Everyone had long known he was off the market and that his girlfriend was genuinely an outsider to the scene. More importantly, after MSI ended, he had not bothered hiding it at all. He had been photographed appearing in major hotels across Britain with his girlfriend, so there was no way to keep it under wraps.
This day's match.
Was not merely a battle for popularity, but also a test. It could even be said that LPL viewers' expectations for an World Championship title this year were not actually as high as people imagined. But an Asian Games gold medal?
Expectations for that were through the roof.
"Damn, look at this hype. Seems like quite a few viewers are looking forward to our match."
"Mainly because the Asian Games roster has been finalized, and you made things so public recently. This level of hype is normal."
In his previous life, 369 and JKL, originally slated to play top lane and bot lane at the Asian Games, had both withdrawn because of a night in Texas. Elk and Xun, who stepped in as replacements, rode that wave of attention hard. It felt no less absurd than Unity suddenly announcing it would start charging games a kill tax, only for Unreal Engine to burst into laughter.
Unreal: Thanks for nature's gift.
Tencent, which owned 49% of Epic: What is going on? Money just fell from the sky?
But in this life, Luo Zhen's position was rock solid. Others had racked their brains trying to dig up dirt on him, yet the only thing they found was that a whole slew of H-game publishers occupied the top spots on his stream's donation rankings. The issue was that while their games were indeed erotic, every one of their company names sounded perfectly respectable. There