There would surely be many reporters interviewing Xu Changfeng and Shen An backstage after the game. To avoid being stopped by the reporters, Tang Muzhou did not greet the players from Fenghua Club and directly left through the VIP channel with Xie Mingzhe.

It was only nine o'clock when we left the venue. Tang Muzhou suggested, "It's still early. Do you want to come over to my place?"

Xie Mingzhe was stunned. "Go to Fenghua Club? Isn't this inappropriate?"

Tang Muzhou smiled and said, "Go to my house, not the club dormitory."

Xie Mingzhe felt that it was even more inappropriate to go to his house so late. Just as he was about to speak, he heard Tang Muzhou say, "I live alone, and my place is very close to here. I have some information for you to see, and I'll take you back later."

Since his senior brother said so, Xie Mingzhe couldn't refuse, so he nodded and followed him.

Tang Muzhou drove around this busy neighborhood and finally stopped at the gate of a nearby community. The car was allowed to pass only after strict security checks.

Although it was night, the street lights outside were bright and I could still see the furnishings in the community clearly - this was obviously a high-end residential area, full of single-family villas with swimming pools. The community was shaded by green trees and there was not a single noisy sound. This place was like a secluded paradise in a bustling city, completely isolated from the hustle and bustle outside by just a wall.

Needless to say, the price of a villa in the city center is very high. It is not surprising that Tang Muzhou could afford such a villa with his income. Xie Mingzhe was puzzled as to why he brought him here. What was he going to show him?

After turning a few corners, the car stopped in front of a villa, and Tang Muzhou took Xie Mingzhe into the house.

As soon as you enter the door, the lights in the house turn on automatically.

Xie Mingzhe put on slippers and looked around. The interior of the villa was warm and exquisite, with warm colors on the wallpaper and floor. The living room was large, with a set of soft fabric sofas. The off-white color gave people a sense of homely warmth. What was even cuter was that there were several fruit pillows on the sofa, including pineapples, apples, oranges, etc.

Tang Muzhou saw his junior looking at the childish pillows, so he chuckled and explained, "These were sent by Xiao An. He ordered a batch of fruit pillows, and each member of the club received one. To express his gratitude to me as his master, he gave me five."

"..." Xie Mingzhe sighed: "He really likes fruits."

Tang Muzhou brought his junior apprentice to the sofa and sat down. He grabbed an apple pillow and handed it to Xie Mingzhe: "You can hug it while sitting on the sofa. It feels good."

Xie Mingzhe held the round apple pillow in his arms and smiled as he thought that Tang Muzhou must have looked helpless when he received the pillow from his apprentice. Placing these pillows at home would make people mistakenly think there was a child under five years old at home.

Tang Muzhou looked at the other party. The boy was sitting on the sofa, holding a fruit pillow and smiling. Xie Mingzhe looked less naughty than usual, but more warm and lovely. Especially under the warm light of the living room, the corners of his slightly raised lips seemed to have a light pink glow. Tang Muzhou suddenly had a crazy idea in his mind, wanting to hold him in his arms and give him a big kiss.

Xie Mingzhe raised his head and asked, "Brother, what information do you want to show me?"

Meeting his dark and clear eyes, Tang Muzhou's heart skipped a beat. He immediately gathered his thoughts, got up and went to the study to get some information.

Tang Muzhou came back soon, holding a few picture albums in his arms and handed them to Xie Mingzhe: "Let me show you."

The fashion magazine-sized album has dozens of pages, each of which is divided into four transparent grids. In each grid is a card, all of which are exquisite physical cards printed on special paper.

Xie Mingzhe flipped through a few pages and became more and more frightened.

Millennium sacred tree, flame dragon, ice crystal phoenix, corpse-eating ghost, jade butterfly, cobra...

There are many familiar cards, all of which are famous cards of the great players.

Tang Muzhou introduced: "This is a season commemorative book published by the professional league after each season ends. It includes all the players who won awards in this season, as well as their representative cards. At the same time, these cards will be pasted on the card commemorative wall at the professional league headquarters for permanent preservation."

