Chapter 77

"What's wrong?"

Su Xing closed the microphone and connected the call. Gao Wen's voice came from the other end.

"Now more than five club managers have found me at the first opportunity, hoping to get your contact information, saying they want to talk to you."

Gao Wen spoke slowly: "Do you want to talk to them?"

"Talk to me about what?"

Su Xing felt a bit funny. These people wouldn't really be looking at the barrage between themselves and want to find themselves to make a comeback to play games, right?

"That I don't know."

Gao Wen smiled slightly and said softly: "You have an age advantage and experience, and most importantly, you are a domestic player. This is an advantage that many teams cannot refuse."

Having an excellent domestic mid laner, this short sentence alone can't find a few teams in the entire LPL league.

"Help me refuse."

Su Xing thought for a moment and said: "I don't have the idea of returning to the arena, at least not for now."

There was a brief silence on the other end of the phone. Gao Wen, who was still in the office, stood by the window looking at the traffic below and said slowly: "Fine, I'll help you refuse."

"Hmm, thank you for your hard work."

After the call ended, Gao Wen put down her phone and sighed slightly. Standing from a rational standpoint, she really wanted to persuade Su Xing to return to the arena. This is a good thing for him personally and for the entire LPL.

An excellent domestic mid laner is too scarce, otherwise those club managers wouldn't have contacted her at the first opportunity to try to get a chance to communicate with Su Xing.

22 years old is just the golden age for the current professional arena. So what if he retired for a few years? Facts have proven that even after retiring for several years, Su Xing still has a level above the average of active professional players.

"This personality is sometimes not a good thing..."

The reason why Gao Wen didn't persuade him was that she knew Su Xing's personality very well. Once Su Xing made a certain decision, he wouldn't change it easily but would keep hitting it to the end.

She still remembers that when Su Xing first went to LPL, there were some heroes he couldn't play, so he kept practicing. If 100 games didn't work, he would play 200 games. If 200 games didn't work, he would play 300 games... until he could understand this hero.

This personality is certainly not a bad thing, but... sometimes it makes Su Xing look stubborn, like he won't turn back until he hits the south wall.

In this situation, wanting Su Xing to make a comeback is not an easy thing. Unless something happens to make him change his decision, otherwise even if the Heavenly King comes, he won't make a comeback.

On the other side, Su Xing continued to stream after hanging up the phone,

Because he didn't expect that the training match today would end directly 2:0, so the five people had nothing to do, so they continued to make an appointment to play flexible ranking until after 12 o'clock before they disbanded.

However, Su Xing didn't know how much of a stir his performance tonight caused in the entire industry,

Currently, it is still the transfer period. Many teams are thinking about how to strengthen their team's players to maintain a certain competitiveness in the Summer Split, and Su Xing's appearance made these clubs surround him like sharks smelling blood.

But it is a pity that Huya didn't give Su Xing's contact information. Even if Gao Wen clearly stated Su Xing's opinion that he had no idea of making a comeback to play games for the time being, they were unwilling to give up.

Except for clubs like BLG with Scout and LNG with Scout that don't lack mid laners, which club doesn't hope that they can have a mid laner who has operation and amazing hero pool and can even command?

Not to mention that Su Xing also has an advantage that three champion mid laners don't have, and that is that he is Chinese and has a household registration book bonus.

Many club managers tried to get Su Xing's WeChat through Uzi and others, but it didn't work, because Su Xing, who had already fallen asleep, couldn't possibly open his phone in the middle of the night to pass the friend request.

As for the phone number, except for Gao Wen who has Su Xing's mobile phone number, others don't know it at all.

Just like that, the night passed quickly, but when Su Xing, who had just woken up the next morning, received a call from Gao Wen again.

"Why are you calling me so early?"

Su Xing was just about to go out downstairs to buy breakfast, and after seeing the call, he sat down again.

"Didn't you look at TikTok and Weibo?"

Gao Wen's voice on the other end of the phone was a bit haggard, and I don't know if she stayed up late to work overtime and didn't rest well.

"Hmm?"

Su Xing was a bit surprised and said: "I don't usually look at my phone much, basically I look at it occasionally before going to bed. What's wrong?"

"."

Gao Wen on the other end of the phone was silent for a few seconds and said slowly: "Now there are some negative messages about you on Weibo and TikTok. Some people say that you seemed to have retired for the past three or four years but have been acting as a companion player, and even helping people boost, and some people even posted videos saying that his King account was played by you. Besides that, some people say that you changed your ID on the surface to be a companion player, but in fact, you are still a big director who manipulates high-score games in the first district..."

"Besides that, some people slandered that you are the provider of Ba Ge's spirit, and also said that the professional players' Texas Hold'em games also have your share, and even more exaggeratedly, some people say that you are still secretly manipulating LPL match-fixing."

"???"

