The voice channel fell into complete silence.

Just a second ago, the two people were chattering non-stop, but now, everything went mute.

?

?

!!!!!!

Yi Yi’s eyes widened in shock, her pupils trembling.

Xu Yitong paused, her heart racing as she confirmed, “Yu Ge, what does ‘building a house’… mean?”

“I accepted it.”

Just three simple words, spoken with that familiar cold tone.

“……”

Yi Yi bit her lip, swallowing the words she was about to say.

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhh.

Her mind was storming, and she pinched her thigh, desperately holding back from screaming out loud.

All she could think about was ‘Oh my god, oh my god,’ and ‘He accepted it, he accepted it,’ repeating over and over…

Fish, this is OG’s Fish… Yi Yi felt like her soul was about to leave her body.

How could she, of all people, be the one to have LPL’s top-tier AD step into this mess…

Inside, she was secretly elated, trying her best to calm her voice.

“Wait a second, let me stall for a bit. I’ll teach Tong Tong some talents first.”

Yi Yi’s hands trembled as she typed a reply in the public chat.

milk: [Come, add me as a friend. It’s 8:30 now, we’ll C-house at 9, no problem?]

Jiang Leng: [Haha, if you dare accept it, I’ll show you what’s up. Today, your dad is going to teach you guys who’s boss.]

…

Yi Yi created a 5v5 custom training game.

Xu Yitong went to grab a milk tea delivery, and when she came back, she found several unfamiliar IDs had suddenly joined the room.

“Who are all these people?” she asked in confusion.

Chen Yidao: [Hello, I’m just here to watch the show.]

Jungle Little Fairy: [Hello, I’m Fish’s exclusive jungle daddy.]

Willzz: [Hello, I heard Fish is going to carry you guys in a father-son game?]

What is going on?

This is such a gossip-filled atmosphere…

Yi Yi spoke up, “Tong Tong, go over to Fish’s side, I’ll pick Luna with Roy and play a couple of rounds with you.”

Xu Yitong looked at the list of names, all unfamiliar to her. “Which side?”

“Oh, right, Fish changed his account. Do you see that Squidward? Go to the one under him, I’ll teach you some talents first.”

“Oh, okay.”

“Do you have YY?”

“I do.”

Yi Yi sent a string of numbers in the public chat, “Here.”

Xu Yitong logged into the YY account she hadn’t used in ages, and searched for the channel, which was named “O Record Secret Base.”

When she entered, she just heard Roy speaking, “I just remembered, this little streamer’s Rift ID is Changde WAN, right? He only plays Twitch, and I’ve had a friend pull me into some random brawl room before, he was bottoming out every game. Really bad.”

Little C snorted, his tone dismissive: “Changde WAN? Even if Zhou Dang himself came today, he wouldn’t dare to say he could teach us Fish a lesson, okay?”

“Probably thought it was Roy playing,” Willzz commented, cracking sunflower seeds while watching, “I saw some viewers in his stream recognize this little account.”

“What’s that supposed to mean?” Roy asked, annoyed.

“He probably thought it was me, so he dared to challenge a father-son game? Even if I don’t play AD, I could still easily beat this scrub,” Roy replied.

Awen: “You playing Jinx? I don’t know if you could even beat his Lucian.”

Little C agreed: “True, electric comet Luna is just uncounterable now. Champions like Thresh and Samira get destroyed in the early 2v2, while champions like Kai’Sa and Jinx are just pure toys.”

Xu Yitong listened for a while, silently scrolling through the list of members. Is that the FS guy? But his mic hasn’t turned on… She hesitantly spoke up: “What should we do then? Could someone play on my account? I really don’t know anything.”

Roy let out an exaggerated sound, “Oh, you’re here.”

“Ai, is Zhenzhen pulling a giant radish? May I ask, which goddess is this?” Awen’s voice carried a hint of flirtation.

“It’s me, it’s me, Xu Yitong,” she introduced herself.

There was a brief silence in the YY room.

“Again?” Awen suddenly realized, pausing before thinking again, “I see now.”

