translator: Oyen
Passing through the weekend, the first team match had finally ended. Mojue won 2:0 against Graceful Beauty and successfully scored 5 points at home; Playing at away game, Dynasty tied with Without Fire at 1:1, Frost Moon VS Sky, National Grace VS Interlude, Sword Song VS Whisper, all of them tied at 1:1, and no points were scored or deducted.
As eight teams were tied, there was no change in the standings at the end of the first game. It was just that there was only one point difference between Mojue and Dynasty, because they fought against the weakest opponent in the first game, Graceful Beauty, and added five points, which opened the gap with Dynasty tea,. However, Graceful Beauty still had a negative score. After this game, the score becomes -10. It was very ugly to hang on the scoreboard.
Xu Sizhe happened to hear Qin Mo’s conversation with his fans backstage after leaving the big stage. “The best reward I can give you is to play every game well and not let you regret liking Mojue team.”
Hearing this sentence, Xu Sizhe felt ashamed. As a captain, the most important thing was to lead the team to play every game——and he had not even fulfilled this basic responsibility.
After packing up and returning to the team, Xu Sizhe called Tan Xi aside and whispered. “Xiao Xi, I want to give the captain to you. You will arrange all the games in the future.”
Tan Xi was stunned and frowned. “Graceful Beauty is the team you establish and fund, how can I be the captain?”
Xu Sizhe looked embarrassed, but in order that the team not to be destroyed in his hands, he quickly calmed down and replied. “You are much calmer than me, and you are more suitable for being the captain than me. If my estimation is correct, Graceful Beauty may face the fate of being eliminated this season. Then, after the end of the season, we must play the resurrection game with the other non-governmental promotion team next year, and compete for the league tickets in the next season. I don’t want Graceful Beauty to be eliminated. The resurrection game still depends on you to lead.”
Tan Xi touched her chin and began to think. Xu Sizhe followed and added. “Don’t be modest. Take over the position of captain. In the future, the team will be left to you.”
After a moment of silence, Tan Xi nodded. “I respect your decision.”
In fact, she had long seen that Xu Sizhe’s mind was not in the game. Since the establishment of Graceful Beauty team, he had always emphasized the strength of the Twin Stars with the team members, studied Han-Mo’s playing method, and tried every means to target Mojue. For other teams, he didn’t analyse much and didn’t seem to care much.
She always felt that Xu Sizhe might have a problem with Qin Mo, and she didn’t agree with Xu Sizhe’s practice of only focusing on Mojue and ignoring other teams. Unfortunately, Xu Sizhe was stubborn and didn’t listen to her advice. Now he took the initiative to put down the captain position, Tan Xi was also relieved, because she knew that if Xu Sizhe didn’t move on, Graceful Beauty team would be finished. Fortunately, Xu Sizhe finally decided to put it down and mend it before it was too late.
That evening, Tan Xi received an email from Li Junru, National Grace’s captain: “Hello, Tan Xi, I appreciate you very much. You are an excellent player regardless of your strength, consciousness and calmness during the competition. If there is no accident, Graceful Beauty team will be put into the resurrection game after the end of this season, facing the situation of being eliminated by the league. With your strength, staying in that team is too wasted, so now I will speak more directly. There is a team composed of pure girls on National Grace side, but the girls will not show weakness to the male players, and always aim at winning prizes. I hope you can join our National Grace and work hard with us next season, looking forward to your reply.”
Receiving Li Junru’s invitation made Tan Xi feel very surprised. Her personal strength was only average compared with many great gods in the league. Among the assassin players, Xiao Han was undoubtedly the king. Sang Jun and Wen Hua of Dynasty, and Sky’s Dynasty Li Dongqing were much better than her. National Grace’s Cheng Yuqing was also a fierce assassin. Tan Xi’s standard could at most be equal to Cheng Yuqing’s, so Li Junru didn’t need to dig her. After all, National Grace already had a similar assassin.
