#Xiaoluo

[finalfantasyx]

Can we talk about how Xiao Se and Qianluo are the couple that doesn't ever have (or need) a DTR?

Whether in the drama or in the donghua, there's never a moment where they sit down and confess their feelings like characters/love interests in most dramas/movies/shows/books. Sure, Qianluo has a few scenes where she's asking him questions about the future and VERY not subtly hinting at her feelings, but it's not out of character for her because Qianluo is the girl who wears her heart on her sleeve--she has never felt the need to hide her feelings, nor has she ever learned how to do so.

Think about that for a second. She's the daughter of City Master Sikong Changfeng of Xueyue City, the number one city in the world. She grew up loved and free, doing whatever she liked because she could. But she isn't necessarily spoiled because of it--rather, this girl chooses her own adventures and chooses the people she cares about, and once she does, she holds onto them with a death grip (whether they're her friends, her dashixiong, her father, Xiao Se). Qianluo taking the initiative and being more upfront about her feelings is completely in-character for her.

Xiao Se, however, grew up as a prince who has had people scheming forever to his left and right. He was privileged, yes, but he also is more introspective, calculating, and careful with his true feelings, especially after his banishment and following years of isolation. He's never really clear about how he feels, hiding behind snark, sarcasm, and a condescending air all the time except for select moments he feels safe enough to drop his mask in front of his loved ones.

But all that cumulates to this strange relationship where these two completely opposing people come together, firstly because of intrigue and the way they seem to fit each other's jagged edges--Qianluo with her bright, vibrant personality who takes anything and everything as a challenge, and Xiao Se who has goals he has yet to achieve but very much needs help while absolutely refusing to ask for it--and then with the way they build up an understanding and friendship through their adventures in Xueyue City and out of it.

Their burgeoning feelings are always hinted at, but are never really subtle. As in, the writers for both the drama and donghua focus on little details in their interactions with the big scenes few and far between, but the details all pay off to show how the characters feel (this is the ultimate showing and not telling, and masterfully done between both mediums). The way Qianluo and Xiao Se feel about each other is never in question, whether it's annoyance or confusion when they first meet, banter/bickering/flirting during the Xueyue arc, friendship, or something more even without the audience explicitly being told what they're thinking.

The closest we get to a DTR are the scenes in both the drama and donghua where Qianluo asks Xiao Se to return to Xueyue with her after everything is over, but again, these are not moments where she confesses her feelings. They're blatantly obvious, and the way Xiao Se soften towards her and wants to give her an answer but knowing now is not the time to tell her what he wants to tell her is also obvious.

They're just in love, and though neither of them are admitting to it, they aren't hiding it either. They just are, and they both know it.

[eunuch-enjoyer5]

*looks at xiao se*

[feng-huli]

TBoY behind-the-scenes: Jin Wei witnessing a xiaoluo weapon exchange (while Lei Wujie takes a nap)

@finalfantasyx @eunuch-enjoyer5 I figure you would appreciate this 😸

[5water-kohaku]

I was trying to get into Grandmaster some more before midnight (cause it's too fun), so I tried to take some kind of group photo again while waiting for a long time XD

[the-monkey-ruler]

Furious King Yama (2020) 閻王不高興 / 大王不高兴

Date: 2020 Platform: Andriod / IOS Developer: Komeo Games Publisher: Bilibili Games Type: Crossover

Summary:

The new boss of Lingfu turned out to be a girl! What’s even more terrible is that this girl is actually very afraid of ghosts! In order to become a qualified successor and protect the responsibilities of the owner of Lingfu for thousands of years, the new owner of Lingfu Yan Xiaoluo must challenge his fear, complete the trial, and compete with all the enemies in China and the West. In the repeated open and secret struggles, Yan Xiaoluo and her partners gradually grew and the team continued to grow!

Source: https://m-apps.qoo-app.com/en-US/app/8867

Link: https://www.taptap.io/app/57520

[something-rotten]

MDZS characters & their Partner Pokémon for Burnt Ashes.

Anyone not listed here I do not have a headcanon for a partner Pokémon for, right now.

(I honestly didn’t realise until now that there’s an exception in every clan except the Wen.)

Gusu Lan Dragon, except for A-Yuan

Lan Qiren & Salamence

Lan Xichen & Altaria

Lan Wangji & Dratini / Dragonair

Lan Jingyi & Goomy (will evolve into Sliggoo during the events of the novel)

Lan Sizhui & Phantump (will evolve into Trevenant during the events of the novel) ‘Xiaoluo’ (小萝 xiǎoluó – from 小xiǎo – small, and 萝卜luóbo – radish)

Yunmeng Jiang Electric, except for JYL and WWX

Jiang Fengmian & Ampharos

Yu Ziyuan & Galvantula (Meishan Yu – Bug?)