Su Xing had a face full of question marks. Does this count as rumor-mongering? For a moment, he actually felt that he didn't know how to complain. Brother just woke up and became a companion player brother and boosting brother, that's fine, but how come there are nicknames like the first district big director and manipulating LPL match-fixing?

And he couldn't figure out why he didn't do anything, and it was even more impossible to offend people. Why did someone start to spread rumors and smear him? It couldn't be that he won someone he shouldn't have won, right?

"These negative messages fermented suddenly in the second half of last night. There is very obvious evidence that someone is pushing behind the scenes to make this matter big. The purpose should be very simple, which is to make your persona collapse."

"Ah, what persona can I have?"

Hearing this, Su Xing was even more confused. How could he not know what persona he had? "Of course there is."

Gao Wen smiled slightly and said: "A rookie who was booming when he debuted, and returned after years of silence and still not losing to active players. Isn't this a persona of a master?"

Su Xing:... Nothing to say, he only has these four words in his mind now.

"Wait a minute, I'll take a call here, maybe I can find out who the mastermind behind this is."

Just at this time, Gao Wen temporarily interrupted the call with Su Xing, and after a few minutes, the call was reconnected.

"The matter is roughly found out."

Gao Wen paused for a moment and said: "It should be the meaning of some club executives in the industry."

"Ah?"

Hearing this answer, Su Xing was even more surprised. He couldn't understand at all that he was just an old man playing the Old Man Cup... "Specifically who, I don't know, but this scale of popularity should not be just one person."

Gao Wen said slowly: "I thought about it, it should be that you refused to communicate with them last night and then they had a wrong cognition that you had already signed a contract with another team. This made them feel that you didn't respect people enough, so they did these things, which is not surprising."

"And a powerful domestic mid laner already has someone. Your appearance may affect other people's interests, so it is not ruled out that some teams don't want to see you return to the arena."

"Crazy..."

After Su Xing was silent for a long time, he said three words slowly.

"You underestimated your value." Gao Wen smiled slightly and said: "If the operation is proper, it only takes half a season to operate you into the strongest domestic mid laner candidate. This is a temptation that many clubs cannot refuse."

"Even the LPL region, which now has three championships, still lacks a powerful domestic mid laner. Your appearance is like an ownerless gold mine. Signing you is equivalent to starting to count money."

"And now you refuse to communicate, making them feel that they missed a great opportunity to make money, so they will have a mentality that if they can't get it, others shouldn't think about getting it."

"In this era, it is very difficult to cultivate an excellent professional player, but sometimes it only takes half an hour to destroy a person."

Silence, still silence,

Gao Wen across the phone could clearly hear Su Xing's breathing sound changing from calm at the beginning to rapid, and then gradually returning to calm again.

"Hmm, I know."

Su Xing said calmly: "It doesn't make sense to argue now, forget it, let them go."

At first, he was indeed very angry. After all, being slandered for various non-existent crimes is something no one can bear, but after calming down, Su Xing was relieved.

He returned to this circle because of a transaction he talked about with Gao Wen. After this transaction was completed, he still returned to where he came from. From beginning to end, he didn't have the idea of returning to the professional arena at all, and the facts that happened now proved that his choice to retire at the beginning was correct.

In this circle, eight out of ten people have bad intentions.

Argue?

At this time, his personal voice clarification or something will not make any sense. In the current era of developed Internet, sometimes just a picture and a chat record are enough to make people bear unwarranted crimes.

He also doesn't want to waste his time on this kind of meaningless behavior. As for how others view himself, to be honest, this is not important.

Four years ago, he learned a truth. He is a person, a living person, not a RMB that everyone loves.

Whether others like him or hate him, this has no meaning for him personally. He lives for himself, not for others.

"Forget it?"

Gao Wen on the other end of the phone frowned. She didn't expect that the high-spirited Su Xing would one day say the two words 'forget it'... "People will change, you and I are the same."

Gao Wen:... Silence, after a short moment, Gao Wen said slowly: "This matter can't just be forgotten. You clearly haven't done this kind of thing, why should you bear these negative impacts?"

"Leave this matter to me to solve. Some people don't want to be decent, then I will help them be decent."

After Gao Wen finished this sentence, she hung up the phone directly, leaving Su Xing with a face full of confusion.

At the same time, Guo Hao, who had just woken up in the TES club, habitually opened his phone to see what was special today, and as a result, he was directly pushed to some things related to Su Xing.

"This..."

After Guo Hao finished reading these revelations, his first feeling was that it was a bit fake. These things might be a bit useful to fool laymen who don't know the truth, but for industry insiders like them, they saw that something was wrong at a glance.

Too fake. Su Xing's disappearance for several years is a nailed-down thing. If he really went to be a companion player or a booster, it would be impossible to hide it.

The circle of e-sports is not big, and it is not small. Many things cannot be hidden. For example, it is also impossible to hide that TES players went to play training matches with those old men last night.

