At the point where the mid-lane minion waves met, Su Hang activated Gan & Mo's ultimate and used Flash to get right in Pei Qinhu's face. He hurled four swords and slapped Pei Qinhu to death once again.
"Attack the dragon, push the lanes, and pressure the towers according to the original plan!" Su Hang commanded through voice-to-text. "I'll play with the enemy Pei Qinhu!"
"Got it!"
The four teammates carried out their tasks in an orderly fashion.
Su Hang's Gan began his hunt for Pei Qinhu, venturing alone deep into the enemy jungle and lying in ambush in a bush along a path Pei Qinhu had to take!
When Pei Qinhu approached after respawning, Gan accurately hurled four swords, reducing his health to the execute threshold, then mercilessly slapped him to death!
For the next two minutes.
Su Hang was like a tireless slapping machine, appearing and disappearing in bushes all over the map as he slapped Pei Qinhu to death.
Pei Qinhu's corpses littered the ground outside bushes throughout the Canyon. His deaths were so gruesome that even viewers in Su Hang's livestream were somewhat moved.
"Tsk, tsk, tsk. Of all the people Yun Shu could have mocked, she just had to pick the big shot Exalted Emperor. Now she's really in for it."
"Pouring one second of sympathy out for Yun Shu. She was probably trying to sacrifice herself and hold back the great Exalted Emperor alone, buying her teammates precious time to farm."
"Yun Shu's wishful thinking was doomed to fail. The big shot Exalted Emperor had already arranged everything. His teammates just had to follow the plan strictly, avoid making stupid mistakes or getting picked off, and ten minutes would be enough to break into the crystal base."
The game reached the eight-minute mark.
Yun Shu's Pei Qinhu had a miserable record of 2/10. Not only had her sacrifice accomplished nothing, it had instead sped up Su Hang's team's tower push.
With the enemy at the gates, Yun Shu and Dehua's side was on the verge of collapse. Everyone had turtled up in the crystal base, preparing to fight to the death!
"It's about time to end this farce."
Su Hang decisively gave the order for an all-out assault. Like a divine general wielding heaven's might, he led the charge, clearing the way with the Twin Swords' explosive damage and covering the minion wave and his four teammates as they stormed the enemy crystal base.
Yun Shu and Dehua's side still wanted to struggle in their death throes, but it was all in vain.
At eight minutes and thirty seconds, Yun Shu and Dehua's crystal exploded and burned, and the game screen froze.
The livestream chat was flooded with the words "congratulations."
Effects for large gifts also kept appearing.
"A victory that was never in doubt."
Su Hang clicked back to the results screen. In his new account's first match, he had used Gan & Mo and finished with a 15/0/7 record and a top MVP rating. He gained three stars in one go, advancing to Legendary King with 105 stars.
"Gan's Glory Power went up by 191 this match."
Su Hang opened the hero Glory Power screen to check.
Gan & Mo. Current ranking: unranked Current power: 191. Power required for Jiangcheng city ranking: 6020.
Su Hang took a sip of sugar-free cola to replenish his energy.
He glanced up at the time. It was one in the morning. Picking up his phone, he said with a sharp look in his eyes, "Let's set a small goal first. Before the Peak Tournament opens at noon tomorrow, I'll play all 45 ranked matches, grind Gan's ranked performance points to their theoretical maximum, and claim the city-level silver badge!"
Huya, Yun Shu's livestream.
The chat was full of comforting words.
"Don't cry, wife Yun Shu. You already tried your hardest! Exalted Emperor is someone who even took down Nuanyang, the former Strongest Overlord, after all. It's only natural to lose!"
"Victory and defeat are common in warfare, Sister Yun Shu. Your little fans all know how strong you are. If that scrub Dehua hadn't dragged you down, you definitely would have won this match!"
"Huh? Why does Yun Shu's expression look a little off?"
Yun Shu stared at the defeat screen, breathing rapidly, her face flushed. Beneath the desk, her long, supple, beautiful legs were crossed.
"This feeling of my heart racing nonstop."
Yun Shu cupped her wine-red cheek in her left hand and wrapped her snow-white right arm across her chest. Biting her red lip with pearly teeth, she panted, "Damn it, why does this feel addictive?"
