Sheng Quan left the airport, still thinking about the familiar name Tan Chen.

It has not been on the hot searches or in the major news in the past two years, that is because of the original novel.

It is not known whether it is due to the time travel or because she is a few years younger, but after traveling through the book, Sheng Quan obviously found that her memory is much better than in her previous life, and she has made rapid progress in learning new things.

The original plot, which I have recalled countless times in my mind , is almost engraved in my memory.

Soon, she remembered the description of Tan Chen.

That was when a star participated in an e-sports competition. Because he was not professional, he was scolded by many e-sports fans for being a blasphemer of professional e-sports. Some people even believed that this was the beginning of the decline of Chinese e-sports.

The celebrity who is also an e-sports fan said self-deprecatingly in the background: "Decline? It has been declining since Tan Chen's death, and what's missing from me?"

The agent, who is also an e-sports fan, responded: "In my opinion, e-sports was already declining before he passed away. He just forced the water to break and kept it alive for a while."

The book briefly explains that Tan Chen was once the ace player of DE, the largest e-sports club in China. He led his teammates to victory and won various domestic and international awards for DE.

There were many talented e-sports figures in his generation. That period was known as the pinnacle of Chinese e-sports. Unfortunately, every peak has its downfall. These figures "fell" one by one due to injuries and retired one after another.

The scene when Tan Chen left DE was not pretty. The book doesn't describe exactly why it was so pretty. It only describes that when domestic e-sports was gradually declining, he formed another team, led them step by step, and helped them fight their way to the top.

In the end, this small and shabby team, which had no idea what it had gone through to get to this point, actually made it to the Polar Global Finals, the highest honor in e-sports and also the most prestigious event.

At that moment, e-sports fans cheered, believing that the peak of Chinese e-sports would return.

As a result, they received the news of the death of Tan Chen, who had become a coach.

Since then, having lost its biggest support pillar, Po Shui no longer flourished and announced its disbandment after struggling for more than a year.

Sheng Quan doesn't know much about e-sports. Due to her life as a social animal in her previous life, she doesn't have the habit of playing games. She usually plays small games like Candy Crush. Playing games can not only relax her mind, but also allow her to think about other things.

Later, after coming to this world, the endless excellent film and television works alone were enough to keep her happy for a long time, so she naturally would not fall into the trap of games.

She's still waiting for the hologram.

E-sports in this world is quite different from that in her previous life. At least when she occasionally read e-sports news in her previous life, she never saw the players wearing VR goggles like they do in this life.

You know what, this eye mask is pretty cool.

Moreover, the history of e-sports in this world should be very different from that in her previous world. From the word "decline", it can be seen that it once had a peak.

As mentioned before, due to historical bifurcations, "Starlight" is a world where everyone values ​​entertainment, and people generally pay more attention to spiritual relaxation and entertainment. Before Sheng Quan came, China's film and television industry was actually like a stagnant pool of water.

Under such circumstances, e-sports accounts for half of China's entertainment industry.

Currently the most popular game in the world is "Polar" which was released thirteen years ago and was quickly promoted around the world. With the emergence of professional e-sports, various countries have also gradually established professional e-sports clubs.

[Polar] has been in development for thirteen years, and in the twelve years of competitions, there have been Chinese professional e-sports players for five years.

However, in recent years, it seems that only one team has reached the finals, but was eliminated in the end.

According to the information Sheng Quan has read, four years ago was indeed the peak of China's professional e-sports circle. There was a flourishing scene, talented players emerged frequently, there were countless fans all over the world, and any club with a little fame made a lot of money.

But soon, the clubs began to ignore other disadvantages in order to make money. Chinese professional e-sports can be regarded as a latecomer in the world. In order to develop rapidly, various talented e-sports players became consumables, and were injured by frequent competitions and high-intensity training.

Injuries that could have been cured in the early stages are now becoming more and more serious due to the club's typical practice of killing the goose that lays the golden eggs. Once an injury occurs, the player will be immediately sold during the transfer period. Even the most talented players cannot resist this.

It is said that the career cycle of e-sports players is short, but it is not so short that they retire in one or two years. After being played around like this, the major clubs that made huge profits and expanded rapidly soon suffered the consequences.

What is the attraction of professional e-sports? Of course, it is winning.

No fan wants to see the team they support keep losing, and no fan likes to see their team go downhill.

If the Chinese team had not "dominated" the global championship in those years, it would be fine for these domestic teams to fight each other, and they could accept it, but didn't they have their peak?

