When Fu Xiao first arrived in Shanghai, she felt that she might have a chance to meet Xu Yang when she came here, so she would go on vacation with Xu Yang.
Not so.
"I am locked in a luxurious cage in the dark every day to practice the lineup," Fu Xiao concluded.
"Be content," Lu He said. "How many people are locked up in a cage that is not luxurious every day to practice lineup? One day I should really show you our youth training."
"It seems like Lao Li fished Lu He out of the refugee camp." Thin Monkey said with a smile.
"I can't help it." Lu He was in the peak competition, controlling Master Luban to jump directly into the grass.
"I was alone in Shangning, and I didn't have any money. If I didn't go to that low-level youth training school, I would starve to death."
"Refugees indeed," he smiled wryly.
Fu Xiao remembered that the last time his parents came, there was also his sister, the short-haired tomboy.
"You are eighteen this year, and you were in youth training before that." Fu Xiao whispered: "Didn't you go to high school?"
"No, I only went to high school for half a year." Lu He said, "I heard from Lao Li that after you finish playing the game, you still want to go to college? Did you get a bachelor's degree? Or a junior college?"
"I passed the exam." Fu Xiao said that maybe she could go to a good 211, but she didn't say it.
"That's great," Lu He said enviously.
Is this really good? Fu Xiao was a little confused. He had been hanging out with Xu Yang's gang for a long time and felt that it was a shame not to pass the top ten exams in the province. But now, the boy in front of him felt that it would be great if he could go to school.
Fu Xiao lowered his head and picked up the teriyaki mushroom rice in front of him.
"Here you go." Fu Xiao picked out a large, whole shiitake mushroom and stuffed it into Lu He's untouched takeout.
"What are you doing?" Lu He then put aside the peak match that had just ended.
"Eat more and grow taller!"
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The stars on Shanghai's Bund are flickering. The person opposite Li Xiwen shook his red wine glass seriously with a contented expression.
"Can you please stop shaking?" Li Xiwen snorted, "Can your broken mouth tell the difference between shaking before and after shaking?"
"Have you seen that cruise ship?" said the person opposite.
"Why, you bought it?" Li Xiwen still opened the table.
"I can go on whatever I want now! Walk across the Huangpu River!" The hair of the person on the opposite side was blown askew by the wind blowing from the river.
"Yeah, one hundred and two or two hundred and one? I can get in too." Li Xiwen blinked.
"You just refuse to admit that I am better than you." The person opposite was obviously a little drunk.
"I really don't want to admit it. You are talking about something that doesn't exist." Li Xiwen said.
"Look, what is this?" The man opposite took out a ring from his pocket.
"No way, no way, is there really someone who keeps wearing the championship ring?" Li Xiwen sneered.
"What's wrong with changing the lineup? What's wrong with letting a lot of water go? Are your team members the only ones who are precious? You were so damn accepting of death back then"
"I agree now." Li Xiwen nodded honestly.
"Then you shouldn't come back." The person opposite took another sip of wine. "This city doesn't belong to you."
"Really? I heard that next season's finals will be in the Bird's Nest. It's indeed not in this city." Li Xiwen said.
"Damn you."
Before he finished speaking, a third person arrived.
"Sorry, I'm late." This man is thin and tall, and he also wears glasses, but they are gold-rimmed. If it weren't for his elite temperament, he and Li Xiwen would look like twins.
"Lao Suo, why did you drink too much without eating?" said the trustworthy, lanky man.
Li Xiwen looked the visitor up and down and said, "Old Ren, I'm not telling you, you really look like a 'gentle scum'."
"What a scold!" Lao Suo poured his wine and cheered.
"Your dad still wants you to continue doing this?" Ren Ming said and sat down.
"No more," Li Xiwen said nonchalantly, "So this is probably the last time."
"You shouldn't have left so impulsively." Ren Ming leaned back in his chair.
"Really?" Li Xiwen said, "I don't understand why you don't leave."
"After they treated the players like that?" Li Xiwen's tone became excited. "When they were squeezing the players' wages and threatening them with no games if they didn't make commercials? Or when they were using the Internet to bully their own players just for the sake of popularity? When?”
"These are all business issues, and you always think these are training issues." After a long silence, Ren Ming replied.
"They are completely two different things," Lao Suo agreed.
"Issues related to the players are all training issues." Li Xiwen said stubbornly.
"The three of us also played games together back then," Li Xiwen said and drank. "I thought you could understand what e-sports is as well as I do."
"I thought," he finished his drink. "You can know what I am insisting on."
"Of course I know what e-sports is." Suo Fangqi added more wine to Li Xiwen's glass: "You and your team members can completely ignore the gossip on the Internet. Just focus on yourself! I am born to be useful. ! Let the wind blow from southeast to northwest! ”
"Putting out a ring is better than anything else. This is called e-sports!" He took out the ring again and almost poked Li Xiwen in the eye.
"You know, when I held this ring last year, I really missed you - hiccup - I thought how great it would be if I got it on the same training team as you and we were championship coaches!" Lao Suo squatted there, his eyes red.
"But - you - you fucking ran to Shangning and hid alone in a place where no birds shit!"
"If you drink any more, your wife will beat you when you get home." Ren Ming moved the bottle away rationally.
"Your wife won't hit you!" Suo Fangqi said, "Your wife is waiting for you to buy milk powder for the family, right?"
"It seems that I am the only one left," Li Xiwen said with a self-deprecating smile. "Without a wife, no industry, and no championship, am I the same as that stupid young man back then?"
"I can only say that there is no contradiction between championship and money." The buttons on Ren Ming's sleeves sparkled. "You always don't allow a trace of interest to be involved, but in the club and the company, every employee has to eat."
"If you bring the players together and train day and night, will they love you very much?"
"Don't they like the feeling of being surrounded by fans? Don't they like the feeling of making money from fans? What kind of negative effects do you get from giving them a little personality marketing?"
Ren Ming rarely had such great patience, so he gave it all to this old friend of many years. He wanted to break them apart one by one, break them into pieces, and let him understand and eat them.
"You're talking about Internet celebrities and celebrities, but not players." Li Xiwen smiled. "If there is a shortage of money, the club can pay bonuses and wages normally. This is a normal and decent job."
"Many of them started playing games when they had no other choice. After some people became famous and had other choices, they didn't love the e-sports job so much. It's normal." Ren Ming said.
"You're like a fucking holy father," Suo Fangqi laughed. “A normal and decent job.”
"Listen to me, Li Xiwen." Suo Fangqi put away his drunkenness and suddenly said seriously:
“Either you become a star and shoot advertising and marketing personas everywhere, saying and doing everything is right;”
"Either win five or six championships and be admired by thousands of people;"
"Either you become one of the 80% of the league, never win a championship or be in Group S, have no reputation, and just play bad games." "A normal and decent job is really the funniest joke I've ever heard. .”