Li Junru suddenly threw an olive branch to her at this time, and she was more willing to believe that what Li Junru saw was not her ability to play as an assassin, but her ability to analyze the battle situation.
The game with Mojue was the first that she commanded, which revealed her understanding in team lineups and secret books. As the secret book system of ‘Peerless Jianghu’ was extremely rich, many players might be confused about the idea of banning and selecting secret books, but she had some experience in this aspect, which attracted Li Junru’s attention.
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Thinking of the hard-working young players in the team, Tan Xi gently pressed her temples and replied to Li Junru’s email: “Thank you for your appreciation, but I won’t leave Graceful Beauty team for the time being. As you said, Graceful Beauty’s performance this season is too poor, and we will definitely be promoted to the resurrection game next year, but I want to do something for this team, and I want to take everyone to keep their seats in the league. It is too ruthless of me to leave my teammates at this time.”
Li Junru was probably in front of the computer and quickly replied: “You are very loyal. I can understand your choice now. But when you already try your best, but Graceful Beauty still be eliminated. At that time, I hope you can give priority to join our National Grace. Our club is now operated by god Ling and cat god behind the scenes, and the treatment given to the players is countless times better than that given by manager Xu. We will give you a better environment and work together.”
Seeing this, Tan Xi was surprised. Everyone knew that National Grace had changed boss, but she didn’t expect it to be the cat god and Ling Xuefeng. Li Junru dared to speak out, there should be both Ling-Cat’s idea behind it. Li Junru’s words were very direct, and said they would be still eliminated after all her efforts. This possibility did exist. Tan Xi was silent for a moment, so she replied: “First of all, I will try my best to keep Graceful Beauty. If I can’t keep it in the end, I will still try my best. At least I have a clear conscience to my teammates. I will seriously consider Junru’s words. I’ll talk about it after the resurrection game next year.”
She didn’t say anything to direct, it was indeed a more sensible approach, but her first choice was still to do her best to keep Graceful Beauty.
Li Junru was surprised—— Graceful Beauty team’s performance was so poor that Xu Sizhe even became the laughingstock of the whole league. Unexpectedly, there were players in such a team who bravely wanted to take responsibility and lead the team to go on.
Weak teams also had strong-minded people. At this point, Li Junru did admire Tan Xi.
After sending a screenshot of the email record to the management group, the other party quickly replied: “I can understand Tan Xi’s idea. I thought the same way back then, sigh…”
“You took the Canglan team and didn’t get a prize for three years in a row,” Ling Xuefeng replied. “And even get eliminated in every first round of the playoff. If you hadn’t been too loyal, you could have left your teammates to fly alone.” These words seemed calm, but he felt a deep heartache. “Fortunately, after the original Canglan team got disband, you met a lot of powerful teammates and accepted Xiao Han, a gifted apprentice, in order to win the championship and prove yourself. You are just too sentimental.”
Li Cangyu sent a smiling expression. “It’s all in the past, so there is no need to mention it. I didn’t expect that a little girl Tan Xi is so courageous, we should respect her choice. We will see the situation next year, if Graceful Beauty is really gone. Pull her over again. If Graceful Beauty can keep her, then she will definitely stay, and we shouldn’t force her.”
Li Junru nodded. “I understand. I will keep in touch with Tan Xi. Good night both of you.”
After Junru went offline, Li Cangyu touched his chin and said. “I actually don’t like Xu Sizhe very much. He used to be a newcomer in Dragon Song club and I have heard his name. His talent is obviously good, but he is too arrogant and really asking for trouble. However, I don’t really want Graceful Beauty team to be disbanded. Over the years, the league has disbanded many teams, the earliest prosperous Chang’an, the Canglan team I brought, Pure Cleansing team, and so on. Every time a team is disbanded, I still feel bad, and I always feel sorry for those players.”