Having seen the fierce tigers fighting, how could they accept the listlessness of a sick cat?

Without its audience, no matter how big the club is, it will be difficult to sustain itself. However, most of them are expanding rapidly and ambitiously during their peak period, making it difficult to get rid of them.

In the past four years, the popularity of domestic e-sports has been getting lower and lower. Coupled with the rise of the film and television industry, professional e-sports has become even less noticed.

But now it seems that it is not that there is no attention, but that the media is not paying attention to it. Sheng Quan did see e-sports related content when she looked through the previous hot searches, but she didn't think about it at all at that time, so naturally she didn't click in to see it.

However, Sheng Quan did discover a point. She remembered that in her previous life, when she occasionally came across information related to professional e-sports, the names of those clubs, teams, and even the players were all in foreign languages, but this is not popular in this world.

Tan Chen’s ID is “don’t chase”.

The small club he formed was called Broken Water.

Although the big club where I used to serve is called DE, fans all call it "De De". Anyway, few people are willing to call it DEDE. Instead, it is quite popular for some foreign teams to take Chinese nicknames. I wonder if this has anything to do with the fact that the major Chinese teams dominated the charts for several years.

Perhaps it is precisely because it once reached its peak that Chinese e-sports fans cannot accept its decline.

Especially in this world where entertainment is so important, the citizens of each country have a strong sense of collective honor in this matter. It doesn't matter which country's team you like at ordinary times, but once the global competition begins, they will definitely hope that their own country's team will win.

The e-sports competitions in her previous life were probably just a niche event, held once a year, and most of the audience were fans who had played the game.

But in this world, the Polar Global Competition held every three years is definitely a major event for all countries, but the Chinese media has shown little interest in it.

After all, Hua Xia hasn't won an award for four consecutive years. Fans are either disappointed and don't watch the show, or they madly insult the show as soon as the news comes out and are unwilling to even click "like". Instead of reporting these things, they might as well report the gossip about celebrities.

Of course, there are still some, more or less. Sheng Quan flipped through the news during this period and found the [Polar] event as expected.

However, there are basically all kinds of curses under every piece of news, because most of the news reported is bad.

#Tianxing narrowly loses in the qualifying round# #Shanghe team is eliminated# #Poshui falls into the second round due to tactical mistakes# The last one is new. Shengquan searched for the keyword and found the real-time one. It should have been posted by the paparazzi who just came over to take some photos.

Sheng Quan was puzzled. Didn't she just hear the two people throwing vegetables scolding Bai something in the bottom lane? How did it become a tactical mistake again?

However, after confirming the identity of that group of people, Sheng Quan understood why the two men threw vegetables.

Isn't this just calling them bad?

She looked back and saw that the paparazzi, who had not dared to take the same elevator with Sheng Quan, had caught up with her and were following behind her, taking pictures.

There were a bunch of people in the program crew at the back, and it would have been fine if there were only two or three kittens taking pictures, but there were also two black fans of the guests in between, and the staff's faces could hardly be described as forced smiles.

You know, similar to "The Voice of China", major variety shows are also getting very popular. They are all being broadcast live and recorded at the same time, and what matters is authenticity.

Now it's too real. This happened right after I got off the plane.

Although the coach whose water broke immediately came out to attract attention, made up for it a little with a humorous response, and even took the initiative to accept an interview with the paparazzi, the scene now became very awkward.

Fortunately, one of the guests was very good at smoothing things over. He looked around deliberately and said in an exaggerated and joking tone:

"What's going on ? Just now on the plane, the production crew said that there were the most reporters at the airport, and asked us to greet them warmly and be careful not to get separated. From the tone of their voice, I thought there were a sea of ​​people, but how come there are only three of you?"

One of the cameramen immediately understood and focused the lens on the two paparazzi and the photographer.

Paparazzi have always been less popular with artists than regular reporters, so they were a little flattered that they could actually chat with the artists in such a casual manner.

The paparazzi was also very good. Since the crew was willing to have direct contact with them, he also smiled and created topics: "Originally there were many people, but Sheng Quan was in the front, so they all went to take pictures of Sheng Quan."

"Director Sheng?!"

The guest looked shocked, but I don't know if he was really shocked or just doing it for the show effect:

"She's also in Fangcheng? Oh my god, is she still at the airport? Is it too late for me to go up and ask for a photo?"

Lin Qing from Xingmang Entertainment also looked surprised and delighted: "Our CEO Sheng is here? Where is he?"

