Glory [e-sports] - Chapter 272

Translated by 🎏 Edited by apricot, @babyybluebear

Yuan Ze was slandering the High Lady internally, but his hands were honest as they continued to vigorously stir with the straw.

What else could he do? As he was the one seeking advice, Teacher Yuan had no choice but to obediently wait hand and foot on Yan Jiang.

“Here.” Yuan Ze thought it should be fine now. Given how long he had stirred, the sugar should have fully dissolved.

Yan Jiang hesitated, but in the end, still took a sip from the soy milk.

Yuan Ze watched him like a hawk. “How is it?”

If this still wasn’t enough, he was throwing in the towel!

Yan Jiang reclined in his gaming chair and said listlessly. “Too sweet.”

Yuan Ze: “……………………”

Having spent over twenty four hours awake, laser-focused on numerous videos of the Death Knight and countless match recordings, Yan Jiang was starting to get a migraine. He couldn’t help but massage his own temples.

When Yuan Ze saw this, in spite of being this close to throwing his hands into the air and screwing off, his heart melted.

At the end of the day, his team’s High Lady… ahem, captain, just wanted a cup of sweet soy milk.

Afterall, it was easy to suffer from low blood sugar after pulling an intense all-nighter like that.

Yuan Ze took the soy milk. He sampled it himself, and then… got into a coughing fit. He almost died from the sugar overdose.

It was so sweet that it was verging on bitter!

Though, having loaded it with half a jar of sugar, it would be stranger if it wasn’t actually so sweet.

Yuan Ze rose to his feet. “I’ll buy you another cup.”

Yan Jiang glanced up at him, drawling, “Hold on.”

Assuming that he had some other finicky requests, Yuan Ze steeled himself to ask, “What is it?”

Yan Jiang: “There’s a lot of room to play around with the Death Knight’s transformation. When landing the sanctions, if you are able to…”

His voice was soft and slow. He sounded almost as if he was about to fall asleep from one moment to the next, yet his words were clear and structured, and every point he made hit the mark.

At this point, the fans were starting to get a little panicked. “We’re not listening to some top secret team strat, are we!”

But after listening to the whole spiel, they were relieved. “So what if we understand it? How many pros can actually pull it off?”

Besides, it wasn’t that much of a secret. It would be exposed once it came to the tournaments anyway, and whether it could be done depended on individual skill.

Of course, Old Bandit Yuan could pull it off.

Yan Jiang did the analysis and Yuan Ze did the actual work, exhibiting the creme de la creme performance of Glory’s top lane to the audience.

What others couldn’t achieve was definitely within his means. He was able to pull it off not only effortlessly, but splendidly.

Yuan Ze entered a random game and got excited. “That’s quite something!”

The livestream chat hollered: “Teacher Yuan, look at your captain. He’s almost in dreamland already!”

“Scumbag, hurry up and convince the High Lady to go to bed, stop gaming!”

Yuan Ze naturally didn’t see any of that. He was euphoric. Seeing his captain blink blearily, he hastily said, “I’ll go buy soy milk for you now!”

Yan Jiang nodded.

Yuan Ze got up and exited the training room with a few strides.

The whole livestream was hammering this scumbag and his flirtatious peach blossom eyes to death in the chat.

Once Yuan Ze left, Yan Jiang slumped sideways in the gaming chair, already half asleep.

Seeing this, the fans in the livestream started screaming like crazy –

What a rare sight!

God Yan, who never did livestreams, actually fell asleep on livestream!

He was so good-looking!

Being handsome had its perks. Even asleep, a whole horde of people were sending gifts his way.

Half an hour later, puzzlement started to set in. “Where’s Zeze?”

“Is the soy milk place so far away?”

Chen Feng’s eyebrows flew up. “Why are you up so early?”

Still excited, Yuan Ze briskly said, “Captain came up with a new combo for me. Laozi’s Death Knight is going to be unbeatable!”

The past few games, Close and Xie He had been stealing the limelight. As their elder, how could he be willing to fall behind? He had to charge forth and re-establish his might!

Chen Feng’s attention was rapt. “Why do you say so?”

How could speech encapture it sufficiently? Yuan Ze discovered that a computer was on in the neighbouring training room. “Here, let me give you a demonstration!”

After that, he’d go get the soy milk. It’d be quick.

In the end… this demonstration lasted forever.

Chen Feng gave him many pointers and even logged in to have a long solo session with him.

It was after forty minutes of jauntily flattening Chen Feng that Yuan Ze finally noticed the time.

“Fuck!” Yuan Ze was startled into awareness.

Chen Feng: “?”

Yuan Ze had no time to explain; he rushed out to buy some soy milk.

By the time he returned, sure enough, there was nobody in the other training room.

