After Shi Luo finished his live broadcast, as expected, several versions of the live broadcast video that night were edited. One of them was called The Slag Man Boyfriend Experience.
Owing to the fact that NSNs Wawa used his official Weibo account to repost this video and because it was liked by several pro-players, within a day, the video had been reposted over 10,000 times.
The doors of Yu Sui and Shi Luos closet had turned transparent and the fans once again, as expected, made their rounds of Shi Luos side account.
Shi Luo, unexpectedly, stoically endured this wave. It was not because he was thick-skinned but because starting the next day, Free had started their hellish training. It officially started at 11 a.m. every day and they continued to train until 6 p.m.
In the middle, there would be an hour break to eat while doing game review. Afterwards, they would continue to play until 11 oclock in the evening. After that, depending on their training situation that day, would be game review for an hour or two.
By the time, they get to go to bed in the wee hours of the morning, Shi Luo would pass out almost as soon as he hits the bed. He had no time to surf the net. He didnt know how the fans were watching his side account.
But not going online only blocked the fans, it didnt block the other players in the circle.
Every team that played practice matches with them, so long as theyre friends with Yu Sui or Shi Luo, would tease them both openly and secretly. It had practically become a daily routine and decompression activity.
Except for NSN, all the other domestic teams should be out on holiday. Those coming to play practice matches with them were basically purely helping out. They simply wanted to help out their co-region World Championship teams.
They were sacrificing their holidays to make wedding dresses for Free all out of the goodness of their hears. Shi Luo couldnt say anything. If he was teased, he just pretended not to hear. If they get too noisy, Yu Sui would help mediate to end the topic.
Of course, Slag man Yus position was not so firm and when there was no outsiders or anyone doing a live broadcast, oftentimes, he would tease along with them.
While even the other players couldnt do a live broadcast during practice matches, they could afterwards. And occasionally, they would talk about Free and about Yu Sui and Shi Luo. The players would all smile but say nothing. Their accounts were very ambiguous.
During one of Angel Swords live broadcasts, when asked if they played practice matches with Free every day, Angel Sword replied yes.
When given a follow up question about Yu Sui and Shi Luo, Angel Sword smiled for a long time and said, Its not convenient to tell the specifics but in short...I feel like Yu Shen is in a much better state than when he first returned to China. He talks a lot more. Hes more relaxed.
It should have something to do with Evil.
The fans still wanted more details. They asked if Yu Sui took particular care of Shi Luo during the practice matches. Angel Sword laughed, How could that be? During the practice matches, he treats him no different from his other teammates.
Yu Sui would still say so when Evil makes a mistake. Every time we finish a game, we have have a group voice chat. We tell Free about their problems and they listen. There was one round, when Shi Luo made a judgement mistake.
On the voice chat, Yu Shen kept talking to Evil about it. He talked for at least ten minutes.
Fans felt sorry for Shi Luo and felt that Yu Sui had been a little too strict. Angel Sword added slowly, Why do I say at least ? Because after those ten minutes, Yu Sui remembered that we were in a voice chat. He turned off the audio...so that we couldnt hear.
He wasnt harsh. He was just telling him where he made mistakes. If it were me, my coach would have scolded me already. Angel Sword smiled, Yu Sui spoke to him in his usual tone but he still closed his mic. It must have been to maintain the dignity of their team tyrant.
We all understood.
The fans commented back that they understood as well and urged Angel Sword to give other details.
Free was less than a week into their hellish training and already their training partners have circulated various love stories regarding Yu Sui and Shi Luo.
It didnt not matter if none of the members of Free went online or did any live broadcasts, the story of these two have become a beautiful legend online.
A week later, all of Frees members got their visas. After discussing with Yu Sui, Zhou Huo decided not to wait for the league arrangements and they decided to head over to Germany on their own to set up camp.
The Free Clubs departure was very quick and low-key, but the fans still found out about it. On the day of they were to fly to Frankfurt, the fans saw off everyone at the airport. There were a lot of men and women.
Fans rarely had the chance to see the players wearing casual clothes and when they saw Frees players, a few of them couldnt help but let out quiet shrieks. Zhou Huo went to thank the fans himself and declined all the gifts.
While chatting with them, he accidentally found out that some of the fans had actually flown over from other parts of the country to cheer on the players. A few were die-hard fans of Yu Suis who hadnt missed a game.
