Chapter 16
Translator: Aafkee
Proofreader: ChaiTea
Given that e-sports is trending now, the LPL professional players have undoubtedly been pushed into the spotlight, especially with how League of Legends is one of the most popular games in recent years.
It is the next day after the match when Mu Wanwan finds out on Weibo’s hot trend about what happened during yesterday’s match.
【LittleE-SportsGuyV*: According to the backstage staff’s description of yesterday’s event during the match, HSS’s jungler, Fu Zhou, was in a bad mood due to his mistakes during the match. He ran into Team TS’s AD, Chen He, on his way back to his team’s room and an argument between the two of them ended up in a fistfight. That was the reason why both TS and HSS switched to their substitutes during the match yesterday. It really is a pity for TS, given how they had the momentum. A substitute AD clearly could not keep up with the main team’s momentum which led to their loss. But that isn’t a big deal, it’s only a regular season, hopefully, both teams will continue to work hard.】
(T/N*: The V behind the usernames usually means that these accounts are “verified”.)
“Work hard, my ass.”
At TS’s base, Lil Meat Bun cannot help swearing when he sees that Weibo post.
“Alright, you’ve already been talking about this for the whole night.” Brother Yang is currently writing something non-stop on a piece of paper when he responds to Lil Meat Bun’s outburst.
Brother Hu asks, “What are you writing?”
“A list of what TS needs to give to Chen He this year.”
Everyone, except for Pei Lu, is astonished.
Lil Meat Bun can not believe it, “You’re really going to dismiss him?”
“If not? Do you think I was joking when I said it last time and that I merely said it for fun?”
Chen He is, without a doubt, the most troublesome professional player in the whole of LPL. Skipping practice, late, leaving early, screwing around with fans, fistfights… every single rule that can be broken were nearly all broken at least once before by him.
Brother Yang has always been strict in the way he does things. When everyone had just joined the team, he had already told Chen He that if he continued to get into trouble like this, he would kick him out of TS.
Everyone thought Brother Yang was joking at that time, none of them had thought that he was being serious.
Lil Meat Bun is hesitant, “But if we kick him out, what will we do for the Spring Season Tournament?”
“Didn’t you guys complete the match anyway without Chen He?”
“Xiao-Hui is not as skilled,” Brother Hu says, “Or we wouldn’t have lost yesterday.
Lil Meat Bun interrupts, “Aren’t you speaking the obvious? Xiao-Hui is a solo-top laner and now we’re asking him to play as an AD. How can he play well?”
That’s right, their team does not have an AD substitute. They only have substitutes for mid lane and top lane.
There was another reason why it took them so long for them to get back on stage yesterday―They were contemplating on sending which substitute to play the rest of the match.
Pei Lu, who is sitting on the side, asks, “Have you already decided?”
“Yeah,” Brother Yang lets out a sigh, “You guys are too naive. There’s no way the upper management will let this go especially when Chen He started a fight backstage of an LPL tournament. The notification for banning him from the tournament is probably going to arrive soon so, even if I don’t kick him out, he still can’t participate in the tournament.”
Mu Tou, who has remained silent up until now, speaks up, “Then, what shall we do for this Spring Season Tournament?”
The group stays silent for a couple of seconds.
“It’s only a Spring Season Tournament; no big deal.”
Pei Lu stands up, the corners of his lips lift slightly, “We still have the Summer Season Tournament in the next half of the year.”
Brother Hu asks, “But our team doesn’t even have an AD. Where can we even find one?”
Lil Meat Bun pats his head, “The world is big. Do you think there’ll be a lack of ADCs who dream of being professional players? I’ve been part of the local server’s Challenger rank for so many years now. I can literally recite the ID of a few ADCs who have yet to join any teams with my eyes closed.”
Brother Yang perks up when he hears that. With the gloomy mood thrown behind him, he lets out a smile and asks, “Oh? Who? Why don’t you close your eyes and recite them now?”
