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2026, 2:30 in the morning.

The rental house was quiet except for the chassis fan, which was still spinning at a low speed.The cold white light of the computer screen reflected Chen Zhou's somewhat gray face. The ashtray on the table was full, and next to it was a half-eaten bucket of braised beef noodles. The noodles had long been soaked, and there was a layer of condensed oil floating on the surface of the soup.

There is a number displayed in the lower right corner of Writer Assistant.

3127 words.

Chen Zhou stared at that number for a long time, and finally closed the author group.The group was still sending messages just now.

"byd lost again"

"Are you still watching LPL? Is it because Delta is not fun or is it because you can't pick up girls? Isn't it a waste of time to spend time watching LPL?"

"Don't talk about LPL, no one has even read the e-sports articles. I think it is better to write about spiritual recovery than LOL articles."

Chen Zhou didn't say anything, he just lit a cigarette and took a slow drag, because unfortunately, he was the author of the LPL article.

The second screen on the right hangs the starting point backstage.

"Alliance: I really don't want to be a tactical wizard"

24 hours of reading: 217.

Average order: 893.

The latest comment in the comment section is extremely eye-catching.

"Does anyone still read LPL articles now? Man, you are really sentimental."

Chen Zhou looked at that comment and after a long time, he actually smiled.Because he found that he seemed to have only feelings left.

He once really played professionally.

Although he didn't play well, and although he was only in youth training and as a substitute, he did stay in the LPL for many years.

His father's surname was Chen and his mother's surname was Zhou, so he was called Chen Zhou.When he was playing professionally in the past, the ID he gave himself was called Tree.

The wood has become a boat.

Dead wood is called Wood, while living wood is called Tree.

At that time, he thought the name was cool, but later he discovered that living is sometimes more tiring than dying.

He first came to the LSPL as a youth training mid laner. He joined a professional team at the age of seventeen and later moved to several clubs.Trials, substitute, sparring partner, water cooler keeper, he's done almost everything.The closest he came to starting in the LPL was on the eve of a regular season game.

The main mid laner had a high fever, and the coaching staff temporarily asked him to prepare.

That night he was so excited that he stayed up all night and was still ranking at four in the morning.As a result, the main player's fever subsided in the afternoon of the next day.

The coach patted him on the shoulder.

"There will be another chance next time."

Later he learned that the most worthless word in the professional circle is "next time".

Later, as he got older and his reaction became slower and slower, LSPL changed its name to LDL, and the youth training groups became younger and younger, and he gradually became unable to play.At the age of twenty-five, he retired.

There is no retirement video, no farewell from fans, and the last career-related news on Weibo has only a dozen messages in the comment area.

"Who is Tree?"

"It seems like you've played LDL before?"

"Professional player? Real or fake?"

Chen Zhou sat in the rental house and smoked all night, and started writing a novel the next day.Then he actually survived by writing e-sports articles.

What makes him different from other writers is that he really understands the game.

He knows when the support must return to the city forty seconds in advance to replenish the real ward, knows why the jungler would rather let go than fight hard sometimes, and knows why the entire lower half will rot when the mid lane right is lost.

He knows many details that ordinary viewers simply don't notice.

For example, why did the support suddenly move to the middle?

For example, why the top laner would rather lose troops than pay TP.

For example, some teams clearly have an economic lead of 3,000, but are already almost losing.

Because many times in professional games, what really determines the outcome is invisible to the audience.

Chen Zhou has seen these things before.

During his professional years, he didn't learn anything else but review.The most indispensable thing for professional teams is review. A training match can be resumed until three o'clock in the morning. The coach will pause the video frame by frame and ask you why there are less clicks on the floor here, why the line is not pushed ahead of time, and why the assistant here goes home eight seconds late.

When ordinary spectators watch the game, they only see the heads.

When professional players watch the game, they look at the line of troops.

This kind of thing is difficult to install.

If you understand, you understand. When someone who doesn’t understand writes it, there will always be a feeling of fake enthusiasm.

Therefore, Chen Zhou’s novels have a particularly strong sense of substitution.

When he writes about the game, readers will feel as if such a BO5 is actually happening.He writes very realistically about what the barrage will be, how smooth the commentary will be, what swear words will be said in the players' headphones, whether the backstage coach will be red-hot, and who will be shown in the director's camera during the timeout.

Sometimes readers will wonder: "Has the author really had a professional career before?"

Later, someone actually found out.

An old viewer flipped through Chen Zhou's Weibo in his early years, and followed the clues to find his regular makeup photos from his LSPL days. Although there was a big difference between the youth training boy who was as thin as a bamboo pole in the photo and Chen Zhou, who is now a bit fat, the IDs were still correct.

Tree.

He really comes from the professional circle.

After the news spread among the readers, the entire trend changed suddenly.

In the past, everyone just thought that this author "understood the game."

Later it started to change into: "This author has really done this."

E-sports writing is particularly immersive.Readers may not understand operations, but they can tell if you are making it up.

Chen Zhou's biggest advantage is that his stuff always has a professional feel.

So readers began to take the initiative to promote him.

Someone is promoting books on Tieba.

Some people went to the comment section of other e-sports articles to comment on Amway.

"Go check out Tree's book. It's written by a real professional player."

"Don't look at those cloud writers who are just making it up, they really understand this."

"He writes BP like a real coaching staff."

At the most exaggerated time, someone started a group directly under the comment area of another author.

"What the hell is this? The jungler was caught at level 3, but the mid lane right didn't even catch your mother?"

"It is recommended that the author play two training games before writing an e-sports article."

Then I posted a title of Chen Zhou’s book.

This is how a lot of traffic comes.

The e-sports writing circle is not big to begin with, but once the label of professional player author is formed, it will spread very quickly.

Some readers praise him every day.

"Brother Tree has really played professionally before."

“It’s different when professional players write about e-sports.”

"This is the real e-sports article."

Even Chen Zhou himself was a little confused. When he was a professional player, he earned a monthly salary of 6,000, lived in bunk beds at the base, stayed up late every day to play training matches, and was worried about whether he would be laid off next month.

As a result, after retiring, he survived by being a "professional player".

Especially in the years from 2018 to 2021, the entire LPL was in flames.IG won the championship, FPX won the championship, EDG won the championship again, and the entire division was soaring like a rocket.

In those years, as long as I wrote about LPL, readers would love to read it.If you write about revenge in the World Championships, readers will be excited; if you write about winning the trophy at the Bird's Nest, the comment section will generate thousands of "Ye Qing Hui" comments.

In the best two years, Chen Zhou could earn 100,000 yuan a month as a draft fee, which was already the salary that a second-tier LPL player could earn.

Because in reality, the LPL is really winning.

But later, everything changed.

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