“Is it really that hard to play?” Xu Yitong, not paying attention to anything else, anxiously asked, “Then who can play for me?”

Roy interjected: “Fish accepted it, what are you afraid of? If we lose, it’s on him.”

“That’s not good!” Xu Yitong quickly replied.

Letting Yu Ge accept someone like that as a father was no different from killing her.

“It’s fine, trust Fish. He’s really strong,” Yi Yi reassured her.

She adjusted the team and started a game. “Okay, open the talents page, I’ll tell you what to pick.”

Xu Yitong replied: “Wait a second, let me write this down.”

Little C was amused, leaning over to look at the man next to him, who was casually switching screens to watch Go.

While everyone else was excitedly discussing the game, he was silent, completely indifferent.

“Ai Li or Arcane Comet?” Yi Yi and Roy were discussing.

“Definitely Comet, otherwise you won’t have any damage.”

“But the key is whether Tong Tong can land a Q on anyone.”

“Let’s just give it a try.”

Suddenly, the noise from the headphones crackled, and their voices fluctuated.

Xu Yitong stood up, pulling the headphones in and out, but it didn’t help.

In the 20-degree air-conditioned room, Xu Yitong’s forehead was already sweating from the nerves.

Under pressure, she hesitated for a moment, then picked up her phone and sent a message to Yu Ge: [My headphones are broken, can I call you? I’m afraid I won’t be able to hear your instructions later TAT]

She waited, but he didn’t reply.

Xu Yitong sent another message: [Lying is for puppies! If I lie to you, I’ll lose every game I play this year!]

This was the most intense and sincere oath she could think of.

She sent it, but still, no response.

Xu Yitong anxiously looked at the time and couldn’t wait any longer.

With no hope, she decided to try calling him.

Beep beep beep…

Beep beep beep…

——Ding

The moment the call connected, her heartbeat skipped a beat.

Xu Yitong eagerly started to explain, “I swear, I wasn’t trying to make excuses to disturb you, it’s just that my headset…”

Yu Ge interrupted her: “I saw it.”

“Oh…”

Facing a big challenge, she absolutely couldn’t let herself get distracted by a crush at this moment…

Grabbing the last bit of time, she repeatedly practiced what they had taught her—Q, A the enemy, shield, upper body, heal the team… apply Ignite, apply Weakness…

“I think I’m starting to get the hang of it,” she reported softly.

Yu Ge responded indifferently with an “mm.”

Seeing Jinx standing still, Xu Yitong couldn’t help but ask, “What are you doing?”

He thought for a moment before answering her, “Eating.”

Her headset, seemingly out to get her, after the call with Yu Ge, miraculously began working fine again.

Yi Yi called out to her: “Tongtong, remember to use your skills and then auto attack the enemy a couple more times after that.”

Xu Yitong silently glanced at the WeChat call screen.

She ignored her conscience and pretended to be confused after a while, “What? Could you say that again? My headset has static, I didn’t catch it.”

Yi Yi repeated it.

“Oh, oh, got it.”

Yi Yi suddenly asked: “Huh? Why did Fish leave the voice chat?”

“They’re talking alone,” Roy casually replied.

“Ah?” Yi Yi was stunned for a moment before responding with an “oh.”

*

At 9 o’clock, Yi Yi entered the room on time.

Jian Leng switched to another account.

The system default bracket showed their rank: Ranked King.

The glaring four words instantly made Xu Yitong feel small.

Suddenly, she had the urge to run away.

As she entered the hero selection screen, the pressure surged.

The more nervous she got, the more she talked, “Yu Ge, so he really is a King. If I had known, I wouldn’t have argued with him. It’s all my fault for talking too much. What if we lose this time… I’m so scared.”

“If we lose, we lose,” Yu Ge replied.

Without thinking, Xu Yitong blurted out: “No, I absolutely can’t let you lose.”

There was a brief silence on the other end, and then he said, “We won’t lose.”

Xu Yitong immediately went quiet.

She rubbed her face, silently cursing herself in her heart.