Lil Meat Bun closes his eyes, beginning to recite the IDs he knows without any hesitation, “DepressedPrince…”
Brother Yang raises a hand, “Stop.”
Lil Meat Bun opens his eyes, confusion clear on his face, “Huh?”
“I think DepressedPrince is not a bad choice,” Yang-Ge finally tells the rest of the team about the player he has been researching for many months now, “Have you played any games with her before?”
“About twice, once the day before yesterday, the other time was when she was in my team. In all honesty, she really is quite strong,” Lil Meat Bun moves on to the main concern, “But Brother Yang, you may not know this, but DepressedPrince is a female.”
“I know.”
“You know??” Brother Hu is shocked, “Then why are you…”
“Why can’t girls play professionally?”
Both Lil Meat Bun and Brother Hu look at each other for a good while, not able to think of any concrete reasons.
Mu Tou is the one who speaks out the main concern, “It’s all guys in the base.”
“Yeah, yeah,” Lil Meat Bun nods, “It must be inconvenient.”
Pei Lu says sincerely, “Meat Bun… I think it is about time to change the bad habit of walking around the base naked during summer. Have you already forgotten the gaze from those female fans who came to gank our base?”
“... No wonder you’ve been queueing with DepressedPrince recently!” Lil Meat Bun claps his hands together, as if he has finally solved a mystery, “Have you guys already been thinking of dismissing Chen He since a long time ago?”
Brother Yang does not deny, “I asked Xiao-Lu to. How’s it, Xiao-Lu? Did you change your mind after playing with her these few days?”
Pei Lu nods.
Their match against MeowMeowPunch really made him realise what Mu Wanwan is capable of.
“She can be both aggressive and defensive, both unrestrained and restrained. She’s definitely a good candidate if she’s willing to listen to commands.”
Lil Meat Bun frowns, “Why did you only ask Xiao-Lu to test her. Why not ask me, too?”
Brother Yang laughs, “The two of them will become the bottom lane duo. Why do you want to interfere with them?”
“Fine,” Lil Meat Bun laughs too, “That’s it. I’ll not participate in any ganking with the jungler to help you guys at the bottom lane anymore.”
**
When the information of Chen He being banned from the rest of the tournament is confirmed, Mu Wanwan had just gotten out of bed. As the weather is too cold, she feels too lazy to go out so she decides to have cup noodles instead. While waiting for the water and noodles to get ready, she puts on her makeup and prepares to stream.
When she starts up the game client, her stream has yet to go live.
TS.Luu is online.
She takes a slurp of noodles and thinks for a moment before sending a message over.
【DepressedPrince: Are you okay?】
【TS.Luu: Hm?】
【DepressedPrince: About being banned from the tournament…】
She regrets it the moment she has hit the send button.
Will this make her seem too nosy?
【TS.Luu: Oh, that. It’s all good.】
【DepressedPrince: That’s good, then.】
【TS.Luu: Want to have a game?】
【DepressedPrince: Can you give me about 5 minutes…】
She has yet to reach her stream quota for the month, she can not afford to lose this opportunity.
【TS.Luu: Okay.】
She quickly tidies up, chooses a random lipstick, makes sure that her makeup is fine, and finally starts streaming.
It is nine in the morning so there are not many viewers yet.
She covers her mouth with her hand as she lets out a small yawn. As she is about to alt-tab back to her game window, she hears a “ding” notification sound, followed by a pop-out notification.
“Admin03 has temporarily closed down your stream. Please contact the main administrator if you need help.”
Mu Wanwan is astonished.
She quickly contacts the admin and the other party talks quite officiously.
Admin03: “Hello. As our platform suspects that you are not actually playing the game while you are streaming, we have decided to temporarily lock your channel to protect our platform’s reputation.”
Wanan: “I’ve already said this before but, no one is playing for me.”
Admin03: “But I have received a video as evidence this time.”
Mu Wanwan finds this extremely laughable.
She obviously plays the game with her own two hands so how is it possible that there is “video evidence” to prove that someone else is playing for her??
