Full-time: Starting from Ye Xiu vs. Faker

Chapter 420: Happy Internet Cafe, Ye Xiu, Wu Xuefeng, Farewell, Reconciliation (Part )
“Not leaving?” Ye Xiu was stunned.

His first reaction was that Wu Xuefeng had come back and saw that his old brothers were moved, so he was eager to stay and join in the fun.

He subconsciously wanted to persuade her: "It's not necessary. You have done enough for us in the past few months."

"There's no need to ruin your bright future in North America for Excellent Era."

When saying this, Ye Xiu really hesitated for a moment.

From his own perspective, he sincerely hoped that Wu Xuefeng could stay and move forward with Xingxin.

In recent years, he has been recalling those three years without any worries, and he knows too well how much value Wu Xuefeng can bring.

Even without considering these, as old friends were reunited, Ye Xiu naturally wanted him to stay in the country for a while longer.

But after years of friendship, he subconsciously felt that it was very unkind to control his friend's future for his own needs.

After a long struggle between his conscience and his desires, Ye Xiu finally gritted his teeth and said this with forced magnanimity.

As soon as the words came out of his mouth, Ye Xiu had no time to find an excuse to comfort himself.

He saw Tao, Wu and Chen all looking at him, with strange and changing emotions in their eyes.

From the initial shock, to confusion, to a complex feeling, even with a hint of pity.

Ye Xiu suddenly felt like the monkey in the zoo.

"Sister Chen, are you sure you really offer him eighteen thousand a month?" Wu Xuefeng looked at Chen Guo, holding back a smile.

"Yes, food and lodging are included, and the salary is 1,800 yuan! But the problem is that he didn't work according to this standard for a few days, his identity was exposed, and then the billion-yuan contract from Xianyu Live was offered to him." Chen Guo spread his hands, unwilling to take the blame.

"It's not our problem. I guess even if you give him 1,800 yuan, as long as he has enough food, shelter and cigarettes, he can live a comfortable life. He is suitable to go to Sanhe to make a living."

Ever since that relationship broke down, even after they reconciled, out of some kind of guilt and caution, Tao Xuan almost never really relaxed in front of Ye Xiu, and carefully maintained their relationship.

But this time, even he actually had some fun for once in a long time, and with a weird smile, he joined the other two in making fun of Ye Xiu.

"No, what are you talking about?" Ye Xiu was completely confused.

No, he has persuaded Wu Xuefeng to pursue his own future. Shouldn't there be a lot of touching tug-of-war followed by Wu Xuefeng deciding whether to stay or go?

Why did you suddenly start to fight against yourself?

Wu Xuefeng glanced at him and said, "Are you the young master of a certain family?"

"That's true." Tao Xuan answered for him, "His background is so powerful that even Mr. Pei has to respect him."

"No wonder he is so out of touch with the world." Wu Xuefeng rolled his eyes, which was rare.

Ye Xiu cursed these riddlers for not speaking human language while asking, "No, can you please explain it more clearly?"

Wu Xuefeng looked at him with a half-smile: "Who told you to exile me to North America?"

"You should be thankful that you went upstairs little by little while we were chatting, so the guests outside couldn't hear us."

“Otherwise, if you make your remarks public, you’ll get criticized again.” Wu Xuefeng scolded with a smile.

After thinking for a moment, he added, “When you go out for interviews in the future, talk less about topics other than games, unless you can make up for your common sense.”

Ye Xiu had no idea how his words would be perceived by others.

Especially when he didn't know the salary Tao Xuan offered to Wu Xuefeng.

You know, when Wu Xuefeng started to lead Excellent Era, it was already the summer season. The second wave of capital had already entered the market on a large scale, and the amount of money Xingxin earned every day was astronomical.

In this situation, it would be a good idea to hire a capable Jia Shi veteran who can help lead the Jia Shi expeditionary force to gain a foothold in North America, and who also has a good relationship with the boss.

Tao Xuan will definitely not be stingy when it comes to paying salaries.

Now Wu Xuefeng works as a coach at Excellent Era, and his income far exceeds what he earned when he was working in North America.

As a result, he led an LSPL team to win the LCS runner-up right from the start. This outstanding record means that Wu Xuefeng's next contract will be even bigger than the current one.