Jiang Yanli – Audino

Jiang Cheng – Yamper / Boltund

Wei Wuxian – Zorua / Hisuian Zorua ‘Huli’ (狐狸 húli – sly and treacherous person, from 狐狸精 húlijīng – fox spirit)

Lanling Jin Psychic, except for Jin Ling

Jin Guangshan & Gallade

Jin Zixuan & Kirlia / Gardevoir

Jin Guangyao & Natu / Xatu

Jin Ling & Growlithe (will evolve into Arcanine during the events of the novel)

Qinghe Nie Steel, except for NHS

Nie Mingjue & Doublade / Aegislash

Nie Huasiang & Oricorio

Qishan Wen Fire/Dark (because of course they would reserve two types for themselves)

Wen Ruohan & Darkrai

Wen Xu & Houndoom

Wen Chao & Thievul

Wen Zhuliu & Weavile

Dafan Wen Plant

Wen Qing & Roselia

Wen Ning & Cherubi / Cherrim

(Wen Yuan might have gotten an Oddish)

Others

Mo Xuanyu & Spiritomb

Xiao Xingchen & Alolan Vulpix / Alolan Ninetales

Song Lan & Riolu / Lucario

Xue Yang & Ghastly / Haunter

A-Qing & Mimikyu

[donghuanewbsunite]

The Furious Yama / 大王不高兴 / Dawang Bu Gaoxin - Yama is Unhappy / 阎王不高兴 / Yanwang Bu Gaoxing

Hello everyone, I am the new king Yan Xiaoluo. Because of his timidity and fear of ghosts, my father arranged me to practice bile in the world. However, Dyman and Eric from the Western Continental Territory may one day abandon their puppets on the Eastern Continental Celestial Land and Earth. Xiao Hei Xiao Bai, the cattle guard and the horse leader and the accidentally picked Xiaogui will assist the king and them to deal with them.

[Synopsis from Bilibili and translated with Google]

Produced by Haoliners / Haoliners 絵梦 Animation / Haoliners Huimeng Animation

Genres: Fantasy, Comedy, Horror, Game Adaptation

Original Story by 使徒子 / Shitu Zi / Apostle

Official Weibo

Mobile Game on TapTap and QooApp

Original Manhua on Kuaikanmanhua

Donghua on Bilibili and iQIYI

Drama Announced in 2016

[koigate]

[translation]iG’s VP telling the story of Baolan’s one day FA

iG’s vice president Mintyblue told the story about why Baolan decideds to leave and why he was back for another three years after one night, link is: https://www.weibo.com/1652761775/H52JH2wVu

昨天关于Baolan的事情，很多人可能都觉得特别突然。当然对于我们俱乐部的人来说也很突然。此前这些过程从来是未公开过的，这次情况比较特殊。经过和小宝沟通，我来给大家讲一下今天的小故事，说一说事情的原委。

A lot of people were probably surprised by Baolan’s post yesterday. It was a surprise for us and the org too. The signing process was always kept in secret previous times, due to the special occasion this time, after talking to little Bao, I’m gonna tell the story this time, of how it went down.

关于这次LOL选手续约，王校长亲自参与了很多。Baolan是在前几天校长亲自与其确定待遇的，所以昨天他的微博一发，大家都感觉非常惊讶。

All the contract renewings of the league players in our org, Boss Wang personally participated a large portion of it. Baolan’s pay and benefits were settled down by Boss Wang himself, so when he posted that weibo yesterday, we were all caught off guard.

下午小落告诉我，宝蓝发微博后。下午我们队所有的选手都围着他，不管是安慰也好，鼓励也好，从自己的角度来对宝蓝表示关切和希望他留下来。我感觉小宝肯定有表达不足的地方，所以也约了校长晚上当面再一起和小宝聊一下。

I was informed by Xiaoluo(team manager) that Baolan posted his leave on weibo. Later afternoon, everyone in the team was surrounding him, comforting and encouraging him, expressing their concern and hoping he’d stay, talking from their own perspectives. I feel like little Bao has something he didn’t express well in his post, so I asked Wang Sicong to join me to have a face to face conversation with little Bao in the evening.

在这个深夜，宝蓝对着我们打开了自己的心扉，和我们表达了很多心声，也表达了自己的职业追求。

That night, Baolan opened him up to us, speaking from deep of his heart, and expressed his goal in his career.

Baolan一直认为对于一个选手来说，最重要的是成绩。在打职业的过程中，他经常看到有一部分粉丝对他很不认同。他本来以为，在我们队伍获得S总冠军以后，这些东西��以消除。但是最近他感到这一切都没有变化，这让他感到很失望，所以萌生了或许应该换个环境的地方的想法。

Baolan has always thought that for a player, the most important thing is result. In his life as a pro player, he often sees a portion of fans don’t give him recognition. He thought after the team won Worlds, the discrimination against him would go away. But recently he saw nothing is changing, which made him very disappointed, so he thought maybe a different environment would help.

