On a cold winter night, the two snuggled up to each other on the balcony.

Su Cheng's fingers tapped quickly on the phone, focusing on replying to other people's New Year's messages, and his body subconsciously curled up in Lin Ran's arms.

Hugging her warm body tightly, Lin Ran only felt stable in his heart.

He looked at the bright moon in the sky, and the fireworks in the distance rose into the sky, and the two phases of light blended together, reflecting on Su Cheng's white face, lining her eyebrows and eyes picturesque.

He couldn't help himself for a while, the sound of Su Cheng tapping on the screen of his mobile phone suddenly disappeared, and the sound of firecrackers faintly came from a distance.

When the two returned to the private room holding hands, the unforgettable singing of tonight just sounded.

Lin Ran thought about it and scratched Su Cheng's soft palm with his fingers.

"Unforgettable tonight?" He whispered.

The girl gave him a blank look, sat down and took a piece of orange and put it in her mouth.

Su's mother drank a little too much, leaned on her husband and whispered, and their relationship was still the same after more than 20 years of marriage.

Lin Ran began to send red envelopes in the YM group, and he was in a good mood and went out with thousands of yuan, and got a few sincere compliments from Xiao Wangba.

It was already early in the morning when the show ended, and the lakeside four seasons where the Su family lived were not far from here, and the three of them simply left on foot.

"Shall I go to the front desk and call a car?" Lin Ran looked at his father.

"No, it's only two kilometers away from the community, let's just walk back." Lin Mingdong's face was ruddy, and his voice was much louder than before.

Lin Ran didn't look like he was drunk and put his mind at ease.

The streets of Suzhou are empty on Chinese New Year's Eve, and most of the migrant workers have returned to their hometowns to reunite with family and friends.

There are many customers in McDonald's on the first floor of the business district next to the street, and several couples sit by the window to feed each other McWirl, which looks quite sweet.

Lin Ran remembers that in the late autumn of the previous year, he and PDD met here for the first time and embarked on a career path that seemed uncertain at that time.

"How many more years are you going to play professionally?" Lin Mingdong, who was walking behind, suddenly asked, and the cars passing by around him made a whistling sound.

"When I felt like my way of winning was too hard, I was going to retire." Lin Ran was stunned for two seconds and replied.

"And what do you plan to do after you retire?" Lin Mingdong strode to Lin Ran's side.

He no longer lectured to Lin Ran with doubts and aggressiveness like he did in the previous two years, but put Lin Ran in an equal position and communicated with each other.

"Hmm......" Lin Ran thought about it seriously, "stock up on a few houses and then go to study?" ”

Lin Mingdong was a little surprised, "I asked you to study at the time, and you said that you were not the material for studying." ”

"This moment and that moment," Lin Ran walked forward in the moonlight, "now I figured it out. ”

"Not everything you have to do has to be in line with your interests, let alone ...... When I came out of school, I realized that I was not so resistant to learning, and it was true that I was not interested, but it was not to the point where I couldn't learn. ”

"I'm just resistant to what you want me to do," Lin Ran looked back into Lin Mingdong's eyes, and his tone was unfazed, "That's how it was when I did a live broadcast." ”

Lin Mingdong was silent.

“…… It was my fault. He whispered after a long time.

Lin Ran had just returned the news of Fu Cheng, and their family had already returned home to wash up and sleep, and they didn't pay attention to Lin Mingdong's words.

"Huh?" He tilted his head slightly.

"After your mother left, I didn't care enough about you, and I only contacted you by phone once or twice a month, because I was sorry for you." Lin Mingdong's voice trembled slightly, and he tore open the button on his collar.

Lin Mingdong's posture is still upright, he is nearly half a hundred years old, and his figure remains very good, and his age can only be guessed by the white hair faintly appearing on his sideburns and the thin wrinkles on his face.

Lin Ran didn't say anything more.

……

On the fifth day of the first lunar month, Lin Mingdong, who was busy with work, ended his vacation and received a work notice to go to New York to start business negotiations in the United States.

Lin Ran sent him out of the door, and as soon as he pressed the elevator button, he turned around and saw Lin Mingdong dragging two suitcases, trying to cross the threshold with difficulty, and his movements were a little difficult.

"I'll get it for you." He hesitated for a moment, then took a box from his father's hand.

