You're Beautiful When You Smile - Chapter 148 Part 2

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You’re Beautiful When You Smile

Chapter 148 Part 2

As the two commentators ran out of things to say and were about to discuss what they should eat for dinner that night, Yang god finally finished farming and went up to top to catch Old Cat’s Gnar. Gnar jumped away-- --Old K’s Hecarim came in to protect Old Cat and stepped right on the tunnel that had been dug by Yang god’s Rek’Sai!

At the same time, Gnar stopped feigning retreat and turned around to join Old K. Tong Yao at mid happened to clear her minion lane and also started heading towards top. If Tong Yao also arrived to join up with Old K and Old Cat, CK’s top would die for sure. Yang god, who had failed in his gank attempt, and Come Good Luck had no choice but to use flash to escape.

Tong Yao didn’t chase after them, instead she went into a nearby bush to go recall back to base.

At this time, there was a wave of minions pushing the turret. If Come Good Luck wanted to farm these minions, then he had to use his another summoner spell “teleport” as well. If he didn’t try to farm the minions, then he would fall behind in experience and probably wouldn’t be able to counter Old Cat for the rest of the round! …...In other words, it had been a good beginning for ZGDX. Without suffering any loss, ZGDX was able to make CK use two of their summoner spells. Without flash, ZGDX didn’t need to worry about Yang god trying to gank anytime soon and Come Good Luck couldn’t teleport over to support him in the near future.

Lu Sicheng: “Nice, looks like I’ll be pretty comfortable like this.”

Tong Yao: “What are you trying to imply? We’re in a game.”

Lu Sicheng: “I’m just talking normally.”

Tong Yao: “Then you can only blame yourself for having an indecent face. You look like a hooligan no matter what you say and when you aren’t talking, it feels like you intend to be a hooligan.”

Lu Sicheng: “......”

As Tong Yao was talking to Lu Sicheng, she still kept checking the scoreboard. She carefully counted Xiao Hua’s creep score and experience without letting down her guard-- --She kept counting until her own experience had passed level 5 and ¾, then she pinged both top and bot: “Twisted Fate’s going to be level 6 soon. You all be careful.”

Once Twisted Fate reached level 6, his ultimate came with the ability to teleport. Usually in a game Twisted Fate’s momentum is very important-- -At 8 minutes and 11 seconds, Twisted Fate reached level 6 and warped directly to bot. When he landed, he showed his yellow card and joined with their support Bard and Jian Yang’s Rek’Sai which had been waiting for the moment. They worked together to kill the support, Little Fatty, and earned this round’s first blood!

At the eighth minute, there was finally a kill. The audience cheered!

Tong Yao came up to top around the same time. When Twisted Fate was collecting a kill at bot, she teamed up with Old Cat to kill the squishy Come Good Luck-- --

It wasn’t an easy kill though. Come Good Luck almost trapped them under the turret and Tong Yao had to use flash to escape with a sliver of health left.

Both sides got even.

But CK used a lot of abilities to kill Little Fatty as well. They had traded a support for a top, but Come Good Luck could have farmed instead while waiting for his teleport cooldown timer to end. Thinking it over more carefully, it seemed that CK didn’t really get much advantage with their latest play?

Tong Yao was figuring all this out in her mind and settled down to face the rest of the game.

At the 17th minute, CK’s entire team went up to top to kill Old Cat. They were planning to do a quick kill in order to take the turret. But because they were tower diving to begin with and Old Cat’s rage happened to max out so that he could transform into Mega Gnar, Old Cat secured three of CK players near the turret wall with a slap and Butterfly took several hits from the turret and died. Tong Yao, Lu Sicheng, and Little Fatty all arrived as he died. They avoided Bard’s ultimate, then killed the mid Xiao Hua and the support Old Wang. Only Jian Yang was able to get away by digging a tunnel for himself.

The players on the field were now 4 : 2. ZGDX was in lead with two more kills. CK was also behind in their economy by almost 2500 gold because they had been starting fights too often.