在听到这些之后，校长跟他讲了很多，校长告诉他一个人永远是不可能被所有人认同的，即使你做的再好。在很多时候，我们根本不必在乎那些不知所谓的人说什么，最重要的是做好自己。他也告诉宝蓝，自己是对他非常重视和认同的，自从开始玩MOBA类游戏，他就认识到这是一种团队、整体的游戏，每个人都十分重要。宝蓝是团队里非常重要的一员。如果他走了，这对我们整个俱乐部不光是一个损失，对于夺冠后的我们更是一种遗憾和缺失。校长非常认同他。

After hearing all these, Boss Wang engaged in a long conversation with him. Boss Wang told him, a person can never be appreciated by everyone, no matter how great you are doing. A lot of times we don’t need to give a crap about what those who know nothing about what’s going are saying, the most important part is do your own thing. He also told Baolan how important he values him and appreciates him, ever since he started to play MOBA games, he realized this is a team game, everyone matters. Baolan is an important part of the team. If he left, it’s not only a huge loss to our org, it’s also a regret and missing to us who’ve just won. Boss Wang appreciates him a lot.

在明白小宝的心里是怎么样的以后，我们聊天的气氛渐渐的舒缓。经过深夜的一番聊天，小宝慢慢的打开了心结。他最后问校长：“老板，您是否认同我是队伍重要的一员？如果您说是的话，我现在就可以签。”校长表示当然非常认同他，而且一直都是。在听到这句话后，宝蓝当即表示愿意马上和俱乐部续约，并且这一次是连续签约三年。

After figuring out what little Bao was thinking about in his mind, the atmosphere of our conversation turned lighter. We talked all night, little Bao slowly opened the knot in his heart. He asks Boss Wang at the end: “Boss, do you see me as an important part of the team? If you say yes, I can sign right now.” Boss says of course, and he always is. After hearing this, Baolan instantly says he’s willing to renew his contract with the team, and for three more years.

校长其实之前也告诉我，宝蓝当天聊续约的时候全程也是非常愉快和果断，这是他职业精神的体现。一个让我印象很深刻的点就是，宝蓝昨天全程都没有谈到钱的问题，这是我不管在谈任何合同的过程中都没见过的。与此相对应，他昨天跟我提了好几次的一个词就是认同感，他希望得到队友的认同，俱乐部的认同，老板的认同，粉丝们的认同。他告诉我钱差不多就行了，反正在现在这个社会怎么都不会饿死，认同感和肯定才是他打职业最为追求的东西。在这里我希望那一部分让宝蓝难受的无聊之人能够明白小宝在想什么，不要再说一些不知所谓的话来让心思细腻的宝蓝难受。另外写到这里我顺便也想对今天那几个造谣生事蹭热度的营销号说：你们可真是垃圾中的垃圾，Literally。

Boss actually told me before, Baolan was a delight and very decisive during his talk of renewing contract, this is the professionalism in him. One detail struck me the most is that Baolan didn’t talk about money the whole time yesterday, this is something I’ve never seen in contract negotiation. On contrary, the word popped up multiply times in our conversation is appreciation, he wants to get appreciation from his teammates, his org, his boss, his fans. He told me he’s ok with mediocre pay, he’s not gonna starve to death in today’s society, appreciation and recognition is what he pursues the most in his pro life. So hereby I want those who’s making little Bao’s life miserable can understand his mind process, don’t say some baseless things to hurt sensitive Baolan. Also I want to say to those click-bait-writing so called self-media outlets: you’re the trash among trash, literally.

小宝在回来的车上告诉我，他本来今天说要走是因为缺乏认同感，他要被认同，他很努力的去做了，但是在拿到冠军后感觉还是没有拿到他想要的东西。经过今天，他确定了他的队友，俱乐部工作人员，以及校长都是认同他的，所以他这次选择签三年，他想把自己的整个职业生涯寄托给iG。以上是小宝的原话，我很感动，我也深知这��味着什么，我也希望我们俱乐部能够一路陪他走过今后灿烂辉煌的职业生涯，希望他的整个职业生涯前缀都是iG！

Little Bao told me on our way back that originally he wanted to go is because he didn’t find appreciation, he wants to be appreciated, he tried really hard, but after won the championship, he feels like he’s still not getting what he want. After today, he’s certain that his teammates, staffs in the org and the boss himself all appreciated him, so he choose to sign for another three years, he wants to spend his whole pro life in iG. This is word by word what little Bao said, I’m very moved, I also know what this meant, I hope our org can accompany him on his very bight future in pro gaming, hope he can wear iG his whole pro life.

I think sometimes people don’t understand how words can hurt people, and how toxic it is to live a life without appreciation. Think twice before you talk.

