Chapter 270: Reconciliation spanning ten years, the true meaning of eSports

"Come in!" Ye Xiu called out to the door helplessly.

There was silence outside the door for a few seconds, and then the five youngsters from Excellent Era, led by Chen Zebin, walked in shyly.

Looking at the reluctant look on Abin's face, it was obvious that he didn't want to be the first to take the lead.

But who can blame this child for being so honest? The other four kids all like to urge him to be the leader.

Ye Xiu covered his face, what an unlucky child.

"When did you start eavesdropping?"

The five little ones chattered for a while, and finally Ah Bin gritted his teeth and replied:
"It started almost from the time you guys were talking about Senior Sun Xiang."

Well, that means I basically listened to it from beginning to end.

Since this is the case, there is no need for Ye Xiu to be tactful and he explained straightforwardly:

"In that case, you should also know that what is currently before you is indeed a very risky opportunity."

"Based on the strength you have shown in the LSPL, you are indeed qualified to play in the top leagues."

“So—” Ye Xiu hadn’t finished his words when, except for the usually obedient Qiu Fei, the other four people shouted excitedly:

"Go! Of course!" "We must not miss this opportunity!"

Among them, Chen Zebin shouted the loudest.

Chen Zebin is a straightforward person with no sense of propriety and average emotional intelligence, but he is not stupid.

If we were to say which of the five players of Excellent Era has the least chance of making it into the first team's rotation, Chen Zebin would probably be the one.

His style is very similar to Tang Rou's, but his overall strength is much weaker than Tang Rou's.

Tang Rou can do everything he can do, and she can do it better than him.

He was even more helpless when it came to what Tang Rou couldn't do.

This meant that it was almost impossible for him to get a chance to play before Tang Rou retired.

Although Tang Rou is already 22 years old, Chen Zebin will probably be able to take over after playing for three or four years.

But he thought he couldn't wait that long.

After all, he ran away to become a professional player because he had a falling out with his family.

If it weren't for his adopted cousin's mediation, he would have been caught by his father long ago.

Although he is doing very well in the second team now, LSPL is LSPL after all.

It is somewhat unrealistic to want to convince my parents to allow me to continue playing in the professional league with a salary of several thousand yuan offered by Boss Tao.

Therefore, in order to continue pursuing his dream, either earning more money or achieving good results have become goals that Chen Zebin must pursue with all his strength.

Most of the other people had similar ideas.

The more the e-sports field develops and the more complete the system becomes, the more sense of urgency these young people feel.

Especially after the previous wave of big money spending, many defeated opponents in LSPL got the opportunity to play in LPL before them.

This immediately made the brothers even more anxious.

Go to North America to play games, you must seize this opportunity!
When Ye Xiu asked this question, he had guessed that this would be the reaction.

Kids who are sixteen or seventeen years old are all internet addicts who have never seen the world. They have no idea of ​​the risks of playing games in a place like North America.

But now, Ye Xiu didn't plan to stop them anymore.

The summer season will last at most three to four months, or even shorter.

In North America, we have the team of Mr. Cai and Wu Xuefeng as double insurance to protect us.

Although the five children have different personalities, none of them are too naughty.

Even Abin, who ran away from home to become a professional player, is unexpectedly pure in areas other than his profession.

"In that case, Old Wu, I'll have to trouble you to keep a closer eye on things." Ye Xiu smiled helplessly and said to Wu Xuefeng on the phone.

After hearing Ye Xiu's words that were equivalent to giving in, the children all breathed a sigh of relief and cheered quietly.

Even Qiu Fei, who was always the most honest, clenched his fists excitedly.

They are going to the North American league to fight for their future!

"No problem. I guarantee they will stay focused." Wu Xuefeng chuckled on the other end of the phone.

Finally I convinced this stubborn guy.

It's worth it that an old guy who has retired for many years would come out of retirement.

He looked at the computer screen in front of him, which was filled with game videos, various documents and spreadsheets that almost filled up an entire hard drive.

Since he is talking about taking care of children, Wu Xuefeng’s responsibilities are definitely not just to manage the lives of Jia Shi’s fifth grade students in North America.

According to the result of his discussion with Tao Xuan, he will personally serve as the head coach of Excellent Era.

When he thought of this, he couldn't help but feel some emotion.

If the Honor Professional League had also made such detailed arrangements for the future of retired players, allowing them to serve as coaches, training teams, etc. after training,
Perhaps he would not have said goodbye to Excellent Era so completely that year.

After all, he left Jia Shi not because of any grudges or conflicts with anyone, but purely because he was old, his skills had declined, and he could no longer fight.

But in terms of intelligence, even after so many years, he has not declined much compared to his peak period.

"Coach..." Wu Xuefeng raised the corner of his mouth, and his usually calm eyes also quietly showed a little sharpness.

"Speaking of which, I should be one of the few professional players in the world who has won 100% of the championship in his career."

"Now that I'm a coach, it would be a shame if I accidentally broke this undefeated streak."

“So, let’s take those kids and win a championship for fun.”

……

"Alright, alright, let's go train!"

As the saying goes, when the time has come, kill the donkey.