At this point, why was she blushing? Such a fool… No hope…

…

With a determination to march to her doom, Xu Yitong entered the game.

She silently prayed to Buddha in her heart, “Please, just let us win. I’ll eat vegetarian food for the whole month…”

At level 1, Lucian and Nami arrived at the minion line simultaneously.

Fifteen seconds into the game, Yu Ge placed a ward in the third bush on the enemy’s side.

The minion waves crossed, just like the last round.

The enemy was strong early on.

Xu Yitong didn’t dare breathe.

Jinx switched forms and started attacking the backline minions.

Yu Ge: “I’m going for level 2, stay near me, don’t go down.”

“Okay.”

Lucian clearly didn’t take them seriously.

Seeing that Jinx was still boldly approaching the experience range at level 1, he directly used his E skill to poke her.

Jinx quickly retreated, avoiding the attack range.

“Little C” mocked: “This Lucian made a mistake, he didn’t proc his passive.”

“Can you hit Nami with your Q?” Yu Ge suddenly asked.

Xu Yitong answered seriously: “I’ll try.”

Listening to their conversation, Little C glanced at Yu Ge, hesitated for a moment but didn’t say anything.

Under immense pressure, Xu Yitong used her first Q.

Just as she was about to hit the enemy support, her hand trembled, and Nami dodged it in time.

Nami avoided the skill and immediately used a frog emoji as a taunt.

Xu Yitong felt a chill in her heart, a little helpless: “I missed, didn’t I?”

Yu Ge responded with an “mm.”

Xu Yitong looked at her Q skill still on cooldown, and there were still several seconds before it would be ready.

She remembered what they had just taught her, “If I land the Q on them, can you kill them?”

Yu Ge paused for a moment, then replied, “I can.”

Since childhood, Xu Yitong had never felt time pass so slowly.

In just a few minutes, she was counting the seconds in her head, sweat dripping down her back.

The third minion wave arrived.

Lucian came up to finish off a low-health cannon minion.

Jinx found an opening and used her W skill, predicting Lucian’s movement.

Lucian began retreating.

In a split second, Xu Yitong gritted her teeth and pressed the Q key.

The cat’s tail tip slid toward the enemy.

Xu Yitong held her breath for several seconds.

In her heart, she silently prayed, “Please, please, let me land one! Let me hit one!”

Nami dodged the skill, but just as she did, the tail end of the Q skill brushed past her and landed on Lucian, who was walking away from the fight.

A comet slammed into him, and the sound effect echoed as his health dropped sharply.

“Use Ignite and Weakness,” Yu Ge instructed.

Xu Yitong’s heart skipped a beat.

Without hesitation, she immediately followed his command.

Almost without a second thought, Jinx quickly flashed and followed up to attack Lucian.

Not expecting them to go all-in so suddenly, Nami was stunned for a moment.

By the time she reacted and used Heal, it was already too late.

Lucian was down to almost no health and managed to escape to the third bush, but was clearly visible due to the ward.

Jinx coolly finished him off with a perfect, fluid auto attack.

The system notification sounded with the first blood message.

—Squidward has slain Jian Leng.

The sudden turn of events left Xu Yitong dazed.

Was it really over already?

In her headset, Yi Yi erupted into cheers.

Xu Yitong, still in disbelief, urgently asked, “We won? Yu Ge, we really won, right?”

Yu Ge exited the game and, in his characteristic low tone, told her, “We won.”

“Ahhhhhh!”

Xu Yitong was so happy she could barely contain herself.

She was beyond ecstatic.

She stood up, jumping up and down in excitement, speaking incoherently, “You’re amazing, little fish is the best AD in the world!!! So handsome, so handsome, so handsome!! Little fish is amazing!”

Little C’s eardrums nearly exploded from her yelling.

He took off his headset and leaned over to ask the person next to him: “Fish, is this girl really your fan? She’s this excited over a solo match win. Seems like she really didn’t—”

Enough.

The last two words never left his mouth.

Because Little C finally saw clearly.

The usually cold and emotionless face of Yu Ge had a faint smile on it.

Little C stared in horror.

Was he… smiling?