Earlier, she had deliberately provoked Exalted Emperor's Gan to relieve the pressure on her team. He had slapped her Pei Qinhu to death with near-madness. At first she had been angry, but after it happened enough times, she had actually fallen in love with the feeling of being slapped to death by his Gan.
Even during the final push, she had desperately wanted Exalted Emperor to slap her Pei Qinhu to death again!
As the strongest female solo-queue jungle King in the history of Honor of Kings, she had always presented herself as an aloof goddess. Even after she later showed her face on stream and deliberately put on funny acts, she had remained a rather cold-natured streamer.
And after transforming herself into a sweet yet cool mature beauty through fitness, she had returned completely to her aloof nature.
But only Yun Shu herself knew that her aloofness was merely protective coloring. Her masochistic constitution was her true face!
"Why does Exalted Emperor feel so familiar to me?" Yun Shu struggled to suppress a pleasurable shiver, opened Douyin's short-video app, and searched for Exalted Emperor's livestream!
Most masochistic constitutions were not inborn; more often, they awakened later in life.
Hers, for example, had awakened nine years ago.
In 2015, she had joined Imperial Crown, a top team in the Android Q Zone, as a favored daughter of heaven in Honor of Kings, and earned the title of [Aries] within the team.
But when the Captain of the Imperial Crown personally tested her, a newcomer to the team, she finally understood that there were always people beyond people, heavens beyond heavens.
In a one-on-one solo match against the captain, she had been utterly unable to fight back and had been thoroughly crushed. In the five-on-five team match afterward, even though her side was made up entirely of Imperial Crown's elite members, they had still been thoroughly crushed by the captain!
From then on, she had fallen in love with the feeling of being crushed by the captain, and that had also awakened her masochistic constitution.
But later, she had left Imperial Crown Team of her own accord. She could no longer match with the captain in ranked or Peak Tournament games, nor could she find a great player capable of crushing her, so her masochistic constitution had remained hidden deep in her heart.
Then, in the first half of this year, she had gone to Jiangcheng to transform her figure and hired the national lean-muscle competition champion as her personal trainer. His almost devilish training plan had awakened the masochistic constitution that had slumbered within her for years.
Yun Shu found Exalted Emperor's livestream and clicked in.
A young man came into view, with a handsome face, cold eyes, and a figure and looks worth at least a seven out of ten.
"Su..."
Yun Shu's beautiful eyes widened, and she screamed, "Coach Su???"
Those familiar eyes, that familiar mouth, that eternally cold gaze-they belonged to none other than Coach Su, who had helped her lose weight and transform herself some time ago!
"Exalted Emperor is Coach Su?!"
Yun Shu's mind exploded. She had never imagined that Gan, who had brutally crushed her in the game just now, was actually Coach Su!
"No wonder Exalted Emperor reminded me of someone I knew." Yun Shu's breathing quickened. "It turns out he's Coach Su!"
She would never have imagined that she would reunite with Coach Su in Honor of Kings, much less that Coach Su, known as the Cold-Faced King in the fitness world, had gaming skills comparable to a King-Titled Player's!
For a moment, Yun Shu's heart was in turmoil.
She gripped her hair with both hands and took a deep breath to calm her shock.
She did indeed have feelings for Coach Su, and during her fitness transformation, she had even thought about dating him on several occasions.
But!
"Alas, you came when spring was not in bloom, little Coach Su."
Yun Shu calmed herself, a few traces of loneliness appearing in her eyes. She closed Exalted Emperor's livestream, returned to Honor of Kings, and opened her in-game friends list. Her gaze fell on the player who was always pinned at the top.
"It's a pity that, in my youth, I met someone who would dazzle me for a lifetime."
Yun Shu opened the pinned player's profile. In the team field, the words [Captain of the Imperial Crown] stood out clearly.
That was right. The man she loved was the Captain of the Imperial Crown!
From the summer of 2016 to the summer of 2025, she had loved him for a full nine years! Even though she had never met him, her love for him surged as strongly as ever.
For nine years, she had turned down every man's pursuit. Even when a man like Coach Su appeared and made her heart flutter, she had remained true to her heart.
"Captain."
Yun Shu murmured, "Just how good does Aries have to become at the game before she's worthy of your love?"