In the second game, Xiaohu finally got mid lane as he wished. Letme was on the same team and got top lane. Both were on their main roles.
"It really happened!"
"666! A 1v1 battle between men instantly turned into brotherly love, huh?"
"They actually got matched together."
"If that's the case, could that idiot top laner and that acting mid laner from last game be on the other side? /sweating emoji"
"Damn! That's not impossible!"
"Hahaha! I'm dying. They loved disgusting people before the game even started last match, right? Xiaohu, crush them!"
"RNG's mid and top are on the same team. How are they supposed to win?"
"Just pick your best champs. After the match, I suggest typing in all chat and asking them: Can pro players carry?"
"Right, right, right! I love this kind of satisfying yearly face-slapping match! /grinning emoji"
"..."
Still unsettled after being cursed at so badly in the previous game, Xiaohu initially only noticed that he had been matched with Letme and paid no attention to anything else.
When he saw the comments, his expression shifted, and a new plan immediately formed in his mind.
A satisfying yearly face-slapping match?
With anger and the desire for revenge building inside him, Xiaohu quietly sent Letme a WeChat message.
"Two idiots argued with me last game. They might be on the other side. Pick champs you're good at and kill them!"
On the surface, Xiaohu acted unconcerned as he said, "There's no need to pick our best stuff. It's ranked; everyone should practice champions."
He did not mention being cursed at in all chat last game at all, maintaining an air of calm indifference. Yet when it was his turn to pick, he swiftly locked in Corki—the number one OP mid laner of the patch.
After receiving Xiaohu's WeChat message, Letme also put on a show in his stream before locking in Renekton.
Besides the two of them being matched together, damengyichang and aqcft, the two RNG fans who had gone wild acting like bootlickers in all chat last game, had also been matched onto their team.
As expected, the two bootlicking brothers, who were duo queueing, immediately began groveling before the match. They declared their loyalty to RNG and mentioned that the previous game's mid and top might be on the opposing team again, begging to be carried so they could stomp them and slap their faces hard.
Naturally, Xiaohu and Letme arrogantly pretended not to see it, only occasionally glancing at it from the corners of their eyes as their vanity was thoroughly satisfied.
The game began soon afterward.
In this match, Xiaohu and Letme were on blue side, while the enemy was on red side. From top to bottom, the matchups were Renekton versus Camille, Sejuani versus Rek'Sai, Corki versus Ryze, Caitlyn versus Ashe, and Janna versus Tahm Kench, the River King.
During the loading screen, every viewer in Xiaohu's stream rapidly focused on the enemy mid and top laners.
Mid: Want to breathe, username confirmed.
Top: minnaaQAQ, username confirmed.
In an instant, Xiaohu's viewers became even more worked up. Their faces reddened as they cursed excitedly:
"They really got matched against them!"
"Kill them! Just kill them!"
"Type in all chat after the game, damn it!"
"Crush these two trash players and make them understand exactly what they're worth! I'm dying. He mocked pro players—does he even deserve to?"
The corners of Xiaohu's lips lifted almost imperceptibly as he cursed inwardly, Keep acting tough, asshole! Mocking me? What the hell are you?
Beside him, Letme, who was also streaming, wore an unconcerned expression and pointed at his opposing top laner. "This is the guy who mocked Li Yuanhao? Haha, all I can say is that before long, he won't be able to say a single word. What level of feeding do you guys want to see from him?"
Letme's stream immediately erupted with excitement. These viewers actually began gesturing and commenting on how Letme should make Camille go super-feeder.
Because minnaaQAQ had cursed so fiercely and viciously in all chat last game, directly hurting the fragile, humble hearts of many diehard RNG fans, plenty of people even left Xiaohu's stream and specifically came to Letme's stream, wanting to watch him brutally crush minnaaQAQ and vent their anger.
The game began quickly. Letme saw his stream's viewership suddenly soaring, while the comments were filled with people angrily cursing his opposing top laner.
Letme could not help sneering inwardly as well. Of all the people you could offend, you chose RNG. The last top laner who went head-to-head with RNG like this is already finished.
Without question, Letme was one of the happiest people when Xu Junyan left RNG. After all, he played top lane too, and Xu Junyan's position overlapped with his!
Precisely because he played top lane, he knew very well that Xu Junyan was stronger than him in many respects. His only advantage was being "steady," whereas Xu Junyan was more of a near-perfect all-around player. The only reason Xu Junyan's appearances over the past few years had been intermittent was because he insisted on finishing university, which gave Letme many opportunities to play.
This year, Xu Junyan had finished university, and Letme had been the most anxious one. Fortunately, at such a crucial moment, RNG's management had used Xu Junyan as a sacrificial pawn and discarded him outright. This allowed Letme to firmly secure RNG's starting top lane position and reap the rewards of RNG's massive publicity campaign.
Once the laning positions were set, Letme deliberately catered to his stream viewers' wishes in all chat. Of course, he also wanted revenge—a peculiar desire for revenge specifically directed at another top laner. He typed:
"ting shuo ni kan bu qi zhi ye xuan shou?"
"I pro too."
There was no response after he sent those two questions.
The smile on Letme's face became increasingly smug as he sarcastically said, "Why did this brother suddenly go quiet? Li Yuanhao, didn't you say he had plenty to say just now? Has he finally realized he's scared?"
"Haha!"
"Obviously! They weren't matched against each other before, but now they are, aren't they? /smirking emoji"
"This trash player must be regretting it so badly right now!"
"Hurry up and ask him, 'you pro?' If he isn't a pro player, how did he dare look down on pro players earlier?"
Xiaohu was ecstatic inside, but he played the good cop and said, "That's enough. Maybe this guy was just in a bad mood earlier, which is why he said some disrespectful things. Isn't the actor I'm laning against staying quiet too?"
"General Hu is warming my heart to death."
"You can call this warm too? But I'm strangely not surprised at all when Xiaohu says something like this."
"That's right. After all, even RNG can treat a traitor like Silence with kindness. The most humane club in the LPL—I'm crying."
"Yeah, but while you have humanity, there are even more idiots and morons in this world."
"Like the enemy top laner? /smirking emoji"
The viewers in both streams were making sarcastic remarks, while the two bootlicking RNG fans duo queueing in bottom lane were also relentlessly typing in all chat to attack minnaaQAQ.
The game had not even officially started, yet these RNG fans seemed to have somehow entered a state of premature ecstasy.
Until a panicked curse suddenly rang out.
"Fuck!"
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