Victory!

As the enemy crystal exploded, the screen jumped to the victory screen. Yu Ni returned to her group room and saw the promotion match logo in the upper right corner. She pursed her lips, tears nearly welling up in her eyes.

The sixth time!

This was her sixth Diamond to Star promotion match!

Compared to the jungler who had tricked her with a small green hero in the last promotion match, this newly summoned duo teammate was incredibly impressive—even though he was playing Xiaohaige’s favorite Monkey King.

But what about Xiaohaige?

Xiaohaige is skilled but not cunning, making him the perfect climbing partner for a college girl like her!

Thinking this way, Yu Ni was filled with confidence for the upcoming sixth promotion match. She was about to start ranked, full of fighting spirit, but suddenly noticed the matchmaking button in the lower right corner had turned gray.

“Xiaohaige” canceled the preparation.

After a while, a message popped up in the team chat.

[Thunder Shatters Darkness]: I want to play Miyamoto’s next game.

Yu Ni vaguely sensed something was wrong and blinked, saying, “Go ahead.”

[Thunder Shatters Darkness]: No skin, no feel

Yu Ni could already foresee his ulterior motives, and her tone tinged with annoyance: “I have one, you can use mine.”

Her game account was Noble Level 10, which allowed her to share skins with teammates. The Monkey King that “Little Kid” had played in the previous game was from her collection.

Seeing her feigning ignorance, “Little Kid” finally lost his patience and stopped beating around the bush. He turned on the microphone and said bluntly, “I’m not used to this skin. If I can’t find the feel when I’m with you, it’ll affect my performance. How about you give me one? You’re so rich anyway.”

When the rough, powerful voice rang out, Yu Ni’s heart finally settled.

She kicked the person out of the team, threw her phone, and let out a long, annoyed “Ah!” Her roommate, Mi Lu, was startled, her tarot cards falling onto the table. She turned around and asked, “What’s wrong, Yu Ni? Did Little Kid cause you to lose points?”

“Not some Little Kid!”

A head, topped with a deer antler headband, peeked out from behind the bed curtains. Yu Ni gritted her teeth, “It’s a bad man who begs for money everywhere.”

Mi Lu wasn’t surprised. “I told you not to play ranked games in the lobby. Look, this is the first person to ask you for skins.”

Yu Ni’s almond-shaped eyes widened, her brownish-brown pupils glaring at her. “Then who told you not to play with me?”

Their dormitory was for four people. This semester, one of them rented an off-campus apartment to prepare for postgraduate entrance exams, while the other went abroad on the school’s exchange program. That left Mi Lu and her alone in the room.

Mi Lu worried she’d get bored, so she took her to play Honor of Kings. Yu Ni’s interest was piqued, and driven by her collecting addiction and her obsession with looks, she even spent tens of thousands on a nearly fully loaded account.

However, just as they were struggling to reach Diamond rank, Mi Lu took up a new hobby, tarot reading, leaving her at the bottom of the game.

Yu Ni had just started playing and was in the midst of her addiction, but her skills were limited, and playing alone was simply too daunting for her to rank up, so she began gathering people in the lobby for duo queues.

The lobbies’ teammates’ abilities and personalities varied widely, and over the past few days, Yu Ni had witnessed all sorts of eccentricities.

Some would achieve a disastrous 2-10 record on heroes they couldn’t play just to try out skins, or, like the guy just now, carry a game and then immediately ask her for skins, either explicitly or implicitly.

Yu Ni had plenty of money, but she wasn’t stupid.

With skins costing over a hundred yuan per match, she might as well have just found someone to play with!

Mi Lu, knowing she was in the wrong, listened to her complaints and asked with a wry smile, “So, do you still want to play games?”

“Of course!” Yu Ni picked up her phone, her unyielding voice echoing through the bed curtains. “If one doesn’t work, I’ll take the next. I’m going to make it to the promotion tournament today.”

