Chapter 300: Downward Compatibility Ability

Without a doubt, after hearing the rank, Bai Liang knew Chen Duling was definitely not randomly chosen by the Alliance.

They probably picked the highest-ranked girl from a pile of female entertainers who signed up.

The selection must have been decided days ago, when the Alliance had no idea Bai Liang was this good at gaming~

Now they're pairing him with a nerd e-sports girl?

Bai Liang: How should I go about tormenting my opponent?

"Wow! You're so amazing! Do you play Honor of Kings?"

Yang Mi drifted over at this moment and struck up a conversation with Chen Duling, clearly hinting at "let's team up sometime."

Na Zha had finally finished counting the ranks, but her eyes were filled with disbelief—how could a girl be this good at gaming?

Damn it!

Something even more infuriating came next.

"Senior, are you really planning to apply for grad school at Peking University? That's incredible—I've actually studied some of Peking University's independent entrance exam papers before."

What even is "independent entrance exam"?

Na Zha quickly realized she couldn't understand the conversation between Bai Liang and Chen Duling.

Her beautiful face now plainly revealed her intellectual poverty.

She never had to worry about asking "What is CNKI?" and getting exposed.

Actually knowing what CNKI is would be the real exposure for Na Zha.

Her wide-open eyes were now filled with confusion and bewilderment.

Huh?

Beside her, Yang Tianbao felt the same—Yang Tianbao, a former runway model, naturally had a mind untouched by knowledge, "pure" in its own way.

In their world, anyone who could solve a quadratic equation was considered a genius.

As for what these two were talking about… completely incomprehensible~

Yang Tianbao's path in the entertainment industry was much like Na Zha's—relying on looks and a husband to rule the world.

But she was a little different from Na Zha, because Na Zha had a clear sense of her own limits; she knew she wasn't very capable, so she unhesitatingly returned to acting and rushed to earn money.

As for Angela Baby…

She could respond to her multimillion-dollar fee by saying: "I'm worth this much."

That proves that "self-awareness" is not something everyone has.

Right now, she already felt she wasn't entirely relying on her husband, right?

She even won the Hundred Flowers Award for Best Supporting Actress two years ago~

That was the same year Li Yifeng won Best Supporting Actor.

They were practically a pair of "Dragon and Phoenix Talents."

But today, facing a dimensional reduction strike in terms of "knowledge" and "cognition," Yang Tianbao was utterly stunned.

If it were only Chen Duling saying all those things she didn't understand, she probably wouldn't have cared.

Because in her eyes, Chen Duling was just a nobody—no need to pay attention.

But when Bai Liang did the same, it felt completely different to her!

She even began to reflect: Am I really that "stupid"?

Catching up on lessons now was obviously impossible, but if she got the chance later, she could ask Bai Liang for "private tutoring."

Yang Tianbao instinctively wanted to strike up a casual chat with Yang Mi to avoid awkwardness here.

But Yang Mi: You don't understand? I understand just fine~

Do you even know what "scholarly family" means?

"Oh~ speaking of that, if you really pass the exam, I'll introduce you to my uncle—he can find you a mentor~"

Hearing this, Bai Liang paused, "Who's your uncle?"

"Ah! I know! Miss Yang's uncle is a professor in Peking University's Math Department—he was trending last year!" Chen Duling immediately chimed in.

Bai Liang remembered now—there really had been such a trending topic last year.

Mainly because Yang Mi's uncle didn't look like a bookish scholar at all—he wore tight T-shirts and had bulging muscles during class!

Yang Mi: Tsk, so easy to blend in~ I was a good student too when I studied.

Out of the corner of her eye, she glanced at Na Zha and Yang Tianbao—two beauties with empty heads full of grass. Though she found them childish, a strong sense of superiority rose in her.

Oh, and it wasn't just that.

While using "knowledge" to perform a dimensional reduction strike on Na Zha and Yang Tianbao, Yang Mi also delivered a dimensional reduction strike on Chen Duling with her figure.

You didn't come in, fine—but now that you're here, little sister, don't get too cocky, okay?

After hearing those few words from the girl, Yang Mi instantly knew her true colors.

Slightly green-tea, but not a particularly formidable player.

Otherwise, she wouldn't have rushed to showcase her uniqueness and strengths so eagerly—too impatient!

Even if you want to leave a strong impression, you should take it slow.

Yang Mi was certain Yang Tianbao had noticed too; as for Na Zha… she was genuinely a bit dumb.

She'd probed for a while, and had basically dug up everything.

Summary: Among all the girls in this room, Yang Tianbao has strategy and scheming but lacks IQ; Chen Duling has high IQ and ideas, immediately carving out her own niche—but her scheming is shallow, obvious to everyone; as for Na Zha? Purebred idiot!

A naive sweetie trying to pretend she's a green-tea bitch.

Of course, "naive sweetie" here is relative.

After instinctively analyzing everyone, Yang Mi instead felt… the hardest to deal with was the purebred idiot!