Commentator A: [As we can see now, though CK has been looking for chances to initiate fights, their rhythm hasn’t been as good as ZGDX…… Given the fact that they picked Sivir and Maokai as their champions and their opponent’s lineup has a couple of champions with a strong early game, it feels like they’ve been playing too aggressively.]

Commentator B: [They’re rushing too much. Like what just happened, they should’ve retreated when Gnar’s rage was about to max out-- --They can’t be like ‘since we’re here already, let’s just go ahead and have a fight’ and force it……]

Amidst the commentators’ exchange, CK seemed to realize their mistakes and stopped initiating fights to concentrate on developing their champions-- --However, with an economic advantage on hand, ZGDX certainly wouldn’t let CK succeed. ZGDX began their counterattack!

At 25th minute 30th second, ZGDX went for the second element Mountain Drake. CK took the chance to go for ZGDX’s mid turret with two of their players and the other three went to fight Baron. After pushing the mid turret, Twisted Fate instantly warped to Baron. And at the same time, ZGDX’s top, jungler, and ad left the drake and moved towards Baron.

When Old Cat arrived at Baron’s arena, his champion slapped Yang god and Lu Sicheng went ahead casting all of his abilities to kill Yang god. Baron now only had one third of its health left! Seeing their jungler die, CK was a little hesitant to continue. In that moment of hesitation, Tong Yao’s Lissandra arrived and blocked Twisted Fate just as he was about to slip away. Lissandra casted a combo of abilities to kill Twisted Fate!

CK’s Sivir ran away under the cover of Maokai. ZGDX went ahead and took down Baron!

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You're Beautiful When You Smile - Chapter 148 Part 1

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You’re Beautiful When You Smile

Chapter 148 Part 1

For the third round of the match, ZGDX banned Irelia and CK didn’t seem to have another surprise strategy up their sleeves. CK lost the round.

The score of the match was now 2 to 1. It had been about three hours since the beginning of the first round up till now, including breaks. It was the first time that Tong Yao played a best of five game. Though her team had won the third round, she still felt a bit tired……

Commentator A: [The fourth round is about to take place soon. For CK, it’ll be a life and death round. If they win, they can continue the fight. If they lose, they’ll be cut off from the finals and have to pray that they’ll be able to win third place in the summer competition and that ZGDX wins the championship of the summer season to qualify for S6, only then will they have enough total accumulated points to qualify…… However, we can see that ZGDX doesn’t seem particularly excited about this win.]

Commentator B: [Although they’ve forced CK to the edge of the cliff already…… It’s quite annoying, why the stone faces when they’ve won the round? What then should be the reaction of CK who’ll be facing a life and death round?]

Commentator A: [It’s truly a test to a player’s physical strength to do a best of 5. Therefore, I would like to remind everyone to not just be an internet addict. You all should take some time to get some exercise to improve your physical condition…… I remember that every club basically has a gym, but those treadmills are probably all dusty, huh?]

Commentator B: [Hahahahaha!]

The fourth round started amidst the joking commentary. When Tong Yao sat down on her seat, she discovered that even the supporting boards held by the fans in the audience weren’t raised as high as earlier. Their arms were probably sore and voices hoarse by now…… She thought that it was really torture to everyone to be involved in a fight for a long period of time. Then she slowly put on her headphones…… The first ban ZGDX made was still Come Good Luck’s Irelia. It was like saying-- --we respect Irelia as a powerful champion. In reality it was-- --we knew that you’d practiced using Irelia, but we don’t want to ever see her again, thank you.

While Tong Yao was looking all over for Irelia’s profile image in order to ban her, Lu Sicheng was sitting next to her and wiggling his wrist. After Tong Yao banned Irelia and CK banned Tong Yao’s Syndra, Lu Sicheng suddenly said in a casual manner: “My hand hurts a bit.”

Tong Yao let go of her mouse and turned to look at him.

Little Fatty interpreted for him: “What Cheng Ge meant is let’s just play four rounds for this match. Everyone pay attention; let’s do a quick game. We don’t need a fifth round.”

