You"re Beautiful When You Smile
Chapter 69 Part 2
Tong Yao answered the questions fluently without pausing. She suddenly understood something at the same time-- --Then she heard Lu Sicheng retorted: “Your team and your teammates change themselves to get used to your way of playing, how can you be irresponsible to them?”
“......”
“Now, do you still feel your suspension only matters to you personally? You made a mistake and got your punishment, then this thing is all over? You"re now sitting at backstage watching your teammates play. Have you ever thought about the fact that your teammates on stage are actually being punished with you? They have to readjust themselves to suit the new player and all their previous training is wasted.” As Lu Sicheng spoke, he took out a cigarette. As he was about to light it up, he glanced at Tong Yao and stopped. Instead, he broke the cigarette in half and threw it away. “You don"t repent and mend your ways after one suspension; then you make the same mistake again and get suspended again-- --How is our team going to work with you? Should we still let you partic.i.p.ate in the training matches? Should we invite you to play ranked? Should the team adjust itself to fit you so you can get used to us quickly? There are a lot of good players out there after all, they are all waiting for the chance to move up to your position……”
Tong Yao: “......”
LuSicheng: “Should we continue to hire you, or replace you with Lu Yue, or hire a new mid?”
Tong Yao twisted her fingers, pondering for quite a while.
Lu Sicheng continued after glancing at her: “Because Lu Yue acted on his impulses, he cost us Ming G.o.d"s career and cost the team a chance at competing in the world compet.i.tion-- --He tucked his tail and buried his pride to come back. His teammates chose to forgive him, but have you asked him whether he has forgiven himself yet?”
Lu Sicheng paused: “Your thoughts.”
Tong Yao"s head was hanging down so low that it almost touching her chest: “League of Legends is a team video game. In esports, there"s no individual hero.”
Lu Sicheng said en, then lifted his hand to check the watch again: “You have 3 more minutes.”
Tong Yao abruptly raised her head.
“After 3 minutes, I want to hear you tell me exactly where you stand-- --As I"ve said, I don"t care what other people say, I only care about how you see yourself: continue or give up? The professional scene isn"t a place where you can come and play as you will. A professional player"s career is very short, the golden moment is over in a flash-- --”
Lu Sicheng"s eyes turned piercingly cold: “You can"t afford to waste yourself, not to mention hold others back.”
“As for me, I have to be responsible for my team, young lady.” Lu Sicheng spoke lightly: “I don"t know what you think about it. What I"m sure of is that ZGDX, as a top professional team, signed you up so you can come play games for us-- --In this circle, some people will treat you differently just because you"re a girl: look down upon you, discriminate against you, worship you, or protect and cherish you. But I won"t; after you start to wear the team uniform, to me, you have only one ident.i.ty regardless of gender: a teammate.”
“......”
Tong Yao bit her lower lip, hard.
Her heart, which had sank to the bottom of the sea and was so cold that almost stopped pumping, suddenly started to beat again-- --
She looked up to Lu Sicheng.
Lu Sicheng leaned against the table, quietly looking at her.
The whole room became silent for a long moment-- --Until there were footsteps outside, someone was trying to turn on the door k.n.o.b but couldn"t open the door. Tong Yao then realized that Lu Sicheng had locked the door when he came in…...Xiao Rui knocked on the door and called: “Cheng Ge.” Lu Sicheng didn"t respond, maintaining his gaze at Tong Yao with his head tilted to one side.
30 seconds later, Lu Sicheng briefly said: “Time"s up.” He straightened up, lightly glanced at Tong Yao: “Looks like you don"t have anything you want to say to me.”
Then he turned around and began to walk towards the door.
Right at that moment, he heard a loud noise coming from behind, as if something heavy had fallen off from the chair. He stopped and was about to turn around when the person behind him staggered forward to hit his back and forcefully grabbed onto his right hand out of desperation-- --
The hands felt icy cold.
Lu Sicheng"s pupils shrank slightly, but he didn"t say anything. Not even the expression on his face changed much. He slightly lowered his head and could see the tip of the nose of the person grabbing him from behind. The hands on his big hand were exerting a good measure of force-- --
“I don"t know how to smooth talk and don"t want to say meaningless apologies……”
She lowered her head and spoke in a hoa.r.s.e voice.
“I just know that I want to win. I want to win every match together with all of you and I want to present in every single game. I don"t want to disappoint all of you again. I don"t want to be the stumbling block to anyone. I want to be your teammate until the day when all of you and I can stand on top of the world, which we all want……”
Tong Yao"s eyes were red, her voice choked.
But she didn"t cry.