Chapter 513: Don't Come Affect My Brother's Quickdraw Speed

On the day he returned to Ji Di, Liang Yan started a livestream; he hadn't been on long before he received a lot of gifts.

Although online discussion of VG's championship had taken a strange turn because of Changzhang's remarks, Teng Jing's public opinion machine had already gone into full operation.

In this era when the LPL gods fell one after another — Weixiao retired with the disbanding of WE1.0, Changzhang's image collapsed after 0:4 and 4396, Weishen sank due to a reverse one-Q, and Uzi went four years without a title — it was inevitable for the LPL to cultivate a new spokesperson.

Image, storefront, regional backbone, soul figure — LPL's Li Xiang He... whatever, in short, the LPL needs someone like this.

Now, several official bodies of the LPL (Teng Jing, Vision Fist China, Ace Alliance) have held several meetings in private; after earnest and solemn discussion, they ultimately reached an unprecedented consensus and decided to relaunch a newer, stronger, more enduring LPL spokesperson.

The person they selected was none other than Liang Yan.

He has looks, he has strength, he has character — there's no one more suitable than him. As for why we emphasize looks, it's simple: in attracting new users, is there any ability more effective than looks?

And as VG won the LPL spring championship with a perfect season record, Teng Jing, responsible for implementing the plan, officially began its publicity push.

Thanks to the involvement of this colossal tx, the publicity campaign was undoubtedly successful.

For a while, all over the Chinese-language internet, news of VG's undefeated championship dominated; without exception, these articles emphasized Liang Yan's outstanding performance in the playoffs and throughout the season, and always accompanied them with a very handsome personal photo.

Thus, from eighty-year-old grandpas down to three-year-old kindergarteners, exaggerating a bit, if you don't know who Jiao Shen is, you might be suspected of not being Chinese.

As expected, Liang Yan's Weibo follower count, which had already slowed its growth, surged again with a massive spike; within just a few days, the number of followers exceeded eight million, heading straight for ten million, far surpassing the zombie fans bought by many popular fresh-faced idols.

That night, after packing his luggage, Liang Yan lay idle in bed and, after a long time, proactively opened Weibo to check his own comment section.

Under Liang Yan's repost of the MSI-themed team uniform group photo on Weibo, there were over ten thousand comments, countless calling him 'husband'. He casually flipped through them; about thirty percent were like that, and remarkably, it wasn't just women shouting — many male fans... bah, many male fans actually joined in shouting...

What left Liang Yan speechless was possibly due to Zhou Shuyi, the female Chinese-language commentator from the LCK, taking the lead; many female streamers on various live platforms who peddle dog meat under a sheep's head also flooded the comment section with cries of 'husband', which truly disgusted Liang Yan.

Getting back to the point, if Liang Yan weren't motherless, his family would probably already be trying to find him a wife.

Is it too early to talk about dating before even turning twenty?

It doesn't exist.

All mothers in the world are the same: they only criticize when their own daughter is harmed by some other family's yellow-haired brat; but if their own yellow-haired brat harms another family's girl, they might say a few words that this is unfair on the surface, while actually rejoicing inside.

Of course, there were also male dads harshly criticizing in the comment section:

【Get out, fangirls! Don't affect my brother's quickdraw speed!】

Gamers naturally know this refers to Liang Yan's signature hero, the male gunner; but whenever someone says that, the comment section inevitably goes off-topic, asking if this 'quickdraw' is legitimate...

And indeed, some actually intended to pick one from this group of meat-selling streamers for Liang Yan, evaluating each one individually; the scoring criteria varied, but there was one point: the bigger, the better. As for the evaluation of Zhou Shuyi, it can be summed up in one sentence:

【Can't afford A!】

Liang Yan's brows furrowed tighter the more he looked, wearing the expression of an old man on the subway with his phone; he felt that if he let these people keep chatting like this, his account might get reported to official media on TV, so he simply decided to shut down the comment section.

It has to be said, men all over the world have long suffered from their younger brother; they can't help but feel repressed at the slightest provocation.

……

MSI is drawing nearer.

The day he returned to Shanghai was May 2; on the same day, the first round of the MSI playoffs (the group stage of the playoffs) ended, with GAM from the Southeast Asia Region and SUP from the Turkey Region breaking through to advance to the second round of the MSI playoffs (the elimination stage), where these two teams will compete with the LMS Region's Flash Wolves (FW) and Bei Mei Sai Qu's TSM for three spots to enter the main event.

That said, although Flash Wolves and TSM can also be called the champions of the four major regions, whoever qualifies for the mid-season tournament isn't already a champion, right?

Moreover, the LMS Region and Bei Mei Sai Qu have been conspicuously weak over the past two years, both regions failing to advance from the group stage of the World Championships for two consecutive years.

On the contrary, the Wildcard Region has become increasingly lively over these years; last year's World Championships even featured two teams from the Wildcard Region performing exceptionally well.

Therefore, in global predictions, not everyone expects Flash Wolves and TSM to advance easily; indeed, some big streamers boldly predict that these two teams are highly likely to crash, their analysis sounding thorough, leaving the hometown fans and North America followers worried.

The facts prove that this view is not merely sensationalism for popularity.

May 4, the second round of the MSI playoffs began.

First match: GAM 2:3 TSM.

The all-indigenous team from a small Southeast Asian country nearly toppled the king of North America. North American viewers were on the edge of their seats; even before the mid-game of the final match, GAM once had an economic lead, but lacking experience in big tournaments and sufficient composure, they made mistakes in their haste, allowing the veteran Bilsen to seize the opportunity and unleash a stunning quadra-kill, leading TSM to a comeback.

After this best-of-five, North American viewers lashed out, smearing TSM's management in dog blood, and some even threatened to show up and take out the Gorilla Captain (the TSM boss).

But the Gorilla Captain was indeed tough, daring to confront the regional audience head-on on Twitter, even saying, 'Whoever can, step up; if not, don't nag.'

In fact, the Gorilla Captain deliberately did this to shift the blame, because the North American viewers' anger this time stemmed from TSM lending Doublelift to TL, nothing else. After all, anyone can see that although TSM still won this spring season's championship, in terms of AD performance, WildTurtle's is far inferior to Doublelift's.