Considering the emerging and booming development of LPL and e-sports, as long as Wu Xuefeng does not make any mistakes, he will be able to receive this generous salary for at least ten years, and there will still be room for further improvement.

Even if we don't take into account the relationship between him and Excellent Era, this is still an attractive enough opportunity for him.

Anyway, he went abroad to North America for his studies. Now his studies have ended. Although he has established a firm foothold in North America,

But after playing professionally for so many years and then resuming his studies, he had no hesitation in returning to China to develop his career given that there were such good jobs available in North America.

But the problem is, Ye Xiu doesn’t know this.

This young master's sensitivity to money is all focused on the game. Outside the game, his view of money can only be described as utterly shattered.

Having grown up in a wealthy family with fine clothes and delicious food, Young Master Ye never had to worry about money.

He finally gained the courage to run away from home, but Ye Xiu had a very low desire for consumption and enjoyment.

Just like Tao Xuan said, there is food, shelter, games, and when he becomes the captain, he will add cigarettes to smoke. If these conditions are met, then the rest of the money will be just a number to Ye Xiu.

To put it bluntly, it is very easy to feed.

In addition, he has excellent gaming skills to support himself by taking on orders and doing leveling. With Su Muqiu, who is knowledgeable about the business, guiding him, meeting his basic needs is no problem at all.

In other words, even during the lowest and most difficult times in his career, when he ran away from home at the age of fifteen and was fired from the club at the age of twenty-six, he never really worried about money.

This has resulted in him having the most immature concept of money among professional players.

If not for this, he wouldn't have become a weirdo who played professionally for seven years, was the number one player in the league for seven years, and yet didn't save any money at all without squandering it.

As for the salary situation in LPL, Ye Xiu had some understanding of how much the players were paid, but he had almost no idea how much the coaches, logistics staff, training staff, etc. earned.

Such a guy grew up in an era where the e-sports field is undergoing qualitative changes every day. Five years ago, even the players dared not think of high salaries, but now even coaches have the opportunity to get them. To him, this is like listening to a fairy tale.

He is not aware enough of changes outside the game, so he subconsciously uses the knowledge he gained several years ago to judge the current e-sports field.

It was precisely because of this phenomenon of immature concepts that Ye Xiu, based on his stereotypes from previous years, decisively came to the conclusion that "Wu Xuefeng would be better off developing abroad than being a coach in Excellent Era," and then the wonderful show just now happened.

He thought he had good intentions, but in the eyes of Wu Xuefeng, Chen Guo, Tao Xuan, and other people who really managed accounts and knew how hard it was to be broke, his behavior could be said to be abstract to a certain extent:
A super-rich man who earns over eight figures a year at a young age, seriously advises an ordinary person to give up the opportunity to return to China and live a wealthy life with an annual salary of one million, and instead go abroad to work hard for a few thousand dollars a year to pursue his "dream"?
I am a little bit unloved.

Fortunately, everyone present was an old acquaintance, and they all knew something about Ye Xiu's problems.

If he really made such a violent statement in front of his fans...

OK.

After Wu Xuefeng explained to Ye Xiu while holding back his laughter, he gradually realized how many years some of his concepts had been neglected.

"I'm out of date... or I'm old." He couldn't help but sigh. In the past two years, he has become more and more fond of saying this in front of young people.

But there are no young people here, and the other three are all older than him.

"Come on, I'm just lazy. After all, I'm the boss and major shareholder of Happy. Is it difficult for me to understand the talent market and economic situation?" Chen Guo rolled her eyes.

Ye Xiu didn't keep much of the income from the live broadcast for himself. Most of it was invested in Happy as operating expenses, and a small portion was used by Su Mucheng to handle his daily image management and other matters.

As for the money he left for himself...it was enough to buy cigarettes.

"My pot, my pot." Ye Xiu nodded and bowed.

In this case, it would be a good thing for Wu Xuefeng to stay in the country to develop.

That evening, Tao Xuan hosted a grand welcome party for the triumphant return of the Excellent Era generals.

Although Suzhou and Hangzhou are known as a food desert, the young players of Excellent Era, who are used to eating white people's food and high-calorie junk food in North America, obviously don't care much about this.

