Chapter 334: Domestic Debut (Part 2)

One hour after Liang Yan went live, a topic related to this stream surged to the top of a certain hotlist.

【How to view the comment made by League of Legends star player Firrrrrre during his domestic streaming debut, when answering bullet‑chat questions about the S7 World Championship, claiming the chance of winning S7 was 100%?】

The replies mostly began by praising Jiao Shen's confidence, then launched into vague remarks—saying Jiao Shen is indeed strong but VG's overall strength remains to be proven, Jiao Shen can carry but it's unclear whether next year Riot will heavily nerf the jungle, and so on.

Liang Yan queued up for his fourth ranked match.

If matchmaking didn't take time, he would probably have finished his fifth game by now.

It's a new account, so the first few ranks can't be too high, and he plays a tempo‑setting jungler; in games below Master rank, even just mindlessly playing counts as an easy win for him.

The first two opponents all surrendered at twenty minutes, but in the third game the enemy had a stubborn player who refused to give up; Liang Yan had no choice but to prove his skill, playing Leopard Woman he charged onto the enemy high ground and fought five versus one, ultimately killing three and finally breaking the enemy's morale.

Viewers in both stream rooms were left dumbfounded.

A five‑versus‑one?

Leopard Woman?!

Are you even human?!

"Actually it's not that hard."

While waiting for matchmaking, Liang Yan replied to the bullet chat that was blowing up,

"Leopard Woman is still relatively easy to juke, the enemy lacks hard crowd‑control, her skills are simple to spam, and they're easy to dodge."

The bullet chat then said:

【Easy to dodge: meaning sidestepping to avoid Lu Xi An's two Q abilities】

In the fourth game the opponents were a bit stronger, roughly averaging Gold II, but it made no difference to Liang Yan—he kept mindlessly slaughtering them.

Four games of Leopard Woman, the stream still ongoing, various clip highlights or full replays were uploaded online, further boosting the stream's popularity—even people who normally don't watch streams flocked in.

Three hours later.

Liang Yan ended that ranked match, checked the time, and closed the client.

"That's about it for today.

"Good night, everyone. See you tomorrow night."

Having said that, he signed off instantly.

Countless viewers stared at the black screen, stunned.

Then the screen filled with question marks.

At least give people a moment to brace themselves—just leaving like that?!

But Liang Yan's streaming style has always been like that; his European fans never complained and actually thought it was cool.

Soon after the stream ended, a term topped the hot‑search list on Weibo:

#Fire Streaming Debut Gift Flow#

How much was the flow?

Hey, I won't say—just dangling it to whet your appetite, get you to click in and boost the buzz.

Then all you saw were various self‑media outlets' speculation.

But actually you can tell a few clues from the gift leaderboard.

A reliable tally shows that the total gifts and tips Liang Yan received in this debut stream exceeded two million.

The certain‑fish platform was obviously thrilled.

Some faded traditional entertainment stars grew jealous and said sourly:

"How can a gamer earn this much?"

"How did society's mood turn out like this?"

……

Liang Yan's streaming contract with VG is of course specially tailored: for the gift‑revenue share, the platform takes 30%, the club gets 10%, and Liang Yan keeps 60%.

As one of the three parties in the split, VG could of course check how much gift income Liang Yan earned per stream; Lu Wenjun looked out of curiosity and was shocked.

It was actually over three million.

"No wonder even those stars are jealous."

Lu Wenjun and Gao Jun remarked,

"This is practically a money‑printing machine."

Although it's impossible for every stream to pull in that much, even if future streams earned only one‑fifth of today's, the figure would still be outrageously high.

Besides, this is only the revenue from that one fish platform; it doesn't include the Mouse Platform side.

……

The next day at the same time, Liang Yan started his second stream.

After a day of buildup, this stream's heat was higher and it received more gifts.

The Mouse Platform situation was the same.

Before ending the stream that day, Liang Yan told the audience:

"Oh right, there's something.

"I can't stream tomorrow—I have to head out to Spain.

"The All‑Star Game, you know—I originally didn't want to go, didn't you guys vote for me…"

Liang Yan is now a VG member, occupying an LPL All‑Star slot. In other words, if he wants to go to the All‑Star Game, he'll have to compete against Clearlove... 7, Malaxiangguo, and others for the spot.

Liang Yan never expected that his European fans would go so far as to bypass the firewall to vote for him to appear in the All‑Star Game, actually pushing his tally up to second place.

First place is naturally Changzhang.

Although Liang Yan's global influence and fan count far exceed Changzhang's, this is after all the LPL—EDG has operated here for years, its badge is Changzhang, and domestically only Uzi can match him in popularity; Liang Yan still falls short.

So according to the rule, each region‑position gets only one All‑Star spot; Liang Yan originally wouldn't have been able to go.

But the European audience was too enthusiastic; besides voting, they also went to Riot's official Twitter to petition, with countless people erecting buildings, demanding Riot increase the All-Star quota.

Riot went along with the flow and temporarily announced the addition of one special invitation slot.

Liang Yan was thus, in a daze, forcibly stuffed into the LPL All-Star roster.

European fans were overjoyed.

EDG and RNG fans were sour, feeling that although this person had returned to the LPL, he seemed not to belong to their circle.

No rules!

Thus the fans of both sides actually reached a tacit understanding, posting online sarcastic remarks like 'You treat him as an LPL person, but he has a EU heart.'

It really could affect many passersby's impression of Liang Yan, which was annoying.

But Liang Yan ultimately managed to hop on the S6 All-Star bandwagon.

……

VG was uneasy about Liang Yan going alone, so they funded Wang Liangyi to accompany him, and Lu Wenjun personally drove Liang Yan to the airport.

Before parting, Lu Wenjun said:

"Little Liang, you've just returned to the LPL and haven't yet found your footing; for some things we'll just bear with them, and when you're out there alone, if you encounter anything, just give way."

Liang Yan's thoughts were clear; how could he not understand?

The meaning was to suppress his own performance a bit, not to steal everyone else's spotlight.

The LPL, after all, is a network of personal connections; Liang Yan had already learned this.

Lu Wenjun was also doing this for his own good, so Liang Yan naturally wouldn't say anything.

"Boss Lu, rest assured, I understand."

Liang Yan waved his hand, pulled his suitcase, turned and walked toward the checkpoint.

Wang Liangyi tried to catch up, but Lu Wenjun grabbed his wrist; looking back, he saw the boss giving him a meaningful glance, and Wang Liangyi broke into a grin.

"Boss, rest assured, I understand too!"