Chapter 31 part 2

Ming god paused a bit, then he seemed to make up his mind. No

longer looking at Lu Yue, he turned to look at Little Fatty instead and

suddenly spoke, "Little Fatty, you got it all wrong. There's more to it

than what you're seeing on the video. Ah Yue wouldn't let me tell you

about it all because he's afraid the incident would affect you-- --"

Lu Yue, who seemed to huddle up at the corner, abruptly stood up

from the couch. "Yu Ming."

Lu Sicheng lifted his foot to kick Lu Yue's knee. Lu Yue screeched

and fell back into the couch. Lu Sicheng stared at him as a warning,

then turned to ask Ming god, "I knew it wasn't as simple as that. You

better tell us what exactly happened."

...

The story began just as the summer season ended last year.

ZGDX had won the summer season championship and earned an

invitation to play in the world finals. It was an occasion for celebration.

After the celebration banquet, the team moved to KTV for karaoke.

Since the next day was a day off, everyone was drinking. Lu Yue had a

bit too much and everyone sent Yu Ming, who didn't drink at all, to take

Lu Yue to the restroom to wash his face and sober up...

On their way back, they ran into a group from team JK-- --This team was

originally attached to CK as its B team. Later on, it moved up from the

minor league to the professional major league. Since it was against the

rules to have two teams of the same club listed under the major league,

JK was sold to the son of a rich family, A. He spent big money to buy JK

so he could play professionally.

A became the captain of JK. Though he played well enough, he was

still far from

the professional level. Even though he had four other professional players

to support him, the team was still being bombarded at competitions…...

In the end, the team was at the bottom of the group and had to play another

low ranked team from the other group in a relegation match. The loser of

said relegation match would drop back down to the minor league. JK ended

up being said losing team-- --

Instead of hating the team which defeated them at the relegation match,

they blamed ZGDX, which was already guaranteed to move forward to the

next round, for not letting JK win one match so they could avoid being placed

at the bottom of the group.

"Damn it! If it wasn't for those ZGDX bastards, we wouldn't have been

downgraded just by losing one match! Even if we lost the match between

the second to last teams, we could still have had a chance to defeat second

ranked junior league team to keep our place in the major league."

"We might not be able to defeat a major league team, but taking down a

junior team would be as easy as eating cake."

"I just saw those guys from ZGDX. Looks like they're celebrating winning

the championship. They're here, too."

"Ha, now they've got the invitation, they're so bloated with arrogance.

Disgusting-- --What do they have to gain from getting us downgraded?

Why couldn't they just go easy on us? A Ge spent so much money to buy

the chance to play in the tournament and got downgraded just after one

season. All the money has been thrown into the water..."

They were talking very loud inside their private room, almost drowning

the singing from the next room…...Lu Yue who was supported by Ming god

suddenly stopped in front of their room when he overheard the conversation-- --

People inside the room continued talking. A person who had been quiet up

till now, the person referred to as A Ge by his teammates, smirked and spoke

in a surly voice, "They think they're going to the finals? In their dreams! We

have to let them have a taste of what we've been through..."

As he spoke, the room grew quiet, even those who were singing had

turned off the music.

Under the gaze of his JK teammates, A Ge took out his cell phone and

dialed a number. After the call connected, he spoke in a particularly pleasant tone-- --

"Go find a few more people to come outside the Caesar KTV. En, I'll let

you know when they come out…...You don't need to do anything, just waste

their hands. Haha, right, right, right-- --professional players-- --they can still play,

with their feet…...Oh, remember, don't touch the two good looking ones among

them. They're from the Lu family, it'll be big trouble if you hurt them. Don't worry

about the others, do whatever you must. I'll cover you if you get sued for damages.

Hurry and come over, I'm afraid they'll leave soon."

The voice inside the room could be heard clearly out in the hallway.

Alarmed by what he had overheard outside the room, Ming god was

about to go back to the team and warn them to leave before those people

arrived. He was also going to call the police on his cell phone-- --

But when he lowered his head, he saw the man that was leaning on him

seconds ago now had a different look in his eyes. Lu Yue straightened up

and turned to open the door to the room. Under the gaze of a bunch of

strangers, he held a liquor bottle and kicked the door open to JK's private room!

Before anyone realized what had happened, the bottle came down on A Ge's

head-- --Lu Yue spoke when he first entered the room, "Aren't you so great?

Try me. Paying for damages? I have money, too"

What followed was what everyone had seen on the video; punching and pushing

that only stopped after Ming god injured himself. They called the police and the

ambulance. After the police got there, they sent those who weren't badly hurt to

the station. Lu Yue, Yu Ming, and A Ge, whose head was bleeding, rode in the

ambulance to the hospital-- --

Then came the results from their medical examinations.

Though A Ge's head was bleeding, the wound was considered minor which

didn't constitute criminal liability. Lu Yue was locked up a few days for reeducation,

then paid for the damages…...However, Riot Games' Chinese office learned about

the incident. Everyone involved, except Ming god, was banned from competing for

different lengths of time. Lu Yue got banned for the whole year, the longest of the bunch.

Ming god went to the hospital. Though his wrist was injured, the doctor didn't give

his hand a death sentence but kept him under observation-- --

He might be able to make it to the world finals.

After Lu Yue was released from the police station, he went to the hospital to kneel

before Yu Ming's bed for a whole night. In addition to apologize to Yu Ming, he also

asked Yu Ming not to tell anyone about the cause of the whole incident. He was afraid

that it would scare their teammates and affect their performance at the finals. He didn't

want a whole year's of effort go to waste…...At first, Yu Ming disagreed but in the end

Lu Yue persuaded him-- --

Lu Yue told him: I'm banned and you're hurt. Why did all this happen? If the others

found out that they were facing such threats while playing professionally, then

everything I've done will be worthless.

