The Mid Laner Is Beautiful, Acts Cute, but Has Class - Chapter 3

【Thank you… Now I’m sure. It’s him.】

【Yuanbao is truly facing a disaster from the heavens. This match, my eyes will be glued to Yuanbao’s blue side, not missing a single second.】

【Hahahaha, I feel so bad for Yuanbao.】

【Yuanbao, I suggest you stay offline.】

【How about adding him as a friend after this match? You can check if he’s online before you queue up, and only start matchmaking when he’s already in a game.】

【Hahahaha, learning from Brother Yu and Xiao Yan, huh?! Those two are terrified of running into each other.】

“Hmm?”

Jiang Yuan fell silent for a moment.

“Does everyone know him? Why didn’t I recognize him?”

The teammates also fell into a strange, tense atmosphere.

Finally, the player in the fourth slot turned on their mic and asked with a trembling voice, “You’re not that Little Yu God who retired recently, are you? The 128-rank Mid Laner who mained three assassins and insisted on taking the blue buff even when playing champions without mana?”

【He has so many adjectives to describe him, hahahaha.】

【Sorry, you should be asking if he’s that coquettish mid-laner who likes to call everyone “brother” to get his way.】

【The man that both our own and the enemy junglers are afraid of.】

【My condolences to Yuanbao.】

[I hope he picks a hero with a mana bar this time. At least then the Blue Buff will actually be useful.]

[Yuanbao might not give it to him, though. I’ve noticed Xiaobao only gives buffs in the late game.]

Jiang Yuan’s brow twitched, and his fingertips froze for half a second.

Could my luck really be this bad?!

He hadn’t been matched with Ning Tingyu in two years, yet just as he’d gotten out of bed this morning, he was matched with him tonight?

【Peak Summoner 1】: …

【Peak Summoner 1】: If it’s you, then you can have it.

【Peak Summoner 3】: Thank you, Brother ovo!

Jiang Yuan: “…”

The image of Ning Tingyu carelessly buckling his belt in front of him this morning, combined with that same flirtatious face typing out those emoticons…

And calling everyone “Brother.”

The impact was no less than someone swallowing an atomic bomb right in front of him.

In Peak Matches, Ning Tingyu always picked his heroes regardless of the team composition, immediately snatching Mai Shiranui in the first slot.

Jiang Yuan hesitated for a second before asking the bullet chat, “He’s playing Mai Shiranui. Does he still take the Blue Buff even without a mana bar?”

[If nothing unexpected happens, yes.]

[He used to take the Blue Buff even when playing Sima Yi as Mid Laner…]

[He takes it with Shouyue too.]

[And with his Mid Lane Luna and Mid Lane Li Xin.]

[Whether he takes Blue Buff or not doesn’t depend on whether he has a mana bar, but mainly on whether he feels like it, hahaha.]

“…”

He’s really something, Jiang Yuan thought.

If I don’t pick a combat-heavy hero and we lose, marketing accounts will probably edit this into eight hundred different versions and replay it for half a month. I’d better lock in Lan.

I just hope this guy has some common sense.

Entering the match, Jiang Yuan chose to start with the Blue Buff.

He watched his midlaner’s icon on the map, swaying back and forth, vaguely trending closer. Then, with a single skill, the icon retreated back under the mid tower.

[This kid is teasing you, Yuanbao. Eat all his mid-lane minions later.]

[I suggest you don’t. He’ll start whining on voice chat if you do, hahahaha.]

[Last time, YQ’s jungler stole two waves of his mid-lane minions. Little Yu God listed him for sale on Xianyu for 400, which is exactly the price of two waves. The funniest part is that someone actually bought him.]

[The most vengeful Alpha I’ve ever seen, hands down…]

[I still laugh thinking about it.]

[I even followed his Xianyu just to see who the daily victim would be.]

[Xiaobao, please don’t let me see you on Xianyu later, okay?]

“…”

Jiang Yuan’s mouth twitched.

After clearing the jungle, Jiang Yuan crouched in the bottom lane bushes, waiting for the perfect moment. Out of the corner of his eye, he couldn’t help but glance at the small icon in the mid lane.

The person seemed to have a restless spirit. Every second, their icon was on the move, either rolling into one bush or out of another.

“Jungle, stop camping bottom. Come gank mid. I’ll Flash and kick him,” Ning Tingyu said, his voice lazy over the microphone.

“Tsk.”

Jiang Yuan stared at the microphone icon that flickered on and off next to the Mai Shiranui avatar. After a few seconds of silence, he had no choice but to follow Ning Tingyu’s lead and move to the mid lane to secure vision.

He hadn’t been camping for long.

“Brother Shark, look at my signal.”

The minion wave was converging in the mid lane. Ning Tingyu stood still under his tower for a few seconds.