There weren't many people in the community in the early morning, just a few aunts and uncles who walked back from the park with their dogs on a leash.

"Send it here," Lin Mingdong took the suitcase from Lin Ran's hand, "I've called the car." ”

Lin Ran put his hands in his jacket pockets and stayed where he was.

"Remember to eat on time," Lin Mingdong finally couldn't help but nag, "Don't order McDonald's all day long, the hotel has a meal ordering service, I put a few business cards on the coffee table before leaving, just call them what you want to eat." ”

"I know." Lin Ran turned his head away, and his index finger bent up and rubbed his nose.

"Take care of others when you're with Su Cheng, don't play with children's temper," Lin Mingdong advised, "That's a good girl." ”

"I understand, don't ......" Lin Ran wanted to reply, but he still couldn't say anything when he looked at Lin Mingdong's slightly haggard face.

The taxi stopped in front of Lin Mingdong, Lin Ran helped him put his luggage in the trunk, and watched the taxi run to the high-speed rail station before turning to leave.

The next few days were extremely busy, Lin Ran had to communicate with the design team about the decoration drawings of the new villa, and then there was a class reunion to attend.

The high school classmates, who had not seen each other for a long time, had an enthusiastic attitude, and they rushed back to Suzhou from all over the world to tell their young friends about the new world they had seen.

Lin Ran, as a world champion, became a group photo tool, and the corners of his mouth were about to stiffen.

"Lin Ran, can you ask Xiaotian to sign my name?" A friend who studied at the University of Foot Pain in Shanghai came over with excitement on his face, "I like him very much, it would be better if Xiao Wang Ba could send me a yin and yang weird sentence at the back of the photo." ”

"You're shaking M, aren't you?" There were classmates laughing on the side.

The man shook his head, "You don't understand, do you?" I just like the way the garlic king says, 'Don't bark at the smelly dog'. ”

The learning is vivid, and the smell of yin and yang is too strong.

"Someone actually wants the signature of the garlic king?" Lin Ran couldn't help but shake his head, "His signature stinks to death, how can he look good with mine." ”

As soon as Lin Ran took the YM group photo he handed over, the female classmate who was studying at the University of Finance on the other side ran over to ask for Jack's autograph.

"Can you ask Jack to sign me for a big NB?" She was close to Su Cheng, holding her best friend's arm and smiling.

Lin Ran watched Su Cheng arguing with his classmates about which school was stronger, Tsinghua Mathematics or Fudan Mathematics.

He marked the names of his classmates on the back of a stack of photos in his hand, then wrote down the addresses of his classmates, and promised to mail them the signed photos when he returned to the Shanghai base.

……

On the morning of February 8, Lin Ran and Su Cheng took the high-speed train back to Shanghai to meet their teammates.

In the first week of the new season, the most eye-catching teams, except for the defending champion YM, are the other giants who have made big moves in the transfer period.

EDG and RNG collided in the first round of Group B.

If the director of the factory said that "the departure of the pawn has little impact on us", then the departure of deft is a devastating blow to the current EDG - they are missing a post-stable carry point.

Mr. Dai's contest is to pull the crotch and pull the crotch, and the ADC of the civil war to play LPL is not merciless, and last year he took meiko to play Uzi + mata at will.

Mr. Dai, the key C position, left the team, and I don't know if EDG's management had a convulsion in his brain, so he actually let ROX's substitute mid-laner Zet switch positions to play ADC.

On the other side, Uzi saw that the RNG management signed the new champion assistant Shi Senming according to his own wishes, and he was as excited as playing chicken blood.

The two directly crossed the EDG down the line, and both sets were 10 minutes to the line and fell off the road with a blood tower, and EDG couldn't play at all.

RNG simply won the pig and dog battle 2:0, which made meiko, who was used to killing other lower lanes in the LPL with deft, very dissatisfied, and he felt that zet's laning ability was too poor and he did not have any competitiveness in the current LPL.

On the other hand, WE, who is in Group A with YM, is in hot form.

They had a strong first game against the Snakes, and despite swapping their aging support for Ben, the five players quickly developed good chemistry in a short period of time.

WE crushed Snake with two rounds of terrible operational ideas.

Brother Saint Spear and sofm, who are good at getting lost in the middle of the game, have no power to resist in the face of the iron wall made of WE, and they can't even find the slightest chance, and they are pushed all the way.