There are tens of thousands of cards in the Star Card World, and a large number of new cards appear every day. Being able to stand out from the vast amount of cards and leave your own work on the Alliance Card Memorial Wall, no matter how many years Star Card Storm has been operating, later players will remember the name of this designer - for a designer, this is definitely the greatest honor.

Xie Mingzhe started reading from the first book.

From the first to the fourth season, it was the era of the originators of the five categories. The rules of the league were not perfect yet, and the card battle rules were constantly being explored and adjusted. Nie Yuandao, Ling Jingtang, Zheng Feng and Su Yang each won a championship, but Chen Qianlin, the originator of the wood category, retired with regret.

It was not until the fifth season that Tang Muzhou swept the professional league with 50 consecutive wins in individual competitions, and finally won a championship for the Wood element. In the commemorative album of this season, a large number of Wood element cards originally created by Tang Muzhou appeared, such as the Millennium God Tree, Datura Flower, Tuberose... It can be seen how terrible the impact of the young Tang Muzhou at that time was on the league.

In the sixth season, Fang Yu's water-based deathrattle style emerged and won the championship in one fell swoop. He also led four fellow apprentices from Liushuang City to win the championship in the team competition. That was the most glorious year for Liushuang City, and a large number of water-based deathrattle cards appeared in the yearbook.

In the seventh season, Pei Jingshan and Ye Zhu made their debut. Pei Jingshan won the championship with his insect deck that excels at splitting, and Ye Zhu won the rookie award. The Dark Night City Club was established, and the commemorative album was filled with so many butterfly cards and insect cards that it was overwhelming.

In the eighth season, Liu Jingxu, a late bloomer from the Hell Club, finally won the championship of the individual competition five years after his debut with a dual-form monster card. Xu Xingtu, a player from the Temple of the Gods, won the runner-up. Shen An made his debut and won the Best Newcomer Award. There are many monster cards, god cards, and fruit cards in the commemorative album, with different styles.

In the ninth season, which was last year, Tang Muzhou participated in the individual competition again and won the championship, Shan Lan won the runner-up, and Gui Sirui won the third place. Tang Muzhou is also the only player who has won two individual championships.

Now, the tenth season of the competition is underway. Xie Mingzhe watched two knockout matches of the round of 16 today. The players are all very strong, and the final winner is still unpredictable.

Since the Star Card League Professional League was launched, so many outstanding players, their experiences and cards have been preserved by the league in the form of a commemorative album. This is undoubtedly a "history book of the Star Card Professional League", which allows Xie Mingzhe to have a deeper understanding of the historical changes of the entire league.

From the decks, he could clearly see that a large number of talented players emerged from the fifth to eighth seasons, and a variety of deck styles emerged. But in the ninth season last year, there were no original players, and the commemorative album was almost entirely filled with cards remade by masters, with no new player's cards included.

The top 16 contestants of the tenth season are all familiar faces, and there are no newcomers...

Xie Mingzhe was a little confused: "Are there no new and useful people in the past two years?"

Tang Muzhou nodded and explained, "Because the league's competitions are becoming more and more mature, the decks developed by the masters have almost reached a saturation stage, and all kinds of schools are involved. If you want to innovate, it will only become more and more difficult."

After so many years, all kinds of cards have been made by masters, and it is indeed difficult for newcomers to stand out.

Tang Muzhou met his junior's curious eyes, smiled slightly, and said, "So, the character cards you made attracted widespread attention from the alliance, because someone like you who can create a large number of original cards has not appeared in two years."

Xie Mingzhe was stunned for a moment and asked, "You showed me the commemorative album just to tell me this?"

Tang Muzhou said, "This set of atlases is for you. Take a look at it when you have time. It will be helpful for you to learn more about the past history of the Alliance."

He handed the atlas to Xie Mingzhe and then said, "I hope you can really like the Star Card Professional League and integrate better into the league in the future. Although the competition in the professional league is fierce, most professional players are very good people - they will be your opponents, but they can also become your friends. Do you understand?"

Xie Mingzhe finally understood what his senior brother meant.

The senior wanted him to integrate into the group and not be isolated by other great gods.

