Gu Yang finally waited until all the team members arrived and introduced them to each other, saying, "Meet us, this is our team manager, Fang Butao."
Next to him stood a man in his mid-twenties, wearing gold-rimmed glasses, with a slender figure, looking mature and noble.
I don’t know how Gu Yang tricked him into coming here.
Fang Butao smiled and waved: "Hello, kids."
Xu Qing felt that his aura was incompatible with esports, and immediately became alert. He asked, "Brother, how did you get tricked into coming here? Is your monthly salary over ten thousand?"
Fang Butao: "Passed."
Xu Qing immediately held up his hand with tears in her eyes, her face full of excitement: "Brother, you are now the highest paid person on our team! Our team depends on you!"
Fang Butao: “…”
Why do I have the illusion that I have entered a pyramid scheme den?
He looked at Gu Yang hesitantly: "Ten thousand is considered the top salary? You tricked these kids into working for you for free?"
Gu Yang rolled his eyes at him: "How is that possible? I'm using my savings to pay my salary, you know? I'm so broke."
Fang Butao asked, "Do you want to get sponsorship?"
Gu Yang: "No, I won't ask for any sponsorship."
As he spoke, he glanced at Qin Ye and said to Fang Butao, "Please help them contact the live broadcast contract. Be careful and remember to explain the interests involved to them before signing the contract."
"Okay, got it." Fang Butao agreed and glanced at the booklet in Gu Yueshuang's hand. "What are you holding? Let me see."
Gu Yueshuang wondered: "We still need to broadcast live?"
Gu Yang: "I need to eat."
Fang Butao flipped through the booklet while saying, "I've arranged the shoot for you all. Tomorrow, Xiaoshuang will be filming the newcomer promotional video, and the day after tomorrow, Xiaolin will be representing the team in filming the official Spring Season promotional video."
Gu Yueshuang frowned. She had never heard that newcomers had to shoot promotional videos. It was obvious that the authorities were causing trouble.
Lu Cheng also mentioned it just now, saying that she is the "light of youth training."
Blatant flattery.
She wasn't sure if this was a nickname that had been spread privately or just Lu Cheng's casual commercial boasting, but there was no doubt that once this promotional video was shot, a bloody public opinion war would be waiting for her.
Fang Butao glanced at her out of the corner of his eye, as if he could guess what she was thinking, and said, "Just cooperate with the commercial and official activities, and don't worry about anything else. Just focus on playing well in the competition, and leave the off-court matters to me and Lao Gu."
Xu Qing stepped in front of Gu Yueshuang and said, "That's not good, right? Our new contestant is being praised to the skies before even taking the stage. Do you believe that if he makes a mistake, he'll be scolded to the heavens?"
"I know." Fang Butao didn't even raise his head, as if he was carefully reading the "LPL Competition Rules".
Xu Qing was so angry that he wanted to curse. The game hadn't even started yet, and their team was already being put on the fire.
What is going on?
Gu Yueshuang patted Xu Qing's shoulder, walked to the side and sat down, saying calmly: "It's okay, it's not a big problem."
Xu Qing was even more anxious than she was. "Do you understand the seriousness of this? Lately, there have been posts on various forums praising you for how amazing you are in the secondary league. They've all been hyped up as the top mid laner, you know? If you show off, it's only natural. If you make a mistake, everyone will ridicule you."
He grew increasingly angry as he spoke, pacing back and forth, clapping his hands vigorously as he speculated, "This is definitely the work of the troll army. I'm sure those GGB teams also contributed greatly."
Gu Yueshuang: "It's okay. The No. 1 mid laner's goal is to win the championship. As the No. 1 mid laner's teammate, you have to get used to this kind of criticism, okay?"
As someone who's experienced this, Xu Qing shook his head. "I've seen too many players like you. They start out with their goal of winning the championship, but after two games, they lower it to making the playoffs. And when they're halfway through the season, they're just hoping to avoid relegation."
As he spoke, he sighed, "Newbies, it's better to take it one step at a time. Don't set your goals too high at the beginning. You'll end up with a big setback and a miserable death."
Gu Yueshuang remained silent, only sighing, "What contestant doesn't want to win the championship?"
After this statement was made, the POG members fell into silence.
We have been playing for several years, but there is not a single champion player in the team.
Yes, who doesn't want to win? Being a streamer is much easier than being a professional player, and the money is higher.
If there is no dream of becoming a champion, who would be willing to play professionally?
Gu Yueshuang took out her phone, opened the app store, and asked, "Which forum mocks me the most?"
Xu Qing was alert: "What are you going to do?"
