What are you pretending to be an expert at

"Level one fight, level one fight!"

As soon as the game loaded, Lang Hua urged excitedly. With a hook champion on their team, he wanted to secure an early advantage.

As the saying goes, if you have a hook and don't fight at level one, even winning the game feels meaningless!

Lin Yu sat right next to Lang Hua, having already bought his starting items, waiting for the barrier to disappear so they could head out for the level one skirmish.

Before the barrier vanished, his phone on the desk suddenly rang.

Lin Yu glanced at it.

"Three-Good Student" – it was Gu Yue.

Gu Yue usually contacted him via messages. A sudden phone call made Lin Yu worry something urgent had come up, and he didn't want to delay it.

To avoid hindering the game,

Lin Yu shifted one earcup of his headset aside, put the phone to his ear, tilted his head, and shrugged his shoulder to hold it in place.

"Holy crap!"

As soon as the call connected, before Lin Yu could even speak, Gu Yue couldn't help but swear, her voice filled with incredulous shock.

"Lin Yu!"

"Do you know how much that watch the older sister gave me the day we had dinner is worth?"

"How much?"

Lin Yu's tone was calm.

Qing Mo had plenty of money; she definitely didn't own anything cheap.

He had a rough guess about the watch's price.

It definitely wouldn't be less than five figures, probably around six figures, something like several hundred thousand.

Of course, it could also be seven figures, since Qing Mo was notoriously, outrageously wealthy.

But if it reached seven figures, Lin Yu felt Qing Mo probably wouldn't have given it away so readily.

Just how loaded was her family?

Giving away something worth over a million without batting an eye?

Lin Yu's expectation for the watch was several hundred thousand, likely not reaching the million mark. The next moment, Gu Yue's voice shattered his seemingly reasonable assumption to pieces.

"Six million!"

"The watch shop owner alone is willing to buy it back for six million!"

Gu Yue's astonished voice came through the phone's speaker.

Lin Yu's eyes widened, his inner shock no less than Gu Yue's.

Damn!

Six million!

Just how much money does Qing Mo have?!

After the shock subsided and he gathered his thoughts, Lin Yu considered it carefully and realized this was exactly her style.

Six million.

That's probably enough for about four of the tires on that stretch limo she was in the other day...

...

Would it be enough?

Probably not.

Gu Yue's shocked voice continued, though now tinged with unease.

"This watch is way too valuable!"

"Lin Yu, you should give it back to her."

Having recovered from his shock, Lin Yu, while controlling his champion through the jungle towards the river, tried to reassure her:

"Someone like her probably wouldn't take back a gift once given, right?"

"You keep it."

Gu Yue fell silent for a moment before speaking again, her voice muffled:

"You should still return it."

"Besides, it's not like she actively wanted to give it to me; you asked for it, didn't you?"

"You give it back."

Lin Yu could hear the reluctance and unease in Gu Yue's voice.

And rightly so.

Receiving such a huge sum of money in such a casual, almost joking manner would make anyone uneasy.

After thinking it over, Lin Yu decided to let them communicate directly, tired of acting as the middleman.

"I'll send you her contact info in a bit. You talk to her yourself."

After Gu Yue agreed, Lin Yu hung up. As soon as he looked up, he saw all five of his team's champions on the computer screen being launched into the air.

Crap!

It's an ambush!!!

The level one fight ended with zero kills for their team and five for the enemy. The enemy top laner got three kills and two assists. Lang Hua, also playing top lane, already felt like quitting.

Fortunately, the enemy top laner was a relatively clumsy tank, not particularly strong in lane, so Lang Hua could barely soak experience and sneak a few last hits under the tower.

Lin Yu was playing jungle Shaco. After farming to level three and seeing the enemy top laner pushed extremely far up, he decided to give a gank a try.

The first attempt failed. Shaco didn't have much crowd control, the champion Lang Hua was playing lacked hard CC too, and the enemy top laner was incredibly tanky. They simply couldn't catch up.

After the failure, Lin Yu retreated to the jungle, farmed two more camps, reached level four, and looked at the pitiful Lang Hua being forced to farm under tower. He decided to try one more time. If it didn't work, he'd just leave him to his fate.

This time, Lin Yu didn't use his stealth skill from the bush, as the skill included a short dash. He wanted to save that dash to potentially secure the kill on the enemy top laner.

After all, he was pushed so far up; even if Lin Yu walked out of the bush openly, he wouldn't have time to retreat!

But even so, killing the enemy top laner was still very difficult for the same reasons as before: the enemy was too tanky and had a small dash of his own. They couldn't lock him down, couldn't kill him!

Lin Yu, not holding out much hope even for himself, controlled his champion out of the bush, planning to just chip away at the enemy's health a bit to make laning slightly more comfortable for Lang Hua.

Just then, a fair-skinned arm suddenly reached out from behind Lin Yu. A slender, long index finger pointed to the middle of the three bushes on the upper part of the screen.

"Place a box here."

Lin Yu was startled and instinctively turned to look behind him.

Tao Yaoyao?

What is she doing here?

It was a critical moment for the gank. Lin Yu didn't have time to think too much. He just glanced at her before quickly turning his attention back to the computer screen.

Lin Yu felt rather dismissive of Tao Yaoyao's advice.

Do you even know how to play?

Someone like you probably spent all the time meant for gaming on studying instead.

Trying to act like a pro?

Although he didn't believe Tao Yaoyao could be a gaming expert, for Lin Yu, Shaco's boxes were just tools for clearing jungle camps; they didn't have much other use.

Since he had one available anyway, Lin Yu casually placed the box in the small middle bush among the three bushes on the upper side.

The enemy top laner, upon seeing Lin Yu, immediately turned his bulky frame and ducked into the leftmost bush. Because they lost vision, Lin Yu and Lang Hua couldn't immediately follow up with damage.

The already hard-to-kill enemy top laner became even more elusive.

Seeing this, Lin Yu's heart started beating faster; he could almost predict what would happen next.

Sure enough.

Perhaps having tasted the safety of the bush, the enemy top laner, after exiting the left bush, immediately headed towards the small bush that was almost in a straight line.

Under Lin Yu's astonished gaze, the enemy top laner walked into the small bush and instantly entered the attack range of the box.

The fear effect triggered. The enemy top laner was immediately controlled by the fear, walking backward.

"Insane!"

"That box placement is insane!"

Witnessing this miraculous fear, Lang Hua yelled excitedly and immediately followed up with damage.

With the box's help, Lin Yu and Lang Hua finally managed to kill the enemy top laner, earning a substantial bounty.

After securing the kill, Lang Hua turned back to farm the minion wave, still praising Lin Yu, saying that box placement was just too slick.

Lin Yu, however, was somewhat dazed. He turned his head and looked at Tao Yaoyao behind him, feeling very surprised.

No way, sis.

You actually know your stuff?

Tao Yaoyao didn't say a word, merely offering a faint smile in response.