Chapter 872: The Truth about Eight Years Ago (20)
Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios
Song Yuanxi hung her head and said, “You weren’t in Beijing, but I was.”
“I witnessed with my own eyes how a proud man like Brother Liangchuan had to bow down to people and buy them meals so that they could get sponsors. He had to explain eSports to people and what the official team was about.”
At that time, they were just kids.
And eSports were not well-known or well-developed.
At that time, it wasn’t even listed as a sport on the national agenda.
To adults at that time, eSports weren’t eSports as they are known it today. It was just a game, not a proper job.
No one was willing to invest in it.
Thinking back now, setting up an official team at that time was an unimaginable task.
Because they didn’t have money, they had to involve investors for sure. Otherwise, there was no way they could set up the team club.
“My brother and Brother Liangchuan had to intercept the potential investing firms late at night, and spent great efforts to reinforce the differences between gaming and compet.i.tion. Although they had started eSports compet.i.tions in other countries, it wasn’t the trend in our own country yet.”
Song Yuanxi looked like she was immersed in her memories now. “My brother and I never had a lot of savings to begin with. But in the end, because he had to run around with Brother Liangchuan, our family ran into difficulties. I still remember that at that time, I needed to pay 50 to my school for materials, but my brother couldn’t afford it.”
Soul Fighter had had to make a living to sustain both himself and his sister.
Shen Liangchuan, on the other hand, had been banished from the Shen family and hadn’t had a penny on him.
Amidst dealing with such difficult circ.u.mstances, they had never once thought of giving up.
Qiao Lian clenched her fists tightly.
A feeling of guilt started to develop within her.
Her one simple remark had changed the lives of two people so irrevocably.
Song Yuanxi continued, “At the time, I blamed my brother for not having a proper job. I cried because we didn’t even have enough to eat at home, but he had only one focus and that was gaming. In the end, I watched as the team club was formed. When I saw how happy my brother and Brother Liangchuan were, I realized that there are things that material wealth cannot buy. My brother and Brother Liangchuan had big dreams.”
“I do not understand your pa.s.sion for gaming. I only know that I wanted my brother and Brother Liangchuan to be happy.”
“At the time, Brother Liangchuan moved out of his home and became like us, living in a single-story house, renting an apartment. When the team club was established, he and my brother didn’t sleep all night. They had an intense discussion about the way forward… I was happy for them.”
“But in the end?”
Song Yuanxi stood up, her eyes bloodshot and staring at Qiao Lian.
Biting her lip and pointing at Qiao Lian, she continued, “In the end? You bowed out of the deal without a second thought.”
Qiao Lian wanted to speak up.
She had injured both her hands and it had been a great setback for her.
Hence, she had called Zi Chuan and told him that she could no longer play video games with them.
But… what did her withdrawal from the team club have to do with Soul Fighter’s death?
“You didn’t know how the club was built, a little at a time? As easily as you said you wanted a team club, you said you wanted to withdraw! Did you know the price others had to pay for your whim and fancy?! To establish the team club, my brother left his work and became jobless. And when you withdrew, he had to pay with his life!”
Pay with his life?
Qiao Lian shot up from her seat and stared at Song Yuanxi, horrified. “What happened after I withdrew from the club?”
She clenched her fists tightly, waiting for the answer.