With the cooperation of the two, the awkward scene immediately turned around, especially with Lin Qing's expression of "Where is Director Sheng? I want to flatter him", it became a bit funny.

The paparazzi added: "I've already left. You missed it. I wanted to squeeze in, but there were too many people so I didn't go."

The guests also showed regretful expressions: "You guys, what are you afraid of with more people? He is Mr. Sheng, no matter how many people there are, you have to work hard."

The executive director glanced at the comments and saw that they were all laughing. He breathed a sigh of relief. It is not popular to quarrel with each other in variety shows nowadays, especially in travel variety shows like theirs. The audience basically watches to relax. If the audience is upset, the ratings will not be far from dropping.

The popularity of "Happy Travels" has been declining, otherwise it would have been unable to invite famous guests. They could only invite people from all over, including a host of a food show and a member of a small and somewhat famous team in the e-sports circle. It can be said to be a hodgepodge of all variety shows of the same period.

Fortunately, although the guests in this episode were not very famous, they were all very cooperative, and the group immediately started talking excitedly.

Chen Mo, the youngest girl in the Water Breaking Team, also knew that they had to work hard to get more shots on variety shows. She tried to suppress the anger on her face and joined in:

"Is it the wealthy Mr. Sheng that I know?"

"It's the Director Sheng you know. Oh, what a pity! Director Sheng is known as the Midas Touch in the industry. Basically, anyone she chooses becomes famous very quickly. How come we just missed her out?"

Another guest also made a joke, but the slight regret in his eyes did not seem fake:

"If one of us can catch the eye of Director Sheng, our show will be a hit in a matter of minutes, do you believe it?"

Chen Mo was still young after all, and was carried away by his emotions, and also felt regretful:

"What a shame, if only we could get out sooner."

The executive director also thought it was a pity. If he could really run into Sheng Quan, there was an artist from Xingmang Entertainment among their guests this episode, and he could shamelessly let Lin Qing go up and say hello, even if it was just to get one or two shots.

Sheng Quan’s own popularity may not reach the point where “no one dares to compete when President Sheng appears”. After all, she is not a star, and no matter how many fans she has, they are not as exaggerated as those of stars.

However, she has a lot of artists with huge fans.

It's really outrageous. Fans of artists from other companies would curse the company and the agents for no reason, but fans of artists under Star Entertainment want to hold Sheng Quan, the big boss, in their hands.

Especially fans of big stars like Huaqing Jiang Zhen, they would even form groups to check in on Sheng Quan's Weibo using fan nicknames and flattering others, just to help their sisters and brothers attract more impression points from the big boss.

In other words, as long as Sheng Quan shows up, those artists will definitely try their best to support him, and their fans will only be more supportive than the artists themselves. If the program production team just puts in a little effort, won't the popularity come?

——It was just a little bit off.

He regretted and sighed. He wished time could go back so that he could rush to Sheng Quan with everyone as soon as he got off the plane.

Listening to the guests chatting with each other, the executive director couldn't help but fantasize a little bit, what if Sheng Quan really took a fancy to one of their guests this time...

Forget it, forget it, let’s stop daydreaming.

"Notify me, we're leaving."

Tan Chen, who had left the team alone with a paparazzi to be interviewed, came back.

Even though he had just experienced an attack from black fans, the young coach still had a nonchalant smile on his lips when he came back, with a casual look in his eyes that revealed a bit of unruliness. He lowered his head, and whispered to his players in a place where the camera couldn't capture him.

Those eighteen or nineteen-year-old team members were indeed comforted by his attitude and did not look as worried and anxious as before.

The executive director couldn't help but look at Tan Chen.

Tan Chen is only 26 years old this year. Although he is just an e-sports coach, his appearance is not inferior to other stars in the show who make a living by their looks, especially his eyes, which are sharp and have a suppressed depth.

He was not a guest, but only an accompanying staff member, so he was not wearing the uniform for guests. He simply put on a very ordinary white sweater. But on him, it brought out a bit of nonchalant coldness, which was very eye-catching.

The executive director felt more and more refreshed the more he watched, and poked the photographer who was responsible for shooting the post-production materials next to him:

"Take more pictures of the coach of this e-sports team. He looks very photogenic."

Photographer: "...Director, Tan Chen is not a guest. He is here to accompany you."

"Why do you care what they are here for? Their team, what's its name? Water Breaks. E-sports players come to participate in a travel variety show. Do you really think they like traveling? They come to our show because they are short of money and need exposure."

