Author: 独家花絮 (Dújiā huāxù)

Synopsis:

The League’s top marksman, Cheng Che, is reborn and goes back in time three years. After being humiliated, he ends up on the streets, until he is picked up by Lin Xingling, the captain of DCT Esports team, who brings him home with a string of AD milk teas.

Later, Lin Xingling buys Cheng Che back to the team with his own wife’s dowry and five million yuan scraped together.

On Cheng Che’s first day with the team, he is assigned to share a room with the captain. Unable to sleep at night, he sends an anonymous question: “Is it safe to live with other teammates?”

Hottest reply: “It’s safe. Just cover yourself with a blanket and sleep tight.”

After one month with the team, Cheng Che becomes unstoppable in the league, but he feels intimidated by Lin Xingling alone and asks for help: “How can I appear obedient in front of others?”

Hottest reply: “Be yourself, and you’ll be the most obedient cub.”

After one season with the team, Cheng Che wins the Autumn Championship in the professional esports arena, and he asks: “How can I make the man I live with (love) me?”

Hottest reply: “Take a shower and go to bed.”

Following the advice, Cheng Che takes a shower and waits for his captain in bed. However, Lin Xingling tucks him in and leaves without fulfilling his expectations.

“What should I do if my husband doesn’t love me anymore?”

Hottest reply: “Cute cub, you’re too young for me to do anything, but believe me, I really love you…” (Click to load more)

OP’s response: “Don’t comfort me anymore…”

Latest reply: “OP, take a closer look at that highly upvoted reply. I seriously suspect that’s your husband, aahhhh!!!”

In his second chance at life, the strongest wild dad, Lin Xingling, gives up his jungle position and transitions to support, becoming a true milk dad.

He spends all his savings to buy back the future top marksman, hoping to lie back and let him carry. However, he realizes something is off when he sees the way the child looks at him…

Until one day, the child sits on the bed, all clean and innocent, and Lin Xingling can no longer bear it. He turns around and leaves him alone in the room.

Child: “What should I do if my husband doesn’t love me anymore?”

In his response, Lin Xingling reveals his true feelings, only to find Cheng Che standing behind him.

Cheng Che: “You bought me with your wife’s dowry, so I am your wife.”

Lin Xingling chuckles lightly: “If you were a few years older, I would have…”

But the child furrows his brows: “You’re lying. Three years later, you’re still not with me.”

Lin Xingling: “???”

You have a new question waiting for an answer:

“What should I do if I realize the person I’ve been raising as a cub from my childhood, is also someone who has been reborn?”

— [Reading Guide] —

Double rebirth sweet story.

Stuttering receiver (ADC) × fatherly gentle attacker (support).

The author’s reference to a self-created version of KPL after the autumn of 2018, with privately devised match schedules. The professionalism is average.

Emotion-driven story. Will add more if think of anything.

Daydream literature. Don’t get too caught up. If there are inconsistencies, will compensate you.

Content tags: eSports, Rebirth, Online Gaming, Sweet Story

Protagonist: Cheng Che (Clear), Lin Xingling (Stars)

Supporting Roles: Read the main text to find out ￣￣)σ

On June 20th, 2018, at 8:30 pm, at Shanghai Jian’an Sports Center, the KPL Spring Split Eastern Finals between TG and DW was taking place.

The current score was 0-2, and the third game was in progress.

[“I can’t believe Lotus God lost with such a good team fight. Was the marksman sleepwalking?” ]

[“77 did okay, it’s mainly the jungle not putting out any damage in team fights while farming the jungle, not sure what he’s doing with the three-way economy. It would be better to let Lotus God take the economy and deal with the enemy’s mid laner,”]

[“Lost three high grounds in fourteen minutes and behind by eight thousand gold…sigh, it looks like this game will be lost as well,”]

[“Are they going to get swept 4-0 by DW?”]

As several ordinary viewer’s voices discussed the game situation without reservation, TG’s manager, Zhang Hui, who was sitting in the front row, stood up with a dark face. No one could have a good mood when their team was playing so poorly. Zhang Hui was so angry that smoke was almost coming out of his head. He decided not to watch anymore and prepared to leave the stand and go back to the rest area.

The substitute players sitting with him on the team bench voluntarily moved their legs to make way for him, and neither of them dared to speak. Zhang Hui, with his beer belly, walked through the aisle with difficulty, and a layer of sweat oozed out of his plump face.

The air conditioning in the venue could not compare with the desktop in the room. He thought, and he was almost leaving without looking back.

The substitute jungle player, Fei Shen, sitting in the opposite position, breathed a sigh of relief.

Wait.

