Chapter 731: Kneel and Sing 'Conquest

Once things got busy, time flew by especially fast; in the blink of an eye it was late August.

The last day of the LPL summer regular season.

VG's regular-season schedule had already ended the day before, but Liang Yan received an official special notice requiring him to be present today.

Gao Jun, knowing something good had happened, happily brought over a suit he'd had custom-made in advance and went to find Liang Yan, but Liang Yan disliked it and tossed it aside. In his past life he'd worn suits for over ten years while dealing with people hypocritically, and he was thoroughly sick of it. Upon seeing this black-and-white ensemble, Liang Yan was reminded of some unpleasant memories and swore he would never wear it again. Liang Yan even secretly decided that if he ever got married, he wouldn't wear a suit even at the wedding, at most donning traditional Chinese formal attire.

Gao Jun also specially arranged for the team's photographer to follow Liang Yan, thinking he could capture a handsome photo of Liang Yan in his first suit to post on Weibo, but naturally ended up disappointed.

Liang Yan simply threw on an jacket over his summer team uniform and headed out.

Wang Liangyi drove Gao Jun's car to drop Liang Yan off at Zhengda Guangchang, then Wang Liangyi went alone to the venue to watch the match, while Liang Yan entered the backstage area by himself.

There was an RNG match later; the RNG crew had arrived early, and Liang Yan ran into them in the makeup room. After finishing up, he strolled over to the RNG lounge to drop by, chatting with Uzi, Malaxiangguo, and his new WeChat friend Shi Senming, whom he'd only just added, to pass the time.

Liang Yan's grudge against RNG had nothing to do with the players; the one who originally stirred up trouble had long been kicked out by the RNG boss, and Liang Yan himself bore no dissatisfaction or prejudice toward the RNG players, so privately they actually got along fine.

The entire RNG team warmly welcomed Liang Yan's arrival; FireFox didn't even shy away when discussing today's match BP with the group, and even let Liang Yan offer suggestions.

The problem was that RNG's opponent today was NewBee, which also counted among Liang Yan's friends—Lin Weixiang, the smart guy he'd met at a dinner hosted by Sima Laozei shortly after joining VG, and Liu QingSong, the petite tsundere.

Both sides were friends, so Liang Yan couldn't just side with RNG because he'd been busy training with SSG and hadn't had time to meet up, leaving him barely seeing Xiangsong lately; doing so would go against his personal principle.

Therefore, faced with FireFox's half‑serious, half‑joking invitation and the expectations of the RNG players present, Liang Yan could only mumble a few evasive sentences; seeing FireFox actually want to keep pressing, he hurriedly slipped away to the bathroom.

After strolling around backstage, wherever he went people nodded and bowed, calling him 'Yan ge'; a few staff members even dragged him along for autograph hunting. Feeling thoroughly fed up, Liang Yan greeted the event staff, touched base with Wang Liangyi, then slipped out of backstage.

Taking advantage of the darkness upstairs while the match was being played downstairs, Liang Yan sneaked to the front‑stage area, where he ran into Wang Liangyi in the audience seats; the two sat together to watch the game.

They sat there until the final match, estimating that RNG would likely beat NB 2‑0; after watching one game, Liang Yan slipped out of the audience seats again, returned backstage and never went out to wander, instead staying in the private lounge the organizers had arranged for him, killing time on his phone.

As expected, more than half an hour later a staff member came to inform him; Liang Yan put away his phone and walked onto the stage via the backstage passage.

The organizers, thinking it was a great surprise, put on a regular‑season MVP award ceremony.

Liang Yan received the tiny crystal trophy from the head of LPL event operations and gave a cooperative, nutritionally empty acceptance speech.

Apart from a few stubborn straight‑shooters whose minds can't bend, the truth is that no matter which team's fans you look at, underneath they're all VG fans, so the venue was pretty lively.

The two teams still lingering backstage to close out the LPL regular season felt bitter, since nobody at the venue or online cared about their match outcome, and the scene had practically turned into a Liang Yan fan meet‑and‑greet.

Online, it was nothing but VG fans shouting excitedly.

On the surface netizens were rationally debating whether Jiao Shen deserved the regular‑season MVP, but in reality they were just lavishing all kinds of flamboyant praise.

【Who can tell me what qualifications Jiao Shen has to claim he's the LPL's most valuable, least controversial regular‑season MVP of all time?】

【I really can't do anything about you, sit tight! Standing before you right now is……】

Posts like this can be seen everywhere.

Most people know how to read the situation; even if they're seething with jealousy inside, they at least won't show it in public, many teams posted congratulations on their official accounts, and Liang Yan's player friends all posted on their personal Weibo to congratulate him.

But some people just……

「It's just a regular‑season MVP—what weight does it carry? Of course a postseason MVP could also be his, after all VG is unstoppable now. 」

「But let me be frank, brothers—what's the use of being strong in LPL? Winning the world championship MVP is the real skill. This year's worlds aren't being held here, are they? If he can lift the cup at the Bird's Nest, I'll drop to my knees and sing 'Conquest'! 」

The guy spouting nonsense at the camera in the live‑stream room had a pockmarked face, reeking of naked jealousy in every word, his tone so sour it made your teeth ache.

And, as expected, he got flamed.

Given Liang Yan's current breakout fame, whether he admits it or not, half of his fans are casual viewers; even though they're casual, whether they're looks‑fans or skill‑fans, they're die‑hard supporters, and many are the most combat‑effective fan‑circle types……

That player, who became a streamer in the off‑season, can easily imagine what's coming.

What's hardest to stomach is that most people aren't attacking his skill or ability; they deliberately pick absolutely indefensible sore points to go after, for example:

【Go piss on yourself and take a look—I'm amazed you still have the guts to show your face on a livestream; you're literally going to scare me to death.】

That's extremely vicious.

Even Liang Yan, upon seeing it, couldn't help but say he couldn't bear it, and he also couldn't help feeling pity for the emotional intelligence of that poor guy being roasted. Even if you truly dislike me, why not check my fan demographics first? Whoever you provoke, don't provoke the fan circles—this isn't some dung‑beetle fair scramble for feces, is it?

Although he felt unwilling, he also knew personal attacks were wrong, but Liang Yan really couldn't say anything, since whatever he said would just add fuel to the public discourse; given his experience handling such situations, the best course is to play dead, stay silent, and let the heat dissipate on its own.

But Liang Yan truly never expected that someone could actually have such low emotional intelligence.