Chapter 333: Domestic Debut

Liang Yan signed the VG contract over a week ago.

This live-stream event began its promotion three days ago.

Over the past three days, Liang Yan's banner handsome photo has been rotating on the website and app homepage of Some Fish Platform; the platform also prepared his account early, and by the time the broadcast started, the live room's follower count had already surpassed one million.

This is almost six times the subscriber count on Liang Yan's Mouse Platform.

Although not all of these over a million people will give Liang Yan gifts, it shows that the domestic LoL live-stream section's popularity is truly astonishing.

Even before the broadcast began, the barrage in the live room had already started to flood the screen.

As the broadcast time approached, the audience who had been waiting here began to count down.

【One minute!】

【Will it start on time?】

【Here it comes, here it comes】

【Open sesame!】

【Open open open!】

At 7:00 PM Beijing time and 12:00 PM Central European time, Liang Yan simultaneously started the streaming push on both domestic and overseas platforms.

"Cough!"

Liang, wearing headphones, appeared in the live-room screen.

"Wait, the microphone seems to have an issue; I'll adjust it…"

At that moment, the barrage on both platforms simultaneously exploded.

After adjusting the microphone settings, Liang Yan checked the barrage on both platforms; both were intense, but on Some Fish Platform it was truly exaggerated—like a waterfall plunging three thousand feet—so fast that even with his reaction speed he couldn't make it out, so he re‑adjusted the barrage settings to block non‑followers, which slowed the refresh speed a bit.

He watched the barrage on both platforms, occasionally replying in a few sentences, switching fluently between Chinese and English, while opening the game client.

"The last stream was over two months ago, so let's first chat about recent updates and answer a few questions everyone cares about."

"Liang Yan spoke in English; obviously he was going to address the Mouse Platform audience's questions, and the Some Fish Platform audience started complaining:"

【Damn, I just finished English class this afternoon, and now I have to learn English to watch your stream?】

【555, even a poor student doesn't deserve to watch the stream】

【Who said Jiao Shen has low education? This spoken English is a breeze to pass level six】

【Where's my little translator sister!】

You wouldn't believe it, but Some Fish Platform actually assigned Liang Yan a female translator.

When Liang Yan rattled off a long stretch of English, the Some Fish Platform live room suddenly sounded with a mature‑woman‑type female voice:

"Um, everyone knows the host is streaming on both platforms at once; just now I was speaking to the Twitch audience, answering the concerns of European fans…"

【Ohhhh!】

【Holy cow, there really is a translator!】

【Is this the clout of the Twitch top streamer?】

【Looks like our boss isn't giving enough support—throw money at him! Make him speak Chinese!】

【You really shouldn't say it, but Jiao Shen's monthly subscription income on Mouse Platform is just a few hundred bucks, and besides, his overseas popularity is extremely high; the big chunk actually comes from ads】

【Go check his Mouse Platform stream—doesn't the upper‑right corner have an NVIDIA ad? This side definitely can't compare】

【Holy cow, Jiao Shen is that popular overseas?】

The translator young lady again said:

"Um, objectively speaking, the host's earnings are indeed higher over there, so our capable bosses can support more; also, some of those viewers come over here to watch, but we can't let people look down on us."

As soon as her voice fell, several rocket gift effects flashed and exploded in the live room.

The followers all started spamming 'boss awesome'.

Then the boss got even happier from the spamming; for a while, large‑value gifts poured in one after another, filling the screen with gift effects.

At the same time, the Some Fish Platform management watching this debut broadcast instantly went crazy with joy.

Liang Yan occasionally glanced at the Some Fish Platform barrage; seeing no substantive questions, he occasionally thanked the boss for a gift, while his main focus remained answering the Mouse Platform fans' questions in English.

The atmosphere here won't go cold, because the mature‑woman‑voiced young lady is constantly holding it down. Although called a translator, she's actually a live‑assistant that Some Fish Platform found for him.

After chatting for a few minutes, Liang Yan finally switched back to Chinese:

"Sorry for keeping you waiting. Wow, looks like everyone here has gotten rich—there are a lot of gifts, thanks thanks…"

"Um, thanks for the rocket from 'How confident are we of winning S7?'—are you asking me? If you are, my answer is 100%, um."

"Thanks for the rocket from 'Jiao Shen says S7 championship probability is 100%', um…"

"Thanks for the rocket from 'Spread the word that Jiao Shen has already picked his S7 skin', …"

"No, you guys want to play like this?"

"Thanks for the rocket from 'Jiao Shen says he wants to party with the top three big brothers', …"

"You're getting ridiculous, I'm not reading anymore—let's play the game."

"I can't play on the Korean server; my Korean server account hasn't been approved yet. As for that previous… let me tell you this: European players don't have official Korean server accounts because the latency is too high, so they generally don't play on the Korean server; the European players you see playing on the Korean server usually have accounts they made privately, which are all unofficial—report one and it's guaranteed to stick."

"I've been reported before—every time I reach the top rank I get reported."

"VG is working on it for me, but over there they actually don't want to let LPL's past play; one reason is indeed there are some 'mouse droppings' that have ruined the reputation of domestic players; another, LCK and LPL are competitors, and moreover I crushed those two teams in S6 when they were championship favorites, so they definitely hold a grudge, making approval even harder."

"Don't worry too much; I'm going through the club application process properly and legally—if they don't want to approve, they'll have to, otherwise I'll complain to Riot. Um, I have the phone numbers and WeChat of two Riot bosses, and a dedicated complaint channel."

"Who said Americans don't use WeChat? I can't let the other side not have it?"

Saying that, the ranked match was made.

Worth mentioning: the domestic server is currently in the preseason stage, hasn't entered the S7 season yet, but you can still play ranked; raising your rank a bit can add to your S7 hidden points.

Additionally, the Peak of the Canyon server is still in internal debugging and not yet open to the public.

Liang Yan is playing on Telecom Zone One, a completely fresh account.

He thought for a while, then simply changed the live broadcast room titles of both platforms.

A certain fish's title: 【Telecom Zone 1 new account rank rush, challenge to reach top before reset】

Mouse Platform's title: 【China server new account rank rush, violently beat all LPL professional players】

You wouldn't believe it, but at this time LPL teams are on vacation, the preseason stage version environment hasn't stabilized yet, so no one will play practice matches; players are just playing ranked for fun, and because the Han Fu side is in the settlement period, LPL players' Han Fu accounts can't be used, so the first major region of the domestic server, Telecom Zone 1 Ionia, is packed with people.

At this time, the domestic server's ranked matches are truly a mixture of fish and dragons.

Of course, various production crews are also indispensable.