Ming god: “The other side banned Rumble. They probably will leave Gnar alone. Should we try to grab it? Old Cat can play Gnar pretty well, right? I’ve seen you kill four with one slap in our skirmishes……”

Tong Yao: “Why don’t you say it straight?”

Ming god: “What are you going to take, Tong Yao? How’s Lissandra? Last round the other side’s Lissandra beat you bad, don’t you want to give it a try too? Then you can beat the other side back. Or do you want Leblanc? Ah, Leblanc is available.”

Lu Sicheng: “In case what we said would be put in the montage and people say we’re being over confident…… We have to make up some secret codes so others can’t understand!”

Old K: “At this rate next montage episode will be exclusively ours.”

Tong Yao laughed and was about to say something, but Ming god who was standing behind them exploded-- --He smacked everyone with his folder down the line from Old Cat all the way to Little Fatty: “..................................................Why are you all so chatty! Can you concentrate on the ban & pick! All of you be quiet!”

Everyone: “......”

Only Old Cat was still murmuring: “Why did I get hit, I didn’t say a word. I didn’t say a word! And I still got hit!”

After being reprimanded, everyone remained quiet and turned their attention back to the ban & pick phase. They discussed what the lineup should be like. By the end of the ban & pick, the choices from both sides looked like this: 

ZGDX’s choices: Gnar, Hecarim, Lissandra, Ezreal, and Thresh.

CK’s choices: Maokai, Rek’Sai, Twisted Fate, Sivir, and Bard.

Tong Yao sniffled and complained of being tricked: “You told me to take Lissandra so I could beat up the other side? Now they took Twisted Fate and are going to bully me again!”

Ming god: “Hehe, he’s bad at playing Twisted Fate. Don’t worry, really.”

Tong Yao: “To hell with really. You’re all liars!”

The fourth round officially started.

It started with a normal laning phase; even the commentator couldn’t find anything special to talk about. The commentators started to chit chat, only once in a while they would add: “Lissandra moves forward to exchange blows, Twisted Fate retreats. Ah, it’s quite a fight with a lot of abilities exchanged, yet nothing has happened.”......

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You're Beautiful When You Smile - Chapter 147 Part 3

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You’re Beautiful When You Smile

Chapter 147 Part 3

Tong Yao took a deep breath. As she was marveling at how all those previous setbacks had made her a much stronger person, suddenly she heard Lu Sicheng say in a rather chagrined tone: “I just declared to Yang god that it’s impossible for us to lose this round.”

“.........................................”

It looked like she and her captain seemed to have switched positions; she could take the defeat unruffled but her captain seemed to be bothered by it a lot.

Tong Yao looked up at Lu Sicheng, who looked like he was about to pout and stomp his feet, and said: “I have to remind you that we’re tied, damn, we haven’t lost the match yet. But, what do you mean you declared to Yang god? When did you meet Jian Yang?”

Lu Sicheng thought about it, then despite thousands of fans watching, he picked up Tong Yao’s hand to walk toward the backstage. He answered quite calmly: “During the break, at the restroom.”

Tong Yao: “......”

She couldn’t figure out why there was always something happening in the restroom. Tong Yao lifted her hand to pull on the edge of Lu Sicheng’s top: “You can’t just go to the restroom randomly from now on. You have to report first and go only after I approve it.”

Lu Sicheng: “Oh.”

Lu Sicheng: “Report.”

Tong Yao: “What?”

Lu Sicheng: “I need to go, bad.”

Tong Yao: “......”

Lu Sicheng: “Come Good Luck’s Irelia irritates me so much that my bladder hurts.”

Tong Yao: “......”

The two of them had already returned to the ZGDX break room. Lu Sicheng turned to Old Cat: “You always claim during skirmishes that as long as Rumble’s well developed, then there’s nothing to worry about. To hell with that, there’s still Irelia. Look at Come Good Luck’s Irelia. Why can’t you play Irelia?”

Old Cat put down the cup in his hand, which he truly wanted to throw at Lu Sicheng. He turned to Tong Yao and said, annoyed: “Just let him go to the restroom!”