Ling Xuefeng stretched out his arms and gently hugged Li Cangyu’s shoulders. “I understand that you have experienced it, so you can better understand their feelings. But the game itself is cruel, such as Mojue that Xiao Mo and Xiao Han now bring. The team is strong, and the overall state of the team is getting better. But the players from Dynasty, Without Fire, Frost Moon, and Sky teams also worked very hard and wanted to win the championship. Mojue’s winning means that other teams will lose…There is no way to have the best of both worlds.”
“Yes,” Li Cangyu smiled. “If there is a winner in the competition, there must be a loser. The champion is precious because it is not easy to get.” He paused, touched his chin and added. “If I remember correctly, Mojue will fight against National Grace next week. The girls of National Grace train so hard that I really can’t bear to see them defeated by Xiao Han and Xiao Mo. However, Xiao Han and Xiao Mo are our apprentices, and it is not easy for Xiao Mo to come back this time. Well, no matter who wins, neither of us seems to be happy?”
Ling Xuefeng smiled slightly, “Yes, the apprentice and the players from our own club are fighting, it is not good where we stand, so we will not go to the match in Nanjing this week. Look, how about making fish for you at home?” There was an obvious tenderness in his deep voice.
“Good!” Li Cangyu’s eyes lit up. “I haven’t tasted your craftsmanship for a long time. I want to eat steamed bass!”
“No problem.” Ling Xuefeng replied.
Just at this time, Li Cangyu’s mobile phone lit up, and it was a text message from Xiao Han: “Master, we are going to Nanjing to play with National Grace next week. Will you and god Ling come to watch the game?”
“Don’t watch.” Li Cangyu replied decisively.
Xiao Han sent a smiling emoticon: “That’s good, otherwise I will be under a lot of pressure with Xiao Mo.”
“Will you still be under pressure?” Li Cangyu wondered.
Xiao Han replied honestly: “After all, Master is the boss behind the scenes. If we defeat National Grace, wouldn’t we be hitting Master’s face [crying in noodle tears]?”
Li Cangyu sent a ‘hit his head’ emoticon: “Where did you learn this emoticon? You don’t follow a good example! In addition, do not be careless, Mojue is now very strong, but it’s not easy to win 2:0 in an away game with National Grace. Do you think you can guess what Junru thinks?”
Xiao Han sent a ‘pursed mouth’ emoticon: “I know, we won’t underestimate the enemy carelessly. In addition, as you know, every time Xiao Mo visits god Ling, he has to burn incense, bath, cut his hair and change his clothes. This time, we will only stay in Nanjing for one day. The schedule is too tight, so we can’t greet masters, please forgive us.”
Li Cangyu: “……”
Qin Mo was really afraid of Ling Xuefeng to a certain extent!
Li Cangyu held back his laugh and showed the WeChat sent by Xiao Han to Ling Xuefeng. Ling Xuefeng frowned and picked up Li Cangyu’s mobile phone to reply: “You tell him, next time he sees me, he doesn’t need to cut his hair and change clothes. I won’t scold him.”
Xiao Han sent a ‘respectful kneeling’ emoticon: “Alright. This time I only stay in Nanjing for one day, so I won’t invite you for a meal. After the game, we’ll return to Changsha on the same night.”
Ling Xuefeng: “En.” Xiao Han no longer disturbed him, put down his mobile phone to go to the dormitory next door to find Qin Mo.
Qin Mo was watching the video of the game. It was the match between National Grace VS Interlude in the first week, and it was Interlude’s home court. In the first game of Interlude’s home game, Li Junru would have the advantage of secret books. She was very wise to disable all teleportation secret books and use the long-range poison attack to kill the opponent. In the second round of National Grace’s home game, when Interlude chose the secret books, he grabbed the teleportation secret books and several long-range control secret books. Su Cheng commanded the whole group to teleport and defeated National Grace from the rear.
In the 1:1 result, both sides played a favorable set of tactics.
Seeing Qin Mo seriously looking at the computer, Xiao Han sat down beside him and asked. “How is it? What did you get?”