Na Zha's clumsy finger-counting of ranks just now looked incredibly stupid, but Yang Mi felt a strong sense of threat—no reason, just pure instinct.

Wait a moment.

Yang Mi patted her own head, thinking to herself, am I an idiot~ Why analyze this stuff for no reason?

She never intended to take part in the female competition around Bai Liang, yet she was somehow worrying about this nonsense.

So she steadied her mindset, didn't really say much more, and just sat there grinning, watching the two young misses "perform."

That Nazha was very direct and simple—plopped down next to Bai Liang, propped her chin on her hand, looked at him, and occasionally giggled foolishly.

Chen Duling and Bai Liang seemed to share common ground in many areas; whatever the topic, they could chat about it.

But was that really the case?

Yang Mi suddenly felt a chill of unease, because after observing, she discovered that Bai Liang's attitude and way of speaking toward Chen Duling were actually about the same as how he'd just treated Yang Tianbao.

Only the content of their conversation back then wasn't as "highbrow" as it was now.

And not much time passed before Chen Duling—who had originally seemed to approach with certain intentions—began looking at Bai Liang with gradually shifting eyes.

That green-tea flavor dissipated, and she truly turned into a little white rabbit, eyes wide with a kind of worship as she gazed at Bai Liang.

If a man makes you feel compatible in every way, giving you the sense of a soulmate, don't doubt it—it's basically because his "rank" is far above yours.

From start to finish, he's been soaring above you.

What terrifying downward-compatibility ability.

Yang Mi had previously regretted only meeting Bai Liang at thirty, but now she felt it was a good thing she'd only met this kid at thirty.

If it had been her in her early twenties, she wouldn't have had a stitch left on her!

Mmm. Seems like even thirty-year-old her couldn't keep a stitch left either.

In short, she figured she should just maintain her current relationship with Bai Liang—absolutely must not get carried away!

Get carried away and she might just fall flat on her face.

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The All-Star Exhibition Match officially began.

When the stars made their entrance, the fans who'd come to cheer naturally erupted with enormous enthusiasm.

On Bai Liang's side, he was grinning and interacting with the big sisters and young ladies; on Jay Chou's side, a bunch of people wore solemn faces, as if they were about to play the global finals.

If solemn faces worked, what would we need ranks for?

A mid-laner with "professional-level" strength, paired with a jungler at least at Diamond rank, can truly control lightning in a game like this.

Chen Duling really wasn't being polite to Jay Chou—your jungle, my pig farm!

Acting like she absolutely had to show Bai Liang today just how capable she really was.

This young lady's competitive spirit is pretty strong.

It's just that every time she slaughtered Jay Chou, she'd stick out her little tongue and act cute—truly a bit like killing someone and then desecrating the corpse.

The bullet comments were going crazy.

"Holy crap, that Chen Duling is this fierce? What's her actual skill level? Jay Chou's been completely dazed."

"Is she really an entertainment industry artist?"

"Did any of those female team members the League teams put together before have her level?"

"Hard to say, after all Jay Chou's level is also average. Playing in this kind of pushover game really doesn't show much skill."

"Great Immortal's playing Riven so hard her sword's about to smoke. I can see it now—this match comes down to whether Great Immortal's mid and jungle kill faster, or whether Yang Tianbao and Yang Mi on bot feed faster. That's how we decide the winner."

"What's the point of killing fast on bot? How many hits can an ADC take from a fed Riven like that?"

"Nazha's pretty impressive! Her Malphite's last-hitting is actually this smooth. But she doesn't seem to have used her ultimate on lane at all?" "Both ultimates she used were roaming to Great Immortal's mid lane. The rest of the time she just dances under tower, waiting for the minion wave to push in. She hasn't died once so far. Ling Gouxin rushed to dive tower and almost threw himself."

"Actually Nazha could just ult once and kill Ling Gouxin, but she just won't do it. What kind of playstyle is this?"

"Damn simp playstyle! My goddess! Don't be like this~"

"Your goddess—Great Immortal's sick of it."

"That's right, this is the familiar bullet-comment style. Can the camera cut to Yang Mi? Holy crap what she's wearing today is amazing! Want to hit it!"

"Yang Tianbao's not bad either. Who watches a match seriously? Where's the damn director? Give us a close-up of those!"

"One week, two direct hits."

"Three beauties. Dudu's not bad either, just her figure really is a bit too flat."

"I love flat boards. Skinny ones are easy to push down, hold them in your arms like a little loli. Roughly."

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When they saw the bullet comments starting to get filthy, many fan-circle fans watching the livestream either started cursing or turned off the comments, out of sight, out of mind.

That's just how esports fans are.

Otherwise, why do people say the attack power of the esports circle is fiercer than the fan circle?

These bros really can say any kind of crap.

But in esports, if you've got the strength and the results, they really can lift you to the heavens.