Tong Yao waved her hand to let Lu Sicheng go-- --Before he left the room, Tong Yao dragged him to a corner and started to search for cigarettes on his body. She found several around his body…… Lu Sicheng leaned against the corner and remained calm and composed while watching Tong Yao searching his body like a police officer. As Tong Yao was considering whether to check his shoes for cigarettes, Lu Sicheng lowered his head to look at Tong Yao who was pinching several cigarettes in her hand. Suddenly his lips curved up, his stone face disappeared, and he bent forward to be near her ear: “Are you finished? There’s a larger one inside my pants, you want to touch it?”

Tong Yao: “..............................................”

Five seconds later, everyone in the room watched their captain walk out the room at a brisk pace while their mid stood in place with a red face, staring at the man as he left. In their ears there was still the echo of their mid’s sudden roar of “dirty bastard” which probably could be heard in the adjacent break room-- -- 

What they couldn’t understand was what had happened. Tong Yao had been searching Lu Sicheng’s body and Lu Sicheng had kept his hands in the air the entire time. 

After a few seconds of silence, Little Fatty suddenly breathed out a sigh of relief as he looked towards Lu Sicheng’s back: “I didn’t even dare to speak. In the past, our captain would always keep a stern face whenever we lost a game. Whoever spoke would be accused of not being introspective enough and would be punished at the spot.”

“You don’t have to worry about it now.” Tong Yao pointed at the ajar door: “See what a good mood he’s in now, as if he had received a million RMB from CK for playing a fake match.”

Little Fatty: “......”

Tong Yao: “......”

Little Fatty stared at Tong Yao’s face which was still reddish from a while ago and seemed to understand something. He sighed: “You’ve worked hard.”

Tong Yao also felt the same way and nodded: “I think so too.”

Everyone: “......”

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You're Beautiful When You Smile - Chapter 147 Part 2

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You’re Beautiful When You Smile

Chapter 147 Part 2

Ming god, with a folder in hand, held onto the back of Lu Sicheng’s chair, bent over laughing-- --Though perhaps due to a guilty conscience, Lu Yue would usually hang around Ming god and run errands for him. But Ming god didn’t seem to appreciate it too much; every time anyone mocked Lu Yue, Ming god was the one who laughed especially loud……

Tong Yao couldn’t help feeling sympathetic to Lu Yue.

While ZGDX was joking around, the ban & pick phase ended. ZGDX was shocked by CK’s Irelia pick. When the game officially started, Tong Yao somehow felt that Irelia would cause trouble for them.

-- --In the end, it seemed that a woman’s sixth sense is always accurate.

-- --Especially when it was a premonition.

Since Irelia was rarely picked, ZGDX as a team hadn’t spent much time studying her neither when playing skirmishes nor during their data analysis. Once Irelia was picked, ZGDX’s players thought about her abilities and champion mechanics and then realized that she was truly an odd champion to challenge Rumble.

CK had prepared for this. They were mustering their true strength now that they had lost the first round.

Tong Yao, a bit concerned, couldn’t help but remind her teammates at the beginning of the game: “Old K, you better be more watchful at top this round. I just feel that Come Good Luck isn’t picking Irelia randomly. They’re definitely planning something for top lane.”

Old K agreed.

Indeed, at about 7 or 8 minutes into the game, CK’s was at top-- --Old Cat thought he had a 2 to 1 advantage and it should be easy to take care of Irelia. He was too confident and didn’t cast his ultimate in time, but fought all the way under the turret and died to Irelia before he could get away!

CK easily took first blood!

The situation wasn’t looking good for ZGDX. Then Irelia held down Old K’s Rek’Sai and prevented him from building tunnels…… At the same time, Tong Yao kept pinging to inform her teammates that Xiao Hua had disappeared. Old K knew very well that Xiao Hua couldn’t be going back to base, so the only reasonable assumption was that Xiao Hua was heading to top. However, Irelia was jumping around and wouldn’t let Old K get away until Xiao Hua reappeared to strike Old K from behind. Xiao Hua took the second kill of the round.

Xiao Hua’s Lissandra was a champion that could counter Tong Yao’s Kassadin to begin with, now that Lissandra had a kill……

Both top and mid lanes were falling behind.

