Let's Get Fishing! Time for a Big Haul

Xu Junyan's duo queue with an unknown LCK pro player started quite abruptly.

Just as he'd imagined, both players were giving it their all, and the duo queue went exceptionally smoothly.

By the end of the first day, they hadn't lost a single game, winning fifteen in a row and gaining 210 points. Xu Junyan officially became a Grandmaster player, and after duo queuing with this unknown pro player for a day, Xu Junyan discovered something astonishing.

It felt great, so great!

This LCK pro player, whose name he didn't know, was amazing. Playing mid-top synergy with him was effortless and comfortable, a true enjoyment. Winning games felt as simple as drinking water or eating.

Xu Junyan had encountered countless pro players on the Korean server during this time, including many mid laners. However, without exception, none of them were as insightful as this player, [want to breathe].

Even though they weren't communicating via voice chat and were just duo queuing like strangers, their mid-top synergy was exceptionally smooth. This feeling was so much better than solo queuing!

After finishing the day's games, Xu Junyan secretly speculated on the identity of this unknown LCK mid laner.

Currently, there are 12 teams in the LCK, but not many mid laners could be considered truly outstanding.

KT.Pawn, who returned to Korea just last year, was one. SSG's mid laner Crown was another. KZ's new ace, Bdd, was also one.

Of course, there was also SKT's Faker. As a legend in the mid lane, he was definitely one of them. However, Xu Junyan quickly ruled out Faker. As everyone knows, Lee Sang-hyeok is a reserved and introverted person. He was so afraid to confess his love for someone that he kept it to himself for three whole years, only until Enjing left the LCK! Let alone actively asking someone to duo queue. Looking at this [want to breathe], begging to duo queue felt like a clingy nuisance, clearly not Faker's style.

Crown had to be ruled out too, because he had become depressed after winning the championship... Yes, it sounds bizarre, but he genuinely became depressed after winning.

He had carried his team for the entire S6 season, only to fall at the final hurdle before the finals, feeling regret and disappointment. In the S7 season, he played as a "support" player, yet bizarrely won the championship. After winning, the cheers from the crowd were all for his opponents' names. Anyone would feel down for a while, right?

Therefore, Crown could be ruled out.

That left only two people: Pawn and Bdd.

After careful consideration, Xu Junyan also ruled out Pawn. This was because Pawn had played in the LPL for two years. While he wasn't fluent in Chinese, he knew a little, so he wouldn't have consistently communicated with Xu Junyan in English.

In that case, was it Bdd?

Xu Junyan smiled slightly, his mind made up, but he didn't expose the other player. He went out, grabbed a cup of instant noodles, filled his stomach, and went to sleep.

For the next few days, Xu Junyan woke up at noon every day and duo queued with the unnamed LCK mid laner until 3 AM.

Their efficiency in climbing the ranks together was extremely high. On their best day, they gained a staggering 234 points! Of course, that day they played for a full 16 hours, and they were so tired they couldn't get out of bed the next day.

Their ultimate goal, which they had set half a month ago to compete for the number one spot on the Korean server, was about to be achieved. In just one week, he had already reached 2400 points.

Looking at the number one spot on the Korean server, which was at 2742 points, it was reasonable and not excessive to aim for another 300-400 points in the remaining week.

This was only possible because the queue times were now very slow. Although a game only took 20 minutes to play, the queue time alone could take half an hour, significantly reducing Xu Junyan's point-climbing efficiency.

Their duo queue win rate was also very high, a terrifying 91%, only one percentage point lower than the win rate of the world's best Rek'Sai player, Cuzz, with his Rek'Sai. It was truly astonishing.

However, the planned duo queue to reach the top spot did not ultimately happen because [want to breathe] told Xu Junyan that he needed to participate in scrimmages. From then on, he could only duo queue for a short period in the early morning each day.

Xu Junyan felt a sense of regret but could also understand. The LCK spring split always started a bit earlier than the LPL. If his guess was correct, the LCK would officially kick off its spring split in at most another week.

Life essentially returned to his previous solo queue routine. During queue times, Xu Junyan didn't play other games. He would occasionally check the countless direct messages from his fans on Weibo to pass the time. A few days later, one particular event finally caught his attention.

While idly scrolling through Douyin, he stumbled upon a video. The Douyin vlogger was reviewing several top players who were climbing the ranks on the Korean server recently. Topping the list was none other than himself, with the ID: [MinnaaQAQ]. In the video, the vlogger even speculated that Xu Junyan would conquer the Korean server and claim the number one spot within three more days!

If it were just this, Xu Junyan wouldn't have paid much attention. It was normal for his aggressive and fierce play on the Korean server to attract attention.

What piqued his interest was the reaction in the comment section of the video, where the Royal Hooligans were in an uproar!

"Are you kidding me! Isn't this guy an actor?"

"Vlogger, are you joking? Ranking an actor first, your mom must be dead!"

"Xiaohu played against this guy, he's so annoying, such trash with zero integrity!"

"What is this? What kind of trash can be ranked first now? Are you alright?"

"I'm so sick of this! This guy isn't dead yet?"

"If this kind of trash reaches number one on the Korean server, are there no other players? Have all the Korean server Grandmasters died?"

The Royal Hooligans displayed extreme hostility, and their comments revealed a deep-seated resentment towards [minnaaQAQ], almost to the point of hatred.

Xu Junyan found it highly amusing and muttered to himself, "I just love seeing you Royal Hooligans get triggered with your red faces, you're so cute."

He suddenly began to ponder a plan in his mind.

Speaking of which, ever since he encountered those two useless traitors from RNG, he hadn't run into them again. What a shame.

If he didn't run into them, he couldn't get revenge. Without revenge, his system wouldn't grant him any titles.

"I've been too comfortable for too long. It's time to take the initiative and make a big move."

Xu Junyan pondered, then opened the Tiger TV live stream interface. It was 9 PM. As expected, the marketing-savvy RNG had three of their players streaming!

His primary targets, Xiaohu and Letme, were both present. Their stream titles indicated they were playing ranked games on the Chinese server. No wonder he hadn't encountered those traitors again; they were afraid to play on the Korean server and were hiding in the Chinese server ranked games.

Xu Junyan scoffed and entered Xiaohu's stream, first quickly scanning the comments.

Good, the Royal Hooligans were loyal and sycophantic. It seemed no one dared to mention the Douyin incident in the stream. Or perhaps the video wasn't popular enough yet to reach this point?

He decided to help fan the flames and started fishing. Xu Junyan typed a comment:

"Hey Tiger God, what do you think about the actor 'minnaaQAQ' you encountered a couple of days ago, who is about to reach number one on the Korean server? /Curious"