You’re Beautiful When You Smile

Ming god put down his spoon and wiped his mouth, sighed and spoke with a smile in the tone of an old man, “You bunch of kids.” Little Fatty blushed, glared at Tong Yao, then fled back to his room after picking up his own bowl, slamming the door shut– —

Lu Yue watched Little Fatty fleeing without much expression on his face.
A few seconds later, Little Fatty opened his door, darting to the top of the staircase as if a fire was chasing after him, and deeply bowed to the direction of the dining table.
“Lu Yue, I’ve made a mistake.
I didn’t get the facts straight before bringing you all this trouble.
I’m sorry!”

Without waiting for Lu Yue’s response, Little Fatty hurriedly turned around back to his room and shut the door again as if he was afraid his apology would be rejected!

Little Fatty’s apology caught everyone off guard.

There was a short moment of silence around the table.

After a short while, Lu Sicheng opened his mouth, “That door will fall off sooner or later if he keeps slamming it.” Then he looked at everyone at the table and spoke as the captain, “What are you all looking at? Eat.”

Everyone then lowered their head and continued eating.
Lu Yue casted an eye at Tong Yao and grabbed his large bowl and spoon back.
Xiao Rui happily said, “Yeah, that’s good.
Now that Little Fatty isn’t against it anymore, then there should be no more objections to Lu Yue coming back to the team? Lu Yue, I’ll have someone bring you a new contract to go over.
We’ll be just in time to turn in the player list for the new season tomorrow.
The day after tomorrow will be picture day for the summer season.
We’ll have enough time to arrange everything……”

Amidst Xiao Rui’s chatter, Tong Yao raised her head in confusion.
“How can you settle this thing just like this? What do you mean nobody has any objections? Why is Little Fatty the only one who was against it? What about me? Me? Me? I have an objection!”

Xiao Rui: “Every new player needs an alternate.”

Tong Yao: “……Don’t fool me just because I haven’t played professionally before.”

Xiao Rui: “It’s true.”

Xiao Rui: “Look at Cheng Ge, he was the alternate for someone else when he first started playing professionally.
Then after a year, he replaced Pope……”

Tong Yao kept the same expression of confusion.
“……Are you trying to persuade me or what?”

Xiao Rui: “…………………..I’m just trying to tell you that gold will shine in the end no matter what.
Look at Cheng Ge and Pope, they’re both respected by people.
Each rules one region and all the other AD carries will shiver facing them.
They both are the strongest light and shadow in the history of League of Legends.”

Tong Yao glanced at Lu Sicheng, as she had expected, he was sneering at what Xiao Rui had said.
Then she turned to looked at Lu Yue who happened to be sizing her up like an explorer with his spoon in hand.
He put down the spoon and spoke in defiance with an indifferent voice, “The kind of ‘light’ that got drunk and went crazy just because she lost to the Koreans once? I don’t care for it.”

Tong Yao: “What did you say? Say that again, you better speak nicely.”

Lu Yue turned his head away.

Tong Yao stretched her leg under the table to kick the captain who was still quietly eating his lunch.
“He’s not talking, you talk!”

Lu Sucheng couldn’t pretend that he hadn’t noticed anything after being kicked on the knee several times.
He raised his head, glanced over the two bickering kindergartners sitting right across from him.
He asked with an expressionless face, “Talk about what?”

Tong Yao widened her nostrils and angrily said, “Your brother is bullying me!”

Lu Sicheng answered with an “oh,” then lifted his chin towards Lu Yue.
“She’s here first.
You have yourself to blame for coming back so late……Besides, her champion pool is much deeper than yours.
Behave yourself.”

“You hear that?” Tong Yao used her elbow to poke the person next to her.
“You! Hear! That! I’m  here first! I have a deeper champion pool! Champion spoon (*referring to someone who can only play a few champions and not enough to form a pool)!”[1]

Lu Yue unhappily threw his spoon down and stared at Lu Sicheng.
“Why are you speaking up for her?”

Lu Sicheng paused as everyone at the table looked at him with the same question in their eyes, he used his normally steady voice to declare, “I like to, none of your business.”

Lu Yue showed his displeasure on his face.

Lu Sicheng turned to look at Tong Yao.
“Don’t make a racket.
It’s quite common to have an alternate for the formal competitions in case there’s any emergency.
Everything is for the summer season.
You want to keep your position, prove yourself with your skill.”

Tong Yao puffed up her cheeks.

Xiao Rui put down his bowl and applauded.
“Nice.
This is the most fair effort that I, as the team manager, have ever seen to keep the bowl of water level.”

Tong Yao: “……”

Lu Yue: “……”

What the hell did he mean keeping the bowl of water level?

[1]: In Chinese.
 Nobody says “Champion Spoon” in English.