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This vague, suggestive reply was clearly cut from the same cloth as RNG's official Weibo post.
It was as though it said nothing, yet also everything, inevitably sending people's imaginations running wild.
Besides, even if the match-fixing accusation did not hold, Xiaohu's remark that there had been a minor verbal conflict and everyone had argued was enough to convict him completely.
Xu Junyan's gaze gradually turned even colder.
He had originally thought that his former teammates' silence and refusal to speak up had already been hurtful enough. He had not expected them to be even more ruthless now.
Since Xiaohu had spoken out, the other RNG starters must have said something too, right?
Xu Junyan searched for Letme.
Faced with the same question, Letme replied, "All I can say, bro, is that if we could do it over, we could've played however we wanted and still won for sure. I said it. If that guy hadn't played, we could've won easily. How could SKT have beaten us back then?"
The comments below were full of praise. It seemed no one had considered whether those words were true or reliable, because everyone had already been led astray.
Based on Letme's answer, everyone came to the same conclusion: as long as Xu Junyan had not played, RNG could have beaten SKT easily!
"Seriously, one rat dropping ruined the whole pot of porridge! /Soybean sweating"
"Someone like this should just die already!"
"Get out of the LPL! The LPL doesn't welcome you!"
"I've watched competitive matches for three years, and this is the first time I've truly been disgusted."
"RNG really suffered because of one rat dropping like this, losing their first championship."
"Exactly! This was the LPL's most promising year, and RNG was obviously so strong!"
Xu Junyan found similar comments beneath the Weibo posts of his former teammates Uzi, Xiaoming, and Mlxg.
Whether these had been their sincere words, or whether the club had instructed them to say these things and they had complied, Xu Junyan found it all extremely ironic.
Of course, this was only the beginning.
After Xu Junyan spent a while longer scrolling through Weibo, broadening his view, he saw even more deeply ironic things.
Hosts and streamers had entered the fray.
Zhou Shuyi: "Fuck! So this guy was this disgusting? I'm gonna puke. Let me expose something: I remember once during a match, this guy came over and asked for my WeChat. I was completely baffled. I was thinking, I don't even know you, so why should I give you my WeChat? Thinking about it now, it's a good thing I didn't. So disgusting! Hurry up and get the hell out of the LPL."
As a popular commentator like her, naturally there was no shortage of comments beneath her Weibo post. Her fans all responded with a shared sense of outrage.
"Nicely done, Sister Zhou!"
"Damn, he even harassed female commentators in private? No, how did something this disgusting even get into the LPL? Has the LPL's bar gotten this low?"
"Okay, I'm already getting angry just looking at him. What the hell is this thing?"
"You think you deserve to harass Sister Zhou?"
Xu Junyan gently rubbed his brow.
If he remembered correctly, during that match, he had gone to the restroom as a substitute and happened to run into Luo Xin, then saw Zhou Shuyi as well.
As for asking for WeChat, Luo Xin and Zhou Shuyi had clearly brought it up first. Since he did not have a particularly good impression of those two League hosts and commentators, he had politely declined.
He had never imagined that this would become an opportunity for the two of them to turn the tables on him, add fuel to the fire, and ride the wave of attention.
Following the link, he found that Luo Xin had indeed posted on Weibo not long ago. She liked Zhou Shuyi's post and stated that Xu Junyan had seemingly tried to follow her into the women's restroom. Fortunately, Zhou Shuyi had been with her at the time. Thinking back on it now, she felt terrified.
Pretty Goat's words carried no small amount of weight. In an instant, the entire internet's attacks on Xu Junyan became even more intense.
Xu Junyan did not bother checking what other major influencers had said, because one thing was certain: RNG had truly gone all out this time. In just one day and one night, they had managed to leave him in such a miserable state.
Most impressive of all, everything had been built upon hype with no evidence whatsoever.
"As expected of a club that can lock everyone into their contracts. They either don't make a move, or they make one hell of a move."
Xu Junyan sneered, suddenly feeling a little sorry for Uzi and the others, who had betrayed their brotherhood and attacked him according to the club's wishes.
They were now firmly standing on RNG's side like loyal dogs. In the future, they would probably regret it so badly they coughed up blood, right?
Of course, that had nothing to do with him. Even if it did, it would only be after RNG naturally did the same thing to them in the future, when he posted a few words on Weibo: Hahahahaha.
Xu Junyan did not close Weibo, because he still had something else to do.
Resolve the contract issue!
Because the controversy had exploded far faster than expected, Xu Junyan's Weibo follower count had increased by more than three hundred thousand overnight. Although those followers were mostly real people who had followed him just so they could curse at him more conveniently, it undeniably made what he was about to do easier.
Opening his own Weibo, Xu Junyan thought for a moment before posting an update:
I'll say it again: the innocent need not fear scrutiny. Whether it's match-fixing or arguing, if you have evidence, bring it out and hammer me with it.
Also, @RNG Esports Club, you people are pretty ridiculous. Since you're so righteous and caring toward someone like me who made mistakes, even graciously wishing me all the best in the future, why not conveniently terminate my contract too? Or are you all gilded on the outside and rotten within, planning to use my contract to screw me over in private? That won't do. You get to keep the righteousness, and I take the blame, so I should at least collect some interest.
Or is there another side to this matter? Did you actually fabricate all these so-called facts to slander me because we could not agree on the contract? Or is there yet another hidden truth? Heh, I won't say more. Anyone with eyes can see just how hypocritical you people, whose words and actions are so inconsistent, truly are.
It was a long post with no great literary merit. The wording was plain and direct, expressing one central point.
Since you were all so righteous, why not be truly generous and terminate my damn contract too?
Under normal circumstances, RNG, having already decided to go all the way, would definitely have ignored him. They would have kept him trapped in that contract until the bitter end.
But things were different now.
As soon as Xu Junyan posted this long article, it unsurprisingly drew an immediate response from countless LPL fans and viewers.
Without exception, they all flooded the comments beneath his Weibo to curse him out: "Judging a gentleman's heart with a petty man's mind, how disgusting!" "As expected of the match-fixing guy, what a narrow-minded bastard!" "Haha! I'm dying. You think RNG would cling to the contract of a parasite like you?"
In just half a day, the comments beneath Xu Junyan's Weibo surpassed ten thousand, all of them insults. Many people even began actively @-ing RNG, telling them to hurry up and terminate the contract of a parasite like Xu Junyan. Otherwise, keeping him around would simply insult RNG and stain the LPL!
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