Chapter 490: You're Not Right

After receiving Liang Yan's initiative message, especially this kind of meaningless greeting, Tang Anna was stunned for a while.

Then she began to think in her agitated mood, even during meetings she was a bit absent-minded, and several times when facing players' questions she didn't react immediately; finally she felt this was a bit irresponsible, so she handed over the meeting to Lao Zhang to host.

Since becoming an assistant coach, Lao Zhang has been very motivated and hardworking; as far as the team's coaching goes, his level can be described as "after three days apart, one should look at him with new eyes." Nowadays, Lao Zhang's coaching ability is more than enough to be a head coach for any other team, so letting him host a meeting mainly summarizing past research and training results is of course no pressure.

G2's pre-final tactical summary meeting continued under Lao Zhang's chairmanship, and only ended after more than ten minutes.

Afterwards, Tang Anna found an excuse and hurried back to her single dormitory, sat on the bed, looked at the WeChat chat interface, and hesitated.

She had thought about it for a long time, but still couldn't determine what reason or mood Liang Yan had in sending that message.

In the end, she still replied with a steady, balanced sentence:

【In a meeting】

After typing those three characters, Tang Anna suddenly recalled a communication tip from the book she had been reading lately, titled How to Get Along Well with Intimate People; she deleted the character meaning 'in', added a few words, and it finally became:

【In a meeting, what's up?】

Thus, this originally somewhat stiff reply became much softer, and subtly exuded a feminine charm.

The other side replied almost instantly:

【Oh, is this the pre-match summary?】

【Mm-hmm】

Hmm...

Eh?

In the hallway of a certain hotel in Nanjing, Liang Yan saw the two characters Tang Anna had sent and was stunned for a few seconds.

The last time he chatted with Tang Anna was the previous time; Liang Yan didn't note the exact time, but in any case it hadn't been more than a month. In that month's span, what exactly had happened?

The change in demeanor before and after is just too great.

Liang Yan thought it over, still a bit worried, and thus typed a question:

【Are you okay?】

【???】

Tang Anna instinctively typed three question marks, then quickly retracted them, and then sent a soft sentence:

【Why are you asking that?】

Liang Yan: 【……】

Liang Yan: 【I just... feel you're a bit off?】

Tang Anna: 【Huh? ←withdrew. Resent: Where exactly is it off?】

Liang Yan: 【Your speech is weird. Also, why do you keep withdrawing?】

Tang Anna: 【Is speaking like this really weird?】

Liang Yan: 【Others might not find it strange, but it's not like you】

Tang Anna: 【Then what do you think I'm like?】

Liang Yan: 【Don't be like that.】

After a long time, the other side replied: 【Do you think my way of speaking is bad?】

Liang Yan: 【It's not that it's bad…… I just feel, honestly, you don't suit the soft-girl style; I still prefer the more straightforward Tang Anna】

After typing that, Liang Yan sent it without thinking much.

Only after sending it did he realize that the statement seemed…… somewhat ambiguous.

Liang Yan was speechless.

Should he retract it?

After a moment of silence, Liang Yan finally sighed, forget it, it's already sent.

……If it's ambiguous, then let it be ambiguous.

But what Liang Yan never expected was that the impact of these words on the other party was far stronger than he imagined—by thousands of times.

"I still... prefer... the more straightforward one..."

Tang Anna murmured in a dazed expression.

He said, he likes……

At this moment, Tang Anna's heart was overwhelmed by towering waves.

It was like an eighteen-level gale sweeping through the valley of her heart, the earth-shaking roar making her head spin.

She did not go on to ask a single follow-up question.

Such matters are better said face to face, right?

Thinking that they would meet soon at the MSI venue, Tang Anna suddenly felt her face heat up; she suppressed her inner agitation, thinking: Soon…… soon……

The European spring final was held at the Barclaycard Arena in Hamburg, Germany (later renamed UberArena); at around four o'clock, G2 issued a temporary announcement stating that the first match of the Bo5 final would be handled by assistant coach Island for pick-and-ban.

At that moment, Liang Yan was already seated in the hotel training room, having opened his computer to prepare to watch the European final. Shortly after G2 posted the announcement, Liang Yan also learned of this news via a push notification from his followed account on his phone, and immediately sent a message to Lao Zhang:

【Do well!】

Lao Zhang didn't reply; he was probably already backstage at the venue.

At 11 p. m. Beijing time, the LCS-EU spring final officially began.

Before twelve o'clock, G2's official Weibo posted a celebratory report, sweeping UOL 3-0 to win the EU Region spring championship, and at the same time secured the qualification ticket for the 2017 MSI.

This spring, from the regular season to the playoffs, G2 never suffered a loss.

Following FNC's undefeated championship in 2015, another team achieving this legendary feat has emerged, and it too is a European team.

Although some use this to mock the severe strength disparity in the EU Region teams, regardless, G2's ability to achieve this accomplishment shows its strength is evident.

Regarding the MSI set to begin next month (with the play-in stage at the end of this month), fans of the EU Region have greater expectations.

And shortly after posting the victory announcement, G2 posted another statement on its various platform official accounts, which boils down to one meaning:

This time, G2 is aiming for the grand slam!

……

The next day, both sides competing in the LPL Spring Finals began to devote themselves to pre‑match training.

At this point, the vast majority of LPL teams have already gone on break; only the players from the two teams that just finished the third‑place match last night have not yet left the base, so the sparring partners for VG and WE can only be chosen from these two teams—in fact, there's really no choice, EDG and WE have a grudge of 'either we die together or we break the net tonight', and to this day the relationship between the two teams has not seen much improvement; meanwhile, RNG and VG's frontman Jiao Shen have some bad blood, although during the regular season RNG once took the initiative to lower their stance and come to VG seeking to arrange a practice match, but VG's side, regardless of who responded, refused without hesitation, and now the relationship has become rather strained, therefore RNG cannot possibly serve as VG's finals sparring partner; thus the pairing is basically set, WE will practice with VG, and RNG will practice with EDG.

Oh right, regarding last night's third‑place match result, WE ultimately took third place, with a score of 3‑2.

The pups felt like the sky had collapsed.

Not making it to the finals is fine, but they didn't even win the third‑place match against WE.

Has RNG really fallen to such a state?

All hopes are lost……