Chapter 5: Give Him A Chance
As a substitute player who only appears on the roster, logically speaking, it’s impossible to have such huge attention. After all, he’s just a dispensable person. Even if EDG kicks him out, no one would care, and some might even clap and say it’s a good kick.
But… the EDG team is destined to have amazingly huge attention in the LPL.
After all, this team has been dominating the LPL since it was founded, and it’s truly a powerhouse club.
Even though EDG’s record at the World Championship isn’t ideal.
There are still a large number of fans following…
This is also why Li Fan plays QQ Speed all day, and people occasionally come into his live stream room to curse at him.
It’s nothing more than feeling that in such a club, there’s actually a player slacking so much?
Isn’t this bound to affect the level of the other starting players?
As for competition for positions?
He’s slacking to this extent, so Xiao Xue Di doesn’t need to worry at all. Didn’t they just lose to RNG?
In today’s match, 60% of the blame is on the players, and another 40% is on Li Fan!
Now marketing accounts are adding fuel to the fire.
Li Fan, who hasn’t played a single match, has already been made irredeemable by the little piglets, spat on by thousands.
It’s as if any EDG fan who doesn’t attack Li Fan has committed a grave error.
Plus the onlookers fearing the world isn’t chaotic enough, pushing this heat even higher.
Leading to posts popping up endlessly on major forums even at over 2 a.m.
The heat is getting bigger and bigger…
Not all League of Legends players are involved, but 50-60% are.
Because this commotion is really exaggerated, with posts everywhere, dazzling the eyes.
With so many people, the topics can’t just attack Li Fan alone.
Soon the entire EDG team got criticized. After all, compared to attacking a transparent substitute, criticizing Clearlove with so many famous scenes is more interesting.
【Laughing to death, EDG loses a match and they blame a substitute who didn’t play? I just want to ask… how does someone who didn’t play control the whole EDG team to throw? With telekinesis?】
【Can 4396 still be called? Don’t you think Clearlove’s problem is bigger? Bot lane is an incapable Ah Dou, yet he insists on ganking bot? After ganking and losing, they pin the blame on Li Fan, right?】
【EDG this season is truly the grand finale, with an amazingly obvious gap against top teams, no one from top to bot lane is clean.】
【Didn’t 4396 say he would retire after the World Championship? Now it’s clearlove7, will it be clearlove8 next year?】
【No, can you only spot the flaws and not the strengths? Never getting team wiped is the essence of his cowardice, and reaching quarterfinals carved into his genes, these are top-level strengths.】
【Damn, spot on summary!】
【That’s actually pretty reasonable, not a single word wrong. Who dares say these aren’t Clearlove’s strengths?】
No one expected the plot to twist like this.
They started cursing and ended up all cursing Clearlove…
Originally, EDG wouldn’t care at all about cursing a transparent substitute little player, but if Clearlove gets dragged in and it affects the upcoming matches, that’s the real problem.
EDG manager’s office.
Abu is hurrying with small steps from the corridor to the door, pushing it open forcefully.
He received the message last night and hasn’t slept all night, anxious as hell.
Sitting in his seat, he picks up the phone on the desk: “Has Nuo Yan gotten up? Call Nuo Yan over.”
There was also an outburst after last year’s World Championship.
But they didn’t respond, and over time, though not forgotten, the attacking posts decreased.
But who would have thought it would erupt again in the early hours of today.
Such an exaggerated reaction, plus now it’s the critical point of the regular season.
Although still second in Group B, they’re only one game behind first in Group B, WE. After the intergroup matches, coming back for intragroup matches is the key.
If the players are affected by this and mess up the intragroup matches, failing to get first in Group B, then the playoffs advantage won’t be big.
So these online matters need to be handled immediately.
As for Li Fan who started the rhythm…
Since it’s like this, just kick him out directly.
Anyway, he’s just a substitute who hasn’t played a single match; firing him has no impact.
And liquidated damages? The club, as the stronger party, can just pay him one or two months’ salary.
He only signed for such a short time anyway.
Planned to let him go after the Spring Split, but now he causes this much trouble even in the basement?
I’m really done with you.
Thinking of this, he feels he needs to have a good talk with Coach RapidStar.
After all, the EDG team are all soldiers in his hands.
To fire one of his soldiers, he still needs to mention it to him.
At this moment, a knock on the door suddenly sounds.
“Come in.” Abu saw Ming Kai pushing the door open and coming in; the worry on his face instantly disappeared, replaced by a full smile.
“Xing Ji, you’re looking for me?” Ming Kai and Abu are very familiar; he plops down on the seat across from Abu.
“How is it? Feeling a lot of pressure?” Abu asks directly. After so long, he knows Clearlove’s personality well.
After losing yesterday’s match, with Clearlove’s personality, he must have been browsing posts all night.
At that time, the attacks on him just erupted, so he must have seen them.
Ming Kai sits in his seat; hearing Abu ask this, though unhappy inside, he really can’t think of what to say.
After all, yesterday’s match wasn’t played well; when beaten, stand at attention properly.
“It’s okay, acceptable.”
Though he says that, if Ming Kai’s expression wasn’t so dark, not transformed into his second form Dark Kai, Abu would believe it.
“Relax, we’ve gnawed the toughest bone in Group A, RNG. After this match, there are no strong teams left; the remaining matches are relatively easy.”
That’s true; in Group A now, only RNG is a strong team.
The remaining teams are relatively easy to beat for victories.
Hearing this, Clearlove’s mood improves a bit, and he nods.
“Sigh, it’s all because Li Fan is such a troublemaker. If not for him not training properly and stirring up so much rhythm, we’d fire him in a few days.”
Clearlove immediately pictures Li Fan.
He has to admit, Li Fan left a deep impression on him, not just his appearance, but that Malphite in the game.
It made him play very comfortably.
This is why, even though Li Fan was benched, he was willing to give him a chance to duo queue.
But unexpectedly, he’s like mud that can’t stick to the wall.
But after all, he invited him himself…
“Give him another chance in a training match. I think he still has potential.”
Ming Kai’s words stun Abu, because he really didn’t expect him to say that.
