It was quite obvious how pent up the Valorant junior was.
Not long after Lin Jiaxin sent out her voice message, the team quickly filled up with four Ascendants (Valorant’s highest rank).
Except this time, she had formed the team out of spite to begin with.
On top of that, the Immortal Bro next door had already rejected her.
So Lin Jiaxin, on the verge of going fully red-hot, couldn’t be bothered to keep up her sweet public persona any longer.
She exposed her wicked nature right on the spot…..
Once the match started, she instantly locked in Jett. Then she insisted on buying the most expensive guns, completely ignoring economy and abilities. Just dry peeking and taking duels.
If she won the duel, she was amazing. If she lost, the enemy was cheating.
She’d push into sites without clearing corners, or she’d just charge forward alone. If she got killed, she’d impatiently open her mic and pressure her teammates:
“Seriously, what are you guys being so chicken about? Push into the site, okay?”
“Why don’t you guys clear corners when you enter the site first?”
Sometimes, when dead and spectating, she’d keep pressuring whoever she was watching:
“Jeez, you can’t even win that?”
“Bro, did you really get your Ascendant rank yourself? Must’ve been a booster, right?”
Then she’d watch that person clutch a 1v5 in a desperate situation and wipe out the entire enemy team.
Lin Jiaxin would ‘tch’ again and mutter sourly:
“Oh ho, you’re so good at killing? Then just go wipe them all by yourself, why don’t you?”
And when she was done, she’d even sneak a dirty look at the Immortal Bro next door who hadn’t let her play with him.
Immortal Bro next door: ……
Looking at Lin Jiaxin, who had clearly already broken down and gone red, he exchanged glances with the others.
After finishing the last round, they all silently got up, turned off their computers, and left together.
This was way too damn noisy!
Playing games with this kind of Valorant-scrub junior was the most annoying thing ever.
She yells when she gets hit, yells when she can’t win, and yells even when her teammates win…..
Good thing they hadn’t agreed to play the tournament with her…..
[Trash game, trash environment…. Deleted! If I ever play this crappy game again, I’m a dog!]
Lin Jiaxin angrily quit the game, moved the mouse cursor, and dragged the game icon into the Recycle Bin.
Then, with a determined look, she opened League of Legends and instantly locked in Draven.
Better to play the game she was most familiar with…..
At least she’d played this one way longer — she’d clocked five to six thousand hours in her previous life.
Then…. unsurprisingly, Lin Jiaxin got destroyed again.
Her axes were one-time-use; she could never catch the second one, and that alone was bad enough. But the enemy Blitzcrank support kept hooking her — every single Q landed.
She dodged straight into hooks in every way imaginable. In the end, she got hooked so many times that, in her panic, she flashed straight into another hook.
All by herself, she managed to feed a godlike ADC.
Master-rank Lin Jiaxin had single-handedly cultivated a god!
You had to know that League’s environment was far worse than Valorant’s.
Before long, the chat box in the bottom-left corner started “interacting” with Lin Jiaxin.
To protect her family and defend her reputation, Lin Jiaxin’s face darkened, and her hands flew across the keyboard.
Right then and there, she transformed into a Zaun pianist!
Don’t be fooled by her poor gameplay….
Her typing speed, however, was not lacking in the slightest.
She could flame 1v4 and still have energy left to trade words with the enemy team in all-chat.
But Lin Jiaxin never expected that, while she was AFK at the base guarding her family,
the enemy team, unable to exploit her as their biggest weak point,
could only go after her top laner and mid laner, who were still laning normally.
But because they were too cocky, they kept giving away chances, handing over bounties…..
In the end, all of Lin Jiaxin’s teammates got fed.
Not only did this game not end in a loss — she actually won?!
After the match, Lin Jiaxin’s friend requests suddenly increased by five.
Four from teammates, one from an opponent.
Needless to say, the former were surely looking to continue “interacting” with her, and the latter had definitely lost it.
Lin Jiaxin ignored them all, exited the game with a grim face,
and dragged the League icon into the Recycle Bin again…..
Damn it, not playing anymore! Every single one of these is a trash game!
Lin Jiaxin, thoroughly defeated, slumped completely into her gaming chair and stared blankly at the empty desktop.
This really wasn’t right, was it?
In her previous life, she had been Diamond rank in both games.
Looking at the player base, Diamond sat within the top ten percent.
She had game knowledge, and on top of that, in this life, her body was nourished by spiritual energy, making her reactions even faster.
By all logic, her mechanics shouldn’t be a problem…. she might even have been able to reach for Master.
How could she…. be playing both games this badly at the same time?
Could it be that girls, just because they don’t have QQ, can’t become high-level players?
But…. the other two girls in the same booth earlier were also Immortal, and their stats weren’t bad either…..
This…..
Then it must definitely be a problem with the matchmaking system!
Damn ELO system, so disgusting!
