BVAHEDLA[W Chapter 19
by VolareChapter 19 E-sports 19 “I fight for you.”…
What the hell?
Wang Jian-guo felt like he hadn’t woken up yet, otherwise, how could he have heard such words from Chu Li-fei?
However, he soon realized that he was very awake and everything happening before his eyes was real!
Chu Li-fei stood at the door when a familiar voice suddenly came from behind him, his throat still a little hoarse from just waking up: “Captain, who’s outside?”
Chu Li-fei turned sideways to look back.
The sunlight after the rain was exceptionally bright. Because Chu Li-fei turned around, the bright golden light poured in from the window, also allowing Wang Jian-guo to see the situation inside Chu Li-fei’s room.
Lu Mo-chen was sitting on Chu Li-fei’s bed, still wearing Chu Li-fei’s clothes. He rubbed his eyes and stretched lazily, looking like he had just woken up.
A few strands of his hair stuck up randomly, and the sunlight plated them with a layer of gold, making them look particularly soft.
Seeing that no one was paying attention to him, Lu Mo-chen tentatively asked again, “Huh? Captain, are you there?”
Wang Jian-guo was completely resigned at this point, but he couldn’t figure out how these two ended up sleeping together.
As he thought this, he asked the question out loud.
Lu Mo-chen heard the voice at the door and hurried over in slippers to take a look: “I forgot to bring back my room key yesterday, that’s why I disturbed the Captain for the whole night.”
Wang Jian-guo nodded in realization, not saying anything more, but reminding them to change their clothes and come downstairs as soon as possible.
Chu Li-fei and Lu Mo-chen didn’t dawdle and changed their clothes soon after. However, the clothes from last night had been washed and weren’t dry, and Lu Mo-chen couldn’t get into his own room because it was locked, so he could only borrow another set of Chu Li-fei’s clothes. Fortunately, the size difference between the two wasn’t significant, and the clothes looked reasonably fitting.
There were still a few days before the first match of the playoffs, but before that, all the teams entering the playoffs had to go to the league to shoot a promotional video.
This was considered an old tradition, and these promotional videos would be played one by one for the corresponding teams during the official matches.
At the filming location.
When Chu Li-fei and the others arrived, several teams were already inside.
Among them were a few familiar faces, such as Jiang Shi, and also Li Yun-ping.
There were a total of eight teams entering the playoffs. Besides the MU team, the remaining included the four teams they had previously played against: SYR, TY, KUF, and KH, as well as three other teams.
After Chu Li-fei greeted the acquaintances, he led them all the way to the makeup room. It was empty right now, and they could probably finish filming soon after getting their makeup done.
The makeup artist’s hands were steady, and the MU team members’ base complexions were pretty good, so it didn’t take much effort to apply the foundation. After that, they just needed to style their hair, and they would be ready.
Chu Li-fei, as the coach, didn’t need to participate in the filming, so he was happy to relax and simply picked a spot to sit down.
“Chu Li-fei.”
Someone seemed to be calling him from outside.
Chu Li-fei put away his phone and turned his gaze toward the door, discovering that the person who came was Jiang Shi.
“What’s wrong?” Chu Li-fei was a little puzzled in his heart, but he still stood up and walked toward Jiang Shi, asking in a low voice.
Jiang Shi leaned against the door and said with a smile, “Can I have a word with you in private?”
Chu Li-fei was a little confused. Why was Jiang Shi looking for him at this time? Did something happen?
“Hey, don’t move. Luckily, luckily, otherwise I almost drew outside the line.”
The sudden voice from behind caused Chu Li-fei to subconsciously turn his head, but he was caught off guard and met Lu Mo-chen’s eyes in the air.
However, in that gaze was a darkness and obsession he had never seen before, but it was fleeting. Chu Li-fei had just felt as if he was being stared at by a wolf that had been lurking for a long time, but Lu Mo-chen’s appearance now was no different from usual.
Maybe he saw wrong… Chu Li-fei thought this.
Jiang Shi was still waiting for him, and it seemed to be important. Chu Li-fei gestured for Jiang Shi to wait a moment, turned around and explained a few things to Wang Jian-guo, then followed Jiang Shi out the door.
In a place he couldn’t see, a gaze stared intently at his back until he and Jiang Shi disappeared at the end of the corridor.
Jiang Shi took Chu Li-fei to the back door of the filming location, where not many people came and went.
He got straight to the point: “Actually, Mu Se asked me to find you, but you can also treat it as I wanted to find you.” Jiang Shi paused, “But Mu Se is on the phone with someone and can’t get away for the moment, so he asked me to tell you.”
Chu Li-fei didn’t say anything, raised his eyebrows, and signaled Jiang Shi to continue.
“It’s like this, Mu Se wants to arrange a few scrimmages with your MU team and is asking if you have time.”
Chu Li-fei was naturally happy to accept this kind of thing. He and Jiang Shi discussed the time and quickly settled on the dates.
But this kind of thing could be discussed in the makeup room, so why did Jiang Shi have to call him out separately?
