Chapter 2

The next day, when everything was back to normal at school, Li Xianghe was still seen as the aloof high-achiever by his classmates and the math genius in the eyes of his teachers.

During lunch, Li Xianghe took the lunch he brought from home to the school cafeteria service room to heat it up, then returned to his class and sat at his desk, eating while flipping through the free Olympic math newspaper provided by his teacher.

As the best high school in Gwangju, the school's infrastructure was naturally comprehensive and high-end. The cafeteria not only offered a wide variety of dishes but also had a very elegant environment. However, the prices were naturally not cheap. Generally, students from better-off families would choose to eat in the cafeteria, as they were in their adolescence and had a strong sense of self-esteem. In South Korea, a country where money is essentially supreme, even in the relatively pure school environment, no one wanted to be looked down upon because of their family background.

Li Xianghe, having lived two lives, naturally didn't care about these messy views. Fortunately, the previous Li Xianghe was a bookworm, and apart from a girl named Che Soohyun from the neighboring class who often asked him for help and was relatively familiar with him, his social circle was extremely small. Now, Li Xianghe, who had been reborn in this parallel world, was happy to maintain the status quo and enjoy a peaceful life.

"Hey, Li Xianghe, we won't tell anyone about what we saw yesterday, so you can rest assured," Zheng Xiujing quietly said to Li Xianghe at his desk during lunch, taking advantage of the time when most of the classmates were outside.

"Huh?" Li Xianghe was doing mental calculations on an Olympiad problem in the newspaper and hadn't quite caught on.

"I mean, about you working part-time at that Zhicheng Audio-Video store. I've told them I'll keep it a secret, but can you join a club? It won't take up too much of your time."

Zheng Xiujing explained.

"Is this... a threat?" Li Xianghe, intending to tease the somewhat shy class monitor, deliberately changed his usual demeanor, curling his lips into a pretty-boy smile.

"No, no, not like that," Zheng Xiujing, clearly uncomfortable with the change, waved her hands hurriedly.

"Oh, well, but I really don't have the time, you know."

Zheng Xiujing didn't know what to say for a moment, so she just twisted the hem of her skirt and walked back to her seat.

After school, Choi Kyungcheol suddenly brought Jin Dongmin and a few others to the classroom door, blocking Li Xianghe, who had packed his bag and was about to go to the audio-video store.

"Hey, Li Xianghe, I heard from Dongmin that you bullied Xiujing at lunch. Is that true?" Choi Kyungcheol said, clearly displeased.

Li Xianghe looked up at Choi Kyungcheol, pushed the hand on the door, and said, "Sorry, the math teacher asked me to go to his office after school. I'm in a hurry."

"Ha, brat, you pushed me? Don't try to fool me with lies. Do you think I don't know you're rushing to work part-time at the audio-video store?" Choi Kyungcheol deliberately spoke loudly, as there were still many students in the classroom.

Li Xianghe, however, was too lazy to argue with him and walked straight toward the office. He indeed needed to go there first to return the math newspaper he borrowed at lunch.

He vaguely heard Zheng Xiujing, who had caught up, angrily saying something to Choi Kyungcheol.

Although the store wasn't as crowded as the day before, there were still many young people who hadn't managed to get the MAD the previous day and were now buying the newly arrived stock. However, it was already evening, so the store wasn't as busy.

While Li Xianghe was changing clothes, Park Jicheng suddenly walked over, looking very annoyed. "Brother Xianghe, come help me. If we lose this ranked match, we'll lose points. Dad is so annoying. I just started the game, and he made me do my homework. On purpose, Dad must be on purpose!!"

"I still have to work, and I haven't played this game before," Li Xianghe tried to get out of it.

"It's fine. This game is so popular now. There are matches on TV every day. Brother Xianghe, you just need to make the little guy run around and not be considered AFK, and don't get killed by the other side. If there's a god-like player on our team, it'll be fine." Park Jicheng said, looking frustrated.

"Brat, go do your homework quickly." Park Seokbeom, who was at the counter, clearly heard their conversation and said to Li Xianghe, "It's fine, Xianghe. My wife and I aren't busy today. Go play a game. Young people need to relax after studying."

Seeing Park Jicheng's pleading look, Li Xianghe helplessly rubbed his nose and walked into the inner room.

On the table was a common home computer in Korea, but the keyboard and mouse were standard gaming peripherals, indicating that Uncle Seokbeom indeed supported Jicheng's e-sports dreams.

Sitting in front of the computer, Li Xianghe looked at the familiar game interface and felt a myriad of emotions. In his previous life, after topping the Chinese server, he moved to the international server, which represented the highest level of League of Legends e-sports. He reached the top with a win rate of 82.5% in less than 300 games, shocking the entire e-sports community. Until the eve of Season 4, the top three spots were all his accounts, which was seen as a great disgrace by the Korean e-sports community, which prided itself on being an e-sports powerhouse. Countless "anti-Chinese warriors" emerged in both the professional and casual scenes, trying to dethrone him.

But in that world, no one managed to do so until the end of Season 3.

The once disheartened Li Xianghe, who had lost his father, never thought he would sit in front of this game again in this parallel world. If there was such a thing as destiny, this game and his fate were undoubtedly intertwined and inseparable.

Li Xianghe glanced at the screen. The game had already been going for about three minutes. Park Jicheng's ID was "Gwangju Zhicheng Audio-Video Store," suggesting that this kid was thinking of using his performance to promote the family store.

