Not a wink of sleep did Su Xue get last night, and she was miserable for it. Right before she gave up on sleep completely and got out of bed, she had some sort of vague idea in her mind about taking a mini-holiday for the day. She wasnt in a fit state to stream, anyways. So right before she walked out of her room, shed made the decision to be lazy today. Then she saw Lin Feng walking out of the bathroom, and a new plan started taking shape in her mind.

Im always the one getting up early to make Lin Feng breakfast or running out to buy him something to eat! Its good that he decided to go get breakfast on his own, I cannot be bothered today. Let him handle everything for once in his life! You know what? Im going to have him stream for me today too. Its not like hes never subbed in for me before, and today is all his fault. If it wasnt for the bombshell he dropped last night, I wouldve slept like a baby and woken up dewy fresh this morning! Im this tired and sleep-deprived because of him, so the least he can do to make up for it is to stream for me. Yup! All the tossing and turning I did last night, thats all Lin Fengs fault!

While Su Xue ranted to herself in her thoughts, Lin Feng had stepped out to get breakfast and returned. He walked into Su Xues room to find her sitting on her bed. He handed her some of the food he picked up and walked over to her computer to set up for the stream. Lin Feng already finished his breakfast on the walk back to their apartment.

Su Xue, still on her bed, started nibbling at her breakfast. She wasnt exactly hungry, but she wasnt not-hungry either. She was mostly just tired and angry at Lin Feng. She glared at him out of the corner of her eye and thought, Im going to make him completely balance this debt! Hes the root cause of all my misery today!

Maple Lin Feng Maple! Thats it! He used to be Maple, and we cant just let something like that go without taking advantage of it, can we Su Xue? Nope! Now that I know, Im going to use this to make my stream explode. Su Xues lips curved with a grin. I mean, come on, what other streamer on Huya can claim they have Chinas best Midlaner helping them stream?

As for Lin Feng, he didnt really mind helping Su Xue out today. He was off from school for the winter holidays, and there was nowhere else he needed to be today. And after the Collegiate Cup and the climb up the Korean Challenger ladder, he had nothing better to do for the time being. Besides, hed earned some relaxation. Lin Feng could think of nothing more calming than streaming a few games in Diamond and chatting with the viewers on the stream.

Once he finished adjusting the chair, Lin Feng sat down and turned on Su Xues computer. He checked to make sure everything on the stream was set up properly before turning it on. Then he opened up the Chinese League of Legends client and used Su Xues username and password to log on. Just as he loaded into the Ionia server, viewers started flooding into the stream. When they saw it was Lin Feng on the camera instead of Su Xue, some were happy and greeted Lin Feng. Others were surprised and wondered what happened to Su Xue. The chat struggled under the barrage of mixed messages from all the viewers.

What? Wheres xuexue?

LIL BRO!! WELCOME BACK!

BroFeng strem today gonna be good!!!!!!!!

Lil bro your not as cute as Su Xue!!!!

I NEED THE REAL EVENING SNOWFALL

Why is there always a guy when I click onto a cute girls stream?

Is it just lil bro today?

wut happin to suxue???????

she quit streaminggggg?

The latest_epi_sodes are on_the . website.

Is Su Xue Okay Lin Feng?!Q?!?A

whered the maaaaid gooooo?

lilbro don need no maid right?

Hihihihihihi LINFENG

LILBROLINGENG

Lin Feng noticed all the questions about Su Xue as he skimmed through the chat. He scratched his head as he wondered how to respond. After 30 more seconds and hundreds of messages asking why Su Xue wasnt on stream, he decided to reply. Su Xue? Oh, shes fine. Dont worry guys! She said she was feeling lazy today, so she made me take her place.

What.?

Shes being lazy.?

Didnt she get off at only 11 yesterday?

Yeah! Whys she taking the whole day off!?

A few of the more eagle-eyed viewers, ones who happened to be watching the stream on large monitors instead of their phones, noticed that Su Xue could be seen in the background of the camera frame. She was sitting on her bed, still nibbling on her breakfast. Once they found her, the viewers considered it their solemn duty to inform the rest of the chat.

LOOK IN THE CORNER!!!! THERE SHE IS!!

SU XUE ON HER BED LOOOOK

The maid is sitting on her bed eating guys

theretherherherherhereraahs AAGH SU XUE!

omg! there she is pigging out on the bed!

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looking at her goofing off and being lazy!

no shame at all! Having poor lil bro take her place!

waht was that about being a professional streamer and taking things seriously now?

we cant let her get away with this! BOIS! REPORT HER!

Soon enough, waves of requests to report Su Xue roiled through the chat. The viewers had all gotten riled up with righteous fury! While this was happening, Su Xue decided to take a quick peek at the chat to see what was going on. When she noticed all of the anger and threats to report her to Huya, her face turned completely pale. She jammed the bun she was eating into her mouth and huddled underneath her blanket. She yelled, Im not here! Im not here! You guys cant see me!

in what world did you think that would work!

talk about being an ostrich!

we literally saw you eating just a moment ago!