[teamchman]

UPX - Cap 110

UPX – Cap 110

Capítulo 110: Si no eres un lunático, entonces eres un demonio serpiente. Ning Xiaoyao miró fijamente el rostro de Ning Xiaoluo. ¿No es necesario utilizar cuchillos? Entonces eso significa que esos médicos estaban buscando una cara como la de Ning Xiaoluo. ¿Para qué necesita el Gran Preceptor Xie una cara como esa? Cuando recordó el 70% de similitud entre ambos rostros, se dio cuenta de la…

[eunuch-enjoyer5]

so cute 🥰🍲🥺

[namisashimi]

The Gamer Youth from the Turn of the Century - Baolan

source. profile by danneergou (丹尼二狗) for pentaq.

translator. this needs a little context - baolan is the former name of ig’s support, megan. i started translating this article when it first came out in january 2017 but got too busy to finish it. i think i’ve jokingly referred to it a few times as the ‘baolan manifesto’ since it’s so long and dense (and no one cares about him). since he’s been doing very well in playoffs, i thought i’d pick it up again since it’s a truly fascinating look at both him personally and the path new players take to the lpl.

Now, you can call him by a new name: Megan.

Ask anyone – playing botlane for IG is not an easy task, especially in 2016. That year, IG's botlane often changed: Rain, Kitties, Marge, Ben – even their starting midlaner Rookie was forced into playing ADC for a game. 'Finding a strong, reliable, promising botlane pair' is the conundrum IG's manager Su Xiaoluo has spent the spring and summer splits bitterly trying to solve.

At NEST at the year's end, IG allowed their fans hope for an answer – their 'Baolan + Jackeylove' botlane successfully helped their team defeat LGD and win the championship. Of these two, Jackeylove had long made his name as 'China's Best Draven' and 'High Elo KR SoloQ Player,' while the support Baolan was a new player who was born in 1999, only just jumped from TGA to LPL, and had barely played 10 matches in 2016.

On January 6th, we met this true newcomer in the IG team house. This unhappy rainy day, Baolan accepted our interview while on his bed, dressed in his IG uniform and wrapped in blankets. Perhaps because he'd never had this kind of one-on-one chat with a stranger before, Baolan spent most of his time with his head lowered, almost talking to himself. If we reached a subject he found interesting, he would show it with a simple smile or by speaking slightly louder.

An eighteen-year-old boy's story cannot be too complicated, and Baolan is no exception. He dropped out of school to play professionally, struggled bitterly in the TGA, seized the opportunity to come to the LPL, and in the even more furious competition desperately adapted to finally achieve his dreams.

'Dreams are that which can always excite you,' Baolan said to this journalist.

It sounded like his answer was describing a process, rather than a tangible result.

a childhood without worry.

Seventeen years ago, Baolan was born in Yingtan. This place is so tiny that without an detailed description, you wouldn't even know it's in Jiangxi Province. Before boarding that plane to Tianjin and embarking on the first step on his professional journey, Baolan lived, grew up, and spent his childhood here, as carefree as any other child.

'The air was very good there.' Baolan's description of Yingtan was minimalistic. Compared to the busy major city – Shanghai – now surrounding him, 'air quality' was the only exceptional trait he could bring up about his hometown.

Normally, there are two requirements for a glowing childhood: good grades and sensible parents. And it was just Baolan's luck that he lacked neither – in elementary school he always had exceptional grades, to the point where he didn't even have to do his homework to be the teacher's favorite and was always the center of attention among his peers; as for the other, he had the kind of mother almost every youth would wish to have.

This mother allowed her son to play games in netcafes in elementary school, and she even took on the responsibility of transporting him and his friends there. Her reasoning for this was exceedingly straightforward: 'Because his grades were good, I thought it wasn't an issue. If he wanted to play he could.' These words of course showed the love a mother has for a son, but also showed the progressiveness born of long years of business experience.

Under these circumstances, Baolan advanced smoothly into middle school. But the talent and intelligence he once had was not enough for the increasingly complex classes, and more importantly, he still didn't do his homework. His grades slipped, turning his childhood from 'glowing' to 'ordinary' and his good fortune to disaster.

'I was done.' Saying this, the expression on Baolan's face was like that of a toplaner who had just eked out a 10cs lead over his opponent before dying to a sudden gank and being forced to watch a wave of minions die to his tower.

Because of his grades and attitude towards learning, Baolan was exiled by his middle school teacher to the back row of class, like falling from the technologically advanced Piltover to the slums of Zaun. Suddenly, he realized he was between a rock and a hard place – on one hand, from Baolan's perspective, being in the last row was 'bad;' on the other hand, the frustration he had learning made it hard to muster the enthusiasm to regain his glory, and besides, he was starting to develop some nearsightedness and even seeing the blackboard from the back of the class was a hard task.

'I didn't want to be that kind of person, but I was at the back of the class. So I didn't interact much with either the good or the bad circles in class. It was very lonely.'

Most of the time, Baolan only spoke with his tablemate, and he wouldn't talk about games. Just like his distaste for the 'last row of class,' he thought games were a 'bad element' and not something students should talk about.