Gu Yueshuang: "Adapt in advance."
Everyone: “…”
Fang Butao acted as if it had nothing to do with him and fluently listed a few forum names that were used to insult people harshly.
Three minutes later, Gu Yueshuang started to register an account, muttering, "What kind of rubbish is this combat power? I'll do it myself."
Xu Qing hesitated: "You... want to fight them?"
"No, I'm cursing on their behalf. These scumbags are so weak in combat."
As she spoke, she became a keyboard warrior indignantly.
This time even Fang Butao was shocked.
Who would insult themselves and even go to a forum to post insults?
Zhou Yao cautiously reached out his hand to test the temperature of her head, wanting to see if this person had a brain burnt out.
Before he even touched her hair, Gu Yueshuang slapped her away with one hand.
Gu Yueshuang didn't even raise her head, her face serious: "Seriously, I have to teach them how to criticize others."
Zhou Yao: "...It's over. The child went crazy before the beating even started."
Lin Yanqiu asked, "Which forum are you teaching on? I want to go and learn."
Qin Ye couldn't help but ask: "Are you still awake?"
Gu Yueshuang tilted her phone slightly to show Lin Yanqiu, and said, "This is solving the problem, you know? The more I scold them, the lower their expectations of me. If I lose, I'll be a prophet in the forum, and a group of people will praise my predictions. If I win, then I'm awesome, and I won't lose anything."
Classic nonsense.
But no one here could refute it.
When Wanjie came over with the doll, she was still wondering why they were so quiet.
She reminded them, "It's your turn to take pictures... What's wrong? What happened?"
Everyone felt that it was hard to put it into words, and shook their heads: "It's okay, it's fine."
It's just that one of my teammates has a problem with his brain.
Sister Wan hid the doll's braids inside its clothes, so that it was impossible to tell that it was a girl.
But this makes her look a little more like Gu Yueshuang.
Gu Yueshuang exclaimed: "She looks even cuter in this dress. Is this dress still available for sale?"
Wanjie: "This dress is out of print, but I can help you find other clothes."
Gu Yueshuang smiled and said, "Okay, thank you, sister."
A few POG members happened to run into the GGB team who had just finished filming. Someone took one look at the doll in Gu Yueshuang's hand and exclaimed sarcastically, "The Future Light hasn't even debuted yet and fans are already making dolls for her?"
The sound was loud enough that people from both teams could hear it clearly.
Gu Yueshuang: “?”
She couldn't recognize all people and was a little face-blind, so she simply took the grudge against GGB.
She didn't know him, but everyone else in POG knew him. He was GGB's top laner Yang Chi. He was pretty good among top laners, but he was prone to impatience and arrogance.
He is not a bad person, but he has malice towards those good-looking but incompetent contestants.
Especially people like Gu Yueshuang who already have fans before their debut are the type of people he despises the most.
Lu Cheng looked embarrassed and quickly tried to smooth things over: "Sorry, he didn't mean anything else..."
Xu Qing spoke in a quiet voice, deliberately speaking for Yang Chi to hear: "Ignore him, he's just jealous. It seems that Lu Cheng is the only one in their team who has this kind of peripherals."
Gu Yueshuang: "Is this kind of doll peripherals rare?"
Xu Qing echoed her: "Yes, only contestants with extremely high popularity will have it."
Gu Yueshuang looked regretful: "There's nothing we can do. Some people are born in Rome."
The tone is so mean that it can make GGB people very angry.
Fang Butao couldn't help but burst out laughing and said, "You have to speak more directly, otherwise some people won't understand."
Zhou Yao said sarcastically, "Is there really anyone who hasn't heard of the saying 'All roads lead to Rome'? Oh, maybe they've heard of it, but they don't understand what it means."
Gu Yueshuang shook her head, her expression somewhat cocky: "There's nothing I can do about it. I was born to be looked up to."
Lin Yanqiu patted her shoulder and reminded her softly, "That's too much. You deserve a beating."
As the captain, he did not stand up in time, and his intention to cover up was very obvious.
He stood in front of Gu Yueshuang without leaving any trace, and smiled flawlessly at the GGB people: "Sorry, my child at home has a bad temper."
One of them plays the good cop and the other the bad cop, which makes it impossible for the GGB people to reason with them. If they continue to hold on to it, it will seem that the GGB people are being unreasonable.
Gu Yueshuang didn't buy it and popped her head out from behind him: "You still hold a grudge. GGbond? Pigsy Team, right? I'll remember the grudge first."
Yang Chi was so angry that his face turned red and his neck thickened: "You!"
