In the afternoon, I went to the basketball court again, and like I have done in the past ten years, I watched my good friends from childhood to adulthood play on the sidelines. Yuntian has always been the focus of everyone's attention, and occasionally a few girls who take the initiative to come to me are mostly to inquire about Yuntian-related news.

But this time, although he was still on the field and I was still on the sidelines, most people's focus had changed, and in just ten minutes, several people had already recognized me and asked for autographs and group photos. They also asked curiously: "Why did Chen Liao, as an e-sports player, appear next to the basketball court?" "But in the past, if it was someone who didn't know me, they wouldn't care why I was here, and if someone knew me, they wouldn't wonder why Yuntian's good friend would watch him play on the sidelines"

Soon, I noticed that there were more viewers on the basketball court, and because Yun Tian recently had a new girlfriend, the number of his female fan groups also plummeted. Compared with the two, most of the people who came around did not come to see Yuntian playing, but came to see me watch Yuntian play.

They were on the basketball court, sitting around me, chatting about esports. After a while, Yun Tian went there for an intermission, and he asked me for water according to his habit, although he had been mentally prepared, he was still startled by the number of people sitting around me.

Yuntian: "You're so popular now?" ”

I walked through the crowd and handed him the icy drink, laughing, "Do you understand how I feel?" ”

He took the drink, and then said: "You are really okay, we play a competition between departments, and as soon as you come, people's attention will be on you." ”

Me: "Isn't that good, but it's also an inadvertent increase in the number of people who support you." ”

Yuntian: "You won't be secretly holding back the bad after you are developed." ”

Me: "That's not accurate, thirty years in Hedong and thirty years in Hexi, don't bully young people into poverty." Maybe I've been living in the shadow of your popularity since I was a child, but I've long held a grudge against you. Now is the time to take revenge and slap you in the face on the basketball court you think is the most stylish. ”

After saying this, we both laughed, unlike college classmates who had only been together for a month, Yun Tian knew very well who I was, and I also knew very well who he was. Although I am grateful to the students around me who like and support me and come to the basketball court, I know that Yuntian is different from them. I've always felt that everyone should have a friend who thinks in their hearts, "Even if the whole world will betray me, that person will never be." ”

I also believe that even if people around the world define Chen Liao as "the captain and core of the Longyuan team, one of the strongest star players in the league today." But in Yuntian's heart, Chen Liao's definition has always been "a fat man who plays well in the game, but is a little incompetent in sports." ”

In the evening, I came home and cautiously told my parents about something: "I want to change the car at home." ”

When my mother heard my proposal, she smiled so much that she didn't even lose her eyes, saying that she thought that there would be such a day, but she didn't expect this day to come so quickly. But although my father can see that he is very happy, he still seriously preaches that he can only play for a few years in his profession, and his high income is only for a few years, and now he can't develop the habit of spending money lavishly, and I'm afraid he won't be able to adapt to Yunyun if he retires in the future.

Having said that, the next day I dragged the second elder to the 4S store for a walk, and in the process, they asked me a question: "When will you learn to drive?" ”

This question stopped me, driving is one of the basic skills of modern people, and most people choose to study during the summer vacation or between work in college. But with my current training cycle, I'm afraid it's hard to find time or vacation time to learn this. When I was scrolling through the circle of friends before, I also saw that many of my original classmates and friends posted their newly obtained driver's licenses or the situation when they were dealing with subject X.

This incident made me realize once again that I have taken a very different path than most people, but the fact is that if one person chooses one path, he cannot choose another. And all the growth and experience I've gained in the game will be useless once I leave the game. As my dad admonished, no matter what kind of work I do after I retire, I am unlikely to make more money than I do now.

Just when my parents were test driving, I looked at my phone boredly and noticed that there was such a post in the discussion section of the team: "It's been almost a week since Long Yuan lost the final, and this week, I think about the picture of the last Kezhou being killed every day, I can't eat or sleep, alas, it's uncomfortable." ”

After reading this post, I thought to myself that this fan is too hypocritical, and it is a pity for us to lose to His Excellency, but it is also expected. I've already thrown the loss over and over again, trying my best to look forward, why are the fans still staying in it and can't get out?

I clicked into this post and was surprised to find that the most replies in it were "What a coincidence, me too", "Each other", "+1"......

I flipped all the way and found that the reply from the first floor was, "Don't feel bad, the most uncomfortable thing about losing the game must be the player himself, Chen Liao must be the one who wants to win the most, he must be training hard now." ”

Me: "......"

It seems that my cute fans have added a lot of drama for me, and it seems that the person they expect me to be is not the same person as me in reality. Especially when I see the phrase "the most uncomfortable thing must be the contestant himself", my feelings are very complicated, because I can be sure that I am definitely not as uncomfortable as most of the fans under this post.

Luna once told me that being a celebrity is tiring because you don't know if you should live the way you want to be or if others expect you to be.

Before playing professionally, I always thought that "Excalibur Without Shadow" was a stroke of inspiration at a time of crisis, but when I played professionally, I didn't need to say much about Luna, I understood that about that operation, Luna must have practiced thousands of times off the field, which can be used as a "miracle move" on the field. Although everyone in the game industry and professional circles likes to call people who play well in games "great gods", in fact, we know very well that no god is human.

I never imagined that in just one year, the expectations of fans would be so high. Chen Liao, who is "training hard" in their minds, is playing with his mobile phone and touching the fish in the 4S store at the moment. I looked at my parents who came back from the test drive, and patted my head helplessly, I don't know how much of the money I paid for the car was the product of packaging and deification.

But I am well aware that there is no room for retreat now, and that is the price of choosing another path.