League: Educating LPL is my duty.

"Hey newbies watching this, feel free to criticize, but please send some gifts, okay? Other streamers live in big apartments and mansions, can you really bear to see such a talented streamer stuck in a tiny rented room?"

As always, Li Chen took the initiative to ask for gifts. As for how the comments on the screen were cursing him, what did that have to do with him?

That's the money we make!

Li Chen then played six more games with the factory manager. Although the opponents and heroes were different in each game, the process and results of the games were very similar.

Your own top lane always has a natural advantage, suppressing the enemy top laner at level one and allowing them to overtake them at level three, forcing the enemy top laner to gank the jungler within four minutes.

Then the enemy jungle was completely invaded, and two three-man ganks came from the mid lane to take down the mid tower. Immediately afterwards, they all moved to the bottom lane to gank and push the tower, just like playing a single-player game.

In the final game, Li Chen's Fiora secured a quadra kill, ending the match.

What? You're asking why it wasn't a pentakill?

Because the enemy top laner, Poppy, had already gone AFK to take a shower three minutes ago.

Seeing that it was almost time, Li Chen said into the microphone, "Factory, Factory, how was today's game experience? Was it worth it to farm those rockets?"

The factory manager couldn't help but retort, "You have the nerve to ask? You little black-hearted bastard, how much health have you drained from me? The jungle's practically your own territory. Are you the one playing with me, or am I the one playing with you?"

"That's a narrow-minded view. Let me ask you, if I hadn't gained an advantage, could you have freely entered the enemy jungle? If you couldn't enter the enemy jungle, what use were those jungle monsters to you? So, I'm not taking a few jungle monsters for myself, but to make your game more comfortable, understand?"

Li Chen's words sounded like nonsense, but they were actually true. As the top laner, he used his personal skills to overwhelm the opponent and spread his advantage to the upper jungle. It was only right that he took some jungle monsters for that.

The factory manager's forehead was covered in black lines: "Are there even a few? You're always taking the top half of the map, I'm not even as good as a normal player, and you expect me to help you fight, leaving you with a sliver of health to finish you off? Are you even human?"

Li Chen, seemingly unfazed, retorted, "Then tell me, did you win or not?"

The factory manager was speechless. Although he was very unhappy, he couldn't find any reason to refute it because he had really won.

"Good for you, C should really criticize the factory."

"4396, 'Horse Trampling a Flying Swallow,' you can't help but curse it!"

"Factory manager, you'd better face reality. What's the use of a good-for-nothing relying on the economy? You have a father who won't support you, can you even manage on your own?"

"Now even the factory manager and others are playing with Mantis and Blind Mantis. Can he play them? No, he doesn't have the ability, you know?"

"Useless Mingkai, every character has only eight strokes, yet he's always in the top eight!"

Seeing the momentum picking up again, Li Chen slammed his fist on the table and roared, "Enough, you bunch of noobs and haters! I won't allow you to smear EDG like this! I'm telling you, if EDG strengthens their roster next year, they'll definitely be able to compete for the championship!"

"What? You're asking me how to strengthen the team? That's a good question, but EDG will have to find the answer themselves. That's all for today's stream, goodbye!"

The broadcast ended abruptly with a black screen, and Li Chen and Changzi added each other as WeChat friends.

The factory manager originally wanted to ask Li Chen what he meant by "reinforcement" earlier, but then he thought that Li Chen would probably boast about himself and belittle others, so he gave up the idea.

For the next few days, the two played duo queue almost every day.

Once one account reaches the King rank, they immediately switch to another account. Since both accounts are almost always on winning streaks and rarely lose, the chances of being matched with professional players at the King rank are increasing.

During this period, Li Chen also faced off against several professional top laners from the Korean server, but without exception, they were all completely outmatched by Li Chen's Jayce, which led to an increase in the ban rate of Jayce in high-elo games on the Korean server.

On the last day of 2016, after a game where he achieved a godlike streak with Jayce, Li Chen, as usual, started taunting the chat and demanding New Year's gifts.

His live stream viewership has now stabilized at over 1.5 million, making him a top-tier streamer on Shark. While his viewership may not be as high as some of the most popular streamers, his gift revenue is not much lower.