Zhang Hui walked a few steps out and suddenly thought of something, then turned back and looked at the substitute top laner and jungle player and asked suspiciously, “Where’s Clear?”

Clear was a substitute marksman trained by the team from the youth training camp. He was a solitary person in the team, with no acquaintances or particularly powerful background. It was precisely because of this that he was destined to be invisible in TG, and even the manager who didn’t come to watch the game didn’t notice him.

The substitute top laner shook his head awkwardly, “I don’t know either.”

Fei Shen quickly replied, “Me neither.”

“Damn it, where did that stuttering boy go?” Zhang Hui pretended to be indifferent and dropped this sentence, cursing in his heart, then finally turned around and left.

Fei Shen wiped the cold sweat from his forehead and took out his phone from his pocket to inform Clear.

[TG-Fei Shen: The manager left early for the rest area, and he’s very angry now. Be careful and avoid him.]

[TG-Fei Shen: Brother Che, Brother Che, please respond!]

The phone, placed on the table by the owner, vibrated a few times before emitting a low battery warning:

“Attention: The current battery is low and will automatically shut down in 30 seconds. Please charge it in time.”

Fei Shen looked anxious while holding the phone, and the substitute top laner felt nervous. He asked, “Hasn’t Clear replied yet?”

“If he doesn’t reply, I’ll call him… Oh? Why did it shut down?!”

“Oh my god, what should we do now?”

“Damn it, we can only pray for Buddha’s protection…”

On one end, Fei Shen was in a hurry, in sharp contrast to Cheng Che who was calmly catching up on sleep in the innermost part of the rest area.

He had been punished by the coach to practice until 4:30 a.m. last night, and he didn’t feel sleepy after training, so he stayed up all night.

He thought he could catch up on sleep during the day, but everyone got up unusually early due to the Eastern Conference finals last night. He was busy all day without getting any sleep, only getting some free time after sending the starting team to the  game.

The thin young man lying on the table had dark circles under his eyes and a pale complexion like paper paste, looking sickly and pitiful.

“Umm…”

He seemed to have had a terrible nightmare, his thin shoulders trembling slightly, unable to sleep soundly.

His right eyelid twitched without warning, as if foretelling the impending disaster.

Squeak, bang–

With the sound of the door opening, a man kicked it open and entered.

“All you know is to sleep. Why didn’t you sleep to death?! Ah?!”

There was a thunderous sound beside him, deafening. Cheng Che frowned slightly but being unusually patient, he didn’t immediately get up to teach the person a lesson.

“Tsk.”

Seeing that he had no response, the man who was swearing in a rough voice felt a little embarrassed when he saw that his face was not reacting at all. “Don’t pretend to be deaf, get up quickly.”

After speaking, he slammed his palm on the table and then kicked the chair that he was sitting on in frustration.

The vibration spread through the table, causing a headache for the person. Cheng Che, who was still half asleep, just opened his eyes and had not yet sat up when the chair was kicked backwards, almost falling off.

“Are you sick?” He was about to curse, but was surprised when he looked up at the man and couldn’t close his mouth.

Isn’t this Zhang Bapi, the manager of the team when he was a substitute player two years ago? How could he be here when he was fired two years ago?

“How…how did you get here?” The unexpected situation in front of him made Cheng Che forget to get angry. He was more curious about why Zhang Hui appeared in the TG team’s locker room before the World Championship finals.

Looking at the dumbfounded expression of this stuttering idiot, Zhang Hui became even angrier, pointing at Cheng Che and scolding him: “I haven’t even asked you how you got here, so how dare you ask me?”

“Even the substitute players have to go to the team bench to cheer for the team, don’t you know that? The team has been feeding you for a year, but all you do is slack off?”

“Your contract expired yesterday. If you want to renew it, you better perform well. Otherwise, get the hell out!”

This made Cheng Che even more confused.

Even the team directors and bosses would not dare to speak to him, the league’s top scorer, like this. How could Zhang Hui, an outsider, dare to do so?

Is it because he has nothing to lose that he’s not afraid of me?

He had a headache.

Cheng Che wanted to call security to “escort” this idiot who was spouting nonsense out, but he was stunned after looking around the environment.

This is not the team locker room. This is…although he didn’t know where he was, it felt strangely familiar.

“Let’s congratulate DW on their victory! They successfully took the third game with ease!”

A clear sentence came from the monitor hanging on the wall behind him, which was used to transcribe the live broadcast of the game. Cheng Che turned his head to look at it. The time in the upper right corner of the screen was June 20, 2018, not 2021.

