The weekend after she signed onto ZGDX, Tong Yao flew to Shanghai. Before boarding, she did two things while waiting at the gate-- --
The first was to WeChat her friend, Jinyang, informing her that she was going to Shanghai to play professionally. Tong Yao was going to be the Mulan of the esports.
The second was to post on Weibo telling her streaming fans that she was going to Shanghai to watch this year’s Spring Tournament Finals. She made it clear who she was rooting for: Go Team ZGDX!
Soon after her Weibo post, the official Weibo site of Team ZGDX reposted it with the comment [Thanks for the well wishes, Smiling. Looking forward to seeing you]. The unexpected interaction excited Tong Yao’s fans, quickly creating a giant comment chain-- --
[My goodness, when did you get hooked up with the team of the competition sponsor, ahhhhhh!]
[You’re really going to watch the game! I’m going too! I want to go and guess which one is you!]
[So happy Smiling likes the same team as I! Promise me to get an autograph from Cheng Ge, alright?]
[Is the competition sponsor buying a ticket for you? Make sure to ask for business class since they have money. Ah……]
Usually when she had free time from school or was on vacation, Tong Yao would live stream, either playing games or simply chatting to earn some spending money-- --Unlike other stream hosts, she never turned on the camera. Yet, since she was a girl at the ‘Challenger’ tier on both the Chinese and Korean servers, she had gathered quite a following-- --about thirty to fifty thousand fans. In a normal day, her post on the Weibo would receive several dozen replies at the most. At the moment, probably because the official ZGDX site had shared her post, her post about going to watch the game in Shanghai received more than 300 comments in less than ten minutes……
[Posting on Weibo just about going to a game. You have no life! Why don’t you go compete yourself if you’re so good? You don’t even turn on the camera when streaming, are you afraid of exposing yourself!]
Tong Yao, “......”
Because she never turned on the webcam, there was always a rumor circling around that someone else was playing for her, especially after the scandal where another ‘Challenger’ tier female streaming host had someone carry her through her ranked matches…...that was the reason why there were so many malicious comments as well……
It seemed like he was having a lot of fun.
Tong Yao twitched her lip and stared at this comment for a while when she heard the boarding announcement. She grinned and replied with a smiling face on the spot with [That’s right! Don’t you know women like to post on Weibo for the smallest of reasons? That’s what makes it cute.] Then she calmly signed off the Weibo.
Her phone started vibrating, an incoming call-- --
The caller id was Jinyang.
Tong Yao could guess what Jinyang would say, so she pretended that she was too busy boarding the plane to notice it. The phone hung up after ringing twice, but before Tong Yao could breath a sigh of relief, a message from her arrived-- --
[Answer the phone! Don’t pretend you’re not there. I saw your Weibo! You were talking smack with someone just 35 seconds ago!]
Tong Yao, “......”
Tong Yao, afraid of losing her friend after she got off the plane, called back and listened patiently to her friend’s ranting-- --
“To hell with the Mulan of esports! !”
“Dammit, my boyfriend plays esports and now my best friend’s going to play as well. In the future when I’m watching a game, other people asked me what I was watching and I reply that I’m watching my boyfriend and my best friend. They would think I’m insane! !”
“Where are you? Are you really on the plane already! Get the hell off! I’m going to hijack it! !”
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Falling into your smile
Romance[Yao Yao, if it's you, how would you go about dating a professional gamer?] Tong Yao thought for a moment, before earnestly responding - - If it was me, I wouldn't date a professional gamer. If I had that kind of patience, then I might as well use i...