But before long, the people watching the stream chat turned their attention back to Lin Feng and gave up on tormenting Su Xue. A game had popped up and he was loading into the Champion Select screen.

bah, whatever! Lil bro is way more fun to watch anyway!

yeah, i was getting tired of watching xuexue feed all the time!

well let you off this once!

youre lucky lik bro is so nice!

come on, lil bro! Lets see you stomping in diamond today!

I wanna see a yasuo game!

play a xerath game!

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Su Xue, still hidden under her blankets, continued to watch the chat. When she noticed that theyd given up on making her even more miserable and flooding the chat with what champion they wanted to see Lin Feng play, she breathed a grateful sigh of relief. Now that all of the viewers attention swerved completely away from her, she could finally get some sleep. Su Xue started to get comfortable and her eyes slowly closed.

Then, all of a sudden, her eyes popped open. Su Xue had just realised something. Waitaminute! Thats my channel and all of those stupid fickle morons are my viewers! They saw me and they decided to pile on instead of begging me to get up and play. None of them care about me at all. All of them jumped onto the Lin Feng bandwagon and completely forgot about me. They have no loyalty at all!Its all about Lin Feng now. But well, its not like I can blame them. Lin Feng is a living legend and Im hardstuck in Diamond Id probably jump ship over to him too if I was a viewer. Thats just how it goes. But imagine if Lin Feng revealed his identity as Maple to the world my stream viewership would jump up by a couple million!

Ahhh! It doesnt matter! Su Xue shook her head. Sleep! Sleep! I need sleep!

Shortly after turning on the stream, just as he was about to start his first game, Lin Feng was surprised to discover that the number of viewers on the stream had spiked. By a significant number. What made this even more perplexing was that Lin Feng had started the stream in the morning. There really werent a lot of people who watched streams on Huya TV in the morning. Yet somehow, Su Xues stream already had 30,000 viewers!

The number wasnt particularly high for the normal viewer count on Su Xues stream. But that was because she usually started her stream up in the afternoon or evening. If Lin Feng kept the stream up into the evening, there was no question that the viewer count would be somewhere north of 100,000. Su Xue had worked hard and built up a large following for her stream. And 30,000 viewers showing up for an off-peak stream in the morning was an indication of how popular shed become as a streamer.

Lin Feng glanced at the viewer count again. It was ticking past 35,000. Guess Im not the only one who has been working hard these days. Su Xues really been taking it up a notch on her channel. Shes grown so much recently Oh! Time to focus on the game. Okay. Diamond on the Ionia Server this is going to be a piece of cake after all those Challenger games on the Korean server!

In his first game, Lin Feng was playing Xerath in the Mid Lane. One of the viewers had suggested it, and he saw no reason not to play Xerath. So he picked the champion and started. 10 minutes after the game started, Lin Feng had 3 Kills/0 Deaths/1 Assist. At 20 minutes, his KDA was 7/1/2 with a CS of 240. His Xerath floated around the map, stomping any enemy champion who happened to be unlucky enough to cross his path. After 8 minutes of constant harassment and overwhelming defeat, the opposing team surrendered. Lin Feng had ended his first game in 28 minutes.

With that game out of the way and the viewers on the stream absolutely enthralled, Lin Feng decided to continue onto the next game of the stream. And then a third game. Two and a half hours flew by like this, and Lin Feng had played five games. There was one game where his team lost because his teammates were unable to keep it together long enough for him to carry, but the other four were all easy victories.

But something about the five games hed just played nagged at Lin Feng. Theres something off about all of these games. Im not sure what it is but something doesnt feel right at all. This is supposed to be Diamond on the Ionia server, but the players I was up against didnt feel like Diamonds. Theyre all much stronger than their rank weird. And there were a few who were Diamond 4 or Diamond 5 but they moved like high Diamond players! Oh! Oh! There was even a player who was only Platinum 1 but played like he was at the top of Diamond! What is going on?

Now that Im thinking about this hm. Some of those guys didnt play like everyone else on Ionia either. Their mechanics were way cleaner and their decision-making was decisive something is definitely going on. I mean, its possible that I ran into a group of players who just happened to be above the normal Ionia player but there was something wrong with their summoner tags too. All of the players who stood out to me had odd names! Some of them were in English but they were different from the normal English summoner tags that people pick. And there were a few that were in Chinese characters but they made no sense at all. Sorta like someone just randomly mashed Chinese characters on a keyboard to make a name why would someone do that?

How strange Lin Feng muttered, rubbing his chin.

The viewers on the stream knew exactly what Lin Feng was thinking without him explaining what he found strange. Chat exploded as all the viewers tried to explain the situation to Lin Feng.

lil bro, those players were probably Korean!

yeah! A lot of em were Korean.

i dont know why, but thereve been a lot of Korean players in the Ionia server today.

I bumped into a few when iw as ranking earlier.

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check the forums, i think theyre here to get revenge?

revenge for what? Seriously, were not even allowed to get top 5 in their server?

After reading the chat, Lin Feng understood. Ionia was being invaded by the Koreans, and it was all his fault!