If Bai Liang remembered correctly, with China's esports team winning gold at this year's Jakarta Asian Games as a demonstration event, and IG winning the global finals, esports also kicked off its official large-scale breakout.

All kinds of capital and cross-industry collaborations would follow, and esports would thoroughly become part of mainstream culture.

Including the film and TV industry, which would see many dramas with esports elements.

Case in point—the "Go Go Squid!" and "You Are My Glory" that Bai Liang had agreed to in advance both had esports elements in them.

Though the former had a higher proportion, while the latter was mainly for variety, with more aerospace elements.

Before these two dramas started filming next year, there'd probably still be plenty of back-and-forth.

Sister Yanzi was quite invested in this.

Because now the studio would basically participate to some extent in production or investment solicitation and the like.

This is the main direction and strategy for what comes next.

Of course, if the production company doesn't want Bai Liang to join as a client in the profit chain, they can just pay him outright.

As long as they're willing to spend, Sister Yanzi is more than happy to do a one-time deal.

How much simpler that would be.

Bai Liang's only drawback right now is that he's expensive.

So expensive that most production companies can't bring themselves to spend that much, afraid they won't recoup their costs.

With Bai Liang involved, it's unlikely they won't recoup their costs—he's still quite reliable, unlike those so-called top streamers who are actually scams.

But the financial pressure is real.

Still, there are always "suckers" who want to do a one-time deal.

The next group Bai Liang will join is one where they pay outright.

——

After the two exhibition matches ended, the girls on Bai Liang's side cheered wildly, their faces glowing with smiles.

The live director didn't even know who to film anymore.

They all looked like paragons of beauty.

After hesitating for a long time, the camera finally settled on Bai Liang.

This trick worked perfectly, because the girls all rushed over to cling to him.

Na Zha was naturally eager and enthusiastic, showing no distance at all—after winning, she nearly threw herself into Bai Liang's arms.

Chen Duling was on fire today, she was practically bloodthirsty!

She was like a little rabbit, so excited she couldn't hold back.

These two young girls didn't really matter, but when Yang Mi and Yang Tianbao—the two "married women"—also eagerly crowded over, the comments turned sour.

"Lord Huang, in danger!"

"Call him Green Big Dark from now on—perfect name match."

"Has Yang Mi divorced already? Rumors are flying everywhere~"

"If she's clinging to the Immortal like that, she must be divorced."

"Holy shit, she almost shoved his head into her chest."

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On the other side, Zhou Jielun and Wang Sicong looked dazed.

After the match ended, they all felt like, "Who am I? Where am I? What am I supposed to be doing?"

Especially Wang Sicong—he'd just won a professional match yesterday and became a 100% win-rate professional player.

And today he got crushed by a bunch of women.

He was completely stunned!

"The Immortal hits way too hard… doesn't even let us win one round."

"In the second round he tried to let us win, but his jungler went berserk—I still had my tower, and she chased me all the way to the base and killed me," Lin Genxin sighed in frustration.

When the girls went berserk, there was nothing they could say.

It's esports—lose, and accept it.

"My touch wasn't great today; if we had played normally, we could have won," Zhou Jielun tried to save face.

Since Zhou Dong said that, no one dared contradict him.

But Lin Genxin suddenly remembered something: "Zhou Dong, aren't you filming a basketball variety show?"

"Yeah, you interested in joining?" Zhou Jielun smiled—he thought he was still pretty good at basketball.

Get to know Taiwan's white chocolate.

Lin Genxin waved his hand. "I won't go, but the Immortal might—he mentioned it to me a few days ago. Didn't your show tell you?"

Hearing "the Immortal," Zhou Jielun's expression automatically stiffened.

The scene where Bai Liang's Warlord chased his Sword Saint down with Dash was just too brutal.

Fortunately, there's basketball!

He took a deep breath. "They mentioned it… oh, he's really good at it?"

Hearing that tone, Lin Genxin knew exactly what was going on—he fought hard not to laugh, as if he had never seen such a poor unfortunate soul before.

Why are you still chasing "him"?

"He's average."

Hearing this, Zhou Jielun first exhaled in relief—he thought he had a chance to regain his dignity.

But something about Lin Genxin's expression felt off.

Lin Genxin: I didn't lie—he's average compared to Jordan.

He'd heard that Jiang Jinfu had also been called by Bai Liang to "fight" the top streamer, and that guy had eagerly agreed.

Lin Genxin had even seen Jiang Jinfu recently, fresh back from Japan—his bulging muscles and tattoos made you wonder whether he was going to play basketball or go on a beating spree.

When they gathered after the exhibition match to chat, Bai Liang heard Zhou Jielun say something like, "Wait till you come on the show for a basketball duel," and immediately sensed something was wrong.

He turned his gaze directly to the "mastermind," Lin Genxin.

This guy always had a knack for stirring up trouble.

Lin Genxin: I didn't, I didn't, don't look at me~

(End of Chapter)