Transfer-window rumors say that You Ye, the LPL’s top mid laner, is transferring to AN, this year’s Worlds runner-up, to reunite with jungler Xu Xinglai and recreate the best mid-jungle duo.
The audience all say: Better not.
Everyone knows that from their LPL debut until they both left the team, Xu Xinglai and You Ye spent four years together, taking three spring splits, three summer splits, and two Worlds runner-up finishes. Under their official departure announcements, even the most devoted fans said nothing to beg them to stay. They only said they’d known this day would come, and tearfully wished the two of them would someday find a new beginning.
Two years apart, one won the spring split and MSI, while the other won the summer split and the S Championship.
The audience: Apart, they shine like stars across the sky; together, they...
The audience again: Why are you so determined to get back together? You’re defying the curse of eight second-place finishes in four years. While, are you actually in love with Still?
Xu Xinglai saw the post while scrolling Weibo. He tapped out a reply on his alt account: I’m the one who’s in love with him.
At fifteen, You Ye’s birthday wish was “to get into the youth training program with Xu Xinglai.” At sixteen, it became “to make it into the LPL with Xu Xinglai.” At seventeen, it was “to win a championship with Xu Xinglai.”
At eighteen, he wished “Xu Xinglai would stop crying.” At nineteen, he vowed, “Next year, Xu Xinglai and I will try again.” At twenty, he thought, “At least Xu Xinglai and I still have tomorrow.” Then, at twenty-one, he cut his birthday cake all alone. Amid the desolation, he suddenly slammed it down onto the carefully arranged photo of the two of them on the table.
Everything was smashed to pieces. Twenty-one-year-old You Ye thought: Xu Xinglai, Xu Xinglai.
May your future be bright from this day on. May you always be this heartless.
You are a painting, hung harshly upon the heart of someone from your past.
Is reality treating you poorly? Then gaze fixedly at the epiphyllum in this painting.
Junlong Mak, “Unforgettable”
Theme: Let the winds blow from east to west, south to north.
