They were red! The Royal Hooligans who had only just slunk back from Korean Instagram were slaughtered by Xu Junyan again. They were completely red—red through and through!
They were so furious they were nearly dizzy. Every single one of them stared wide-eyed at Xu Junyan's latest Weibo post, feeling incomparably stifled, enraged, humiliated, and ashamed.
Every Royal Hooligan cursed in their heart. This guy deserved to die!
He did it on purpose! He absolutely did it on purpose! It was a double entendre—he was implying that the Royal Hooligans were that pack of stupid dogs, wasn't he?
Pah! Who was a Royal Hooligan? They weren't hooligans!
There had been nothing to it in the first place. They were the ones who insisted on using minnaaQAQ to mock Xu Junyan.
Then Xu Junyan revealed his identity and slapped them hard across the face.
They refused to believe it, thinking Xu Junyan was bluffing and putting on a brave face. They even escalated the matter and continued digging into it.
In the end, they finally uncovered minnaaQAQ's true identity. It was Xu Junyan!
So from beginning to end, hadn't they been courting their own destruction and asking for death?
"Clowns."
All of a sudden, they remembered Xu Junyan's third-to-last Weibo post. Just two words and a period: clowns.
Fuck!
That was right. What they had done was fucking clownish! Absolute idiots! There was no way even to defend themselves. The Royal Hooligans completely lost it, their faces and necks turning a terrifying red.
Humiliated into rage, this group of Royal Hooligans lost all reason. They began mindlessly flooding Xu Junyan's Weibo with abuse, cursing whatever came to mind. It was nothing but blind vitriol. They had clearly all completely broken down and entered the phase of impotent rage to vent their feelings.
The Royal Hooligans certainly weren't the only ones who broke down. At the RNG club base, inside the publicity department office... Bang!!
Damon's face was flushed red but tinged with green. His bloodshot eyes blazed as he angrily shoved a computer onto the floor.
"It was him! How was it him?!"
"Fuck!!"
"What the hell have I been doing?"
"Was I being treated like a clown?"
"Xu Junyan!!!!!"
Damon, utterly shattered, continued roaring and smashing things. He was so furious he wanted to cough up blood!
He had witnessed the entire drama on Weibo today. What was more, he had personally orchestrated most of it.
That was precisely why, when he recalled how grandly he had declared two days ago, "We at RNG sincerely invite the great minnaaQAQ to join us. I look forward to the day we become family..."
The colors on Damon's face became even more vibrant: green and purple mingled together, red and white mixed together, and his entire face burned. In his shame and fury, not only were his lips trembling, but his whole body was shaking.
He simply did not dare imagine how broad and mocking Xu Junyan's smile must have been while watching that scene!
Damon felt as though his self-respect had been brutally crippled at that moment, as if he had also taken a savage slap across the face.
A complete breakdown!!
Then it occurred to him: could all of this have been deliberate? Had Xu Junyan planned every bit of it?
Otherwise, why hadn't Xu Junyan stepped forward and identified himself when they first began praising minnaaQAQ? Why wait until things had escalated this far?
Otherwise, how could minnaaQAQ's real identity have remained hidden so deeply? If they had discovered sooner that this person was Xu Junyan, how could they possibly have ended up like this?!
The phone in his pocket suddenly rang.
Damon furiously pulled out his phone, about to smash it too, but then saw that it was from Bai Xing, the club owner. His expression changed. Forcing down the humiliation and rage in his heart, he answered the call.
Over the phone, Bai Xing roared and cursed at him. It seemed the other man was equally livid. After all, RNG had utterly disgraced themselves this time!
If it had only been Damon and Xiaohu saying, "We sincerely invite minnaaQAQ to join RNG," that would have been one thing. After all, it would merely have been personal behavior.
But today, RNG's official Weibo had also posted the same kind of message. In an obsequious tone, they had lavished minnaaQAQ with praise and eagerly invited him. Even after Xu Junyan posted telling them to get lost, they had still eagerly stuck themselves to him, flaunting their white-lotus act beneath Xu Junyan's Weibo post. Yet in the end, they discovered that they themselves were the clowns?