Yuan Ze’s scalp tightened. Proud Flower Kim came over while wiping his hair. “You’re up so early?”

Yuan Ze: “!”

Even the proud flower was awake; what damn time was it now?

Kim Sung-hyun’s eyes zeroed in on his soy milk. “Why did you buy soy milk so early in the morning? Oh, was it for the captain? He already went back to his room to sleep.”

Yuan Ze was croaking weakly on the inside. “You woke captain up?”

Kim Sung-hyun was completely in the dark. “Yeah, it’s too uncomfortable to sleep in a gaming chair. I got him to return to his room.”

Yuan Ze cautiously asked, “He didn’t say anything?”

Kim Sung-hyun was baffled, returning the question, “Was he supposed to?”

Yuan Ze: “…………”

Kim Sung-hyun shot another look at his soy milk. “Are you going to drink it?” Their captain definitely wasn’t going to drink it since he had gone to bed.

How could Yuan Ze still be in any mood to care about drinking soy milk!

Kim Sung-hyun took a sip from it. “Tch, why is it so sweet?”

Yuan Ze was getting cold chills. “Take it or leave it!”

Kim Sung-hyun tossed a curse at him, then walked away frostily with the soy milk.

If Teacher Yuan was apprehensive before, it only worsened when he exited the game interface and found that he had been livestreaming for two hours.

“…………………………”

The livestream chat was cluttered with stuff like: “Scumbag, you actually still remembered to come back!”

“What did the High Lady wait around for an hour for?”

“Scum Man Yuan is a fickle, heartless flirt!”

“Husbando, see how scummy you were. It’s bad enough you took an hour to fetch some soy milk, but you even gave it to God Kim in the end. Feeling heartache for the captain QAQ!”

Lips twitching, Yuan Ze shut the livestream. He had a deep sense of imminent doom!

As for what happened next, the fans were naturally left out of the loop.

In any case, Scum Man Yuan survived the incident and even lived to show off his Death Knight in competition, shocking the world.

It was only with true love that he was able to escape death; any further would be pushing his luck!

There was also no sign of Captain Yan alienating Scum Man Yuan in tournaments. After all, top lanes generally didn’t need support.

On the contrary, Proud Flower Kim seemed to get the brunt of it. Captain Yan tagged along with Xie He at the opening of the game before heading over to support Close. There was only a proud flower in the bottom lane bemoaning his fate.

If this wasn’t because someone’s soy milk had been stolen, then who knew why!

This viral social media clip upended the mysterious persona that surrounded God Yan in the eyes of new fans.

“Good grief, Glory’s most terrifying male actually has such endearing moments?”

“Cuteness overload! Do you know why God Yan follows Eastern Standard Time? Because when his teammates sleep at eleven but he sleeps at nine in the morning, he has literally trained one night more than the people around him!”

“Does the High Lady have to work so hard?”

“What do you think? To be a support capable of challenging the globe, how else could he have done it without putting in over a thousand times more hard work?”

…

Wei Xiao and Brother Cai gossiped for a long time. When they saw their captain come down, Wei Xiao hurriedly updated him.

Lu Feng had long since heard about this. He stared at Wei Xiao.

Wei Xiao was oblivious to the look. “Not bad, I actually get to collab with God Yan, not bad at all.”

Lu Feng averted his gaze.

Eunuch Cai had to wink so furiously that he almost pulled a muscle before His Majesty Xiao managed to get a hint.

There was nobody else around now. Wei Xiao moved in closer and laced their fingers together. “Captain?”

It was impossible for Lu Feng to ignore him. “Mm.”

Tilting his head, Wei Xiao studied him. “Are you unhappy?”

Lu Feng glanced at him out of the corner of his eye.

Wei Xiao blinked. “Why?”

How could Lu Feng put voice to what he was feeling?

However, when two hearts were connected, they could understand each other without having to explain too much. Wei Xiao wondered, “Is it because I’m going to be covering the solo tournament with Captain Yan?”

Lu Feng was honest and answered directly. “Mn.”

Wei Xiao was curious. “Are you jealous of Captain Yan?”

Lu Feng: “No.”

His words carried the opposite meaning. Saying no to a boyfriend often meant yes.

Confronted with such a conflicting boyfriend, Wei Xiao’s primary tactic was to throw him a straight ball. “Why does God Yan being with me bother you so much?”

The moment the words were out, Brother Cai wanted to escape at all costs. He slunk away as fast as he could.

Wouldn’t it be better to accompany Soybean and remain alive and whole? What was the point of lingering around and awaiting death instead!

Once Brother Cai left, Wei Xiao’s straight ball questions became even straighter. “Huh… is Captain Yan gay?”

This line of thinking couldn’t be blamed on Wei Xiao; it was Lu Feng’s attitude that led him to think this way.

