High School Belle Fell in Love with Me

Chapter 396 - 190: I Hope You Have No Regrets (2)

This year’s World Championship just finished, and Li Yang receives a ton of messages every day.

"Yang, please make a comeback!"

This year, LPL had three teams in the World Championship, but at the round of 32 to the round of 16, two were eliminated, and the remaining one was eliminated at the round of 16 to the round of 8.

Not even making it to the quarterfinals, it’s evident just how poor the tactical execution is.

The Korea Team dominated, with three Korean teams in the final four!

Li Yang started streaming, and right away people began sending gifts, a 500 yuan rocket, with hardly any breaks from the start to the end of the stream.

One particular guy gave more than 300 thousand in tips.

He finally said on the public chat: "Li Yang, if you make a comeback in the tournament, I’ll tip you 10 million!"

Li Yang replied when he saw it: "Thank you for the tip, boss. As for the comeback, forget it. Not to mention my own competitive ability, everyone should be able to see with their own eyes the progress on the Korea Team side; they’ve completely figured out my game thinking from last year. Even if I go on stage, it would be a dead end! Unless there are five of me! So I can only apologize to everyone. To the brothers who tipped today and feel it’s a loss, please contact the platform and get the money back. But just this once; if you tip me again, I’ll accept it!"

Today was a clarification from Li Yang; many who tipped gifts wanted him to make a comeback.

If the customer was unsatisfied, refunding the money was indeed fitting.

But after clarifying, if they continue to tip, he’ll just graciously accept it.

At that moment, Jiang Banxia walked in wearing pajamas, and when she appeared in front of the camera, the audience was stunned.

"Holy shit, Li Yang is living with Jiang Banxia?"

"Damn, no wonder he doesn’t want to compete. Who wouldn’t want to be with a rich woman like her instead of earning those measly bucks?"

"I’m stunned; I always thought it was hype, and now they’re hyping it together?"

"Brothers, who is this woman?"

"Wow, where did this newbie come from?"

"Let me school you, this beauty is Yang’s childhood friend, and during last year’s bull market to the first half of this year, she made 6 billion and is a top rich woman! Now her Wanliu Capital manages funds totaling 20 billion; calculating management fees alone, Wanliu Capital’s profit this year will exceed 500 million. And this doesn’t count the principal earnings she brings herself, even at the lowest estimate of 500 million, with a PE of 20, Wanliu Capital’s valuation would reach 10 billion! Simply put, the beauty before you is a top rich woman worth over 10 billion!"

Net worth and cash indeed aren’t the same.

But after Jiang Banxia saw this message, she didn’t argue.

Even in terms of cash, she isn’t far from 10 billion.

The 4 billion in Wanliu Capital has absorbed all gains over these past two months, nearing 6 billion.

Adding the earnings from Wanliu Capital and the cash she still holds, if not 10 billion, it’s 8 billion plus.

Facing the camera, Jiang Banxia smiled and said: "Hello everyone, thank you all for supporting Wanliu Capital."

"Rich woman, I’ve thrown all my bride price in!"

"I’m regretting it so much now, I only had 100 thousand in hand back then, should have gone broke and thrown a million in, it’s risen nearly 40% these two months."

"Damn, I can’t tell whether to feel sorry for you or jealous of you! How come you’re all so damn rich!"

"Wow, you all invested? Why didn’t anyone tell me this? I just glanced at it, that fund is going crazy!"

"Going crazy? It’s only risen just under 40%!"

"How arrogant are you? Just under 40%? The market has dropped 17% over these two months; nationwide all funds have averaged a 23% drop, only Wanliu Capital has risen over 30%!"

...

After Jiang Banxia made an appearance in the livestream, Wanliu Capital’s subscription funds broke 300 million the next day.

This is the influence Li Yang has on the internet.

Li Yang’s reputation in the esports circle isn’t very good, and he doesn’t have many friends in the industry, including former teammates who don’t really associate with him.

Only Edzhu chats with Li Yang sometimes, hoping for his comeback, letting Li Yang set any price he wants.

As for the things he said in the stream yesterday, they subtly expressed disdain for LPL players, once again offending those people.

However, Li Yang doesn’t care.

Esports is a small industry, but in China, even the most niche industries won’t be bad.

Not to mention the esports industry is only niche in terms of practitioners, its appeal isn’t niche at all, and it can fundamentally be better served.

Every industry should strive to improve; otherwise, it can’t support such a strong economy domestically.

The current esports association is trash, a group of people who’ve never had any contact with esports are in charge.

Even in the next few years, they’re still trash, without a single decent set of rules emerging.

Soon, it was November 25, 2015.

That day was Saturday, Li Yang was at the Jing University Entrepreneurship Center, chatting with a few people.

One of them was a fourth-year student from Qing University named Huang Jing.

Huang Jing is an otaku who enjoys playing games, naturally having an affinity for someone like Li Yang, a game champion.

At this moment, he was discussing some data with Li Yang.

Looking at a sheet of paper, Huang Jing asked: "Junior, isn’t the mechanism of this game lacking fun in its gameplay? It’s purely about landing, gathering resources, and fighting. While its competitive aspect is strong, a game must be equipped with diverse gameplay to retain enough audience, as the majority of players aren’t playing for competitiveness."