turns back to take care of Caitlyn.
As he had promised, Pei Lu still has not used his Q on Caitlyn a single time ー Mu Wanwan has more than enough damage by herself so, as long as she does not get slowed down or trapped by Caitlyn, she can get a kill almost every single time after Pei Lu gives her a shield.
Another example: When the opposing team’s jungler and solo mid joins in the team fight together with their bottom lane and gank Mu Wanwan, she would definitely kill Soraka before she falls. She would then use an emote and then return back to base for free*.
(T/N*: Not literally. Normally, you need to press B to return to base, but since she’s killed, she’ll just be respawned at the base without her having to press B, therefore she describes it as “for free”.)
It is a blatant provocation.
Soraka has already died six times when the match has reached 20 minutes.
And those were all done by “Mu Wanwan’s own hands”*.
(T/N*: This is in quotation marks because she only contributed to the last couple of hits for some of those kills while Pei Lu did most of the damage. However, the one who gets the last hit gets the kill, even if she does not deal the most damage to the enemy.)
【(All) TS.CCCCH: Xiao-Lu, Soraka is a girl, it isn’t nice for y’all to target her like that.】
【(All) TS.Luu: Hm?】
【(All) TS.CCCCH: Stop killing her, she’s gonna get traumatised soon haha.】
【(All) LookAtMyUltimateMeowMeowPunch: QAQ~~ Sob sob!】
【(All) DepressedPrince: Why are you talking so much during a match?】
【(All) TS.CCCCH: Was I talking to you? Why are you responding?】
【(All) LookAtMyUltimateMeowMeowPunch: What are you trying to say?】
【(All) DepressedPrince: What I’m trying to say is, you should just go back to the rank that is your level if you’re a noob. Uninstall a game if you’re going to be a sore loser.】
【(All) TS.Luu: Yeah, we should all just play our own game properly.】
The comments are all trying to guess what exactly Pei Lu meant by “yeah”.
【TS.Luu: Let’s play properly, just mute the All chat.】
Mu Wanwan responded with a yes but she did not mute the chat obediently.
At 23 minutes, the first five versus five team fight is triggered.
Unsure whether it is an effect of MeowMeowPunch acting coquettishly just now or if Draven’s damage is too high, but the opposing team had begun targeting Mu Wanwan. An infinite amount of skills are aimed at her the moment the team fight starts.
Draven does not have any movement abilities. No matter how skilled she is at positioning herself, there is no way she can win against five people intentionally targeting her. Her screen greys out only halfway through the team fight.
However, due to the enemies wasting all their skills on her, Mu Wanwan’s team wins the team fight with relative ease. The opposing team is only left with an escaping Soraka, who has been hiding behind her teammates barely healing anyone throughout the fight.
Mu Wanwan feels a bit frustrated. She pouts slightly as she prepares to open up the shop to get her equipment when she hears the sound effect of the skill, Ignite, being activated.
She sees Karma cutting off Soraka, who is trying to return to base from the bush, and uses her Ignite that is just off cooldown on Soraka followed by a QW combo.
Unfortunately, this is already the mid-game phase so Karma’s damage is no longer as powerful so Soraka’s health does not drop that much.
But Pei Lu remains unruffled as he continues to chase Soraka all the way from the river to the opposite’s second tower.
After receiving a big chunk of damage from the tower, he successfully kills Soraka before he escapes from under the tower with only a bit of health left.
【(All) LookAtMyUltimateMeowMeowPunch: What animosity do you have towards me God Lu?? QAQ】
【(All) LookAtMyUltimateMeowMeowPunch: I’m your old fan!】
【(All) TS.CCCCH: Aren’t you my fan = =】
【(All) LookAtMyUltimateMeowMeowPunch: I am, I am, I’m Team TS’s fan haha~】
It seems like Pei Lu really did mute the All chat. The conversation between those two becomes extremely awkward as Pei Lu does not reply a single word.
Mu Wanwan ineffably feels good and less frustrated.
After the game has ended, Soraka’s score is at 0/11/9, even her assist counts did not exceed her death counts.
Her other teammates are all grumbling, flaming them in the chatbox on the match statistic page.
【Don’t try to carry a girl if you can’t do it properly. Are you trying to throw our games?】
【Noobs, I hate this kind of couple combinations the most at the bottom lanes, look like fucking idiots.】
【LookAtMyUltimateMeowMeowPunch: Didn’t you see how the opposing team was targeting me throughout the game?? Why are you blaming me?】
Mu Wanwan can not be bothered to read their conversation. She only knows that she is in a good mood so she exits the game room happily.