Especially Brother Bin, who often took those terrifying calorie bombs in North America. Under Chen Guo's urging, he had finally lost some weight in the spring, but he gained double the weight in North America.

Now I can finally eat some real Chinese food, even if it's from Suzhou or Hangzhou, it's delicious.

At the banquet, Tao Xuan, feeling very satisfied, drank a lot by himself since there was no one to drink with him.

The young players gave an almost perfect answer to his obsession with Excellent Era, and now his thoughts were truly clear.

Having drunk a little too much, Tao Xuan ran to the rooftop of the hotel to get some fresh air. It was almost October, and the temperature at night was not as hot as before.

Tao Xuan stood on the rooftop, and under the influence of alcohol, the heroic spirit he had when he went all in on e-sports ten years ago once again vaguely gathered in his chest.

But before he could let out a long cry to the sky and sing a song to express his feelings, he heard the door leading to the rooftop suddenly open.

Looking closely, it was Ye Xiu who went up to the rooftop alone.

"You drank too?" Tao Xuan was stunned. Didn't he see Ye Xiu drinking from the bottle just now?
"No, I just want to talk to Brother Tao." Even someone as thick-skinned as Ye Xiu can feel embarrassed sometimes.

"Chat? Us? Don't we usually talk about anything?" Tao Xuan was stunned.

"No... I just want to apologize." After hesitating for a while, Ye Xiu seemed to have finally prepared himself mentally. After struggling for a long time, he said something that even Tao Xuan sobered up a bit:
"Looking back now, my refusal to commercialize, to show my face, and to be packaged was indeed not very reasonable."

“I was so paranoid at the time that I ignored the troubles that people around me were experiencing because of me.”

"It ended up like that... I'm also at fault."

After a few words were spoken, the rooftop was quiet for a while. Only the rustling of the evening breeze explained that the person involved was not in a very peaceful mood.

After a long while, Tao Xuan suddenly smiled with relief: "Did Xuefeng persuade you to come?"

"Ah."

……

When Tao Xuan went to get some fresh air, Wu Xuefeng suddenly pulled Ye Xiu aside and started chatting with him about old times.

But what they talked about was not the beautiful memories of fighting side by side and defeating strong enemies on the field, but the bumpy past that they had deliberately concealed from Ye Xiu.

In the early years when we were just starting the team, I was so busy with Tao Xuan that I was exhausted;
The distress when there are problems with the capital chain and the team is in financial distress;

In the third season, the almost insulting offer from that old sponsor was the kind of humiliation that I dared not to feel...

These things are shadows of the glamorous scenes on the field in those years, and they are heavier and more realistic.

However, everyone from the management to the players of Excellent Era had tacitly understood and completely shielded these troubles from Ye Xiu, the youngest and most important guy in the team.

When Wu Xuefeng retired, considering that Ye Xiu would soon take on the important task of captain, Wu Xuefeng should have taught Ye Xiu these things so that he could become the next good captain of Jia Shi.

But Ye Xiu, who had just established his dynasty, had a very high spirit and confidence. Winning the trophy for three consecutive years made him more certain that the path he was following was the right one.

If you tell him about the difficulties in running a club at this time and hope that he will embrace commercialization to solve the team's problems, he will most likely not listen.

So Wu Xuefeng buried all of this deep in his heart.

But time has changed. More than six years have passed. After experiencing enough ups and downs, failures and setbacks, the 28-year-old Ye Xiu has embraced commercialization and achieved success.
Wu Xuefeng felt that it seemed time to talk to him about these things again.

After finishing the story, Wu Xuefeng sighed and looked at Ye Xiu who seemed a little dazed. He asked the question that he probably was the only one who could say it so brazenly in this situation.

"Now that things have come to this, do you still think that the non-commercial principle back then was correct?"

Ye Xiu didn't answer, but the fact that he lowered his head slightly already hinted at his meaning.

Wu Xuefeng patted his shoulder and smiled.

"Time has changed, and those things that we were concerned about in the past have basically become a thing of the past now."

"Neither you nor Brother Tao are bothered by the experiences of those years. Essentially, there is no real conflict between you two anymore."

"But, there is still a final barrier between you that needs to be broken."

"So, go talk to Brother Tao."

　I'm dizzy from preparing for the exam today. I'll deal with anything after I finish the exam.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)