Lu Cheng didn't get angry, but smiled gently and tried to mediate: "Alright, at least you accepted our milk tea, let's both take a step back."
"Let's put things in perspective." Gu Yueshuang raised the doll in her hand and beckoned her teammates to leave. "It's time for the photoshoot, guys. The team with the best looks still has to show its face. We'll know whether we can dominate the field after the game, but the final photoshoot must be stunning. Got it?"
Yang Chi was so angry that he shouted at her back, "I knew she was just a pretty face! The secondary league is completely different from the LPL. How many youth training talents have been taught a lesson after playing?! She's so ambitious but incompetent!"
Lu Cheng patted him and said, "Alright, we'll know Frost's strength after we play in the competition."
The team member next to him murmured, "Why is he so rude after accepting our milk tea?"
Lu Cheng smiled and said, "Because I forced the milk tea into your mouth."
Team member: “…”
Yang Chi was still mumbling: "You just have a very good temper, you know?"
Lu Cheng agreed with him and said, "Yes, yes, yes..."
On the other side, coach Gu Yang was taking a solo photo, and the five team members gathered together to chat.
The players who had just been defending Gu Yueshuang immediately turned around and scolded her: "Do you know who that is? He's just taunting and bragging! They're guaranteed to make the playoffs every year and rarely miss the World Championship..."
Gu Yueshuang: "I don't know."
Zhou Yao also felt a little regretful: "It would be so embarrassing if we lost the game to them."
This incident today will definitely be spread out. Their new team has no fans, and they will be scolded before the game even starts.
Life is so hard.
Lin Yanqiu: "It's not shameful to lose, it's shameful not to dare to fight."
Gu Yueshuang shook her head: "That depends on what the goal is. If the goal is the championship, losing to them is indeed embarrassing. But as a new team, if the goal is the playoffs, losing to a top team is not shameful, right? Isn't that what should be done?"
Xu Qing gasped, "You know they're a wealthy team, right?! Do you know how many fans they've accumulated?"
Gu Yueshuang looked at him like he was a fool and said, "Isn't it true that I'm already being scolded? Is there any difference between one thousand haters and two thousand?"
Xu Qing: “…”
Fang Butao shook his head: "You are a typical case of having too many lice but not being afraid of the itch."
Gu Yueshuang: "No, I think it's better to have more skills than less."
Zhou Yao tried to keep a straight face. "Brothers, you forgot this is a big troll. He's the biggest troll in the Korean server who makes sarcastic expressions for no reason and taunts people when he's in a bad mood."
Gu Yueshuang added with a smile, "I even learned a few more languages to become very good at cursing. I try to make sure everyone I curse at understands what I'm saying."
POG fell into collective silence again.
Xu Qing bowed his head and admitted his mistake: "I'm sorry, I shouldn't have had the illusion that you had a good temper just because you looked cute."
Lin Yanqiu patted his shoulder and said, "Remember when he was chased and beaten by five people at the top of the canyon? This is all a long-standing grudge."
Xu Qing was speechless.
I remembered the fear of being dominated by a five-on-one in the Canyon of Heroes.
How big a hatred must this be to have everyone being hunted down?
Fang Butao coughed lightly, flipped to a page in the LPL Tournament Rules, and said pointedly: "No matter when, if a player is recorded swearing, they will be fined."
Gu Yueshuang nodded: "Everything will be fine if we don't broadcast live."
Fang Butao stared at her dimly: "We are poor."
If you don’t live broadcast, you will have no money, and if you are fined, you will have no money either.
Gu Yueshuang: "...I understand. I'll be more tactful, okay?"
Fang Butao reminded him, "Your captain is in poor health and is still taking medicine. Don't make him go to the hospital out of anger."
Gu Yueshuang was silent for a while: "I always thought that POG's old, weak and sick people were a joke."
The oldest member of the team is the top laner Zhou Yao, and the weaker one is the support Xu Qing. Now she is told that there is also an AD Lin Yanqiu who is in poor health.
Gu Yueshuang sighed softly, she was really on the wrong boat.
The other four members of POG looked at her in unison: "Who is disabled?"
Gu Yueshuang: "The jungler doesn't have a mouth."
Qin Ye: "..."
Xu Qing was puzzled: "I found that you really like to argue with us."
Gu Yueshuang: "Didn't I say I hold a grudge? Those four rough guys have been chasing me for a month and they won't let me say a word?"
Lin Yanqiu: "One sentence?"
Gu Yueshuang: "Hundreds of millions of sentences."
Everyone: “…”
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