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Just then, Sun Wukong suddenly typed in the all-chat.

[Sun Wukong: Bird man, you’ve been cucked~~]

Seeing the message from Sun Wukong, both Ye Ling and Ning Ruoxi couldn’t help but smile.

They knew exactly why he sent it.

This Yao Mei hadn’t set her "Lover" tag to display by default. Instead, she had prioritized her "Bestie" tag. And judging from the player ID, that Di Renjie was obviously a guy.

Wasn’t this the legendary "male bestie"?

Now *that* was a huge problem.

The boyfriend had to take a backseat to the male bestie?

Tsk, tsk... Just the thought of it was enough to make anyone’s skin crawl.

Meanwhile, Yunzhong Jun was also feeling a bit upset.

’Having a "Bestie" relationship with some other guy is bad enough,’ he thought, ’but she’s even showing it off as a priority?’

What was the point of having him as a boyfriend, then?

"Darling, when we get our couple tag, you won’t pull something like this, will you?"

Ye Ling suddenly asked, looking over at Ning Ruoxi.

"Of course not!"

Ning Ruoxi shook her head decisively. In fact, she secretly added, ’I wish everyone knew about my relationship with Ye Ling!’

"Hehe, you’re the best, babe."

Ye Ling smiled, satisfied, and turned his gaze back to the screen. "Minion wave’s coming."

Since he planned to play it safe, Ye Ling simply focused on clearing the minion wave and had no intention of fighting Di Renjie head-on.

However...

...to his surprise, Ning Ruoxi suddenly charged forward with her Ox Demon, brandishing his huge axe fiercely.

"Chouchou, go now! I’ve got him controlled!"

Ning Ruoxi yelled.

She had brought the "Stun" summoner spell, and combined with her ability’s own control effect, Di Renjie was hit by two consecutive CCs, losing nearly a third of his health bar.

Di Renjie was clearly startled. He hadn’t expected this Ox Demon to be so aggressive.

Since Yao Mei had gone to the mid lane at the start of the game, he was all alone. He immediately used Purify and tried to escape.

"I’m coming!"

Ye Ling called out as he finished off the minions, hitting level two.

He closed the distance with his second ability.

Marked him with his first ability.

Stun.

First Blood!

As the shuriken exploded, Ye Ling took first blood.

’Has it gotten this easy for Li Yuanfang to fight Di Renjie?’

Ye Ling stared, a bit stunned, as Di Renjie fell. He seemed to recall always getting completely destroyed when laning against Di Renjie in the past.

"Nice one!"

His teammates chimed in on the chat.

"You were amazing, babe."

Ning Ruoxi leaned over to Ye Ling and gave him a quick smack of a kiss on the cheek.

"Heh, just a standard play. The main reason I’m not a higher rank is because I don’t have time to play. Just wait, I’ll carry you to King rank soon."

Ye Ling’s ego was thoroughly satisfied. He let out a relaxed laugh.

In that moment, he completely forgot about the difference between his and Ning Ruoxi’s ranks.

In short, our Lord Ye was feeling himself again.

Meanwhile, the battle in the jungle was just as fierce.

Probably because he’d been provoked by Sun Wukong at the beginning, Yunzhong Jun was furious and began frantically counter-jungling, seemingly as a way to vent his anger.

As a hero, Yunzhong Jun’s counter-jungling is very strong, while Sun Wukong is relatively weak in the early game. As a result, Sun Wukong was completely suppressed.

After losing a few jungle camps, Sun Wukong’s gold fell behind, and he was killed twice.

[Sun Wukong: Bird man, you’re taking this too far!]

A moment later, a system announcement rang out.

Yunzhong Jun has slain Sun Wukong!

Staring at his grayed-out screen again, the Sun Wukong player felt incredibly wronged.

’I’m not the fucking one who cucked you, so why are you targeting me so hard...?’

Over in the bottom lane, Di Renjie had been playing defensively under his tower ever since he was killed. It was obvious Yunzhong Jun had no intention of helping him, so Ye Ling had a fairly easy time.

Before long, the enemy’s outer turret was already down to about half health.

But just as Ye Ling was about to continue pressuring the turret, Yao Mei suddenly appeared out of nowhere from the brush, and Lu Bu’s ultimate ability landed right behind him.

"Holy shit!"

Ye Ling exclaimed in shock.

’Three of them ganking me at once? Isn’t that a bit much?’

’Was that really necessary?’

Yao Mei immediately attached herself to Di Renjie, who began frantically throwing his cards.

Ye Ling reacted quickly, using his second ability to roll back under his tower.

But...

...they clearly had no intention of letting him go and decided to dive the tower.

Ye Ling had just thrown out his ultimate when he was instantly killed by a sweep from Lu Bu’s first ability.

Watching his screen go gray, Ye Ling couldn’t help but sigh.

"Nothing I could do. Three of them, that’s just brutal."

Ye Ling shook his head. He was just about to tell Ning Ruoxi to retreat when a series of sound effects left him completely dumbfounded.

"An enemy has been slain!"

"Double Kill!"

"Triple Kill!"

Ning Ruoxi’s Ox Demon had slammed down his ultimate out of nowhere, trapping all three enemies within the area of Ye Ling’s discarded shuriken. Then, she followed up with a charge and a Stun.

With a three-hit control combo, she had just scored a triple kill right under the tower!

"Holy fuck!"

Ye Ling’s eyes flew wide open.

’This... this is a support?’

’This is the big, dumb Ox Demon?’

’A triple kill under the tower?’

"Sorry, I reacted a little too slow."

Ning Ruoxi looked at Ye Ling, sticking her tongue out in embarrassment. If she’d used her ultimate a moment sooner, she could have controlled the enemies and Ye Ling wouldn’t have had to die.

"Ahem, it’s not your fault, not your fault at all..."

Ye Ling felt a little embarrassed himself now. Ning Ruoxi’s play had actually been god-tier.

In the end, the match concluded with Ning Ruoxi’s support Ox Demon earning the gold medal for support and the match MVP, with a score of 7-0-12 and a rating of 16.0!

As for Ye Ling... despite Ning Ruoxi’s "personal" protection, he ended up with a pitiful 7.3 rating, placing fourth on the team.

At that moment...

...our Lord Ye felt a crushing blow to his pride.

"Want to play another?"

Ning Ruoxi asked, looking at Ye Ling.

"Nah, forget it. I’m not really on my game today. Let’s play again some other time."

Ye Ling shook his head and put down his phone.

When he first suggested playing the game, he had planned on carrying Ning Ruoxi. But in the end, he was the one who got carried by a girl?

He made up his mind. He was going to seriously practice and get better.

It didn’t matter if he was bad at League of Legends. Ning Ruoxi didn’t play that, so if he sucked, he was only dragging down randoms and the rough guys from dorm 3222...

But since Ning Ruoxi played *this* game, he couldn’t afford to lose face.

It was one thing to be a burden to others, but he couldn’t drag down his own girl!

He Jian/Yang Yefeng/Yang Yu: You’re a real piece of work.

"Hehe, Chouchou, what do you think will happen with that Yunzhong Jun and Yao Mei?"

Ning Ruoxi seemed to sense Ye Ling’s mood and quickly changed the subject.

"They’ll definitely break up. Tsk, tsk. I didn’t realize all the Yao Mei players these days are such Sea Queens."

Ye Ling shook his head and sighed.