After using the children to finally get Ye Xiu to give in, Tao Xuan revealed his true face as a villain and drove the children to the training room.

Soon, the only people left in the room were an old man in his forties and a jerk in his twenties who also had the temperament of an old man.

The atmosphere fell into a kind of silence for a while.

"Do you think I'm funny?" Tao Xuan suddenly asked:
"When we were doing the best, had the most hope, and were at our peak, all I could think about was how to commercialize Excellent Era more thoroughly."

"But now, the league system has improved and become more commercialized. I should be making a lot of money, but I am just being stubborn here."

"If I had that much ambition back then, do you think we would have won four consecutive championships?"

When saying this, Tao Xuan's expression was half-smile, as if he was mocking himself, but it seemed like it was just a joke.

Looking back, Tao Xuan always felt that he was responsible for Excellent Era's failure to win four consecutive championships.

Ever since Su Mucheng joined Excellent Era, Tao Xuan's intentions were not pure.

In order to increase the commercial value, he almost got all the commercial endorsements that Ye Xiu rejected back from Su Mucheng.

Su Mucheng really worked hard and made Tao Xuan and Jia Shi earn a lot of money.

But inevitably I missed a lot of training.

Tao Xuan has been thinking these days, if he had restrained himself a little more at that time, and relied on Zhang Xinjie's newly debuted Tyranny, could he have really overthrown Excellent Era, which had just won three consecutive championships and gained a lot of blood?

"No conflict!" Ye Xiu still used his usual nonchalant tone, "You are cooperating with a giant like Boss Cai, and this is not considered a commercial success?"

"As for the past, believe me, even if Old Wu didn't retire and Mu Cheng didn't accept the endorsement, we couldn't win if all of us united as one."

"Is Tyranny so strong? It makes you lose confidence?" Tao Xuan found it quite fresh to hear such discouraging words coming from Ye Xiu's mouth.

Ye Xiu calmly shook his head: "It's not that Tyranny is strong, it's that the league can't allow the same team to win the championship for four consecutive years. That would be a devastating blow to the league."

In any commercial league, especially a gradually mature commercial league, it is almost impossible to win consecutive championships.

Even if a team really does build a galactic battleship, the league officials will find ways to dismantle it.

After all, who would like to watch a game where a certain team completely dominates and the finale can be announced right after the start of the game?

Therefore, the upper limit for Excellent Era is three consecutive championships, and the fourth championship must be used to support a new team.

This team should be an old-established team that already has its own traffic, and it would be best if they have some grudges with Excellent Era.

If they can defeat Excellent Era to win the championship in the finals, that would be the result the league officials would most like to see.

The battle between two tigers, two peerless heroes, is an everlasting topic no matter in which competitive field.

Therefore, in the fourth season, even if Excellent Era didn't fail, the league officials would find ways to punish them. Maybe in one of the versions, a high-level ultimate skill would be given to the warriors, which would be extremely bad, so that they could experience what "balance adjustment" meant.

"That's right." Tao Xuan nodded in agreement, and suddenly became curious: "By the way, why did you study these things? Shouldn't you hate these commercial operations the most?"

"Yeah, I did feel disgusted before." Ye Xiu did not shy away from his past thoughts at all.

"At that time, I always felt that in e-sports, everything is decided on the field. As long as you perform well enough on the field, you can solve all problems."

“This is the pride I have accumulated little by little over my many years of gaming career.”

"It's just that..." His eyes suddenly became vague, as if he was recalling the past.

"These prides have long been completely shattered."

Tao Xuan was stunned for a moment, then his pupils shrank slightly: "Are you talking about, President Pei?"

"correct."

"On that snowy night, you weren't the only one whose psychological defenses were shattered."

"And I."

On the night when Ye Xiu was driven away by Excellent Era, Pei Yunteng and Tenghai Group did come to his aid right from the start, making Excellent Era pay a heavy price for their arrogance.

But this does not mean that they really stand on Ye Xiu's side and oppose commercialization and operations.

On the contrary, in terms of stance, Tenghai has always been consistent with Jia Shi, and they support the commercialization and formalization of e-sports more than Jia Shi.

The reason why he stood up for Ye Xiu was purely because of Jia Shi's operation. Even from a business perspective, it was too stupid to watch.

After that, during the period when Pei Yunteng and Ye Xiu communicated most closely, he had been using his own ideas to make the most direct impact on Ye Xiu.

He made Ye Xiu see the reason why he had always insisted on not showing up. The so-called running away from home was actually a trivial matter in the Internet age.

He made Ye Xiu see how much benefit the commercialization and formalization of the league could bring to the players.

He made Ye Xiu realize that only by running the league well could he further expand his influence and gradually change the fate of professional players.

Ye Xiu's original insistence seemed so fragile in the face of the hard evidence that Pei Yunteng kept throwing out.

Especially after he took the live broadcast contract and the sky-high signing fee given to him by Tenghai, and started to build the Xingxin team from scratch, in a sense, he became the boss of the team himself.

He also had to admit that he was wrong, ridiculously wrong.

"Once I admit the fact that I was wrong, when I look back, some of the things that I couldn't figure out before are now very clear."