He rubbed his temples as if he had a headache, trying to remember:

Today is August 28, 2021, the World Championship finals between TG and SYG… he fell down the stairs when he was going up, and he lost consciousness on the spot…

“…”

Damn, did I just die and reborn back to three years ago when I was playing as a substitute?

Cheng Che, who had reacted, looked at his own hands in disbelief. These hands were slender, smooth, and didn’t have the calluses that come from holding devices for a long time, or at least only had a thin layer.

He flexed his fingers curiously. They were very flexible, and they didn’t hurt at all.

This wasn’t a dream. This was real!

“I warn you! Don’t mess around…”

Zhang Hui, feeling short of breath, shouted at the young man who remained silent for a long time and began to move his wrists.

“Coward.”

“Uh-huh.”

A lot of complex emotions filled the blue eyes of the young man, making it hard to tell whether he was happy, sad or angry. Even Cheng Che himself was not clear about it.

He only knew one thing: he didn’t want to stay in this team, not for a single moment.

He didn’t want to endure being treated as a substitute player, being exploited for labor, having his salary withheld, being forced into an unfair contract, being subjected to emotional manipulation and verbal abuse… He had been living like this for two years as a substitute player, and he didn’t want to relive it again.

According to what Zhang Hui had just said, Cheng Che’s contract had expired. Well, that was perfect, he could just leave.

“You… are you saying that my contract has expired?”

“Tsk.”

Seeing that the stutterer had no intention of hitting him, Zhang Hui regained his composure. “I was just speaking in anger. Don’t overthink it. Just be a good boy and be more clever in the future. I can talk to management and see if we can keep you.”

This kind of sugar-coated talk, slapping someone and then giving them a candy, was something Cheng Che was familiar with. It had been useful in the past, but now he just found it laughable.

It was all just a trick to fool children.

Zhang Hui asked tentatively, “Do you think that’s okay?”

Cheng Che opened his mouth, but didn’t say anything.

Bang!

It wasn’t that he didn’t want to speak, it was just that the sound of the door being kicked in interrupted him. Suddenly, there was chaos in the room. It was clear that members of the starting team had returned.

Fei Shen and the substitute top laner were right behind them. When they saw Cheng Che and Zhang Hui standing together, their hearts almost stopped.

Oh my god, please don’t tell me that Brother Che died…

Fei Shen: “Why are you asking me? Go ask him!”

Due to being pushed all the way back and losing the third  game point to the opposing team, everyone’s faces didn’t look too good.

“Bad luck.”

Lava, the jungler, was feeling fiery inside and kicked the chair that Cheng Che had been sitting on.

Who was he trying to show off to?

Cheng Che frowned unhappily, wanting to retaliate but feeling that it was better not to stir up trouble. So he didn’t say anything to him.

Seeing that the situation was getting bad, the marksman Qi Qi quickly came over to support Cheng Che. “Clear, can you help me get a glass of cold water? Thank you!”

“Do you not have hands and feet of your own?”

If it was someone else, Cheng Che would have already spoken up, but since Qi Qi was trying to help him out, he understood.

“Tsk.” Lava glared disapprovingly at Qi Qi but didn’t say anything.

There was a faint smell of anger in the air.

Zhang Hui was always a bully who feared the strong and picked on the weak. In this situation, he didn’t dare to say anything. The chubby assistant who knew Lava’s temper didn’t make a move either. In any case, self-preservation came first.

“…Everyone come over, let’s review the last game.”

In the end, it was the captain who broke the deadlock.

The coach hadn’t returned yet, and they couldn’t just sit around waiting. They had to quickly review the third game.

Lava and Qi Qi obediently went over.

Cheng Che turned around to get a glass of water.

This avoided a potential conflict.

Author’s Note:

Although Cheng Che usually stutters when speaking, he doesn’t stutter when he’s arguing or commanding during a game.

(Don’t ask, my power is from his mother (*￣︶￣))

Gurgle gurgle…

A string of bubbles floated up from the bottom of an upside-down water bucket, causing the water level in the cup to rise slightly.

The cup was now about seventy percent full, and Cheng Che, feeling bored, released the cold water button.

During a break when no one was paying attention, Fei Shen slowly approached from the doorway and whispered, “Brother Che, are you okay?”

“No,” Cheng Che’s succinct[mfn]”succinct” means brief, concise, and to the point[/mfn] reply.

Fei Shen breathed a sigh of relief. “That’s good then.”

Cheng Che just shook his head and walked towards the edge of the crowd with his paper cup in hand.

He was fine for now, but he knew trouble was coming soon.

“Look here, for this team fight that will happen at the fourteen-minute mark when Lian Rong opens, you should use your Wind Spirit Rune for Qixi at this time…”

A friend stopped mid-sentence and looked over at Cheng Che, who had just come from the water cooler. “Clear, do you need something?”