You could imagine that if Baolan's parents didn't have such a practical and effective discipline style – then having gone from 'genius' to 'loner,' he would have faced resentful scolding from his parents for failing to meet expectations. Luckily, his mother once again showed her consistently lenient and noble-minded ideas: 'If he's not good academically, then he should try something else.'

Baolan begin to search for a new path: go, piano, guitar, art … even the hulusi (t/n: a niche chinese instrument). Saying this, he mimicked a rather proper playing posture.

'My mother often said I needed to learn things. I tried practically everything, but I couldn't find a passion for any of it. When I saw something fun, I'd be briefly very enthusiastic and really want to learn it, but after a while I'd find it boring and give it up.' This persisted until he encountered League of Legends – the first thing that could make Baolan settle down and study it at length.

'At the time, only League of Legends could make me not give up halfway, and it had a very high skill ceiling.'

the abyss of the tga.

It's hard to imagine, but even though Baolan has already become a professional player, he still doesn't think playing video games counts as a proper career. When he goes home for the new year, he'll rarely bring up what he's currently doing to his relatives. In the beginning, he walked into this world simply to mediate his own loneliness.

When he first encountered League of Legends, Baolan would play every day, watch videos, and while losing think to himself, 'I shouldn't have played that so poorly.' At the time the ladder was ranked by MMR. 1200 points was the default; if you won you gained points and if you lost you lost points. At his lowest point, Baolan dropped to 800 points. 'Should've been bronze, that rank.'

When he thought he had stagnated, Baolan was suddenly re-inspired after watching highlights of the Korean support Madlife; this also decided which role he would main. 2012 happened to be the year Madlife first showed himself. This support's boundless genius led him to be called 'M-God' and his team MiG to be nicknamed 'Madlife is God.' After finding his first League of Legends idol, Baolan tried support and found his game ability increased immensely: even when winning a game would only give him 3LP, he went from Platinum V to Diamond V in a week, then reached Diamond I in another week, and finally Challenger.

'I didn't know then that you could decay from Challenger. I was so happy when I reached Challenger, but after seven days, I discovered I'd dropped back to Masters.' After that, Baolan left the Bandle City server for the first server, Ionia. At the same time, his sudden improvement showed Baolan an opportunity, and he decided to leave school, try a new path, and expand his horizons.

There are many ways to become a professional player, and the most 'straight-forward and easy' one is to join a TGA team and play with them in TGA (now known as City of Heroes), and go step-by-step to higher and higher levels of play: LSPL, LPL, Worlds. Of course, this requires you to have enough skill and luck.

In 2014, Snake fought their way from TGA to LSPL, then from LSPL entered the LPL. In 2016, IM promoted from LSPL to LPL, then from LPL made it to Worlds. This kind of 'success in many short hops' miracle seemed to be happening every day, but these 'good things' weren't guaranteed to happen to you. Survival bias tells us the 'dead' say nothing.

For the teams that participated in TGA, this is even more true. Every round of TGA includes more than thirty teams from all parts of the country; only two of them can join the LSPL. The high probability of elimination and the clustered matches made the TGA competition very cruel: perhaps some team would have just defeated a strong enemy, but within half a day, they'd have to face their own elimination from the tournament. For those who hoped to go pro, TGA was like a boundlessly deep sea they were trying to find a treasure in. It was just that difficult.

Of course, the inexperienced Baolan never considered this, and he quickly came to a decision. Thus, that mother who once brought her son to the net cafe to play games now sat with him on a plane from Jiangnan to Tianjin, where he joined a local team for a 3000 RMB salary.

What Baolan didn't expect was that just as quickly as his first professional journey began, it ended. For a few special reasons, the team Baolan joined in Tianjin disbanded quickly. Baolan didn't even have a chance to play in a proper match. Of Tianjin and that team, his only impression was being in a small house, unceasingly, unceasingly playing soloq.

That is the truth of many TGA teams: an owner with too much money to spend, players with only dreams and no skill, an organization that's only in it for fun, and an endless series of sorrows and joys, meetings and partings.

Afterwards, Baolan met Zoom. At the time, he was a part of a Ningbo team called BOE. Zoom took care of Baolan like a big brother and Baolan listened to everything he said. Afterwards, they also met Gear – a young man who had chased his dreams from Hong Kong to the mainland. The three quickly became friends so good you could say they 'wore the same pants.'

baolan's former 'big brother' - zoom.

'At the time, we thought the three of us could definitely get into the first division,' Baolan said very emphatically. But in actuality, Baolan didn't even have the chance to start on BOE, because 'that person (the starter) had a higher soloq rank than I did.'

Although the team's overall skill wasn't bad and it had his good friends, being entirely unable to play made Baolan anxious. At first, he thought, 'Doesn't matter, as long as I play well, I'll have the opportunity to start,' but the end result was: he, who had not played a single game with BOE, chose to leave, leaving Zoom and Gear behind, for a team that would let him play – a Hangzhou team, not too far from Ningbo, called MSC.