"Why did Excellent Era go downhill? Why did the players gradually become alienated from me as their captain? Why did the conflict between us become so intense?"

"Because of my arrogance."

The words Ye Xiu used were very strong, but he really felt that way.

Looking back, there are too many low-difficulty solutions to the many contradictions in Excellent Era.

Let’s not talk about whether running away from home is an unfavorable black spot.

Even if it were true, if Ye Xiu had been able to speak frankly with Tao Xuan and the management back then, how could there have been so many conflicts?
Tao Xuan wasn't really a black-hearted capitalist. As long as Ye Xiu was willing to talk to him, at least 90% of the accumulated resentment could be eliminated.

But Ye Xiu didn't say anything.

In terms of communication with his teammates, if Ye Xiu could learn from the way his old teammate Wu Xuefeng got along with him, and not stick to the role of the strict father in the team, he might not end up being abandoned by everyone.

I was too arrogant at the beginning. I was so arrogant that I thought I could handle everything on my own. I was so arrogant that I was unwilling to open my heart to anyone.

Listening to Ye Xiu's seemingly relaxed self-deprecation, Tao Xuan didn't know what to say for a moment and could only remain silent.

In the final analysis, the reason why Excellent Era was in such a mess was purely because of the two stubborn people.

They are unwilling to be open and honest with each other, unwilling to empathize with each other, and just keep things to themselves, which eventually leads to bigger and bigger conflicts.

And now, these two stubborn donkeys, amidst the hardships of life, have once again boarded the same pirate ship and become grasshoppers on the same rope.

I have to sigh at the wonder of fate.

“So after that, I will take the initiative to observe the details about the club and even the league operations, to--” Ye Xiu continued.

"What's the point of knowing those things? Is that what you, a professional player, should do?" Tao Xuan suddenly interrupted him.

Ye Xiu looked up in astonishment, only to see Tao Xuan's eyes had unconsciously become clear:
"Purity and stubbornness are indeed your characteristics, Ye, but they are definitely not shortcomings."

"If you weren't so pure, we wouldn't have won three championships."

"Club operations and commercial activities are things that our management should learn and understand. All the players need to do is to win on the court, that's all."

Tao Xuan suddenly smiled, a smile that was relieved yet full of confidence.

"The old Excellent Era was destroyed a long time ago. There's no point in reflecting on its problems."

"All we can do is seize the opportunity we have now."

"Just like before, I will be at the rear to take care of all the worries for you and our players."

"And you, lead the team to bring that damn championship back to me!"

After saying this, Tao Xuan suddenly felt relieved.

Although his relationship with Ye Xiu had reconciled over the past year, that was based on his active and thorough surrender and the common interests of both parties.

Regarding the past frictions and embarrassments, the two tacitly chose to avoid them, as if they had never happened.

And now, bringing up those past events again, it seems... not so difficult to talk about them!

The five members of Excellent Era went to North America, and Tao Xuan's last knot in his heart was finally resolved.

He felt relaxed at this moment and just wanted to cherish this opportunity to start over.

This time, he must work with Ye Xiu to build the most successful e-sports giant in China, no, in the world!
After many years, Ye Xiu saw Tao Xuan, the owner of the Internet cafe ten years ago, with that familiar look in his eyes.

He has the shrewdness typical of middle-aged people, but also the fighting spirit of young people.

He suddenly felt that he was being a little pretentious.

Yes, so many years have passed, why bother about the past?

As the captain of Happy, the only thing he needs to worry about now is how to overthrow the prosperous Fanhua and the poorly developing Blue Rain and win the coveted championship.

In the past, the reason why he was unable to handle the relationships within Excellent Era's team was because he shouldered too many responsibilities.

After Wu Xuefeng retired, in addition to operations and commands, he also had to lead young people, communicate with management, and even help Su Mucheng deal with a lot of business matters.

The more burdens you carry, the easier it is to make mistakes.

Looking at Tao Xuan's sincere attitude, Ye Xiu couldn't help but think of one thing:

"With this group of trustworthy partners here, can I let them shoulder some of the responsibilities?"

Otherwise, give it a try.

Thinking of this, Ye Xiu smiled.

"Okay, then I won't be responsible for these things from now on." He stretched out his hand.

Tao Xuan was stunned for a moment, then he smiled and stretched out his hand: "Just play your game well."

Hold the two hands together.

"Win the championship?"

"Win the championship."

……

After a few days, the summer season of LPL and LSPL is finally coming, and each team has officially announced their summer season rosters.

But what is puzzling is that the LSPL Spring Championship team Excellent Era has a group of unknown faces on its roster.

Where did the previous five champions go? Everyone was puzzled.

I searched this division for quite some time but couldn't find where they were.

It was not until the neighboring LCS announced its roster that people saw five familiar faces in the roster of an LCS team.

Suddenly, not only LPL, but the e-sports circle all over the world was in an uproar.

And the careers of the five young men who left their hometowns officially began in this atmosphere...

　The first update will be available soon.

　　I went out for dinner with friends today, so I was a little late.

　　It's the end of the month, let me save some money.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)