Generally, the second team members didn’t need to listen to this type of strategic information.

Cheng Che lowered his gaze and responded, “Qi Qi wants, wants…water.”

“Okay.”

Little Stutterer handed himself the cup while speaking, with a hint of sharpness mixed in his otherwise submissive demeanor. Seventeen received the water somewhat awkwardly and said a quick “thank you.”

Cheng Che responded with a perfunctory “you’re welcome.”

He already knew what kind of people the members of the first team were. Among the five of them, Qi Qi was a rare ordinary person.

The rest were either hypocrites, sea kings, or loudmouths…and the most difficult to deal with was the jungler with a mental disorder – Lava.

This was not a good place to stay for long, and Cheng Che just wanted to leave quickly.

As expected, the difficult big brother began to speak in an insidious manner as soon as Cheng Che left. “Has nobody at home taught you to use both hands when handing things over? Your mouth and hands aren’t very nimble, are they?”

Cheng Che, who was jumping frantically in the minefield, clenched his fists expressionlessly.

Lava sneered and glanced at him, “Oh, Little Stutterer has some temper now?”

Nobody said anything, and everyone kept quiet.

No one would make enemies with such a petty person who spoke badly about others behind their backs, especially not for someone with a stutter.

It was human nature to seek advantage and avoid harm, and they didn’t do anything wrong.

Cheng Che understood.

“When handing things to elders or leaders, you should use both hands, but it’s not that important between peers.”

Cheng Che interrupted his mockery and retorted with impatience, “Moreover, I don’t think someone who kicks doors and chairs after losing a game has the qualification to teach others about manners.”Games

It was a piercingly accurate remark, and he said it beautifully.

He was stunned after finishing his sentence, and so was everyone else in the room.

Fei Shen was the first to react, “Cheng…Clear, did you just speak fluently?”

This was definitely a medical miracle!

“Really, really? I-I stutter… Is it cured?” Cheng Che turned around to look at him, his eyes shining as if there were little stars twinkling in them.

Will all the various problems, such as stuttering, be cured automatically after rebirth? After all, it was the first time he had been reborn, and he was not yet familiar with all the tricks.

Cheng Che scratched his head. Fei Shen asked, “Um, no.”

If it were really that easy, not only would his stutter be cured, he would also have to write a research paper and even win the Nobel Prize in medicine. If conditions allowed, he could even build a temple.

“Hey…” Disappointed, Cheng Che suddenly felt a little down and didn’t say anything, turning around to leave.

Fei Shen said, “Brother Che, twist your own head. Don’t make that stupid look like you want to twist Lava’s idiotic head off.”

“Stop.” Lava only realized after a while that what he had said earlier was mocking himself for being bad, and in anger, he snatched the cup from Qi Qi’s hand and splashed it at Cheng Che.

Qi Qi cried out, “Clear!” The substitute top laner and Fei Shen looked shocked. What’s going on?

Seeing their strange expressions looking at him, Cheng Che turned sideways to look behind him and narrowly avoided the water splashed at him, which only got on his clothes a little bit.

The cold water splashed onto the floor with a snap, and everyone looked at each other. That was close.

Lava’s face turned blue and white, looking like a jumping clown, extremely ugly.

“…” Cheng Che had no comment on this. With his thinking and mentality as an adult in his twenties, these children’s tricks couldn’t even enter his eyes. So he just walked away, not planning to pay any attention to Lava.

“You stuttering… no, you shorty… I told you to get lost, didn’t I?” Seeing Cheng Che’s calm and composed appearance, Lava felt he had lost his dignity and took a few steps forward to grab Cheng Che’s back collar, wanting to show off and find some face.

Cheng Che was not tall, just over 1.7 meters, and was wearing a white team uniform, making him look like a cute little white cat in Lava’s grip.

A thought flashed through Lava’s mind. The next second, Cheng Che threw him over his shoulder in a perfect judo throw.

“F*ck…”

“Don’t… don’t mess with me.” Can’t borrow toilet paper… damn it, off-topic… Your mother, enough is enough.

“Tsk…” The group of people in the room only realized that they needed to intervene and quickly pulled Lava up, while Fei Shen and the substitute top laner took Cheng Che to one side.

It was really annoying, and Manager Zhang Hui glared fiercely at Cheng Che. Cheng Che still had no expression on his face. He even felt a little aggrieved in his heart: it was Lava who had touched his white clothes with dirty hands first.

Lian Rong covered his mouth and laughed, secretly giving a six hand gesture where Clear could see it.