"Otherwise, it's the season now, why don't they train well? It's because they are poor and have no choice. Maybe they can't even afford the tickets and hotel for the next game. Don't worry about shooting, give their team more shots, they will thank us."

The photographer suddenly realized and nodded in agreement. Looking at Tan Chen who was talking quietly with his teammates in the distance, he couldn't help but sigh: "He was so high-spirited in the past. He won the global championship at the age of 18 and dominated the individual championship for more than a year. The prize money he won from the competition should have been quite a lot. Now he has fallen to this point. Eh..."

Executive Director: "? Explain yourself to me clearly. What does it mean to be destitute? Is coming to our variety show called being destitute?"

"...Director, I think we need to reshoot some more scenes later. I'm going!"

Tan Chen, who was being discussed by the two, had already comforted his teammates. He walked in the middle of the program group, carrying a heavy backpack on his own. If he saw other staff members carrying too many things, he would step forward to help.

After a busy schedule, he finally got on the bus. Since he was not a guest, he was arranged to sit in the last row of another car. Tan Chen leaned against the window and looked out quietly.

He has always liked sitting by the window. When he was playing for DE, even if he was surrounded by fans or anti-fans, Tan Chen would still sit by the unsafe window.

After the game, they took the car back, and he leaned against the window to look at the banners outside and the people celebrating excitedly. Sometimes, his teammates who fought side by side with him would bump his arm: - "Tan Chen, do you think we can win the championship in the finals? CJ from China is quite fierce."

——"What are you afraid of? We were able to defeat them before, and we can definitely defeat them now!"

——"Hahahaha, that's true. But you're so arrogant. I just saw you arguing with that hater. If Sister Yu hadn't pulled you apart quickly, you two might have come to blows. You too, aren't you afraid that the coach will say you're too arrogant?"

——"The coach said that my style is to be flamboyant. I am following the coach's instructions. I will be flamboyant not only now but also in the future. I will not indulge them. If anyone scolds me, I will scold back."

As Tan Chen was reminiscing, the bus suddenly stopped: "Get off, get off, what are you eating today?"

"Boxed lunch, I hope there's more meat. Our production team is too stingy. Why is there only so much meat in every city we go to?"

Seeing that Tan Chen didn't get up, the staff member nearby asked with concern: "Were you hit just now? It's not serious, right? I think those people are too much. If you lose the game, you lose. Why did they chase you down the line?"

"Maybe you need a place to vent. Don't worry about them. They're just some vegetable leaves. It's not a big deal."

Tan Chen smiled nonchalantly and touched the corner of his eye that had just been hit. Although it was green vegetables, it still turned red due to the strong force.

He whispered:

"It just hurts a little."

*** Shengquan Live in the wine

After I went to the store, I found new information about [Water Breaking].

[Bu Zhui admitted tactical mistakes and said he would keep working hard]

She clicked on it and saw another series of swear words. However, compared with other videos, the attack power of this time was concentrated on Tan Chen, the coach who arranged the tactics.

【He has a good character. 】

Sheng Quan and 006 analyzed: [It was obviously not his fault this time, but in order not to affect the team members, he took the initiative to take the blame and get scolded.]

She didn't play [Polar], but this kind of thing can be seen from the major spectators and comment areas. In addition, after temporarily brushing up on relevant game knowledge, it is obvious that it was Bai Xiangyuan (Yiwu) who made a mistake in the bottom lane in one round of the game.

Originally, Po Shui had the upper hand in this melee, but after Yi Wu chased the opponent into the jungle and was surrounded, Po Shui's camp lost a corner, and was finally defeated one by one.

Whether it is Tan Chen’s previous game videos or in real life, he is obviously not the kind of person who is radical and reckless, otherwise he would not have given such a response when someone threw a leaf in his face.

Similarly, if he chooses to take the blame himself, he must be aware of the consequences.

The e-sports haters in this world are notoriously crazy. If Tan Chen stands out at this time, he will only become a target that attracts all the firepower. This time it's a weakling, but it's hard to say what it will be next time.

Sheng Quan only believed him a little bit as to his indifference. Who would like to be hated, abused and cursed by so many people?

Especially since he had won many honors and was regarded as a child of destiny. Just by looking at the past videos, one can see how unbridled and high-spirited Tan Chen was at that time.

She called He Xi and said, "Please buy me a device suitable for playing games. I want the best one."

He Xi: "Okay, what kind of game do you plan to play? I will prepare it for you as soon as possible according to the configuration required by the game."

Sheng Quan closed the news page: "Polar."

(End of this chapter)