For RNG, a club that placed tremendous importance on marketing its fame and image, this was simply fatal! And they had never imagined that, in the course of the club's marketing efforts, the first person to land a crushing blow on them would be the scapegoat they had once thrown away!
Damon did not dare make a sound. He silently endured all of Bai Xing's abuse, though he too was gritting his teeth and hating Xu Junyan to the core.
After venting his anger, Bai Xing asked Damon how they should handle this matter. Xu Junyan had toyed with them so thoroughly and made fools of them. No matter what, they could not swallow this humiliation—they had to retaliate.
More importantly, they had to take advantage of the situation to eliminate the aftermath of this incident. At the very least, it could not affect the club's upcoming reputation-building and marketing.
Damon said unwillingly, "Boss, there's no need to delete any of those Weibo posts. I have a way to deal with it. Actually, the solution is simple. But merely resolving the fallout from this won't be enough—we need to completely destroy Silence!"
"How?" Bai Xing's voice still suppressed his fury, but the intense humiliation of having been played was equally apparent beneath it.
"I didn't expect him to still be playing ranked. He even worked so hard to climb to first place on the Korean server. It looks like he isn't prepared to completely give up on the pro scene. In that case, we'll start there. Before he thinks there's still hope, we'll strike him hard! Let's see who suffers in the end. If he won't leave with dignity, we'll help him leave with dignity!"
Damon's deathly pale face twisted together, his eyes glowing red. But then, as though he had thought of something, the cold smile on his lips grew wider and wider. Changing his tone, he laid out his resentful plan. "But I'll need you, Boss, to contact the other clubs. He offended RNG and still fantasizes about surviving in the LPL? Is he insane? This time, he'll truly regret it for the rest of his life!"
Ding-dong!
In a private room at Shanhai Internet Cafe in Shanghai.
Xu Junyan smiled as he enjoyed watching the little Royal Hooligans impotently rage in the Weibo comments, all while chatting with Kim Min-ah.
Kim Min-ah: "Junyan Oppa, wasn't that a little too harsh? I just went to look through your Weibo, and it was so scary. Were they really that angry? They were cursing so viciously."
Xu Junyan replied with a smile: "It wasn't too harsh. Even if it was, they deserved it."
After a pause, Xu Junyan added, "Thank you for helping with this. I'm sorry for dragging you into something like this. I promise it won't happen again."
Ding-dong!
Kim Min-ah: "Aww~, Junyan Oppa, you're saying that again. Didn't we agree beforehand that once you come to Korea, you'll personally cook me a big feast? I don't really think doing this was wrong. That bastard club and their bastard fans treated Junyan Oppa so horribly. I was just making conversation~ Ah~! Anyway, you can't back out of the feast you promised! We agreed!"
Kim Min-ah: "/pouting kitten.jpg"
Xu Junyan laughed soundlessly, his unnecessary worries swept away. He replied teasingly, "You really are a complete and utter foodie."
Ding-dong!
Kim Min-ah: "Hehe, not really, not really~ I admit I'm just a tiny little bit greedy when it comes to food. But speaking of which, how is your visa application going, Junyan Oppa? When can you come over?"
Xu Junyan gently rubbed his brow and replied, "Probably another week. If things go quickly, maybe three or four days?"
After officially deciding to go to the LCK, Xu Junyan had applied for his visa in advance. But that process was rather troublesome, and it had already dragged on for half a month.
After chatting with Kim Min-ah for a few more lines, he put down his phone. His eyes shone brightly as he looked into the empty space ahead.
Another new title had just dropped!
Um, let me explain: the pacing in my League of Legends stories tends to be habitually slow, because I'm still better at writing slice-of-life-style stories. My previous book, "Running Away with Enjing," was like that too, so it got slammed badly before it was put behind a paywall, /cry. As for this book, you can tell from the synopsis that I'm going straight for a light, satisfying slice-of-life story where I can also roast RNG. So the official matches are indeed a little draggy. I hope everyone can be a bit understanding about this early stage. Keeping up with the daily reads is still really important! Monthly votes and tips don't matter, but during the new-book period, please make sure to follow along every day! It's very important! Thank you, everyone. Also, if you have time, you can check out my old book too. I've linked it below for you all. Muah~
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