When Yu Tu returned home, Zhai Liang was playing a game with Qiao Jingjing. Amidst the chaos, he glanced at Yu Tu and said, "He's back, you can rest assured."
Qiao Jingjing's voice came through the game, "Why did it take so long?"
Yu Tu replied, "The subway stopped running, so I had to transfer."
Qiao Jingjing was momentarily stunned, causing her character Wang Zhaojun to accidentally take a step toward the tower and immediately get hit by it. Out of nowhere, the enemy Jungler Li Bai appeared and unleashed his Ultimate skill.
Wang Zhaojun panicked and fled in a fluster, "Ahhh, save me!"
Zhai Liang shouted loudly, "I can't save you!"
Yu Tu couldn't help but smile, recalling how not long ago, Zhai Liang had been criticizing celebrities. He wondered what Zhai Liang would think if he ever found out that this "Mian Hua" was one of the most popular female stars right now.
Zhai Liang, head down and focused on the game, casually asked, "Yu Tu, did you fix the purifier?"
Yu Tu thought for a moment and replied, "Ask Qiao... Mian Hua. Take her answer as final."
Zhai Liang had a "WTF" moment but didn't know if he should say it out loud. What kind of answer was that?
"Not going to play a round?"
"I have some things to do."
Zhai Liang felt that something about Yu Tu had changed after his visit to Mian Hua's place, but he couldn't quite put his finger on it. After thinking for a while, he asked Qiao Jingjing through the phone, "Mian Hua, is your purifier fixed?"
After finishing a round, Zhai Liang eagerly went to find Yu Tu, only to see him intently watching something on his computer. He was surprised—Yu Tu had been so dejected lately that he hadn't even touched his computer. What was going on today? Had he made a decision?
Walking over for a closer look, he saw that the screen was showing a match of Honor of Kings.
"You're watching the Professional League?"
"Yeah."
"Why the sudden interest in this?"
Yu Tu's reply was very nonchalant, "Just suddenly interested, I guess."
"..." Zhai Liang suddenly remembered an important question, "By the way, is Mian Hua pretty?"
This time, Yu Tu pondered for a moment before answering, "Commonplace, you can see her kind anywhere on the street."
Zhai Liang felt a little disappointed but still righteously criticized Yu Tu, "Aren't you being a bit harsh? How can you talk about a girl like that?"
Yu Tu: "Just telling the truth."
Much later, when Zhai Liang finally saw Mian Hua's true face... he was so impressed that he wanted to beat Yu Tu up. That face... was it really "commonplace on the street"?
Yu Tu watched the matches until 2 a.m. By then, Qiao Jingjing had already slept and woken up. Feeling a bit restless, she lay in bed for a while before pulling out her phone and sending a WeChat message to Xiao Zhu.
"Tomorrow, have the driver pick up Yu Tu."
Xiao Zhu, of course, wasn't around at that hour. After a while, Qiao Jingjing withdrew the message.
Doing this seemed a bit inappropriate...
Oh right, it seemed she had forgotten to add Yu Tu on WeChat...
Qiao Jingjing drifted off to sleep again after some hazy thoughts and woke up healthily around 7 a.m. Xiao Zhu had already been messaging her repeatedly on WeChat.
"Jingjing, what did you withdraw?"
"What did you want me to do?"
"Did your stomach hurt in the middle of the night?"
Qiao Jingjing replied, "Bring double portions of breakfast!"
"Wait!" she instantly changed her mind after sending it, "Don't come over in the morning."
Then she opened QQ and sent a message to Yu Tu.
"Rabbit God, can you help bring breakfast? ^_^"
A few minutes later, Yu Tu replied, "Sure, what should I bring?"Qiao Jingjing's universal answer: "Anything's fine. By the way, my elevator code is xxxx, can you come straight up? Xiao Zhu isn't here."
"Okay."
At nine o'clock sharp, Yu Tu knocked on Qiao Jingjing's door, carrying a large bag of breakfast.
Qiao Jingjing opened the door. Yu Tu stood at the doorway, hesitating for a moment before stepping inside, handing her the bag. "Just bought a bit of everything."
See, asking someone to bring something gives you a conversation starter, but...
"...Can we really eat this much?" Qiao Jingjing stared blankly at the overflowing bag of food.
"I've already eaten." ??? So this is just one portion? Do you have some misunderstanding about the appetites of people in our industry?
Under her speechless gaze, Yu Tu felt compelled to explain, "I didn't know what you wanted to eat, so I bought a bit of everything."