'From when I started with him (Zoom), I was always a sub, up until I left him and played a starting role for another team.' This departure was almost a means to 'prove himself.' In a team, players with close relationships are often very competitive, and by taking a starting position, Baolan hoped his own performance would tell his good friends Zoom and Gear: he, too, had the abilities of a starter.

the midlaner from hong kong - gear.

Instead, reality gave Baolan a vicious slap to the face. In that year's City of Heroes province-level competition, Hangzhou MSC encountered Ningbo BOE; Baolan met Zoom and Gear as opponents. In that match, toplaner Zoom played Darius, midlaner Gear played Lissandra, and they practically abused Baolan and his team 2v5. In that game, Zoom's Darius scored a pentakill.

After the game, MSC lost their chance to advance, and Baolan's spirits were low to the point where he didn't even say hello to his former teammates. 'After losing the game, I directly went back. That day it was raining, rain is the most tragic thing.' As he said this, a thin drizzle still fell outside the window.

Prepared to do whatever he could, Baolan circled back and forth in TGA for two years. In these two years, he went to Anhui, to Tianjin, to Hangzhou, to Ningbo. Every half year, he'd play in TGA; every half year, he'd lose.

But to him, no loss had as much of an impact on him as this one. Finally, after changing to yet another TGA team, Baolan couldn't take it any more. He stood in front of his boss and very steadfastly pronounced his feelings that he 'absolutely could not play any more TGA.'

After failing in the groups again, he hoped he could be recommended into the LPL. If he didn't have enough qualifications for that, LSPL would do.

'In all my years of playing TGA, every time I lost the boss would tell me: 'You're still young, you have to play TGA, practice harder, learn more.' Their words surely had some use for me, but I still felt...' Baolan stopped here. After a few moments of silence, he started talking to himself: 'Ah, there's not much to say. If I hadn't played so many years of TGA, perhaps I wouldn't be able to play in the LPL.'

Faced with the two years of his TGA career, it's hard for Baolan to not sink into this kind of ambivalent thinking. The unreliability of TGA and the difficulty of performing well always made it hard for him to find his confidence, but at the same time, he couldn't deny that those two years of chaotic fighting had helped him grow. Furthermore, he simply didn't want to look back on those years; his departure had an air of 'fleeing in panic' to it, because he 'just never wanted to experience again that feeling, that feeling of loss, that feeling that came every half year, that feeling of gambling.' Here, he used three descriptors in a row.

Luckily, he came to the LPL. Looking at how things have been going, everything is still okay.

the stress of the lpl.

LPL is the top-tier circuit in China. This place has the greatest exposure, the craziest fans, and the highest level of play; this place is every Chinese player's dream. For Baolan, who came from city-level competitions, being able to enter the LPL is very lucky. At the same time, he still missed how on the TGA stage, both sides' players would crazily yell 'Nice!'

In June 2016, at the beginning of the summer split, Baolan came to IG. Su Xiaoluo introduced him thus to the team's coach: 'This kid is not bad.' Because he wasn't old enough to participate in the LPL, Baolan was placed in IG's youth training team to practice and improve. At the time, IG's botlane issues were becoming increasingly serious. When Chris talked about that iteration of IG, he said that the Korean soloq king Rain was playing unreliably because there had been some problems in his family, and at the same time Kitties, who had been IG for a long time, was equally unreliable. To resolve that problem, Chris called in Tabe, hoping the competition would let Kitties return to form, but the final results were not exactly ideal. The roster changes and Tabe's inclusion caused the entire team to go through a trial-and-error phase, and they faced a lot of negative public opinion.

To IG, Baolan represented possibility; to Baolan, IG was his only chance. Before coming here, he had already thoroughly analyzed every LPL support.

'For some teams, I just didn't have a chance. VG's Caveman was a new player, and he wasn't too bad. There wasn't a chance EDG would lose Meiko, and LGD's Pyl had played with them for a long time.' Baolan used the most simple terms to approximate the chances he'd be able to start. In the end, IG was the choice where he had the 'highest chance of playing.'

For a young man who hadn't even hit 20, this kind of thought process was a little rigid. But it could undeniably find the best opportunity for a player to seize his already limited chances, and no matter what, it was very practical.

'Wherever I go, I give myself an objective. When I was in the TGA, I thought one TGA support was very good, so I would follow his soloq summoner name and check it every day to see how he'd climbed. When I went to MF's secondary team, I made the first team's support my objective. Every time I woke up and saw him, and I'd be motivated enough to play a whole day of ranked; then I'd go to bed very tired. For a while, I thought Tang Chi Sa's support Liu Qingsong (t/n: now Pinus) was very good, so I'd watch his ranked games every day and found he was really very good.' When Tang Chi Sa was relegated from LSPL, the support Lqs and his ADC Lwx showed up on Newbee's main roster, and these former TGA opponents once again met in the LPL. Like a sieve, LPL catches the best players in the secondary leagues and city-level competitions.