Former Samsung White Coach Redmi contributed a lot, and the changes he brought to WE were immediate.

Samsung White started the operation of League of Legends in S4, and each of their eye positions has been studied countless times, and that year, looper's teleportation support always fell on the enemy's unexpected eye positions, and the teaming of mata and dandy's Nosuke made other teams fearful.

With the inexplicable operational strength and extremely strong personal ability, Samsung White and S5's SKT have played a very dominant championship performance in the previous S competitions, attracting countless audiences, and fans are known as "the stars will never disperse and win the championship".

As a three-star white coach, Redmi's attainments in operation are needless to say, and he and WE, who originally preferred later operations, are a match made in heaven, making WE2.0, an operational barrier made of steel and iron bones, more and more indestructible.

WE and RNG, two teams that have grown by leaps and bounds, have caused White Crescent to be on high alert, and there is no doubt that they will be the biggest enemies on YM's road to defending the Silver Dragon Cup.

On the other side, VG did not have an easy path after introducing Jungle Chicken and easyhoon to form the champion Nakano, and they were crushed by OMG with Sima Lao Thief and Icon in the first week of the game.

Stupid Chicken has lost his heart after experiencing the defeat of S6, and he came to LPL simply to make money, and by the way, he brought some SKT operating concepts to VG.

However, this kind of SKT operation idea that emphasizes the system is not suitable for teams like VG, and they will definitely go through a period of running-in period.

YM's opponent on Saturday's Lantern Festival night, Team QG, faced NB in the first week, and the feud between doinb and his old teammates ended in a 1:2 defeat for QG.

Su Cheng didn't have to work hard at all, and after pulling up two QG videos, he found that this team relied on the pair of doinb + clid to carry the middle field.

QG can only mix three people in the LSPL, is it possible to expect them to lead the team to win the game in the LPL?

"Welcome to the live broadcast of the 2017 LPL Spring Match...... "Today's commentary is Sawamoto and remembers that the two also have a tendency to act in a conjoined manner like Doll Miller after commenting on a few games together last year. 678

"The first game after the year was still led by YM against the LPL promoted horse QG!"

It must be said here that the schedule of the event also reflects the importance of the organizers to the team to a certain extent.

The current game time of LPL is every Thursday, Friday, Saturday and July, and the importance is generally considered to be Saturday and Sunday > weekdays, and the later the game time, the better.

Last season, YM was only able to mix in a very general live broadcast schedule, which was basically played at 5 p.m. and 1 p.m. on weekends.

Nowadays, the whole league has to revolve around them, and all YM games are prime time on weekends + evenings to attract the audience as much as possible.

This kind of schedule is also a good thing for their opponents, now playing games with YM comes with its own traffic, the hot searches are all full, and the attention is extremely high, and the players can attract a large number of fans once they play any eye-catching operations.

"In the first game, QG chose the red side first, and now according to the statistics we have in the first week of the game, the red side does have a higher winning rate." Remember to read the oral broadcast and steer the topic on track.

"During the New Year, our tournament side has also been updated to version 7.3, and heroes such as Lucian, Green Steel Shadow, and Enchantress have all been weakened, and Lulu's passive output has been strengthened, and it is very likely that she will become a support upstart."

"It's worth mentioning that Sprint was also slashed, and now the acceleration effect has been changed to a gradual increase, instead of giving the hero a full movement speed bonus at the beginning." Zeyuan popularized trivia to audiences who don't often watch version updates.

I remember laughing, "The main thing is that the S6 finals sprint shines, especially Ran, his ability to use sprinting to swim and escape is too strong, and I still remember the sprint clockwork he played against the Tigers in the semifinals, which was exaggerated to the extreme." ”

With the enthusiastic shouts of the audience, the BP part of the game officially began.

The YM coaching staff knew that the Prophet's run-in in the team had not yet reached a satisfactory point, and under the instruction of the white crescent, the team's BO3 was dominated by a run-in lineup.

QG's jungler clid is basically a blind monk pillar force in LSPL, as long as he releases it, he must choose, and the white crescent moon is very bold, so he decided to put it first to test the water.

In the end, YM chose a double shooter lineup of Big Tree, Male Gun, Karma, Policewoman, and Lulu, and the frontal team battle was invincible.