After his brothers flooded the chat with gifts, Li Chen received two or three thousand in total. He nodded in satisfaction and was about to start the next game with the useless Ming Kai when a series of super rockets suddenly started flooding the chat.

IG's Principal Wang sent 1 Super Rockets

IG's Principal Wang sent 2 Super Rockets

IG's Principal Wang sent 3 Super Rockets

……

IG's Principal Wang sent 10 Super Rockets

Li Chen's eyes lit up, knowing that the bidding war against EDG had arrived, so he quickly shouted, "Thank you, Principal Wang, for the ten Super Rockets! Thank you, Principal Wang! I wish IG all the best next year, and may they win the first S-series championship for the LPL!"

The factory manager had been on voice chat with Li Chen. Upon hearing Li Chen's voice, he felt a pang of anxiety and quickly opened Li Chen's live stream.

As soon as I entered the live stream, I saw Wang Sicong's super comment: "You played well. Come visit IG sometime and we can play a couple of games together?"

Although it wasn't explicitly stated, everyone in the live stream knew what Principal Wang meant: he had his eye on Li Chen and wanted to recruit him.

"Thank you for your kindness, Principal Wang. I've been quite busy lately, and I've taken on some gaming companion orders. I'll definitely go play on IG after I finish this order."

Li Chen didn't directly refuse. To be honest, IG was indeed within his consideration, because IG did have the foundation to win the championship.

First, there's Rookie in the mid lane. As the renowned "orphanage director," his strength is beyond doubt. As for the jungler, although 443 Kid isn't great, Ning will be joining in the second half of the year, which will strengthen the team in time.

If I were to join IG, then the team's only weakness would be its bot lane.

Principal Wang didn't chat much. After receiving Li Chen's reply, he casually left a few super-fires and departed.

Su will naturally handle the follow-up contact with Li Chen; his visit to deliver the gift was merely to express his stance.

"My goodness, he fired fifteen super fireballs in one go, no wonder he's Principal Wang."

"What's so special about Super Fire? Do you think the streamer doesn't receive a lot of Super Fire every day? There are tons of rich guys and girls in the live stream room. Just one person, Changzi, has sent more than twenty."

"That's true, but it seems Principal Wang is thinking of signing streamers. It looks like C is really going to play in competitions."

"Hey streamer, a team wants you! Aren't you going to try out?"

"C God, look at me, I want to deliver takeout to you."

Li Chen chatted with the viewers in the live stream for a while, and then tried to invite Ming Kai to start the game, but after calling out twice, he found that there was no one on the other side.

Meanwhile, Mingkai was anxiously saying in Abu's office: "Abu, we can't delay any longer. We must sign C. We absolutely cannot let this money go to other teams."

Abu looked completely bewildered: "Didn't you say just a couple of days ago that this guy was always badmouthing you?"

The factory manager said with a dark expression, "That's still better than letting him go to IG. I don't know how that guy A-Guang will manage to play in our jungle when he plays against us."

Over the past few days, the factory manager has come to understand what it means to have both a wonderful and a terrible smell.

Li Chen's skills and mechanics are absolutely top-notch. When they duo queued, they never faced a single opponent in the top lane. Even Ssumday, a well-known top laner from the LCK, was caught by Li Chen for two consecutive days. Rumor has it that Li Chen is now banning Jayce in every ranked game.

"Wait a minute, let me call Nofe over and hear his opinion. Li Chen's demands are too high. Signing him is a huge gamble, and we can't make a decision lightly."

Soon, Nofe arrived at the office with dark circles under his eyes and a translator's cap.

"Nofe, how's your research on Li Chen going?"

Upon hearing the name Li Chen, nofe exclaimed excitedly before the translator could even speak, "We must sign Li Chen! This guy is terrifying! He's even more terrifying than Smeb. Of course, I'm not just referring to his skills, but his overall competitive form."

"You know what? I've been studying his recent games closely, and I've discovered that he's never made a single mistake. Even if you were watching from a god-like perspective, you couldn't find anything he could have done better. He's like a tireless machine."

Nofe desperately wanted Li Chen. No one understood better than him how important it was to have a player with an extremely high ceiling and consistently stable performance in the top lane.

In layman's terms, it means providing a safety net!