Why does every single game put ‘motherless’ players on her team, and give the enemy ‘top-class horses’?!
At this moment, Lin Jiaxin pondered for a long time.
She thought of the countless players who had been victimized by ELO-controlled win-rate matchmaking, and of those designers hiding in game companies — the ones who created ELO and smirked as they watched daily active users climb…..
Could it be that the games these players loved were, in the designers’ eyes, nothing more than tools for hitting their KPIs?
It was all that hateful designer’s fault, and his ELO 😡!
Anyway…. it definitely had nothing to do with Lin Jiaxin herself.
Even if it did, it was just the disgusting influence of ELO messing with her!
Just as Lin Jiaxin was still staring blankly at the empty screen,
the glass door of the booth suddenly pushed open.
Several guys walked in, chatting and laughing.
One of them, carrying a keyboard, froze the moment he saw Lin Jiaxin:
“Se…. Sister Xin? What are you doing here?”
“……?”
Hearing this, Lin Jiaxin turned her head and responded weakly: “Ah, it’s Wang Haozhe.”
“Sister Xin came to play games too? Did you just get here?”
Fledgling Phoenix Brother Wang Haozhe sat down next to Lin Jiaxin and asked curiously.
“Cough, no, I came to…. just look around.”
Lin Jiaxin gave a dry laugh. She was too embarrassed to admit she’d just been destroyed and was now questioning her life.
She glanced at Wang Haozhe and his friends, perking up slightly, and asked casually:
“What are you guys planning to play?”
“Us?”
Fledgling Phoenix Brother Wang Haozhe, while plugging in his peripherals, explained: “We’re planning to play some Valorant. After warming up, we’re entering the internet cafe tournament. Sister Xin, want to play together?”
“Valorant? Wh…. what rank are you guys?”
“Ascendant. What’s up?”
“Ascendant?!”
Lin Jiaxin was delighted at first, but her expression quickly dimmed.
“Ugh….. I’ll pass, then.”
Wang Haozhe was confused: “Why?”
‘Just now, you didn’t look like someone who didn’t want to play…’
“Because…. I accidentally uninstalled the game just now.”
Lin Jiaxin leaned back, stared at the ceiling, let out a sigh, but still kept up her stubborn front.
“?”
Fledgling Phoenix Brother Wang Haozhe didn’t reply. He pondered for a moment, then picked up Lin Jiaxin’s mouse,
opened the Recycle Bin, and restored the icon to the desktop.
Then he spread his hands, pointing at the screen: “There. The game’s back.”
“Huh? You installed it that fast?”
Lin Jiaxin blinked, asking without thinking.
“Pfft……”
The others tried hard to keep their lips pressed down, but they still couldn’t hold it in, nearly bursting out laughing.
Only Lin Jiaxin’s Fledgling Phoenix Brother, Wang Haozhe, managed to keep it together.
Someone who says they “uninstalled” a game at an internet cafe
most likely had no idea how to actually uninstall a game.
In this kind of situation, all you had to do was open the Recycle Bin and you’d usually find the “deleted” game icon right there.
“Ah, yeah.”
Wang Haozhe looked at Lin Jiaxin’s face, so close he could almost touch it, and his voice suddenly became a little unsteady.
He was currently sitting in the exact seat the Immortal Bro had vacated earlier.
They were too close — close enough for him to see the slight upward curve of her eyelashes.
To see that pair of eyes, usually half-lidded as if looking down on the entire world, always arrogant and self-centered, now widened with a hint of bewilderment, her pupils reflecting the desktop wallpaper on the monitor.
And…. his face.
Fledgling Phoenix Brother Wang Haozhe remembered the moment they’d pushed the door open earlier.
Lin Jiaxin had been slumped alone in her gaming chair, staring blankly at the empty desktop, not even noticing when someone approached.
It was completely unlike her usual swaggering manner — nose in the air, fairly AOE-ing everyone around her,
opening her mouth only to declare “your Sister Xin” with such an arrogant attitude.
So….. she could have expressions like this too.
She could also talk tough, also get embarrassed.
She could also throw a game icon into the Recycle Bin and think she’d truly uninstalled it…..
How to put it….. it was kind of…. cute?
Wang Haozhe suddenly snapped back to reality, realizing his hand was still hovering in midair.
He quickly turned his head away, pushed the mouse in front of her, and gave a couple of dry coughs:
“W…. want to play together?”
‘What does it mean that I’m feeling a little smitten?!’
“So, are all of you Ascendant?”
Lin Jiaxin hadn’t noticed the change in his expression, because at that moment she was looking up at the others.
They all nodded in turn: “Yeah…. want to join?”
“Then come on, come on! Let’s go, let’s go!”
Lin Jiaxin responded, then excitedly clicked open the game.
If she’d known there was a team of high-level players right beside her, why would she have needed to put on a persona in front of strangers at all!
Valorant…. launching again!