She picks up the coffee mug beside her, wanting to take a sip when she realises that it is already empty. She lowers her eyes to glance at the time. It is already the usual time for her to get off stream.
She contemplates for a few seconds but decides to lower her head towards tomorrow’s exam.
【DepressedPrince: I’m going off, I have something on tomorrow…】
【TS.Luu: Okay.】
After saying goodbye to her viewers, she goes offline hurriedly.
Pei Lu receives a call from Chen He the moment he closes his game.
Chen He demands, “Xiao-Lu, what’s with that just now?”
Pei Lu pretends not to understand, “What’s wrong?”
“I’ve already told you that MeowMeow is a girl so don’t kill her… She was streaming just now. She feels so embarrassed that she almost cried.”
“This game has nothing to do with gender,” Pei Lu stands up and continues, “Brother Yang said that there’ll be a practice match tonight at one. He asked you to come back early.”
“Alright, alright, I’ll try.”
The other side hangs up right after he finishes grumbling at Pei Lu.
Pei Lu grabs his jacket and puts it on easily, “I’m going out to get a cup of coffee, what do you guys want?”
“I want a chocolate milk tea,” Lil Meat Bun is staring intensely at his monitor, not even turning his head as he asks, “It’s winter and it’s so cold outside. Why don’t you just call for delivery?”
“That cafe has no delivery,” Pei Lu turns his head, “How about Brother Hu and Mu Tou?”
Mu Tou shakes his head while Brother Hu shouts, “Help me get some beer…”
“Brother Hu, I’m streaming.” Meat Bun interrupts him.
Brother Hu changes his words in an instant, “That was a joke, I only ever drink lemonade.”
Lil Meat Bun recovers after laughing out loud for a long while, “Xiao-Lu, these fans are asking which cafe you’re heading to, they want to have a chance encounter with you.”
Without a doubt, Pei Lu has the highest popularity in Team TS.
Pei Lu does not stream so when TS’s other team members stream, many fangirls ask “What’s our Xiao-Lu doing right now”, “Is Xiao-Lu sleeping?”, “Has Xiao-Lu eaten?” etcetera.
Lil Meat Bun and Brother Hu usually cooperate pretty well and answer those questions to satisfy their fans’ curiosity; Mu Tou does not really talk when he streams; While Chen He will find such fans annoying. He even got angry once and asked them not to mention others on his stream.
Pei Lu smiles, “A very cosy cafe.”
And with that, he hurries out of the door, not giving Lil Meat Bun any more chances to ask him questions.
Mu Wanwan never thought that she would meet Pei Lu coincidentally when she goes out at eleven at night to revise for her exam.
But now that she thought about it… TS’s training base seems to be pretty close.
Pei Lu is wearing a grey windbreaker and his long legs are covered by a pair of casual sports trousers.
She puts up her workbooks to cover her face as she stares at his back view sneakily.
To chance upon him at the cafe right after they played together online, is this what the legend calls…
A bond formed online, treasure this fated encounter offline?*
(T/N*: 网络一线牵，珍惜这段缘 is directly translated to: A bond/link formed online, treasure this fate or something along that line but they rhyme.)
As she lets her imagination run wild, the other party turns around all of a sudden. Mu Wanwan could not avoid his gaze in time as their gazes meet, unexpectedly.
It’s evident that Pei Lu remembers her, there is a hint of surprise in his eyes, too.
Just as Mu Wanwan becomes anxious, she calms down almost immediately ー she has already removed her makeup. Even if Pei Lu knows DepressedPrince is his “fake fan”, he probably can’t recognise her right now.
She should only be a little fan of his in his eyes right now.
Thus, she pretends to be shy as she waves her hand at him, wanting to fulfil her duties as his “personal fan”.
Pei Lu blinks as he accepts the receipt passed to him by the waiter and hesitates for a short while. To her surprise, he actually begins walking towards her.
Mu Wanwan is flabbergasted as she watches Pei Lu take the seat right opposite her.
She watches as he puts up his palm to cover the side of his mouth, saying out a single sentence in a soft voice.
“Erm… I think you’re wearing your shirt the wrong way.”
Mu Wanwan is silent.
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