"Oh~~ Then we can have it for lunch. I'll tell Xiao Zhu to bring less at noon. By the way." Qiao Jingjing remembered, "It's not convenient for me to go out, so from now on, lunch and dinner will have to be delivered here by Xiao Zhu. Is that okay?"
"Dinner?" Yu Tu paused, "So when does my work end?"
Qiao Jingjing hadn't considered this question. Her eyes shifted thoughtfully before she deliberately said, "Nine PM?"
"As long as your hand doesn't hurt."
Qiao Jingjing: "..." That's true.
Yu Tu smiled, "You eat first, I'll wait for you."
Qiao Jingjing quickly finished breakfast and went to the living room to find Yu Tu.
The morning sunlight around nine o'clock gently spilled through the floor-to-ceiling windows. Yu Tu sat on the sofa on the other side, intently watching his computer. Qiao Jingjing's steps faltered momentarily—the scene felt somewhat unbelievable.
Yu Tu looked up at her, "Finished eating?"
Qiao Jingjing nodded, somewhat surprised, "You brought your computer too?"
Yu Tu made an affirmative sound, then asked after Qiao Jingjing sat down, "Who was teaching you before?"
"My agent's husband."
"He taught you Cai Wenji and Sun Bin?"
Qiao Jingjing nodded, "He had me play Support, but later when I played with you all, I found Wang Zhaojun more comfortable to use."
Yu Tu pondered for a moment, "Have you watched any professional competitions?"
Qiao Jingjing shook her head.
"Then let's watch a few matches first."
Yu Tu opened a video on his laptop, "This is the finals from the first half of the year, Luo Shen versus CS."
"I know about this one. Ling Jie used my account to repost about it on Weibo."
"You didn't watch it?"
"I was filming in remote mountains at the time, the signal was really bad."
"Then watch it now." As he spoke, the finals teams in the video had already finished the Ban Position phase and entered the map.
The first-half finals went all seven games, almost every match was thrilling. After watching three consecutive games, Yu Tu paused and asked Qiao Jingjing, "What are your thoughts?"
So we really have to submit reflections!
Qiao Jingjing thought carefully before answering, "They all die very little? Unlike us fighting with dozens of kills."
"They have a clear understanding of their damage output—whether they can fight, if it's worth it—they don't initiate team fights lightly," Yu Tu said. "Did you notice You Yu from the Luo Shen team?"
"The one playing Zhang Fei in the first game? The commentators mentioned him many times."
Yu Tu nodded, "Starting from the second game, Zhang Fei was put in the Ban Position, so the Support position is actually very important, sometimes even the team's shot-caller."
So what A'guo said about Support being easy to play wasn't quite right?
"My Support was always just average... So can I play Wang Zhaojun?"Yu Tu neither confirmed nor denied, "I see you're already at Gold Tier. Did you play by yourself?"
Qiao Jingjing was quite proud, "Yes, and I got quite a few MVPs."
Yu Tu thought for a moment and handed her his phone, "Try playing a Ranked Match with my account."
Jingjing didn't understand his intention, but she took the phone anyway. Using Yu Tu's Diamond Account, she entered a solo Ranked Match and smoothly selected Wang Zhaojun, whom she had been practicing with recently.
Ten minutes later, Jingjing experienced what it meant to be completely dominated.
She put down the phone, her face slightly pale. The match wasn't over yet, and her teammates were quite patient, constantly sending messages like "Play safe, farm up," and "Stay calm, we can win."
This basically meant she should stop feeding kills.
She shoved the phone back to Yu Tu.
Yu Tu took the phone, maneuvered Wang Zhaojun back under the tower, and quietly farmed.
While focusing on his phone, he calmly stated, "You did well playing in Gold Tier before, but you're struggling in Diamond. The competition you're going to participate in includes professional players, and the difficulty will only be higher than this. I didn't realize the situation you were facing before, so I thought mastering Wang Zhaojun would be enough. But in reality, Wang Zhaojun can't even make it onto the Professional League stage."
Jingjing pressed her lips together, her mood sinking. When she asked Yu Tu to come, was it really just a spur-of-the-moment impulse? Only now did she realize she genuinely needed help.
"I knew the difficulty would increase with higher tiers, but I didn't expect the gap to be this huge." She gathered her spirits and asked seriously, "What should I do now?"
Yu Tu glanced at her, somewhat surprised, and said very simply, "You have one month left. Rely on yourself to reach Conqueror."
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