Turning around, Qin Mo replied. “National Grace team battle is still dominated by poisonous attacks. The cooperation of Li Junru and An Ling’s double poison masters, scattering all of poisonous powder, will put great pressure on the opposite healer. Next week’s game, the first round will be their home game. I will ban the secret books with poisoning effects, but they are poison masters themselves, and we need to find a way to deal with the double poison lineup.” Thinking about it carefully, Qin Mo added. “I tend to let Qingyue and Muran play defensive counterattacks, and wait for the meeting to talk about it.”
“En, I’ll listen to you.” Xiao Han smiled.
Qin Mo: “……”
In order to prevent him from saying more blatant words, Qin Mo decisively changed the topic. “Did you already tell our master that there’s no time to visit them this time?”
“I already told them, they don’t mind it.” Xiao Han nodded. “By the way, my master said, we may not be able to guess Junru’s idea. I think there is a mystery in his words. Maybe National Grace has recently developed some special style of play, so we’d better be well prepared.”
“Of course.” Qin Mo replied.
No matter what kind of opponent he faced, he would not underestimate them, and he must be fully prepared before the game.
Qin Mo turned off the video, opened Weibo and took a look at the scoreboard. Just then, a message that had been forwarded many times suddenly popped up on the front page. It was a message from the official blog of Graceful Beauty team: “From now on, @XuSizhe stepped down as captain of Graceful Beauty team. The captain was replaced by @WaterFlowSoundTanXi. I hope that after the handover of the captain, the performance of the team will improve, and all of us will continue to work hard. Thank you for your support.”
Seeing this news, Xiao Han smiled. “Xu Sizhe finally made the right decision.”
“He can get back on the right path, at least he won’t hurt other teammates.” Qin Mo smiled slightly. “…Leave him alone and call the team for a meeting.”
Xiao Han conveniently sent a message in the Mojue’s group, and soon, everyone gathered in the conference room.
Qin Mo opened the PPT that he just made, and gave a brief explanation. “Winning 2:0 in the first game is really a good start for us, everyone’s performance on the field is also very good, I hope to continue to maintain this state. Next, let me analyse our opponent in the second game, National Grace team. We must be more cautious in dealing with this team.”
Hmm, wonder how Tan Xi will decide in the future…
I really like it whenever Catgod and LXF make an appearance~~! They’re still so affectionate towards each other, aww. (>̯-̮<̯)
Thank you for the chapter 💜💜💜
I think it will be better than Xu Sizhe >_<
Yesss, I also love their interactions, and I love when they make an appearance 😍
You’re welcome ~ ❤
Aaah it seems there is a secret strategy against my babies!!! Aaaah, no worries, baby Momo is the wisest c:
Thank you for the chapter!!!
truee, National Grace still has a secret weapon~ 🤭
You’re welcome~ ❤
Plot twist. What if Tang xi joins mojue instead? :))
lol, it will be good, because after Xiao Han retires, Mojue don’t have assassin 🤣
Hmm, maybe Li Muran can change classes and become an assassin? He is really suited for it and he’s also the apprentice of Xiao Han~ They just can find another healer 😅
i really like lingcat’s decision of not taking sides between mojue and national grace. i was actually worried about it the moment lingcat took over the national grace club, whether it would complicate things or not. but them clarifying that they are neutral and didn’t choose to support anyone in the next game, for me it’s a good decision.
I wonder, when/if Xiao Han tells Qin Mo about LXF telling him not to cut his hair and change his clothes, what will/would be the reaction? 👀😂 I hope he does mention it somewhere in the remaining chapters sjjsjsjs
Somehow I get the feeling that Xiao Han either forgot or deliberately not telling him for whatever reason? 😅
Only -10? Did they count wrong? 🙄 after 2:0 from 3v3 against Mojue their score was -2 if I’m not wrong. There are 8 other teams, and I don’t think they were capable to snatch a win from any of those 8, which means it’s another -4×8 = -32. So the score should be -34 🙈