'Actually there are still very talented players in the TGA, but they haven't had an opportunity yet. I don't think I'm particularly talented – I'm just lucky.'

When talking about LPL's young support talent, EDG's Meiko is an unavoidable topic. From being discovered in the TGA to being moved to the LPL, to quickly meshing with EDG and becoming a top-tier support domestically, and then becoming winner of countless championships, winning MSI, becoming a part of the Worlds ranking... 'Meiko and I are about the same age, but I haven't even seen the glory he's received. If I'd call RNG's Ming someone I can look up to, then Meiko is a god.' When the topic of Meiko's almost legendary career was brought up, Baolan very naturally showed signs of envy.

'Of course there are some differences, but it's not just because I think he was lucky. He plays well, and on top of that he's lucky, so he can get what others cannot.'

'Will you take the initiative to go make friends with these players you respect?' this journalist asked.

'I'd prefer it if I can play well and then have people take the initiative to make friends with me,' Baolan replied.

July 24, 2016 – Baolan first entered the stage as IG's support; the ADC who joined him was Marge, and their opponents were Snake. In TGA circles, there was a popular saying: If you play in the LPL, if you're always a sub and don't have a chance to start, maybe you will never have the chance to start. If the team gives you a chance and it doesn't go well, you will never have a second chance.

'So, many players won't take the risk of playing in the LPL. They'd rather stay and keep playing in TGA,' Baolan said.

In the end, in that best-of-3, IG went 1-2 and lost in the end. At the end of the game, Baolan thought, 'It wasn't as hard as I thought it would be. It was like we were all still human.'

In the first game, Snake had an immense lead in the early-game. SofM's Graves straight-out bought a Runaan's Hurricane, but at 35 minutes in the game, IG took a teamfight and turned the game.

In the second game, both teams played a slower game, and at 29 minutes in, Snake took the game after gaining a teamfight advantage.

In the third game, Snake had a small advantage in the mid-game, and at 28 minutes in, miscommunication between the initiator and the carries caused IG to lose regrettably.

In the three games, Baolan played Braum support, and allowed Marge to successfully and safely farm in the botlane, so at the very least, he was not a liability.

After this set of games, Baolan played increasingly often until Jackeylove joined the team and IG's botlane went from 'regularly surviving' to 'able to get a few small advantages.'

'I want to prove with him that we're the best, but that will probably take time. We're a little competitive among ourselves and try to see who plays better.' On his lane partner Jackeylove, Baolan had this kind of assessment.

Besides Jackeylove, another teammate who had a close relationship with Baolan was their jungler Kid. Beginning with Baolan's arrival in IG, Kid, who shared a room with him, took on the role of an older brother, just like Zoom did in the past. 'I've never spent any money when I'm out with Kid. Every time, he'll pay for me and invite me to eat.' Of course, Kid also has his own problems – such as snoring really loudly when he sleeps.

'In the future I'll try to sleep earlier, or at least sleep before he does.'

In the two days before this interview, Baolan had gone through a few sleepless nights: during the day, he'd play ranked until very late, and at night he'd lie in bed and be unable to sleep, then wake up and play more. But the reason for this were not the loud noises from his roommate, but rather that he was seeing the goals ahead of him.

'Because Ming has more LP than I do, a lot more, one or two hundred. So in the past few days I've been feeling like I can't sleep, like I have a rock in my chest. Yesterday I finally accomplished my goal and had 2LP more than he did. That night I slept very well.'

After all, he's still understandably a new player, and in the LPL, the stress is unending. In the new 2017 season, Baolan changed his summoner ID: Megan.

epilogue: those who are eternally in conflict.

Like Baolan, Zoom and Gear found their own ways out. The one regret is – they never managed to make it out of TGA by playing.

Zoom went to MF in the LSPL, where he was called the 'strongest toplaner.' After MF merged with WY and changed names, he once again appeared on the 2017 LSPL stage as the toplaner for DS.

Gear left the mainland, and went back to the LMS to join HKE (Hong Kong Esports). There, after one season (Summer 2016), he continued to play as their starting midlaner in 2017.

Baolan came to IG, putting on an entirely different uniform and picking up new teammates. When you become stronger, it's impossible to not leave your current environment. This requires you to say goodbye to many of the people you don't want to leave; this is a conflict.

But doesn't every young person live in this kind of contradiction?

To Baolan, the contradictions in his heart are not just those. He used to believe that 'those who look strong should be really strong,' but now he feels 'those who don't look that good might be truly good.' For example, he brought up SKT's ADC, Bang. Because he 'was in Faker's shadow, it's rare for people to say Bang is very good, and there are very few people who discuss him, but he always plays very well.'

On the other hand, he always desires a few external, self-serving things, like the recognition of others and fans. In fact, when he was analyzing the support players of each LPL team, 'popularity' was something he paid heavy attention to. 'I feel like veteran LPL players are not likely to be swapped out, perhaps because of their fans, or maybe it's because they're the core of the team and can't be changed.'