She downloads and watches the video sent by the other party. After she finishes, she is beginning to suspect this admin’s IQ.
Wanan: “This is obviously just high ping lag and delay. This has to do with the connection of the person watching the stream, which has no relation to me at all. Can you guys not tell that that’s just a normal delay?”
The other party does not reply for a long while, probably off to settle other things.
Only then does Mu Wanwan recall something. She quickly switches back into the game―
【TS.Luu: Are you ready?】
…She actually made Pei Lu wait like an idiot for more than 20 minutes.
【DepressedPrince: Sorry, sorry! I need to get settle something on my side so I don’t think I have time to play now.】
【TS.Luu: Okay.】
【TS.Luu: Are you okay? I think your channel can not be viewed right now.】
Sure enough, Pei Lu knows that she is a streamer.
Mu Wanwan thinks that this just made the situation even worse than it already is.
Thank god she has her last cover.
(T/N: DARLING, HE KNOWS EVERYTHING.)
【DepressedPrince: It’s cool, this platform is accusing me of having someone else play in my stead while streaming so they locked my channel. :) 】
【DepressedPrince: The admin is actually using a delayed video as evidence?? I think I might have joined a fake BattleCat platform. What number one streaming platform? What fair and reasonable management? They are all fake. They don’t even have the basic capability to distinguish something so simple!】
【TS.Luu: I guess you’ll have to explain to them properly… I believe the streaming platform will believe you.】
【DepressedPrince: Yeah, you can go ahead. You don’t have to wait for me. This will probably take a long time.】
【TS.Luu: Okay.】
A while later.
Admin03 finally replies her: “Okay so now, we have two proposals.”
Mu Wanwan really does not understand why they are acting all high and mighty when they are the ones who have wronged her.
Wanan: “Oh, do tell. I’ll consider it.”
Admin03: “―, from now on, you can also place a camera showing your hands during your stream so that your viewers can see your movements and controls while you are playing the game.”
Wanan: “What use is there? You can still accuse me with the delay. Why didn’t you suggest for them to change to a better internet connection?”
Admin03: “...The second proposal is.”
The other party sends her a link.
Mu Wanwan clicks to open the link and can see the huge, bolded title right awayー
BattleCat’s 2nd League of Legends Streamers’ Offline Battle.
She closes the page without a second thought.
Wanan: “It was written clearly on the contract when I signed it that I don’t have any obligations to cater to any of your offline events.”
Admin03: “Of course, we know that. We are merely giving you a way to prove your innocence.”
Wanan: “?? I don’t need to prove my innocence.”
And the unhappy conversation ends there.
Mu Wanwan is furious.
She chooses proposal one in the end but unexpected, her channel is… locked again in less than a day.
Admin03 tells her righteously, “There is another new video evidence against you and it has already been uploaded online and shared over a thousand times. It is difficult for us, too.”
Mu Wanwan opens up Weibo and glances, all the new comments she has received are scolding her.
After searching on Weibo for a long while, she has finally found the so-called Weibo post that has been shared over a thousand times.
Not only did the OP* upload a video, they even attached a long essay with it.
(T/N*: Original poster.)
【StreamerMeowMeowV: Being a streamer is getting more and more difficult nowadays QAQ. If I don’t have a sound card as expensive as the others, my singing will not be able to compete with the others; If you don’t spend the money to find someone to play for you, no one is going to watch your LoL streams… It’s just so sad. I’m now doing my nails, I’ll be joining the LoL offline tournament so remember to watch the stream! I’ll be waiting~】
This Weibo post has over a thousand shares and comments, most of which is consoling her. The anti-fans even tagged Mu Wanwan’s Weibo ID under this post.
Mu Wanwan’s left eyelid twitches when she sees the newest repost.
【LinJiuV: MeowMeowPunch who’s clear as ice and clean as jade. [Picture]】
When she clicks it open, it is a chat history of MeowMeowPunch telling someone that she is going to target Mu Wanwan.
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