GTRSH Chapter 16

On the other side, He Ci was attending a video conference.

The league had a new sponsor for the next season, and not only did they make some adjustments to the league’s format, but also had meetings with all the clubs to communicate the changes.

The content was too boring and the adjusted rules were meaningless.

Several TZ players were secretly playing with their cell phones.

In the middle of the conversation, He Ci received a friend request. When he saw it was Yu Xinche, he raised his eyebrows and thought, he’s finally here.

They didn’t talk too much this time, and after He Ci answered his questions, he didn’t rush for Yu Xinche’s reply.

He didn’t want to put too much pressure on Yu Xinche.

Fortunately, it didn’t take too long before Yu Xinche said he was willing to come for a tryout. He Ci was about to send the club address when someone called his name in the headset.

“What is He Ci doing? He’s been staring at his phone for a long time. He was frowning just now, but now he’s smiling. Are you in love?”

As soon as the words fell, the conference channel became lively.

“We’ve agreed that all members of the team must report any romance. You can’t make an exception just because you’re the prince.”

“No way, are you really dating someone?”

There were only five people from TZ Team 1 and the manager Xu Le attending the meeting. Everyone was familiar with each other and joked with each other readily.

“No.”

He Ci simply replied to Yu Xinche, “OK, I’ll send you the address later,” and then closed the chat box, saying, “I saw the new rules and felt unhappy. It’s normal to frown.”

“Yeah, that’s true. We’ve never changed the process before when the league changed sponsors. This time, they’re really meddling in everything and pretending to know everything.”

“I can understand that you are not allowed to peek at your teammates’ screens. The next game already has this rule. But what does it mean that you are not allowed to look at your teammates? Do your teammates have cheats on their faces?”

He Ci was also speechless and sneered.

“It’s outrageous, but luckily it didn’t affect fairness. But why were you staring at your phone and laughing just now?”

“Did I?” He Ci asked doubtfully.

“Yes, don’t pretend.”

He Ci was really not pretending. He didn’t even know when he had laughed. After a while of recollection, he realized, “Oh, maybe I was smiling because I will have a support soon.”

Hearing this, everyone perked up. Xu Le asked him, “Didn’t you look down on everyone?”

“…The one you finally fell in love with didn’t know you at first.” The jungler Ou Xiaoyu added in a mean way.

Xiao Ou’s sarcasm was obvious, but it didn’t irritate He Ci anymore. He tapped his phone with his finger: “Now we know each other, and he agreed to the tryouts.”

Others: “???”

He Ci played duo with Yu Xinche during the livestream two days ago, and that night the club’s group chat forced him to explain the whole story.

But at that time, they were just game friends. How come he had already agreed to come for the tryouts after only two days?

The progress was so fast that everyone was confused and found it unbelievable.

“No, aren’t you guys moving too fast? I can accept that he’s an HPL fan, but how could you easily kidnap him who hasn’t even watched the game?”

It’s a bit fast.

If this happened to someone else, He Ci would definitely rain on their parade and advise the other party to give up the outrageous idea of ​​recruiting college students as soon as possible, and find a normal and active support player during the transfer period.

But for some reason, he just wanted to give it a try.

During dinner that night, when he pointed out that Yu Xinche was PURE, Yu Xinche’s first reaction was to be curious about how he recognized him.

From then on, he felt there was hope.

This kind of feeling-level thing cannot be explained in a few words.

He Ci was too lazy to waste words and made up an excuse: “Maybe he was seduced by my beauty. He just said that the anniversary video was pretty handsome.”

“?”

“It’s bad, he’s starting to act up.”

Seeing that the topic was going off topic, Xu Le spoke up in time: “Then I’ll arrange a tryout for him?”

“Yes. I’ll communicate with him later.”

“Okay, there happens to be a live replay of the games you played together. I’ll have someone organize it and post it. Everyone can all take a look first.”

The meeting continued, during which Xu Le received a phone call and then ended the meeting quickly.

“Everyone else can leave now. He Ci, don’t go yet. I have something to ask you.”

“Hmm?”

“You and your support were photographed. What should we do?” Xu Le lowered his head and tapped on his phone. “I’ll send you the link.”

He Ci clicked open the link.

The picture showed the restaurant where he had dinner with Yu Xinche’s classmates. He and Yu Xinche were photographed paying the bill on the first floor.

The photo was not very clear, mainly because He Ci’s aurora hair was very eye-catching. Yu Xinche was partially blocked by him, with only a small part of his face showing.

Main post caption: [I met two extremely handsome guys when I went out for dinner a few days ago. I just thought they were handsome so I took photos of them. Today I saw the trending search of HIT and clicked on it. Wow, isn’t this the handsome guy with dyed hair that I took photos of!]

Xu Le explained: “Today your anniversary look was trending, and this blogger happened to recognize it. Later, this post was posted on the HIT community. Now many of our fans are asking in the comment section who the person next to you is.”

He Ci frowned as he listened, and he could already imagine what the tone of the comments section would be like.

He slid down to take a look and saw that it was true.