Whether it's better to be 'someone who looks good,' or “someone who doesn't look very good, but is very good,' Baolan didn't have any answers.

But a fish and a bear's paw cannot coexist, and he will eventually face this kind of choice. Of course, this is something every young person will encounter.

At the end, this journalist asked Baolan, 'If you weren't playing professionally, what would you want to do?'

'I would want to be a waiter, I think waiters are good people. When we go to The Bund to eat, I always feel like waiters are very impressive people, they can always give you what you need the most, and their attitudes are very good.' This kind of answer is very unusual, to the point of being somewhat nonsensical.

But this at least proves that Baolan is very young and still very childish. He still hasn't experienced the kind of life-or-death battle between WE and IM, he hasn't had to struggle in relegations like OMG, he hasn't left the domestic stage like EDG and battled for the world championship.

But when these 'hasn't yet' eventually turn into reality, I believe Baolan will have even more stories for people to tell.

editor's note.

At 'The Hero's Heart' competitive event (t/n: donation event), we saw IG, who were just coming back from winning NEST. Their manager, Su Xiaoluo, mentioned that they hoped we would interview IG's young player Baolan.

When we talked about why, Su Xiaoluo said, 'As a manager, the most common question many young players will talk to me about is salary and benefits. When he tried out for IG and played a few competitive matches, Baolan's salary was actually very small. After NEST ended, I brought up giving him a raise, but he didn't seem to care about this, and told me 'I came here to play.''

When he was 14 and League of Legends first showed up in his life, he chose this professional path, and without even hitting 17 he'd played two years of city-level competitions. In IG's weakest moments, he joined the team as a rookie, rich with potential and yet very young. As a manager, in this impulsive time, to find such a pure player in the generation of young players is a very lucky thing.

As we walked into Baolan's world, we discovered not only his pure love for the occupation, but also the loneliness and confusion so common with young people.

The biggest difference between young esports players and regular students comes from the different people they meet at this most critical point of life, and the way they understand society is different from that of those who go through school before walking into society. Compared to Baolan's chance to become a superstar, we're more interested in how these young players can find their identity in esports.

The experience of spending two years in TGA without any results can make someone ashamed to talk about their job to their relatives and make them call video games a 'bad thing.' The strength of other players in the same team can cause someone to undertake absurd training burdens; Ming's ladder position can cause them to not sleep at night, but instead wake up and chase LP; Meiko's professional journey can make them lonely, yet unable to take the initiative to meet these other players, instead hoping to prove themselves and have them want to meet him.

Before leaving, I noticed on the desk in the IG base, there was a copy of Salinger's Catcher in the Rye. The book describes how the 16-year-old protagonist, Holden, was born in an affluent middle-class family, but after being expelled from school for the fourth time, began to go into the world of adults and discovered the hypocrisy of this world. His idealism made him cynical, but he had to make compromises to continue to survive, making his life always in the midst of contradictions.

Abusinesswoman mother and the complicated feelings he had in this new world are just a few similarities between the real Baolan and the novel's protagonist, Holden. I don't know which fan sent this book to be signed by Baolan, but for this book to appear here, there's something to think about.

The road forward is long, and I hope this professional career will give him all he seeks, and teach him the truth of life.

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Finally finished Xiaoluo's homeland, but too lazy to take more photos.

[the-monkey-ruler]

The Furious Yama (2020) 大王不高兴

Director: Li Haoling / Liu Siwen

Screenwriter: Shǐtú zǐ

Starring: Li Shimeng / Star Chao / Guo Haoran / Gu Jiangshan / Hu Yajie / more...

Genre: Comedy / Fantasy

Country/Region of Production: Mainland China

Language: Mandarin Chinese

Date: 2020-01-01 (Mainland China)

Number of seasons: 2

Episodes: 24

Single episode length: 8 minutes

Type: Crossover

Summary:

What kind of experience is it like to be the King of Hell while being super afraid of ghosts? My name is Yan Xiaoluo. Because I was afraid of ghosts, my dead father arranged for me to go to the world to practice courage. However, Satan and Lucifer from the western hell may one day give up their coveting on the eastern ghost realm and the human world. Black and white are impermanent, bull head and horse face, and Xiaokui who was picked up by chance will assist the king to deal with them. Heaven will also appear in this work! And that Monkey who can only fight! And the dead father will jump out from time to time to steal the show!

Source: https://myanimelist.net/anime/41286/Da_Wang_Bu_Gaoxing

Link: https://www.dm233.me/anime/20200092.html https://www.nunuyy3.org/dongman/69498.html

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Xiaoluo TE12: Nomenclature, Location, Functions, Indications

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@feng-huli doing the Lord's good work on this new year's day 🫡

TBoY behind-the-scenes: Jin Wei witnessing a xiaoluo weapon exchange (while Lei Wujie takes a nap)

@finalfantasyx @eunuch-enjoyer5 I figure you would appreciate this 😸