Chapter 19: with translation of chapter title

3-1!

After dropping one game, they won three straight to advance to the finals.

"Brother, awesome!"

After the match ended, Doinb leapt up from his chair and hugged Xu Dongmen.

Beside them, UZI and Heavenly Disaster Apocalypse also slapped each other's shoulders, everyone beaming with cheerful smiles.

One side ablaze, the other side ice-bound.

In stark contrast to QG, the EDG players were low-spirited.

During the post-match handshake, the factory chief kept a cold face; even when shaking hands and making eye contact with Xu Dongmen, he showed no unusual expression, revealing no emotional fluctuation.

That's the factory chief: in public he always wears a blank face, never showing joy or anger.

"Stain stays for the interview; the rest of you go rest first."

"Dongmen, come, I'll help you carry!"

Lin Ke practically snatched the peripherals, surrounding Xu Dongmen as they headed back to the lounge, showering him with praise all the way.

If the two regular-season games were merely a warm-up, then today's semifinal saw Xu Dongmen's brilliance fully displayed, showing his worth before everyone.

QG has picked up a treasure!

After this semifinal, the whole LPL envied Lin Ke, whose luck in drawing such an SSR was off the charts.

At the same time, Lin Ke practically wanted to put Xu Dongmen on a pedestal.

When they destroyed EDG's base in the final game, this guy cursed Tencent while simultaneously shouting excitedly, "We QG are saved!"

If Xu Dongmen heard that, he'd have to spread his hands in helplessness toward Little Bear.

A pro player once said, 90% of LPL club management are idiots.

Xu Dongmen felt he could be even bolder; 95% would not be excessive!

Even if they're not idiots, they're certainly not very smart.

Taking Lin Ke as an example, this guy's modus operandi is sick plus.

If it weren't for Xu Dongmen, the heavenly-sent stud, he would have staged a world-shaking coup against Tencent in today's semifinal.

Da B wouldn't let them come to the venue, sent substitute Borisal back to Korea, and even had a youth-trainee mid laner go straight to the hospital to get a hand injury certificate!

All of this was just to force Tencent to concede and let him play on Dade.

Xu Dongmen never understood what drove this guy to do something so insane.

Tencent may like to play favorites, but they're not stupid enough to sabotage their own rice bowl; what makes him think he can succeed in a coup?

Even if Tencent likes to crown a prince, QG isn't EDG—what gives you the right to special treatment?

As expected, Lin Ke's coup resulted in QG being judged a 3-0 loss, turning the BO5 into a one-minute tragedy!

After the incident, he himself was returned by the LPL and went to the KPL to start QGhappy.

He was quite happy, but it sucked for UZI and the other players.

After struggling for half a year to finally reach first place in the regular season and advance straight to the semifinals, they ended up with no chance to fight at all—so much so that they were even willing to play 4v5 just to start the match…

Just as tragic was EDG, who undeservedly took the blame; because of this affair, the 'prince team' has been mocked for years over its special privileges, adding another black mark to its history.

In fact, QG's loss had nothing to do with them; it was entirely the management's self-sabotage.

This guy's way of thinking and his brain circuits are abnormal!

Of course, there's one thing Lin Ke said that's correct: Xu Dongmen truly deserves the title of QG's savior.

If it weren't for Xu Dongmen, this team would already be gone by now.

Xu Dongmen's appearance turned the one-minute BO5 into a comeback from one game down to three wins, setting up a spring finals showdown with RNG.

The wheel of history has veered off its original track.

Faced with special favor from management and the coaching staff, Xu Dongmen remained unmoved by praise or blame: "Today's win is everyone's effort; I played pretty well, Ying Bi Ge also played great, and Moer and Bo Bo are also heroes!"

"Of course, there's also the dog."

As soon as he said that, everyone turned their gaze to the live broadcast screen.

At this moment, UZI is being interviewed.

"The next question: we all know this is your fourth year competing in the LPL, Little Dog. You once led your team twice to the S-series finals, achieving our region's best record. But I believe many don't realize this is actually your first time reaching the LPL finals personally. What do you have to say now?"

On the match stage, when Ren Dong passed the microphone to UZI's lips, the audience erupted in cheers.

He's made it to the World Championship finals twice before, yet this is his first time reaching the regional finals.

Put in any region, it's utterly unbelievable.

"I'm really grateful to my teammates for bringing me to the finals. I've played LPL for so many years, yet this is the first time I've come this far in the playoffs. I'm really excited now—I haven't felt this happy in a long time."

UZI's remarks were quite appropriate.

Compared to his old boast "In Royal Never Give Up, I carry everyone," he now can consider things from his teammates' perspective.

His tumultuous year at OMG in S5 smoothed off many of Stain's rough edges.

"Since you've made it to the finals, Little Dog, could you tell us what your outlook is moving forward?" Ren Dong continued to probe.

"Since we've made it to the finals, we definitely want to go all the way—just hope we can…"

The chubby kid's face flushed; he wanted to say "win the championship," but the phrase felt too heavy for him, so fearing he'd jinx it, he quickly changed his tune: "I just hope our mid and jungle can do well—my biggest wish right now is that they don't sever ties, no joke, I'm actually a little scared…"

The audience burst into laughter.

What is self-deprecation? When UZI says "mid and jungle sever ties," it gives LPL viewers an inexplicable sense of amusement.

In S5, upon arriving at OMG, Wuzhuangtai broke ties with Lingyao.

Less than half a year after joining QG in S6, Doinb and Swift turned against each other again.

On the forums, someone had already dubbed him the "team-demolishing demon, the bane of mid and jungle."

The innocent are self-evident; UZI also knows this isn't his own problem.

But when this sort of thing keeps happening over and over, and each time it's you joining after they were already close friends, wearing the same pants, and as soon as you join they cut off all relations forever, you can't help but wonder if maybe your own magnetic field is the problem.

Yet these two mid/jungle pairs were still top-tier LPL caliber before their breakup.

Seeing another top-tier mid/jungle pair about to be born, even Wu Zhi couldn't help but start worrying.

"Hahaha, Ying Bi Ge, do you think we might also end up cutting ties one day?"

Suddenly cued, Xu Dongmen burst into a smile.

"Impossible, absolutely impossible!"

Da B got excited: "Dongmen, I could never cut ties with anyone, let alone with you; Tang Xiaoyou keeps saying you're my big lucky star—without you I don't even know if I could still play LPL—and even if I let her down, I could never let you down."

"Hahaha, that's an exaggeration, an exaggeration." Xu Dongmen quickly waved his hands, these words are a bit too cheesy.

I can't bear it, I really can't bear it!

Even though we're on good terms, there's something Xu Dongmen actually wants to tell Wu Zhi.

Never mind the lack of form and spiritual medicines; the breakup between Da B and Ten Thousand Volts really has nothing to do with you.

Besides Swift, there is not just one top-tier jungler who broke up with Doinb; there is another who is even more of a heavyweight.

One of them was even carried out, chair and all, after only playing ten small games.

Objectively speaking, Ying Bi Ge really is a drain on the jungler!