She readily opened her backpack and sent a message using the voice transmitter that could be displayed above the game lobby.

[In my previous life, I was a Glory King, but a Hundred-Star player attacked me. They destroyed my account, stole my national standard, and even touched my Rubik’s Cube. In this life, I’m a Diamond. My fiancé cruelly broke off the engagement. We’re not getting married. I need a jungler in duo queue, and I’ll play Yao.]

Yu Ni wasn’t a King, nor had she ever achieved the national standard, but she was a V10. As soon as the message went out, someone entered the group room.

Yu Ni secretly resolved to pick a good gaming partner this time.

She frowned, her face stern, and she looked at the person who entered with a scrutinizing gaze.

The avatar is too ugly, no.

The ID has profanity, kick him out.

Frequently used hero: Monkey… Monkey!!!

Yu Ni couldn’t bear to look at this hero anymore, and immediately removed him from the team, refusing to see him.

The next second, a Diamond-ranked account entered the group room.

Yu Ni sized him up.

The avatar was a black and white anime boy, his ID was “Desperate Can Break the Game,” and his commonly used heroes: Jing, Lan, and Luna.

He’s already showing the signs of a jungle king.

Yu Ni removed her finger from the cross and clicked on his profile.

His games and hero skins are few, and his rating for the season is…

98!

A classic jungle king playing on a smurf!

Yu Ni hurried back to the group room, fearing such a strong player would run away, so she immediately started a ranked match.

The promotion match icon popped up, and she was quickly matched with someone and entered the hero selection screen.

Yu Ni didn’t feel like typing. She vaguely remembered him using his receiver, so she asked directly in the team chat, “Are you on the mic?”

The jungler didn’t reply and simply banned Jin Chan.

Yu Ni curled her lips, but she wasn’t frustrated. When it came time to pick heroes, she instantly locked onto Yao Mei on the first floor.

She had watched some streamers teach, and high-level players often discussed comps and sometimes even gave calls on the mic.

But she was only a Diamond player now, so of course she could play whatever she wanted.

The teammates picked their positions one after another, and when it came to the jungler on the fifth floor, he locked onto Jing without hesitation.

Yu Ni reminded him without hesitation, “I have Jing’s skin. You use the gold one. I like that one.”

After giving her call, she glanced at her team’s lineup.

To coordinate with her, her teammates picked Mark as their marksmen.

Yu Ni said, “If Marco uses Passionate Green, I’ll join you.”

“I don’t want to wear Passionate Green’s spiky head. It hurts my feet.”

The countdown ended, and the game entered the loading screen. Yu Ni looked and saw that Jing was using her favorite Legendary skin.

Marco Polo was indeed wearing the ugly Passionate Green.

She made a quick decision: “I declare that Mark has lost his support rights in this game and is sentenced to jail in the bottom lane.”

Entering the game, as the air wall disappeared, Jing moved out of the fountain.

Yu Ni controlled the Roulette and followed behind him. The pink and purple Yao Mei sat sideways on her staff. Due to her movement speed, the distance between her and Jing in front of her was getting farther and farther.

Yu Ni grumbled softly, “Can’t you wait for me?”

As soon as she finished speaking, the golden figure that had just emerged from the high ground paused and stopped, as if waiting for her. The small model leaped from the staff. Satisfied, Yu Ni ran to catch up.

The two figures walked side by side. Jing turned into the jungle, while Yu Ni followed the mage to the middle lane.

Their mid laner was Xishi. Yu Ni, obsessed with looks, was determined to protect the beautiful Jiangnan girl.

After clearing the lane with Xishi, the two of them went to the top lane for support. Just as they flashed against the opposing team, they heard the devastating news from the bottom lane: Marco Polo had been killed by the enemy Yuan Fang, giving up first blood.

However, Jing, having just finished farming red buff, rushed over to take down the opposing marksman, narrowing the gap slightly.