Youve all worked so hard. Zhou Huo had never seen this kind of situation when he was at NSN before. He was so touched that he wished the fans who had flown in a safe journey. The players are doing check-in with the team leader. Later, when theyve got spare time, Ill have them come and say hello.
Youve all worked hard. We will definitely do our best for the World Championship.
While greeting the fans, Zhou Huo kept looking over at the players in the distance. Seeing that Shi Luo had already gotten his ticket. He stood on tiptoe, called to Shi Luo and asked him to come over.
While they were talking, Zhou Huo dragged over Chen Huo and Puppy as well. The three of them gave out autographs to the fans together. Chen Huo talked the most and was endlessly noisy. The fans asked Zhou Huo if Yu Sui would be coming.
Beads of sweat started to appear on Zhou Huos forehead and he said helplessly, The team leader bought the wrong tickets for the two accompanying staff members. He bought economy class for a flight of more than ten hours...It would be pure misery. Whisper is dealing with it...
Hes trying to see if they can get an upgrade or on another flight. If Whisper wont have time to come here in a while, then Ill make sure he does next time. Everyone has worked hard. Evil, sign a few more.
Shi Luo nodded, and honestly signed one after another. Some fans gathered up their courage and asked Shi Luo to sign Yu Suis ID. Shi Luo raised his eyebrows but signed it anyway.
The fans were really good.
They sincerely cheered on the players. They hoped that their favorite players could win but accepted that their favorite players could lose. They were also worried that their favorite players would be sprayed because of losses and worried that the players would feel too pressured.
They knew that there were a lot of strong teams in this years World Championships. Everyone simply wished them good luck and asked them to do their best instead of telling them to take the crown.
Shi Luo was used trading greetings to ones ancestors with haters all the time. Suddenly meeting a group of fans, some of them exceptionally long-time fans, who got together simply to give them their blessings, although he was too embarrassed to say it, he actually felt very moved.
Therefore, Shi Luo signed very carefully. He didnt draw a slop shod signature he could do with his eyes closed. He avoided writing on the face on the banners and signed as much as possible within the blank space.
Shi Luo signed so honestly and seriously for the first time that he didnt notice when Yu Sui walked over behind him.
Yu Sui automatically put his hand on Shi Luos shoulder, Its time to go through security.
Shi Luo, under the careful command of the fan, was in the middle of signing Evil on the left side of the fan card and Whisper on the right.
Shi Luo froze and handed the pen to Yu Sui, ...sign it yourself.
Yu Sui took the pen and he was immediately surrounded by the fans. For a while, Yu Sui signed quickly and only went to the security check with everyone when Zhou Huo called him.
The fans stayed, continuing to snap photos. Shi Luo found it a bit difficult to walk while being photographed. Slag man Yu, making not the least bit attempt to avoid suspicion, walked exactly beside Shi Luo, not the littlest bit forward or behind.
Yu Sui inclined his head to speak with Shi Luo. Shi Luo could feel the his breath on his ears. He could also hear the roar of the fans behind him.
Shi Luo gritted his teeth, ...Did you do that deliberately?
Yu Sui admitted quite simply, Of course, it was deliberate.
Without waiting for Shi Luo to speak, Yu Sui continued, Zhou Huo was the one who made our hotel reservations. I looked at it and it was okay... They are all double bed rooms, one for each person.
Shi Luo paused. What a waste...
Shi Luo knew which of the German hotel Zhou Huo had made reservations with. It was very expensive. Shi Luo originally thought that Zhou Huo would be a bit more sensible and would squander away so much money.
If he had booked a standard room for two people then he and Yu Sui would have been justified in sharing one room.
If they werent going to be sharing a room, they would have to separate every day after training or competitions. The World Competition schedule was so long. The two of them couldnt be together for so many days...
I will ask for an extra room card for my room. They had already arrived at the security check. Yu Sui kept his voice very soft, Yell out gege...and Ill give you one.
You can come into my room at any time and call on me.
Yu Sui nodded politely to the security inspector and raised his arms.
Shi Luo: ......
Shi Luo grinded his teeth, waiting for his turn behind Yu Sui and after a half a minute struggle
...he still wanted that key card to Slag man Yus room.
Translators note:
Happy New Year, everyone!!! Heres to a better year than last. =)