“Are you okay?”

Lava may have been dizzy from the fall and shook his head.

“Y-Y-You…you turned on me,” stammered Cheng Che, but his calmness didn’t mean that Zhang Hui wasn’t angry. Zhang Hui was even furious and wanted to kick him out of the house.

Cheng Che defended himself calmly, “I was acting in self-defense.”

“I can vouch for him,” said Fei Shen, raising his hand.

Zhang Hui pointed his finger at Cheng Che and cursed, “When did it become your turn to speak in the team?”

Fei Shen was taken aback and lowered his head and hand.

“You’ve been hanging out with Lava too much and you don’t even understand the rules,” Zhang Hui continued to curse, his words even more offensive than the team bully Lava.

Everyone was trying to gang up on Cheng Che.

Lian Rong touched his arm and advised him to drink some water to calm down, pointing to the water on the floor.

Cheng Che was almost amused by this.

“Are you laughing? How dare you?” Zhang Hui noticed Cheng Che’s expression changing and was even angrier, lifting his hand to slap him.

Qi Qi reacted quickly, holding onto the manager’s arm tightly. “Don’t use force!”

“Get lost!” Zhang Hui pushed Qi Qi away.

Qi Qi took a few steps back but accidentally stepped on the water that Lava had spilled on the floor, slipping and falling on his back with a cry.

Cheng Che was prepared to grab Zhang Hui’s wrist and disarm him, but was caught off guard by Qi Qi’s fall, standing there stunned and confused.

The room fell silent.

The other members of the team, chose to watch from the sidelines.

They had no emotional connection with Qi Qi, who had just joined the team at the beginning of the season. Fighting with the manager over him wasn’t worth it.

Cheng Che looked at the people in the room and suddenly had an idea: Help him up.

If the wall didn’t yield, he would yield.

“Huh?” Lian Rong was about to go and help his shooter, but saw Cheng Che awkwardly reaching out to help Qi Qi up.

He beat him to it.

At this point, Qi Qi was thinking, “Did the sun rise from the west?”

“Th-Th-Thank you, Clear,” stuttered Qi Qi, thanking Cheng Che.

“I-I thank you too,” Cheng Che replied without looking at anyone, taking him to the couch.

Zhang Hui was completely fed up at this point, sneering at the ground and cursing, “What a f*cking jinx.”

He didn’t even bother to check if Qi Qi was hurt.

After all, the team culture of TG was clear: Jungle was the big dad, Top and Support were the next level, and Mid and AD Carry were the lowest level.

Substitutes were not even considered human.

Cheng Che turned his head and gave him a cold and terrifying look.

“What are you looking at?” Zhang Hui’s heart trembled at the sight of him. “What can you do with your stuttering?”

“Hey, you guessed it right. I can’t do anything, but I can curse you.”

Cheng Che always had a sharp tongue when it came to insulting people: “Watch your filthy mouth, fill up the holes in your brain, take medicine if you’re sick, and come find your dad if you don’t have anyone to rely on. Don’t bark all the time and annoy your dad’s eyes.”

He was oozing with charisma.

…In his past life, Clear had played professionally on the KPL stage for two years, reaching the pinnacle of his career upon his debut. With his extraordinary sense of swordplay and impeccable technique, he continuously topped the charts for development path statistics.

At the same time, he was also named the league’s number one marksman by the event organizers, a honor that no one else had ever received.

Clear’s web fans as the number one marksman numbered ten million, four times that of the KPL league’s official website.

However, what made Cheng Che stand out wasn’t his skill or honors, but his ability to insult others without ever repeating himself, despite his stutter.

Although he stuttered, his insults were deadly.

“Reborn as a Stutterer with the Talent to Insult Without Stuttering.”

Adding fuel to the fire, this was like piling on poison.

Fei Shen secretly gave him a thumbs up with his hand in his pocket.

On the other side, Lian Rong said, “Six.”

“You…you…”

Zhang Hui was so choked up that he couldn’t speak and his anger boiled over, repeatedly uttering the word “you.”

“Poof…” Qi Qi chuckled softly, poking his clothes with his index finger.

“Just what are you? Did your brain fall out with your placenta and now you can’t speak?” Cheng Che sneered, turning to settle Qi Qi onto the couch. “What do you mean ‘you’? You’re just an idiot.”

“Your mother, □□(insulting word).”

By hurling insults back and forth, Cheng Che took control of the situation step by step, eventually delivering the fatal blow.

Author’s note:

【Mini Theater】

Lin Xingling (smiling): My wife is so cute~

Lava and Zhang Hui: Yeah, yeah, hurry up and take him away!