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"That has to be TheShy! The father of passive top lane, forcing the enemy to completely self-destruct his lane!"

"I, Xiao Leyan, am not worthy? My ultimate skill is shaking my head, and my passive skill only lets me use skills if I call you 'Master'!"

"How dare you address Master Le by his full name? Don't you want to live?"

"Excuse me, Mr. Yue, there are too many people outside. Let me kowtow to you!"

In just twenty minutes, the number of comments soared to nearly ten thousand, all of them just players joking around.

Amidst the chaotic comments, one message suddenly popped up: "What do you think Hashirama would come up with if he designed heroes?"

After these words were spoken, the comment section was silent for two seconds before it exploded even more violently.

"Are you crazy? You let that bastard design heroes?"

"Are you looking for trouble?"

"What good stuff could he possibly design? It's bound to be something from the underworld!"

"Hiss—now that you mention it, I'm actually more alert. Who knows what outrageous things he might come up with!"

"A jar that's wielding a sledgehammer? Or the kind with two balls wobbling around?"

"Holy crap, stop talking! Just thinking about it is making my blood pressure spike!"

"I'll give it a shot! He's a game designer, I'm really curious to see what kind of mess this guy can make."

"Count me in! Waiting for the King of Torture to appear!"

"Li Zhujian! A bastard forever! I nominate him!"

"Nominate Lee Hashirama +1!"

Players all know that Li Zhujian's gaming talent is undeniable, and he's also quite eccentric, always managing to create some kind of accident.

Let him design the heroes, making sure "torturing opponents" is ingrained in their very being, then everyone can experience the old thief's joy.

Who can resist the temptation to torment someone else?

Suddenly, more and more people nominated Lee Joo-geum, and everyone hoped that he could make it onto the candidate list.

In Li Zhujian's office at Platinum Studio, secretary Jiang Wanning frowned as she recounted the whole story.

"Hashirama, that's the situation. All the players are nominating you right now. What do you think about this..."

To be honest, this League of Legends event came too suddenly. It's supposed to be recruiting designers, but it feels like they're using player demands to blackmail people.

Right now, everyone in the studio is busy with the development of Hollow Knight, although Li Zhujian is only in charge of the overall direction.

He doesn't need to worry about the trivial design details, but he still has to make the core decisions.

Being nominated by players at this time is undoubtedly adding fuel to the fire.

Designing a hero takes a lot of time and communication, which will definitely delay the progress of Hollow Knight.

After listening, Li Zhujian scratched his head, looking surprised.

"Oh? Is that so? I'm not surprised they're having an event, but I didn't expect League of Legends to only have a hundred champions right now?"

As far as I remember, there were far more last time.

He paused for two seconds, then suddenly slapped his thigh and laughed heartily:

"The players nominated me because they think highly of me and it's also a good thing for our studio! Besides, being able to connect with Tencent won't do us any harm."

Jiang Wanning blinked and pressed, "So what do you mean?"

"What's the rush! It's just a nomination yet, we're not even sure if we'll win first place, no need to worry about it."

Li Zhujian waved his hand dismissively.

"But what if you're really selected? It will definitely affect our project!" Jiang Wanning exclaimed anxiously, spreading his hands.

"The development cycle for League of Legends champions is quite long; you'll need to spend a lot of time communicating with them. As for the progress of Hollow Knight..."

"You mean, delays will affect the market and cost more money, right?" Li Zhujian interrupted her with a smile.

Jiang Wanning nodded helplessly, thinking to himself: You know all this, yet you still don't take it seriously?

To everyone's surprise, Li Zhujian waved his hand dismissively, saying, "Don't worry, I know what I'm doing!"

"He's just a hero; we can just pick one anywhere. It won't interfere with our work."

Jiang Wanning was stunned on the spot, his mouth agape: "Just... just pick one?"

Is this acceptable? They're playing League of Legends, backed by Tencent; we can't afford to be careless!

Seeing her nervous expression, Li Zhujian laughed heartily and patted her on the shoulder:

"Look how impatient you are! When I said 'whatever,' I didn't mean to fool you."

"If you really choose me, I promise I won't delay Hollow Knight, and I'll do a great job on the tasks Tencent assigns me. Are you relieved now?"

Jiang Wanning then realized that he had been using an ordinary person's mindset to analyze his boss again.

Li Zhujian is practically a monster born for game design. Take, for example, the "stamp system" he just came up with yesterday.

That alone was enough to make the entire development team applaud – players collect dozens of stamps in the game, insert them into card slots, and combine them.

You can acquire different abilities, either by brute force against the boss or by using strategy to outmaneuver it; both gameplay styles are interesting.

Thinking about it that way, it doesn't seem too difficult for him to design a League of Legends hero with four skills and one passive ability.

Jiang Wanning breathed a sigh of relief and nodded: "Okay, I'll keep an eye on the voting. If you're elected, I'll let you know immediately."

"Alright, alright, thank you for your hard work, Secretary Jiang!" Li Zhujian joked with a smile, and even gave her a thumbs up.

Jiang Wanning rolled her eyes and sighed, "My heart isn't bitter, but my fate is. What can I do with a boss like you?"

Players enthusiastically nominated their nominees, and soon twenty "designers" were selected, officially entering the voting stage.

It's clear that the official League of Legends team is really going all out this time, even daring to bring in their own boss to make up the numbers.

Players joined in the commotion, briefly pushing Ma Huateng to the top of the leaderboard, but the excitement didn't last long.

Everyone knows perfectly well that as the chairman, Mr. Ma doesn't have the time to design new heroes for games.

The skills players gave to Editor-in-Chief Ma were even more outrageous, all being jokes like "Creating happiness with heart" and "Guaranteed success in ten consecutive draws," which were basically just for fun.

After they'd had their fill of antics, the players finally calmed down and started thinking: out of the twenty people, they needed to choose someone who was both good at creating mischief and knowledgeable about the game.

Professional players were ruled out first; they understand the game too well, and their hero design is inevitably utilitarian and lacks originality.

While streamers may be good at creating entertaining content, the heroes they design might be so over-the-top that they're unplayable. Thinking about it this way, the goal becomes clear.

On the seventh day of the voting, Li Zhujian's votes suddenly skyrocketed.

After two weeks of voting, he secured first place with 28,000 votes, becoming the first unofficial designer to design a new champion for League of Legends.

As soon as the news broke, Li Zhujian's Weibo account, which previously only had 200,000 followers, was flooded with messages from players.

His fan base skyrocketed to over 500,000, becoming even more popular than the projects in his studio.

"Holy crap, Hashirama! You're famous!" Lu Bian, clutching his phone, kicked open Li Zhujian's office door, his voice so loud it could shatter glass.

"They actually chose you? Are the players crazy?"

Li Zhujian scratched his head, grinned, and revealed a set of bright white teeth:

"That's right, I'm also wondering why they didn't choose one of so many experts."

Why are they picking on me? What are these guys after?