The moment the enemy Shangguan Wan’er appeared, he flashed forward and knocked her into the air with pinpoint accuracy.

Jiang Yuan’s ultimate followed up instantly, securing the First Blood kill.

First Blood!

“Brother, you’re pretty good at this,” Ning Tingyu said, his praise coinciding with the announcer’s call.

As he spoke, his icon on the minimap immediately slipped into Jiang Yuan’s jungle.

The Mai Shiranui, clad in her signature blue short skirt, stood boldly in front of the Blue Buff, making no effort to hide her intentions from Jiang Yuan.

Jiang Yuan: “…”

Not even trying to hide it anymore, huh?

[Better late than never.]

[I knew it, hahahaha. That bastard would never praise anyone for no reason.]

[He’s actually using the “coaxing method” today. He must be in a good mood. Whenever he deals with Feng Hen, he just straight-up threatens him.]

[Jiangbao, we can’t spoil him!]

[Who could resist an alpha this good at acting coquettish? Hahahaha.]

[Go check Ning Tingyu’s stream. The guy is grinning like a fox, his eyes practically glued to Yuanbao’s buff.]

“Start retreating!”

Jiang Yuan pinged the signal.

His Mid Laner remained standing outside the wall, a pink fox emoticon popping up over his head.

“Start retreating!”

“Start retreating!”

Jiang Yuan pinged it two more times.

“Brother, don’t you think I’m amazing? Just give me the buff, and I promise I’ll carry us to victory in the late game.”

Ning Tingyu chattered incessantly, his long fingers hovering in the air, just about to poison the poor Blue Buff.

“If I don’t carry, you can just sell me on Xianyu…”

Before he could finish, the Jungler’s avatar flashed in the team voice chat.

“Ning Tingyu, get your ass over here.”

The voice was cool and clear, yet tinged with a slight rasp.

Ning Tingyu’s scalp prickled instantly. He recognized it immediately.

Wasn’t this the same Little Yuan Brother who’d been whimpering beneath him for most of the night?

After a second of silence, Ning Tingyu spoke into the microphone, his voice laced with amusement.

“If you’d just told me it was Little Yuan Brother—!”

“Then I wouldn’t have taken it!~”

The end of his sentence curved upward, more winding than a mountain road.

Before anyone’s eyes, the Mid Laner scrambled back to the center lane, then immediately rushed toward the bottom lane again, without even touching the minions about to clash in the middle.

“Brother, help me clear the mid lane, I’m going to gank the side lanes!”

Jiang Yuan: “…”

[Holy shit, he’s actually letting the wave push?!]

[Before, he was like a dog seeing meat, he’d crawl over all three lanes just to eat everything. Now he’s actually sharing with someone else?]

[Yuan, you two are definitely up to something.]

[Xiaobao, I spent three hours fighting Ning Fox’s fans for you yesterday, and I almost broke my keyboard! You better hold the line! I refuse to see him get a single buff this game!]

[Hiss… I remember they weren’t even friends on each other’s lists.]

Jiang Yuan said nothing, silently farming gold to power up.

Only the small window on the screen revealed the faint blush creeping up his ears.

With Ning Tingyu ganking both the top and bottom lanes and occasionally managing health bars to feed Jiang Yuan kills, Jiang Yuan had already amassed 9,000 gold in less than ten minutes.

The match advantage was immense. Jiang Yuan’s rhythm in taking dragons and pushing lanes was impeccable, and he had claimed almost the entire jungle for himself.

“Jungle Brother, can I have your Red Buff?” Gongsun Li asked in the team chat.

Jiang Yuan had one, and he was generous.

“You can have it.”

The team voice chat fell silent again.

Jiang Yuan had just finished stealing from the enemy jungle and returned to his own.

Ning Tingyu appeared out of nowhere, standing across from the Blue Buff wall like a well-behaved pet.

This time, he didn’t chatter on. Instead, he sent a Zhang Fei emoji.

The round-headed character gave a thumbs-up, its eyes sparkling with stars.

The caption read: “Brother said it well.”

Jiang Yuan found the emoji strangely fitting for Ning Tingyu.

After hesitating for two seconds, Jiang Yuan stopped his attack when the Blue Buff’s health dropped below 1,000.

“You can have it.”

“Hmm?”

Ning Tingyu’s tone was feigned surprise, with a hint of teasing beneath it. “Really? Is it for me, Brother?”

“Yeah.”

Jiang Yuan’s voice was low. After a half-second pause, he added, “Three seconds. If you don’t take it, I’m using Smite.”

Ning Tingyu immediately secured the Blue Buff with a single attack.

He licked his lips, his voice tinged with the pleasure of a successful heist. “Thanks, Brother.”

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