Though Yu Ni said she didn’t want to fight the spiky-haired Marco, this was her own promotion match after all. Seeing that the bottom lane was constantly being suppressed by her opponent, she rushed over to help.

[Angrily scolding teammates in a losing streak (Marco Polo)]: “Why didn’t you follow me earlier? Ma Yao’s tempo is unstoppable.”

Yu Ni looked at his 0-3 record and slowly typed: “?”

Whether Ma Yao’s tempo was unstoppable or not was unknown to her, but with Yao Mei around, Marco was clearly much more confident. He bravely charged into the enemy jungle with Yu Ni to steal the blue mana, unhindered.

However, halfway through the fight, they were discovered by the enemy. Even the confrontation lane had crossed most of the map to the river, and five enemies were closing in on them like a net.

Marco confidently used Purify, then his ultimate spun into the crowd, his health bar instantly disappearing like a rollercoaster.

Yu Ni’s Yao Mei was also knocked down from above him, killing Marco instantly, and he immediately became the target of everyone’s attacks.

“Help, help! I’m dying!”

Yu Ni pressed the wheel desperately, fleeing, but the enemy’s slowdown made her movement extremely difficult, and her health bar plummeted at a visible rate.

Just as her health dwindled, a golden figure suddenly appeared.

“Come on, choose a path away from death.”

The calm, serene hero voice echoed, and Yu Ni, as if seeing a glimmer of hope, suddenly brightened. She pressed her ultimate, and at the moment her health bar was completely depleted, she attached herself to Jing’s head, immunizing him from fatal attacks.

The enemy pursued her relentlessly, but he showed no sign of fleeing. He unleashed his ultimate horizontally, pinning five opponents in the middle, then mirrored her and launched a counterattack.

Jing, now fully equipped, dealt immense damage, instantly killing two squishy enemies with his strike. Yu Ni hung above him, worried about falling from her last drop, while watching his dazzling, blindingly fast Flying Thunder God.

As she watched, she felt a wave of motion sickness for the first time in her life. Before she could react, the pentakill announcement and “Mirror Blade x14” appeared at the top of the screen.

The opposing team had been wiped out by him.

Yu Ni, having survived, jumped down from his head and looked at her own health bar, shocked and relieved.

She actually survived!

This jungle king is truly amazing!

While she was still sighing inwardly, the jungle king had already entered the opposing blue zone. Yu Ni hurriedly followed him, her tone less rude, and asked, “Can you give me a blue buff?”

Jing’s attack paused, but the blue buff, which was barely alive, was still scorched by the red buff at his feet.

Two figures, one tall and one short, stared at each other across the thin wall of the jungle.

Yu Ni snorted and clicked the recall button on the spot.

She was already low on health and needed to go back to replenish her health.

However, Jing, who had nearly reached full health after using wild monsters to recover, also began to return to the city.

The two landed at the fountain one after the other. Yu Ni, having recovered full health, looked up and saw Jing still standing at the fountain entrance.

As if waiting for her.

Yu Ni brushed past him, intending to find Xi Shi, when she suddenly heard a quick voice message.

[Follow Me]

Jing’s portrait appeared on the screen, and then a message popped up in a text message.

[Desperate Situation Can Break the Game (Jing)]: Go get the mana at home.

Yun Wang controlled his hero and followed her, sending the quick voice message “Follow Me” again.

Yu Ni paused at his words and climbed onto him.

“You have to send the voice message ‘Support, please follow me’; it’s polite.”

She loomed over Ye Wang, rambling on and on. She had assumed his previous remark was just a passing comment, but he followed it up with an explanation.

[Breaking Through Desperate Situations (Mirror)]: I haven’t equipped this voice line.

Yu Ni was a little surprised and followed his lead, saying, “Then remember to equip it later.”

[Breaking Through Desperate Situations (Mirror)]: Okay.

After a few seconds, he sent another text.

[Breaking Through Desperate Situations (Mirror)]: Support, please follow me.