After finishing the review last night, he also took the initiative to call Gao Wen to carefully consult some things about Su Xing, although the final answer was that Su Xing had no idea of returning to the professional arena for the time being, so he ended the call with regret.

"It seems that some people are not very willing to let Su Xing come back..."

Guo Hao felt a bit regrettable. This large-scale revelation and smearing were obviously not something that an individual could do. I am afraid that some bosses in the industry behind this feel that Su Xing will lose their interests once he returns to the arena.

Nine o'clock in the morning, under the influence of public opinion, some of Su Xing's black materials spread like a virus on the Internet, and even players who didn't pay attention to the Old Man Cup or the competition knew that there was such a person as Su Xing.

11 o'clock in the morning, professional players in the e-sports circle woke up one after another and began to pay attention to these things, even Uzi and others were no exception, but until this time, Su Xing still didn't clarify through Huya or himself.

1 o'clock in the afternoon, under the manipulation of those with intentions, public opinion had even nailed Su Xing's crimes. Even things like the Old Man Cup and Ba Ge's spirit and TES being swept by others were no longer discussed. There were also some marketing accounts hanging with industry insiders who came out to say that the official had noticed this news, and Su Xing's public opinion was basically unable to turn over.

However, all this ushered in a reversal at three o'clock in the afternoon. Huya published a public statement on Weibo, TikTok, and a series of online media to stand for Su Xing, and stated that it would use legal weapons to protect Su Xing's interests.

However, this was just the beginning. Under Gao Wen's operation, a series of videos quickly fermented on major platforms.

The first video had a program similar to a local TV station interview. In the lens, an old man with dark skin was asked questions by the host. When the reporter mentioned the name Su Xing, her turbid eyes suddenly had light.

Every word she said was praise for Su Xing. Roughly speaking, the place where she is is a village deep in the mountains. If the children here want to study, they must pass a very dangerous mountain road every day and walk for more than an hour to get to the school in the nearest town.

Some time ago, Su Xing came here to live for a period of time and finally chose to stay to be responsible for teaching some children the most basic literacy and arithmetic in the village, which avoided the children having to walk a dangerous mountain road with fear every day.

When the school outside organizes exams, Su Xing will escort these children out one by one and then send them back after the exam.

It was not until this moment that netizens noticed that the source of this video was a program released by a township TV station at the end of 2021, which meant that the black materials circulating on the Internet saying that he was a booster and companion player after retirement were all fake!

But obviously this was still not enough, and soon there were questioning voices.

Many netizens said that a retired e-sports player didn't even finish high school, so how could he have the ability to be a volunteer teacher? This must be a fake video created by Huya to protect people.

And this situation was exactly what Gao Wen wanted to see. Under her instruction, Huya released the second video again.

It was also a program video from a local TV station, but the time node of this video was the summer of 2022.

In the video, a young man with dark skin was holding chalk in a dilapidated room and writing on a blackboard that was very worn out. While writing, he turned his head to teach them what this word is and how to write it.

And sitting under him was a group of children who looked only five or six years old, roughly counting about twenty or thirty.

And the young man in the video is Su Xing, but compared to his makeup photos when he played professionally, the whole person seems to often work under the sun, looking dark. If you don't carefully compare the photos, it is indeed difficult to distinguish.

Besides these, there are other pictures recorded by TV station staff, including the process of Su Xing and a group of children touching fish in the river in the evening, and also taking children to the field to teach them how to transplant rice seedlings under the scorching sun while trying to teach them an ancient poem.

It is just that this group of children is too naughty, and the appearance of Su Xing stomping his feet because he couldn't teach them no matter how he taught them makes people can't help but show a knowing smile.

This video changed the direction of public opinion within half an hour of playing. Su Xing himself didn't expect that his reputation would reverse instantly after playing a few games on the Korean server.

However, this was not enough for Gao Wen, and she followed up with the third video.

This video was also an interview program from a local radio station, and it was also related to Su Xing, and the time point was the autumn of 2023.

The content in the program is that the local township leaders wanted to hold a commendation meeting during the Mid-Autumn Festival to give him an award after learning about Su Xing's deeds.

However, when facing the lens, Su Xing waved his hand and smiled and said that he was also a child who came out of the mountains before, but he was lucky. Not long after he was born, the village became rich.

And he appeared in this village deep in the mountains just to fulfill a promise. Everything he experienced after coming here reminded him of the past, so he decided to stay here to do some things he could do, not for any reward, and he didn't lack this.

Even when some leaders said they could give him a suitable establishment identity, Su Xing also smiled and declined, saying that he had earned a lot of money in one year that many people couldn't earn in a lifetime.

Now he does these things just because he wants to, and it is not mixed with any impure ideas.

Up to this point, the three videos fermented rapidly through major online platforms, and the things Su Xing had done in the past few years were gradually known to the public. It was not until this moment that the goods realized that the so-called revelations before were all smearing! (End of chapter)