Given the current state of the game, unless the ad was strong enough to crush the enemy, top and mid falling behind in the early game pretty much meant that this round would be hard for ZGDX to turn around-- --Lu Sicheng was laning normally, with a slight advantage. Lu Sicheng could be considered an invincible ad, but the Butterfly and Old Wang duo had also won the spring championship. Even if they couldn’t gain an advantage against Lu Sicheng, they wouldn’t let Lu Sicheng develop to the point where he could carry the game.

…...So far, it seemed that the whole game was being dominated by Irelia.

At about the 25th minute, the gap between both sides’ economy was almost 8000 gold. Tong Yao felt that the round was pretty much over by now-- --She also considered whether Lu Sicheng’s hand could sustain the whole five rounds. She began to wish they could end this round and move onto the next round.

Not every round was worth the time and energy to try to make a comeback-- --It seemed that she was not the only one who was thinking this way. This round ended in a little over 30 minutes. The moment ZGDX’s base was destroyed, Tong Yao took off her headphones and turned to take a look at the red lights on the screen behind her which signaled they were the losing side.

The scores showed that they were now tied after this round.

CK truly wasn’t a team which could be easily taken down. 

However, Tong Yao felt quite at ease, far from being disturbed like the time when they lost to YQCB-- --Usually when the opponent used some unusual and unexpected strategy, it was very hard for them to prepare for it. This round, CK’s Irelia was truly an unexpected choice and Come Good Luck had played her well. But it wasn’t something to be concerned with as long as ZGDX could ban Irelia in the next round or pick someone other than Rumble.

They could still win.

You're Beautiful When You Smile - Chapter 147 Part 1

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You’re Beautiful When You Smile

Chapter 147 Part 1

The second round was about to start, all the players went back to their seats and put on their headphones ready for a new round’s ban & pick phase. It seemed to ZGDX that whether they would be on the next episode of “best quotes montage” or not was not something to be afraid of anymore. They were sure some of their exchanges would be on it-- --Now the question to them was: whether they want to make the next “best quotes montage” be exclusively from their team?

Tong Yao felt it was necessary to do so, at this moment.

CK banned Sivir first of all; Lu Sicheng’s Sivir was quite annoying in the previous round. Ming god asked: “Sivir got banned this round. What should Cheng Ge get?”

Lu Sicheng moved his lips and was about to say whichever would be fine. Suddenly the one sitting next to him interjected: “Let him take Draven.”

Lu Sicheng turned his head to take a look at her. He thought why mention Draven of all the ad champions. Why did you pick the only one which I’m not good at, are you trying to tease me?

…...Before he had opened his mouth to ask her whether she was making trouble, Tong Yao had adjusted her posture and coldly said with a calm face: “Then, which one you should get? Ezreal? Kalista? Lucian? Twitch? Kog’Maw? Varus? …...A liar is unworthy of these champions.”

Lu Sicheng: “En. How am I a liar?”

Tong Yao: “You said you’d quit smoking.”

Lu Sicheng sighed: “I didn’t smoke just now.”

Tong Yao rolled her eyes: “Lu Sicheng, does your cologne smell like air freshener? It would have been better if you had said that there was someone smoking in the stall next to you in the restroom and that was why you smell like smoke. Why do you have to be so dramatic? Are you a drama queen?”

Lu Sicheng: “......”

Lu Sicheng lowered his head speechlessly and listened quietly to her lecture. The other teammates including Ming god all collectively burst into laughter. Old Cat locked down Ezreal for his Captain with a shaky hand from laughing too hard-- --During the whole process, Lu Sicheng didn’t have the time to make a request or suggestion. He only had the time to listen to the lecture…...If Xiao Rui were present at the time, he would probably write down this historic moment of [another example to confirm and stress the fact that the team bully has been something of the past].

The ban & pick phase continued. When everyone was in a heated discussion about which champion was better for which position, Lu Sicheng suddenly said: “The sound people backstage, don’t put that exchange in the montage.”

Tong Yao was surprised: “Why not?”