The QG side is Shen, Blind Monk, Ruiz, Ember and Zyra.

"QG's lineup ......" Ze Yuan held his chin in his hand, "The main support in the early and middle stages, and the middle stage began to push and implicate, why do I feel so familiar?" ”

"The familiar taste of YM," remembers smiling eyes narrowed into a slit, "It can only be said that since the S6 finals, YM's playing system has been practiced and used by more and more teams. ”

"As long as you go down the road to launch a surprise attack at a time node close to 10 minutes, it is very likely to get a huge early advantage, and the economic value and strategic significance brought by the One Blood Tower are quite high, which is the essence of 4 packs of 2."

The YM players are also laughing when they see their opponents' lineups.

"Is this stealing on the other side?" Jack looked at his teammates with shaking legs.

"It's useless, they can't learn the taste if they copy it." Garlic King Eight is very confident.

"Prophet, remember to protect Xiao Tian and Jack in this game." The white crescent moon admonished as he stepped down.

The prophet rubbed his hands nervously.

He is ready to show his teammates the strength of his soft support in this game.

But he didn't expect to be so dished on the other side.

In the first 6 minutes of the game, the prophet put a sheep on the ember, and the policewoman Jack crossed the tower and rode her face EWQAAA, half of the ember damage was eaten, and she died under her own tower.

This time the lane kill directly broke the balance of the bottom lane, and Jack had already pressed the opposite ADC20 knife in the early 7 minutes, and the economic gap was exaggerated.

Seeing that his family was unreliable, Doinb hurriedly found a jungler clid to try to launch the midfield linkage, intending to make Lin Ran jump first.

But Lin Ran is now steady and terrifying, how could he use Karma to think of killing Ruiz on the opposite side alone?

"Ran is no more than a river at all, clid is still squatting here, Xiaotian is almost brushing up the wild area!"

Clid squatted in the grass for half a minute, then was forced to give up and head to the upper road.

But Jin Gong couldn't be steady, so he honestly controlled the line of soldiers in front of his tower and ate slowly, waiting for the big tree's team battle period.

clid couldn't wait, he ran out of the grass, forcibly touched his eyes and kicked to kill Jin Gong, but Jin Gong cleverly used W to tie up the blind monk, and then flashed back after hitting a health passive.

"That's a loss, isn't it?" Ze Yuan felt sorry for QG, "Xiao Tian is in the second half of the clid's wild area, and the blind monk's level is about to be left behind!" ”

Clid, who had just debuted not long ago, was still too young, and when he learned that his wild monster had been reversed, he was in a hurry and wanted to continue to catch a wave of gold tribute.

But this time Xiao Tian found him.

"A level 9 male gun beats a level 7 blind monk, how can this be played?" Accompanied by Ze Yuan's hurried shout, Xiao Tian operated the male gun with an ultimate explosive bomb to take the blind monk's head!

At this point, QG fell into a collapse rhythm, although they got the bottom lane a blood tower through 10 minutes of 4 and 2, but unfortunately did not kill Jack.

The development of the policewoman was not delayed at all, and QG's embers were frequently consumed by Jack's face.

By the medium term, the QG economy lagged behind by 3K, and only doinb was left struggling to support it.

At this time, he can also be called a sea of heroes, not only can he play Victor, but he can also choose early and middle heroes like Jace, and he dares to take it as dare to take it as a wandering assassin like the male sword demon queen, and he is at the peak of his personal operation strength.

But it didn't work, he brushed 300 knives on the sideline in 25 minutes, and was chased and beaten by Jack's policewoman in the mid-game team fight.

Lin Ran and the prophet put a set of acceleration skills on Jack, and the big-headed AD flew out like a loose Shiba Inu, stuck in the policewoman's attack distance to Ryze, who was crazy about doinb.

4 shots were bloodied, and the last bullet was blocked by the shield of his Seraph's embrace, but Jack reversed E to close the distance, and another headshot killed Doinb, Doinb turned around and shot an overload before dying, and even the shield on the policewoman's body was not broken!

"In 25 minutes, the policewoman is already full of crit in her hand, and the output is too exaggerated!"

"Ran directly took out a murder book, and the rest of the equipment was all auxiliary equipment, making it clear that he wanted to keep the YM double shooter in the group!"

The gap between the lines was too big, YM stole the big dragon and pushed it to the high ground in 28 minutes, and JKL got 4 kills.

