The top, mid, and jungle players were fine. They all had girlfriends.
But the referees behind them were different.
Many referees in the LPL regular season were college students working part-time. It was a very simple question: if I had a girlfriend, why would I work part-time on weekends?
Wasn't spending time with my girlfriend better?
So most of the referees were single. Looking at the situation before them, the corners of their mouths twitched slightly. They had never expected that even working as referees would leave them feeling thoroughly outclassed.
As referees, they were supposed to remain neutral. But now, several of them had the same thought: a man who had already won at life didn't deserve to win the match.
Damn!
Su Nuan naturally knew nothing about this. After calming herself down, her state of mind improved considerably. When she noticed her teammates looking at her, she asked in confusion:
"Why is everyone looking at me? Did my makeup run?"
Saint Gun Brother: "..."
Sofm: "..."
Zz1tai: "..."
The others complained inwardly. Why are we looking at you? Don't you know?
They had just been about to say something.
The game began.
Snake's first match had officially started.
Both sides entered the battlefield. There was not much friction at the beginning. Even after they reached their lanes, Chen Yi spoke up: "Let's play a little safer this game..."
Su Nuan: "Okay! I'll listen to you."
Hearing this, her teammates breathed a sigh of relief.
That's more like it.
Playing safe is good.
Sofm had already decided to pay extra attention to the bottom lane this game. But not long after that thought arose, the instant the first-blood announcement echoed throughout the venue—
He froze.
WTF!
What the hell?
It wasn't just him. Even the commentators and the audience at the venue stared at everything in disbelief.
If Snake's bottom lane had given up first blood, everyone would have found it perfectly normal. But when they saw who had secured first blood, quite a few people at the venue lost their composure.
Especially the commentators.
Rita spoke excitedly: "First blood before three minutes... The rookie player Xiao Yi has secured first blood! What happened?"
She truly had no idea what had happened.
The director hadn't shown the camera feed. But even without the footage, this result alone was enough to shock the entire venue.
It hadn't even been three minutes, and OMG's support had been killed?
At this moment, many people felt their faces burning, as if someone had slapped them. Not long ago, plenty of people had been waiting to see Snake embarrass themselves and give away kills.
But now, who was the one giving away kills?
That's right!
It was OMG!
[What the hell?]
[They got first blood just like that?]
[What the f*** happened?]
[Where's the director? What are you looking at? Show us the replay!]
No one could understand it.
Finally!
The replay arrived.
Thresh and Tristana had gone to lane normally, and everything had looked perfectly ordinary. If there had been anything suspicious, it was that OMG had been playing very aggressively.
Especially Xiao Wu, who had crossed the minion wave to attack.
And that was where everything had begun.
Just as Xiao Wu confidently moved in to harass them, a flash rang out across the venue.
Thresh had flashed forward!
The moment this play appeared, the entire venue went dumbstruck.
[Holy crap! Flash to engage?]
[This girl is way too aggressive!]
[What is she doing? Did she press the wrong button?]
[How could she have pressed the wrong button?]
The next second—
The answer was revealed.
Thresh immediately used a reverse E after flashing. Many people didn't understand it, but Sima Laozai instantly knew what was happening and immediately used his own flash.
He had reacted—but Xiao Wu hadn't.
A reverse E!
Zyra was pulled over.
And that wasn't all. Thresh's E Skill dealt Area of Effect damage. After hitting Zyra, it also clipped two low-health minions and killed them.
The minions then turned into experience, which was absorbed by both players.
Thresh and Tristana had originally been level one.
At that instant—
They reached level two!
Tristana didn't hesitate either. She jumped straight onto Zyra's face. Zyra was an extremely strong bottom-lane champion.
Crowd control!
Damage!
Poke!
She excelled at all of them.
But that required sufficient levels. Without them, she was merely a squishy champion. That was exactly what happened now. As Thresh's Ignite came down—
Sima Laozai's Heal looked utterly insignificant.
Thresh had also held on to his hook.
The instant Zyra used flash, that hook struck Zyra right in the heart.
First blood erupted in an instant.
Perhaps only then did many people realize that the girl they hadn't favored, and had even looked down on a little, was the biggest boss on the entire stage—especially Xiao Wu.
He stared at everything in disbelief.
He regretted it.
He should never have stepped forward so aggressively, much less used that flash.
But was regret useful?
No!
With first blood secured—
The entire venue exploded.
[This Thresh... is so cool!]
[More than cool! With the guts to use Flash E like that, would you dare do it?]
[And that hook was incredible too. I can't even tell whether Zyra flashed first or Thresh threw the hook first.]
[6666!]
At that moment, the direction of the barrage completely changed.
In esports, strength was what mattered.
Only with strength—
Could everything else fall into place.
Otherwise, everything else was empty talk.
After securing first blood, the director gave Su Nuan a close-up. On camera... Su Nuan's cheeks were flushed, and she looked a little shy.
Yet this shy girl had slapped everyone at the venue hard across the face.
Who said girls would only drag their teams down?
Su Nuan now used her strength to tell everyone that girls could be fierce too, and that they could make flashy plays too. She had flashed in to engage, secured first blood, and forced two summoner spells out of Sima Laozai.
The barrage was stunned, and her teammates were completely dumbfounded as well.
Soon, sofm recovered and immediately complained: "Weren't we supposed to play it safe?"
Chen Yi spoke with a serious expression: "This is already very safe. Securing level two and fighting one wave is perfectly normal. If we weren't playing safe, we might have engaged at level one."
"Actually, we should have engaged at level one. They kept harassing us at the start, and I thought they were pretty strong. Turns out they're only like this. But Sima Laozai still has something—he flashed to dodge my reverse E. Otherwise, we could have fought more."
"It's a little unfortunate!"
As they spoke—
The two of them sighed. Their tones were filled with regret. Upon hearing their comments, the top, mid, and jungle players had different expressions: embarrassment, speechlessness, and silence.
Their expressions differed, but their thoughts were the same.
Figures!
No wonder the two of you can play together. You're not family, but you sure act like it.
First blood itself was nothing special.
Four hundred yuan.
But to everyone at the venue, it was no different from a raging storm.
Both players were rookies, and they were a man and a woman. Perhaps at that moment, people remembered a saying: veteran players were mostly rookies, while newcomers were all monsters.
And that was exactly the case now.
After first blood, everyone on OMG's side went numb. The more frivolous their attitude had been earlier, the more they regretted it now. Unfortunately... was regret useful?
It was!
It wasn't too late to mend the situation after the sheep had been lost.
OMG's jungler Word immediately marked the bottom lane.
Gank bottom!
The commentators also noticed everything.
"The bottom lane... Jarvan IV is coming to gank!"
"But the vision here is very sufficient. They should retreat and recall. However... Jarvan IV doesn't seem willing to let the bottom lane off. After Tristana and Thresh returned to lane and placed their wards, he came again... He's going to focus them."
"Snake's bottom lane is having a rough time. Jarvan IV left..."
"And now he's back again."
"This..."
Chang Mao and Rita didn't know what to say. Wasn't this just bullying?
[This is going too far!]
[It's not going too far. He's just helping his teammates stabilize the situation.]
[Maybe this is the downside of standing out. What are they supposed to do? Jarvan IV is staring at them from behind. They can't farm at all.]
[What can they do? Make cold noodles! What, do you think Tristana can kill Jarvan IV?]
[How could that be possible?]
[If Tristana can kill Jarvan IV, I'll eat XX right here!]
But just after that barrage message appeared, the notification of Jarvan IV's death echoed throughout the entire livestream.
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