To protect his image? Lu Sicheng had been smoking before and it had never tarnished his image as a god to his fans.

Tong Yao was pondering and heard Lu Sicheng say after giving her a glance: “I’m worried that you, the new team bully, would receive some blades again.”

Tong Yao couldn’t tell whether he truly meant it or not. Instinctively, she felt that she should be angry, but once she thought it over, she felt that it sounded somewhat considerate, oddly enough-- --She hadn’t figured it out how it was considerate, but she did feel the warmth in her heart which she couldn’t stop. She dryly coughed and made a mocking smile: “How considerate.”

Lu Sicheng nodded seriously: “That’s for sure.”

Tong Yao: “......”

While they were chichatting, Ming god had already directed Old K to take Rumble for Old Cat. Ming god kicked Lu Sicheng to remind him to stop flirting and pay attention.  At this time, the other side suddenly picked Irelia!

The audience was in commotion-- --Irelia, like Yasuo, were used quite often in normal ranked matches, but for regular professional competitions, it was very rare for a professional player to take it. It was quite surprising for Come Good Luck to take her-- --

“Isn’t CK’s Come Good Luck good at tank type champions? Why is he picking Irelia to scare me?” Little Fatty was confused.

“Lu Yue also plays Twisted Fate now.” Lu Sicheng calmly and kindly reminded Little Fatty.

The whole team was silent, then they all had a relieved expression on their faces.

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You're Beautiful When You Smile - Chapter 146 Part 4

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You’re Beautiful When You Smile

Chapter 146 Part 4

Li Sicheng hung around the restroom for a little longer.

After he was sure that there was no smell on him, he pulled open the door and waved at Yang god: “Go for it next round. Though we’d lost to you once in the spring competition, we aren’t planning to lose any more games this year…… Oh, right, don’t tell her about me smoking. I know you still have her WeChat.”

He then opened the door and walked out of the restroom-- --The dashing view of his back was also quite familiar to Jian Yang. It kept reminding Jian Yang the same scene from their last encounter and the ominous premonition he had at that time……

The premonition had become a reality now. Damn.

Jian Yang was left by himself in the restroom. He stared quietly at the air freshener which had been placed behind the door for about 30 seconds. Then he walked forward and forcefully slapped it into the trash can. Having seemingly vented all his anger, he pulled on his uniform and walked out of the restroom with a stone face.

When Jian Yang was walking back towards CK’s break room, he passed by ZGDX’s break room and could faintly hear the conversation inside-- --

A woman’s voice: “Lu Sicheng, damn, you’ve been smoking haven’t you?” After a few seconds of silence, a man’s voice replied: “No, you’re falsely accusing me.”......

Jian Yang paused a little, yet only for a short moment.

Then he quickened his steps as he walked away, unwilling to hear more of their conversation-- --

Time is a strange thing. The last encounter in the restroom was like a scripted scene from a drama. In a short span of half a year, the two who should have been even closer were now strangers yet the two strangers had become so intimate.

…...Jian Yang couldn’t figure out why.

Jian Yang pushed the door to the break room open. His teammates looked up and waved him over to review the stats of the last round and discuss the jungler route of the next round. Jian Yang adjusted the expression on his face and walked over to join the others. No one noticed anything different.

It was as if nothing had really happened earlier.

There was no encounter.

There was no momentary lapse of control.

…...Nothing ever happened.

Xiao Hua: “That first gank at bot, shit, Lu Sicheng was a great actor. Obviously he had already called that damn Old K down to counter gank, but he acted like he was really retreating…… Shit, why do I have the feeling that the other side’s already figured out your jungler routine, Yang god? Why don’t you come gank mid first the next round?”

Jian Yang: “If I knew that, I wouldn’t have gone to the restroom even if I held it till I exploded.”

Xiao Hua: “Hum?”

Jian Yang: “......”

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You're Beautiful When You Smile - Chapter 146 Part 3

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You’re Beautiful When You Smile

Chapter 146 Part 3 

CK’s players reacted quite calmly to losing the first round of the match. They knew ZGDX would be a tough opponent. Besides, the playoffs of the League of Legends professional league competition had always been best of 5 (* 3 wins out of 5 rounds). As such, they didn’t take losing the first round too seriously.