Chu Li-fei looked at the time, estimating that Lu Mo-chen and the others should have started filming by now. Although Wang Jian-guo had filmed several times and had experience, Chu Li-fei had explained it to him in detail, but he was still a little worried, after all, it was Lu Mo-chen’s first time participating in filming.
“Is there anything else?”
Jiang Shi quietly looked at him, the smile that was often on his face disappeared, looking unusually serious.
“If there’s nothing else, I’ll go first.”
The wind was picking up outside, rustling the trees.
Just as Chu Li-fei was about to turn around, Jiang Shi’s voice carried through the wind to his ears.
“Are you really content?”
Chu Li-fei’s head exploded with a “buzz”: “What… do you mean by that?”
“Your hand probably couldn’t withstand too much training and competition for long, that’s why you retired, right?”
Jiang Shi said calmly, he seemed very certain.
Chu Li-fei stopped in his tracks, he hadn’t told anyone outside about his hand injury.
“How did you know?”
“Guessed, but judging by your appearance, I should have guessed correctly.”
Jiang Shi smiled faintly and slowly walked to Chu Li-fei’s side.
“Turning from the front stage to behind the scenes, can you really let go completely? And you also want to win the championship, right?”
“I admit that Lu Mo-chen’s talent is good, and given time, he might really surpass you and me. But can he really replace you and bring that final victory now?”
With each sentence Jiang Shi spoke, the light in Chu Li-fei’s eyes dimmed a little, but when he raised his head again, his eyes were full of trust and frankness.
“I believe in him,” Chu Li-fei said the answer he had once said before.
Indeed, Chu Li-fei yearned for victory, and he also yearned for cheers and applause. No professional player could accept the matter of retiring due to a hand injury with equanimity.
But he wasn’t the Chu Li-fei of this world. He had already fallen to the deepest valley, but he had also stood at the peak that everyone looked up to and overlooked everything, he believed in his choice.
Hearing this answer, a few moments of astonishment flashed in Jiang Shi’s eyes, but he quickly understood.
“Is that so? Then I’ll wait for you in the finals.”
“Yeah, see you in the finals.” Chu Li-fei waved his hand and walked away, this time Jiang Shi didn’t stop him again.
By the time Chu Li-fei returned to the filming location, Lu Mo-chen and the others had already finished filming.
They were packing up their things to leave.
Seeing Chu Li-fei come, Wang Jian-guo briefly told Chu Li-fei what had just happened.
It turned out that there was a small interlude during the filming just now.
Li Yun-ping had arrived early, so he had finished filming before the MU team arrived.
Originally, the two sides were at peace, but who knew that Li Yun-ping would run over and say a few trash-talking words to provoke them as if he had gone mad.
Yu Qing was also not used to him, and immediately retorted back at him.
Unexpectedly, Lu Mo-chen changed his usually well-behaved appearance, directly stood up and said to Li Yun-ping: “Have you said enough? I advise you to save your strength and perform on the field. This time, I won’t let you win a single game from me.”
It seemed that Lu Mo-chen’s eyes were too fierce when he said this, and Li Yun-ping was really frightened for a moment, cursed inwardly, and scurried away.
Yu Qing: “Forget it, forget it, don’t mention him, it’s annoying to mention him. Captain, you don’t know, Lu Mo-chen was so charming when he was filming just now, I was almost teaseed.”
“Is that so? Then it’s a pity that I didn’t see the live version,” Chu Li-fei only thought that Yu Qing was joking and didn’t take it to heart. He looked at Lu Mo-chen teasingly, and found that the latter was blushing and trying to hide himself in the crowd.
A few days later, the first match of the playoffs was held in City C, with the MU team facing the VE team.
And Chu Li-fei finally witnessed the video that Yu Qing mentioned, the one that even teaseed him.
The video filmed by the league was actually very simple. Because the game was called “Fight For What”, the league simply came up with an idea and had all the players record a sentence: “I fight for XX.”
As for what specific thing to shout, the official couldn’t control it, as long as it wasn’t illegal or criminal.
So before, many players made some entertaining things, in short, the program effect was not bad, so the league retained this tradition.
This match was the VE team’s home game, so the video of the VRE team players was played first.
Coincidentally, just as the last VE player finished his antics, the screen directly cut to Lu Mo-chen’s big face.
One has to say, Lu Mo-chen’s appearance was indeed high, even if he was thrown into the entertainment industry, he could definitely hold his own. So when his handsome face appeared on the big screen, the barrage went crazy.
[Good, good, let’s shoot like this next time.]
[Good-looking, love to watch, watch more.]
And Lu Mo-chen in the video had a warm smile on the corner of his mouth, he stretched out his hand towards the screen, seriously watching the front.
Soft lips opened and closed, saying words that made people’s hearts flutter: “I fight for you.”
In the video, he was looking at everyone outside the screen equally.
[Ahhhhhhhh!]
[Our Guan Dong Zhu ten-year old fans have become successful.]
[Please go and film a TV series!!!]
Chu Li-fei in front of the screen was no exception, his heartbeat seemed to skip a beat. When he came back to his senses, he met a pair of eyes that were the same as in the video.
And in those eyes, he was the whole world.