"What about my five kills?" Jack's eyes were red, he felt that he was going to get the third five kills of his career today when he saw the team battle start, but he didn't expect that after four kills, he heard the prompt sound of the enemy's team annihilation.

“…… I ignited it and burned Shen to death. The prophet laughed sheepishly.

The garlic king was about to burst into laughter, operating a single bullet from the male gun to collapse the QG base.

But the white crescent moon was anxious to see them win the game.

"Don't be so fierce online," he complained, "You can't beat others on the line, and our lineup won't be effective." ”

"Then what should I do," Jack was also very helpless, "the one on the other side is the same as sending it, can I not eat the head that I have in hand?" ”

"Then don't eat it in the next game," Bai Crescent gritted her teeth, "We have to use these weak teams to practice the lineup, and the effect of the training match is different from the official game after all." ”

"You guys are a little more stable on the line in the next game, and wait for Nakano to take the advantage of the lineup to lead the rhythm."

The two sides switched sides, Lin Ran got Ruiz, and Doinb chose Karma.

Xiao Tian continues to practice the male gun jungler core, and this hero is very easy to get when facing QG.

Because clid now only plays the role of blind monk and poodle that can lead rhythm, the wild core male gun needs to rely on the support and help of his teammates after getting the line right, and the strength of the upper and lower three QG is a little worse than the average level of the LPL, how can YM in the face of the defending champion level grab the line power to help the jungler?

In the second game, the two sides finally developed peacefully to level 6.

Then Lin Ran pushed off the line of troops and began to protect the lower road advance and the invasion of the wild area, strictly following the tactics to execute, but there was a little episode in the middle.

When he came out of the triangle grass on the bottom road, he happened to see Doinb emerging from the grass on the opposite side.

The two mid-singles played a face-to-face, paid their respects to each other, and then returned to each other.

Two minutes later, the two fought for the river crab in order to protect the jungler, and met again at the river, almost at the same time to the battlefield!

"That's too much of an exaggeration, isn't it? I remember that Doinb didn't play like this last year? "I remember people were a little confused.

The audience watched as the two mid laners directly abandoned the opposite lane, followed the jungler and began to do things everywhere, and the pace was highly coordinated, which was simply replicating the opponent's style of play!

Grab the F6 group of wild camps close to the middle lane, and forget if the mid laner is there; Compete for a group of gargoyles, and the two midlaners are still behind their own junglers!

The artillery riders in the middle lane are gone, just to help the jungler play an advantage, this kind of gameplay has never been seen by the audience!

[I'm dripping turtles, I'm stupid, and the mid-list is not right? What is this thing? 】

[This is also outrageous, wandering for the sake of wandering? 】

[Four junglers in one game, I didn't expect it! ] 】

Lin Ran saw that Doinb's style of play was very different from the upper game, and he was also surprised in his heart.

Now the concept of the vast majority of mid-laners is still stuck in brushing 20 minutes of team battles and then going out of the mountain, except for specific heroes such as the Rock Sparrow Dragon King who must wander, most of the mid-laners are in the early and middle stages.

After playing a career for a year, this is the first mid-laner Lin Ran has seen who can keep up with his rhythm and is willing to give up the military line to roam.

He was surprised.

Then he took his teammates and beat Doinb violently.

Doinb was also very helpless, he and Lin Ran developed peacefully in the first game, and he couldn't stand it anymore by brushing his teammates, and he couldn't win the game alone.

It's not realistic to want to hit Lin Ran alone in the middle lane, and Doinb knows that once the disadvantage of the opposite mid lane is a bad thing, it is simply just a river push line.

I had no choice but to swim along.

Swimming, doinb actually felt that this rhythm was very comfortable, which was very in line with his understanding of the game, and it was over to help the jungler.

Is wandering support so cool?

Doinb felt like he had opened the door to a new world.

Although he could keep up with Lin Ran in the rhythm of his wandering, the gap in the team's strength was too big to make up for it, and YM won easily 2:0.

In the third week of the regular season, YM slashed the Snake Team and NB again, and continued to consolidate its position as the first in Group A with four consecutive wins.

On Saturday night in the fourth week of the regular season, they will face their last opponent in the first round of the round-robin - WE, a Red Army led by Redmi, who also started with four consecutive wins.