Now, he is like a transfer student who suddenly came to a key high school. Although his grades are good, he may not be accepted by his classmates. Only if he truly understands and likes this place can he get the recognition of other great gods.

This is much more important than simply making cards and playing games.

Xie Mingzhe took the complete set of commemorative albums, held them in his arms and said seriously: "I will read these materials carefully. I admire the masters in my heart. Don't worry, I will not lose sight of my position just because of a little achievement. I know that I am still far away from the masters."

Tang Muzhou smiled with relief, stretched out his hand and gently pressed Xie Mingzhe's shoulder, saying: "Don't worry, your name will definitely be in the official commemorative book of the eleventh season next year, and the character card you made will also be included on the alliance's card memorial wall."

Xie Mingzhe nodded confidently: "Yes!"

The two looked at each other, and could just see each other's tiny silhouette in each other's eyes.

For a moment, the air seemed to stagnate.

Xie Mingzhe's heartbeat was abnormally fast, and he looked away uncomfortably. The help and encouragement his senior brother gave him were countless. Every time he was stuck and confused, his senior brother would always give him some advice to help him come up with new ideas.

Maybe Tang Muzhou just regarded him as a younger brother? But he was... distracted and had wild thoughts.

Tang Muzhou found that his junior fellow apprentice had once again avoided his gaze, so he could only sigh and whispered, "Azhe."

Xie Mingzhe was stunned. In the past, his senior brothers always called him Xiao Xie, but today they suddenly changed the name, which made him unable to react for a while... Yu Ke and Qin Xuan also called him that, but when Tang Muzhou's low and gentle voice called out "Azhe" in his ear, Xie Mingzhe only felt his scalp tingling and his spine felt like it was swept by an electric current.

This man's voice is so deadly.

Xie Mingzhe was fidgeting and responded with a stiff upper lip: "What's wrong?"

Tang Muzhou looked at him tenderly and whispered, "You have limited time now. Focus on the competition first. After the professional league next year, you can consider other things. What do you think?"

Xie Mingzhe didn't understand what Tang Muzhou meant. First compete, then think about other things? There's nothing wrong with that!

So Xie Mingzhe nodded: "Yes."

A complicated look flashed across Tang Muzhou's deep eyes, but in the end he said nothing.

Seeing that it was getting late, he simply sent Xie Mingzhe back to Nirvana Studio.

On the way home, Tang Muzhou listened to the light music in the car and sighed helplessly.

When I was accompanying Xie Mingzhe to complete the leave of absence procedures at school, I suddenly had the urge to hug him. If I say that I was just sympathizing with him at the time, how do I explain my subsequent reaction?

I always wanted to see him, so I asked him out under the pretext of "watching a game", and just now I took him home... That was Tang Muzhou's private residence, and no player from Fenghua Club had ever been there. Xie Mingzhe was the first guest he invited.

Just now, he saw his junior fellow apprentice sitting on the sofa, hugging a cute pillow. He even had the urge to push him down on the sofa and kiss him.

If I kiss him until he can't breathe, will he hug me and call me senior brother with a blushing face?

I used to think that I was taking care of Xie Mingzhe as my younger brother, because he was my junior brother, and as a senior brother I should always take good care of him. Now it seems that he is more than just a junior brother...

Tang Muzhou could sense that his junior fellow apprentice seemed to have some vague feelings for him.

When he accidentally kissed his ear today, Tang Muzhou saw his junior's evasive look and red ears clearly. Unlike before when they could look each other in the eye, Xie Mingzhe was obviously feeling guilty.

However, Xie Mingzhe was still young and did not understand what these reactions meant.

Tang Muzhou didn't want to force him.

As I just said, time is limited, and there is no need to rush to expose this vague feeling, as that will become a burden for Xie Mingzhe. Xie Mingzhe should now focus more on the competition.

As for this budding ambiguous feeling, just let it take its course and let it grow slowly in Xie Mingzhe's heart.

Penetrating into him bit by bit, this is the best way to make Xie Mingzhe truly fall in love with you.

A hint of determination to win appeared in Tang Muzhou's deep eyes.

It was his, and he couldn't escape it. How could he give up such a good junior brother to someone else?