Those words convinced Ming god to keep it a secret.

Ming god's hand hadn't healed by the time the team had to turn in their list of players

for the finals. With one mid banned and the other mid hurt, ZGDX had no choice but to

announce their withdrawal from the world finals at the last minute.

Afterwards, Yu Ming did want to tell everyone that it wasn't Lu Yue's fault for starting

the brawl, but Lu Yue wouldn't let him. Then Lu Yue left the team and disappeared for

half a year. He didn't contact anyone, didn't even go home for the Chinese New Year-- --

Until today.

…...

Yu Ming took his time to go into the details of the story, from beginning to end. By

the conclusion, everyone was so quiet that one could hardly hear the sound of someone

breathing…...Though it could be argued that Lu Yue was simply too impulsive, it was

something that a 17 year old would do-- --

It was like a high schooler who had overheard that someone in the class next door

was going to gather a crowd to beat him up outside of the school. The high schooler's

first reaction wouldn't be to call the police or reporting it to the teacher; rather he would

find a way to gather even more people to beat up the instigator.

Besides, Lu Yue was doing it all by himself. Before he kicked open the door with beer

bottle in hand, he had pushed Ming god away from the door. He didn't intend to pull Ming

god into it from the beginning.

It was an unfortunate accident that Ming god to hurt his hand which was something no

one wanted to happen.

When Ming god finished his story, there was a rather complex expression on

Little Fatty's face. He took out of his cell phone to delete the post in front of everyone.

Then he turned around to go upstairs, closing his room door.

The staff who were responsible for public relations and publicity got together with

Xiao Rui to discuss how to make the truth go public. Though it might not completely

urn public opinion around, at least they had to let the public know that ZGDX wasn't

the one who instigated the whole incident.

Lu Sicheng sat on the couch with his arms crossed, looking at his brother,

"Tried to play hero."

Lu Yue lowered his head, kept chewing his rice crackers, and glanced at Ming god

with furrowed eyebrows. "Told you not to say all that nonsense." Ming god smiled

and patted Lu Yue's head, "You've been wronged for so long, can't let you take the

blame anymore."

Lu Yue impatiently pushed his hand away.

Tong Yao now began to feel the overbearing pressure which had hovered over

the base had finally been lifted.

That afternoon, as the rest of the team's staff discussed how to handle

the whole situation, Lu Sicheng began his stream-- --Right now, streaming

was practically the same as having a news conference. His stream chat

was overflowing; everyone was asking what the video clip in the morning

was all about...

Lu Sicheng was still playing; the only thing different was that he had for the

first time turned on bullet comments. He would selectively answer some of

the questions as he played-- --

"Lu Yue was the one who struck first all right, because the people that JK

called had already parked their cars in the parking lot."

"It's true that Ming god's injury was an accident, but it was still caused by

the incident…...His hand before this? He had old wounds, torn tendons and

such, which is quite normal for someone playing his position. We've always

had a therapist with the team."

"Who released the video? Can't tell you, you're too curious. You would only

last for half of an episode in a TV drama."

"...The video was released by Smiling because she was afraid of being

replaced?" Lu Sicheng's hand jerked and missed a last hit while farming

minions. He turned the camera head around, "Ask her yourself."

In the camera, the person who was eating potato chips while watching

American TV dramas looked back in surprise. She turned around with chips

stuffed inside her mouth and asked with a muffled voice, "Why are you filming me?"

"Someone said you released the video." The calm voice of the man came

from offscreen.

Tong Yao widened her eyes and stood up on her chair, pulling up her sleeves,

"Go to hell, I was going to school abroad last year! Where could I get this video

when it only circulated internally! Do you think I'm from FBI!"

The man: "You just spit your chips out."

The girl: "..."

While the girl lifted her hand to cover her mouth in a fluster, a large hand turned

the camera view. After the hand had moved away, the expressionless face of the

captain of ZGDX filled the view. "You guys hear all that?"

The bullet comments, in addition to the earlier questions, now had more comments

like, "23333333", "hahahahahahaha", "it's so cute that she stood on the chair", and

some more perverted people noticing something totally different-- --

[Have I seen Smiling's sleeping gown!]

[Ahhhh, a girl's sleeping gown! It's white!]

[Captain, what's your Mid wearing! Is it a sleeping gown!]

[Let me have one more look at my wife! ! ! ! !]

For these comments, no one knew whether Lu Sicheng had actually seen them or

not. All they knew was that after 30 seconds, their screens went dark with a

notification, "The host isn't home"-- --

The man had turned off the steam without a word.

Everyone was stunned. Five minutes later, they noticed on their Weibo that he,

who hardly ever posted anything on Weibo, had posted a new message. The

message was very simple: Internet got hacked.

As for whether it was true or not-- --

"Our internet was hacked this afternoon?"

On the dinner table, Tong Yao who had been watching American TV dramas for

the whole afternoon, asked with a confused face.

"It did."

"How come I don't know about it?"

"Videos have buffered memory."

"...Oh." Tong Yao nodded and put down her cell phone. "Cheng Ge, why haven't

you followed me on Weibo?"

"I did."

"No, you haven't." Tong Yao lifted her cell phone to show Lu Sicheng the single arrow

on the lower left hand corner. "See, you didn't. It can't be the system messed up?"

"I cancelled it."

"? ? ? ? ?"

"You make too many Weibo posts. When I get on, it's all about you."

"..."

"It's annoying."

"......................."

Tong Yao put down the cell phone and ate two more bites. She still couldn't get over

the fact that Lu Sicheng had cancelled follow her. "Women like to post every little thing

on Weibo! What do you know!"

Lu Sicheng: "I don't know, so I cancelled. What's the problem?"

Tong Yao: "..."