After the game, Jian Yang didn’t go to the break room but headed directly for the restroom reserved for players to wash his face-- --As he was washing his hands, his phone rang. He answered the phone and turned it on speaker phone as he always does. Then he put the phone on the counter and answered the call as he washed his face-- --When he was done washing his hands, he also finished the brief phone call. Jian Yang picked up his phone.

Right at that moment, the door of the last stall was opened from inside. There was no flushing sound. A man lazily walked out of the stall with a cigarette in his mouth which was almost burned out and was face to face with Jian Yang.

Lu Sicheng bit on the cigarette butt and slightly squinted his eyes.

Jian Yang: “......”

It was a familiar scene.

Jian Yang put the phone into his pocket, was quiet for a moment, then said with an awkward smile: “Cheng Ge.”

“En.” Lu Sicheng answered, threw the cigarette butt away, went over to the sink, and began carefully washing his hands with liquid soap. He looked up in the mirror to glance at Jian Yang who was looking at him blankly: “Got up too early this morning. Smoking to give myself a lift.”

His tone was rather gentle.

Jian Yang nodded and replied: “Yeah, there’s only one game each day. Don’t know why the organizer has to schedule it so early in the day.”

After he finished, they were looking at each other without anything to say again.

It was awkward.

It was damn awkward.

Jian Yang watched Lu Sicheng acting as if he was trying to cover up something. After washing his hands carefully, he lifted up his hands to smell whether there was any odor left. Then he turned to dry his hands under the hand dryer. He even bent over to put his head under the dryer-- --Jian Yang was speechless watching Lu Sicheng’s movements. Lu Sicheng even slightly tilted his body towards Jian Yang and asked: “Can you smell anything?”

Jian Yang: “......”

Lu Sicheng straightened up and started to look over the restroom for the air freshener. As he was looking around, he said: “I remembered that the last time I met you in the restroom was at the finals of the spring competition. You were on the phone back then too……”

Finally, he had found the air freshener at the back of the door. He walked over and spread it over himself a couple of times-- --He paused for a moment, then as if he was reminiscing about that encounter and said: “You were talking with my girl at the time, right? Hrm, I was wondering at the time who that tough talking girl was.”

Jian Yang: “......”

Lu Sicheng smiled: “I didn’t expect she would become our teammate.”

And she had become my girlfriend.

Lu Sicheng didn’t have the heart to say the second part of his thoughts. He was simply reminiscing an event.

Jian Yang: “En. At the time…… I just learned that she was going to play professionally and was very surprised. Actually we didn’t have much contact for quite some time after we broke up. I didn’t expect that she would come play professionally, so I called her to find out what was going on.”

Lu Scheng cast down his eyes: “En.” Then he laughed after thinking about something: “Oh, right, your first gank really scared her. Her scream almost made us throw our mouses away.”

Watching Lu Sicheng laugh, Jian Yang didn’t feel proud or anything like it for his success in the gank. Instead, he was feeling rather perturbed. Looking at Lu Sicheng’s face, Jian Yang’s brain probably short circuited and abruptly said: “Actually I never thought about breaking up with her at the time.”

“......” Lu Sicheng raised his eyes up to give him a glance and acted as if he wasn’t surprised to hear him say that-- --Without much reaction, he simply smiled: “Then I have to thank you for letting her go, otherwise how can I take advantage of the void.”

Jian Yang’s face stiffened; he looked like he really wanted to grab the air freshener from Lu Sicheng’s hand and spray it all over his smiling, calm face-- --Certainly, Jian Yang didn’t do that but instead smiled dryly: “Yeah, it’s over a long time ago…...Why are you doing all this with the hand washing and air freshener. I remember someone mentioned that you’ve quit smoking.”

“Half quit. I smoke much less at base anyway.” Lu Sicheng put the air freshener back: “It’s mainly because she has strict rules.”

Jian Yang: “......”

Translated by Team DHH at http://dhh-workshop.blogspot.com.