Ever since the unveiling of the World Solo Tournament, Lu Feng had been particularly wary of Yan Jiang.

Wei Xiao was a butterfly that danced beyond the canyon and amidst the flowers in the pro circle.

Not only were there the fans from his days as an accompanying player, the Team of Gods and their new teammates were even closer. Little Lunatic Wei attracted them like moths to a flame.

His captain occasionally seemed to get jealous at the drop of a hat, but Wei Xiao could tell he wasn’t serious. He would use these random incidents to tease his captain and attempt to provoke his captain into acting out his frustrations.

It was only when it came to Yan Jiang that Wei Xiao could sense Lu Feng seemed somewhat serious.

He wasn’t bothered by the others – the only one that affected him was Captain Yan. There must be something different there to elicit such a reaction.

Sexual orientation was the only explanation that Wei Xiao’s brain could muster.

But Lu Feng’s response to him was: “I don’t know.”

Wei Xiao froze up.

He didn’t know?

He neither confirmed nor denied it, but just said that he didn’t know?

Wei Xiao bristled warily.

Wei Xiao still had more questions, but Ning Zhehan came down just then, yawning widely as he greeted them.

With Little Ning around, it was naturally no longer a good time to broach such a sensitive topic.

Moments later, Lu Feng’s assistant came over as well, and Lu Feng went off to deal with some matters regarding the team’s partnerships.

Wei Xiao was still secretly curious, but he couldn’t ask Lu Feng right now so could only guess at it himself.

Brother Cai returned from taking Soybean out on a walk. The husky pounced into Wei Xiao’s embrace, nuzzling its head against him.

Wei Xiao had been neglecting his son ever since he had gotten a boyfriend. Now that it was acting so coquettishly, he hurriedly comforted it.

There was no denying Soybean’s parentage; these coquettish genes were definitely passed down from Wei Xiao. It keened as though it had suffered some kind of grievous injury.

Wei Xiao glared at Bai Cai. “Did you bully it?”

Bai Cai: “???”

Soybean keened mournfully.

Uncle Cai, had arduously walked, fed, played with this dog, and even told it bedtime stories. He snapped at them, “Mind your manners!”

Wei Xiao said slyly, “Soybean is just an animal.”

Bai Cai: “…………”

Do you also plan to stop being human too, then?

Nevertheless, Brother Cai was truly Wei Xiao’s long-time bestie. He could tell that the brat wasn’t in a good mood.

They were alone in the room. Bai Cai inquired, “What’s wrong?”

He had heard some of the conversation between Wei Xiao and Lu Feng before he went off to walk the dog.

Wei Xiao petted Soybean’s soft fur, heaving a long sigh.

Bai Cai deliberated. “Captain Yan…”

Wei Xiao mused that while this veggie before him wasn’t a homosexual, he seemed to understand such matters better than straight males, so he probed, “Do you think Captain Yan is…”

Brother Cai received a massive fright. “Wei Xiao, don’t go astray. Captain treats you so well, you must not be ungrateful and unfaithful…”

Wei Xiao rolled his eyes. “Shut it!”

He went into more detail, and only then did Brother Cai’s heart land back in his chest.

He had gotten the fright of his life. If Little Lunatic Wei were to cheat, then there would be no tomorrow for FTW!

Brother Cai’s brows knit. “Captain Yan is gay?”

Wei Xiao: “I’m asking you!”

Brother Cai eyed him dubiously. “How would I know?”

Wei Xiao: “…………”

It was true that Brother Cai wouldn’t know, but it was also true that he knew more than the usual straight guys.

Having run the gossip mill for years, Brother Cai still knew this much: “Don’t they say that those in the community have some sort of radar?”

Wei Xiao was lost. “What community?”

Brother Cai lowered his voice. “The gay community!”

Wei Xiao glowered at him. “Bullshit. If I could figure it out, why would I still be asking you?”

Brother Cai: “You’re a failure.”

Wei Xiao huffed. “I’m not homosexual!”

Brother Cai: “???”

Fucker, you’re as bent as a mosquito coil, and you’re still denying that you’re homosexual?

Between you and the captain, is one of you secretly a cross-dressing woman?

Brother Cai was so triggered by this thought that he started to have goosebumps all over. It made him want to smash his head in!

Wei Xiao said with conviction, “I am merely Close-sexual.”

Bai Cai: “………………”

Wei Xiao: “Close is my first and only love, so am I not Close-sexual?”

Bai Cai: “Get lost!!!”

@babyybluebear: +1 for Yan Jiang isn’t gay, but that revenge on Sung-hyun though, PETTY AF. (Although I fully approve of his preferred sugar level, idk why anyone drinks soy milk without adding sugar, bleh)