【Yes, this is definitely He Ci】

【He is a professional player of HIT, his ID is FIX, and he mainly plays the marksman position (ADC). He is the one skiing with the hero in the HIT anniversary video today and also the English dubbing artist. If you are interested, you can come and watch the TZ game [love][love]】

【Who is next to him?】

【I’ve eaten at this restaurant before. It’s in the university town and is usually eaten by college students. So is it possible that this is…】

【Sorry, when the words He Ci and college students appear together, I can only think of one person】

【PURE brother!】

【Could it be possible that he is the PURE younger brother? College students should be younger than everyone here, right?】

【So they met in person?!】

【Oh my god, oh my god! Is He Ci is serious? Is he really going to recruit him into the team?】

【I was shocked by his strong ability to act】

【Am I the only one who is curious about PURE’s front face… The blogger’s pictures only show the side profile, and PURE is blocked by He Ci, so I really can’t see clearly】

【I want to know the information of the college student next to He Ci within five minutes, otherwise I will blow up your university town】

【Within five minutes, or it will explode】

【Within five minutes, or it will explode】

【He looks a bit like a junior in my school, very handsome and with good temperament, but the blogger’s picture is too blurry, so I can’t be sure】

【I think I know who you are talking about… the outstanding one, but I don’t know if he plays HIT.】

“Contact them to delete it.” He Ci said.

If this post continued to remain, Yu Xinche’s information would soon be completely dug up by netizens.

“Stop waiting and watching?” Xu Le asked, “Aren’t you very tolerant of these things? This picture is also quite blurry, and it is not certain that anyone can recognize it.”

“It doesn’t matter if people talk about me, but I’m not the focus of this post right now. If this keeps up, I’m afraid someone will block him at his dormitory door tomorrow.”

“It shouldn’t be that serious.” Xu Le said.

“Just delete it. It’s not like we don’t have money.” He Ci insisted.

“Okay, I’ll contact the blogger.”

The club had special public relations funds to deal with such situations. Generally, they would send someone to contact the blogger to negotiate, and the blogger would delete the post after both parties reach an agreement.

This type of funds was actually rarely used, and at the end of each year a little more than half was left.

On one hand, the people in their team don’t mess around privately, so there were no serious negative incidents to deal with.

On the other hand, players have long been accustomed to minor scandals such as poor performance in games and cursing in rankings, and were too lazy to spend extra energy to care about them. Netizens could curse and it won’t hurt them.

But Yu Xinche was different. He Ci felt that he was the one who implicated Yu Xinche, so he should take responsibility and handle the matter properly.

Besides, Yu Xinche hadn’t entered the circle yet, and he doesn’t want to assume and say “it’s okay” or “I don’t mind” for Yu Xinche.

*

After sending the message, Yu Xinche began to prepare seriously for the tryout.

Having taken countless exams since childhood, he was used to preparing in advance.

Only adequate preparation could give him a sense of security.

There were very few experiences about professional player tryouts on the Internet, and there was almost no reference. He could only prepare according to his own understanding.

It just so happened that his roommate Lu Guo had an elective course today and would be in the dormitory tonight.

Lu Guo had already started looking for an internship this summer. He had never played HIT, but he was more experienced in interviews than Yu Xinche.

“Interview questions are usually centered around your resume, which should be your profile, like what heroes you’re good at, why you like this game, etc.”

“Some companies will also ask candidates about company culture, development history, etc.”

“Then a key point in our interview is to highlight your strengths and avoid your weaknesses. Show more of your strengths. If people don’t ask you about your weaknesses, don’t talk about them.”

Yu Xinche responded with a confused look.

To show your strengths, you should let them see which heroes you could play.

As for company culture…

Yu Xinche searched for the game HIT, HPL and TZ club one after another.

He had watched some documentaries before, and this time he focused on the development of the game and the history of TZ over the past four years.

The founder of HIT was Chinese, but he failed to obtain a publishing license at the beginning, so he launched the game in the European and American markets first.

It took more than half a year before it was officially launched in the country.

As for the club TZ, it was the abbreviation of “To the Zenith”, which means to go to the top.

The club had investment from He Ci’s family, and TZ happened to be the first letters of the word “Prince”, so He Ci was nicknamed “Prince” as soon as he debuted.

In Yu Xinche’s impression, He Ci himself didn’t seem to mind this title. But after watching the post-match interview when He Ci just debuted, he realized that he didn’t like being called that in his early years.

It was obvious that the rebellious netizens would not listen to him, and after correcting him several times to no avail, He Ci had no choice but to give up.

In later interviews, he even joked about it himself.

At this time, the senior student sent him a message and asked him to go and see a post.

– Senior: Is this you?

– Senior: Do you want to contact He Ci to ask him what to do? I feel like you will be recognised by your schoolmates.

Yu Xinche glanced at the post briefly and asked the senior student in a somewhat curious manner:

– I looked around in the comments and no one recognized me, so I guess it’s okay.

– But many people said they were mesmerised. Why?

– Isn’t this a very ordinary picture…

– Senior: Why does your focus always go astray?

– Yu Xinche: I know, I think it’s okay. Maybe the post had a greater impact on He Ci.

– Yu Xinche: So why?

– Senior: Both of you talented and good-looking, so you guys are a perfect match.

– Senior: When people sees handsome guys, everyone will politely ship them together when passing by, so just relax.

– Yu Xinche: Okay.

Yu Xinche thought about it and still felt uneasy.

He just watched a clip of He Ci’s previous livestream. Someone in the barrage mentioned the bottom lane combination of He Ci and SWAN. The young He Ci stopped the conversation with a serious face and clarified that there was nothing between them and he didn’t like being talked about like that.

Although He Ci now looked more mature and stable than before, Yu Xinche felt that a person’s temperament would not change.

He didn’t like it before, and he probably don’t like it now.

Yu Xinche thought for a while, forwarded the post to He Ci, and said:

– We were having dinner together that day and you were photographed. Sorry [crying face expression]

– Is there anything I can do to help?

– Will this post cause you trouble?

About two hours later, He Ci replied to the message, and just like last time, he replied to each message in turn:

– It’s okay, I don’t blame you.

– No need to do anything, the blogger deleted the post. Maybe the popularity was too high and he didn’t want to cause trouble.

– Why do you think it will cause me trouble, because netizens say we are a good match?

 

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