In this match, Park Jicheng chose the champion Riven to play the top lane. Since the enemy Garen kept staying under the tower, Riven started auto-attacking the minions. The enemy Garen, noticing that the opponent wasn't there, kept using his Q skill to harass Riven's health, but since the tier was relatively low, Garen's tower aggression wasn't very good. Often, after hitting Riven once, he would be hit by the tower, which was quite painful in the early game.

The enemy jungler, Master Yi, clearly noticed the top lane AFK and started complaining in the chat.

Li Xianghe saw that Riven had already reached level 3 and decided to tease the Garen. When the minions were under the tower, he deliberately made Riven stay and farm, creating the illusion of still being AFK.

Garen, using the same trick, happily came up to take advantage.

Li Xianghe moved his fingers, a small smile curling at the corner of his mouth.

Suddenly, the Riven on the screen, who had been passively farming under the tower, burst into action after being hit by Garen.

Riven activated her Q skill, enveloping herself in a green energy, stunning Garen under the tower and taking a hit from the tower.

Garen realized the situation was bad. After bullying the opponent for so long, the opponent suddenly returned, and it was under his own tower. He quickly tried to run.

But would Li Xianghe let him go so easily? After becoming famous in the international e-sports scene, all the professional players who faced him in lane only hoped to avoid being solo-killed, staying under the tower to farm and waiting for support. In that life, he was the undisputed world-class top lane monster, and no one dared to push him under the tower.

Riven, seeing Garen trying to escape, changed her usual passive behavior and, like a rabbit out of the hole, activated her Q skill, Wing's Wrath, to stick to Garen.

Click, auto-attack, click, auto-attack. Li Xianghe effortlessly used Riven's burst damage technique, the Light Speed QA.

After two quick Wing's Wrath, Garen was horrified to find that, with the tower's damage, his health, which was originally three-quarters full, was now less than one-third, and he was also marked with Ignite. Sensing Riven's killing intent, Garen prepared to use his E skill to escape, but at that moment, Riven's third Wing's Wrath hit, interrupting Garen's E skill.

The player controlling Garen on the other end of the network was clearly stunned. "What the heck? Is this possible at this tier? I must be dreaming. It must be a coincidence."

Garen, after his skill was interrupted, took an extra auto-attack from Riven, reducing his health to a critical level. Garen, in a last-ditch effort, turned around to stun Riven and used Flash to escape, but 0.5 seconds later, Li Xianghe used Flash, E, and an auto-attack to finish Garen.

First Blood!

The sound of the first blood announcement echoed through the speakers. The other lanes, unaware of the situation in the top lane, didn't react, but the jungler, Master Yi, who had been worried about the top lane AFK, saw the entire scene and typed "Nice!"

Then Master Yi, somewhat puzzled, asked in the chat, "Top, why is your Riven's damage so high?"

Li Xianghe didn't respond, instead, he confidently returned to the base and bought two long swords and a red potion.

After Li Xianghe's return, the enemy jungler, Lee Sin, finally rushed to the top lane. Garen, very angry, asked Lee Sin why he was so late, to which Lee Sin simply replied, "Stay low, I'll help you gank."

At the same time, on the largest Korean live streaming platform, Azubu, the popular professional jungler Watch, known as the e-sports pretty boy, was making his live streaming debut.

In this match, he used a low-tier account randomly selected by a fan. After the match started, he immediately chose the jungler Lee Sin, as he wanted to show off in front of his thousands of fans, and a low-tier Lee Sin would easily gain popularity.

The fans quickly noticed an ID called "Gwangju Zhicheng Audio-Video Store" on the enemy team. Generally, this would be a professional player's endorsement. In the fans' minds, Watch was the strongest, so the comment section was flooded with condolences for the other player.

But soon, the fans noticed that the Riven, who had been AFK under the tower, had gotten the first blood, and Garen was complaining that Watch wasn't helping. The comment section then flooded with criticism of Garen.

Garen, now back in lane with a small sword, ignored Lee Sin's advice, thinking, "I have Ignite, and you don't. I'm a Garen, why should I fear your Riven? Let's fight."

Li Xianghe, of course, wasn't afraid. When Garen used his E skill, Li Xianghe stunned him with a W, and after two quick Light Speed QA, used an E skill shield to absorb some of Garen's counter-attack damage. Then he used the final QA to reduce Garen's health to half and knock him into the air, dealing massive damage!

Fortunately, Garen had saved his second E skill. Seeing the situation, he quickly used it to retreat.

Li Xianghe didn't rush to kill him but started to control the lane.

Garen, with half health, returned to his tower and saw Riven shamelessly controlling the lane, feeling utterly defeated!

"Jungler, come help me gank the top lane," Garen called out to Lee Sin.

Lee Sin, who had just killed the enemy Syndra in the mid lane with the help of his team's Orianna, was in the bush, and he simply said, "Wait for me."

Garen had no choice but to stand in front of the tower, occasionally sneaking in to gain some experience when Li Xianghe wasn't paying attention, waiting for the minions to reach the tower.

However, when he reached level 5, he was stunned to find that the minion wave had moved forward a bit, and the level 6 Riven was leisurely farming.

This was Li Xianghe's perfect lane control ability from his previous life, which terrified all professional players. To achieve perfect lane control, one needed a keen eye for detail, understanding the attack intervals of the minion waves and making reasonable movements to secure the last hit on the low-health minions.

At this moment, Watch's Lee Sin, who had placed a ward and walled over to the enemy red buff, reached level 6. He cautiously avoided the triangular bush and circled around from the stone golem's position.

In Watch's Azubu live stream room.

"Wow, amazing! Watch's awareness of ward placement is too good!"

"Haha, now Riven is in trouble!"

"Riven is dead for sure, but I hope that noob Garen doesn't steal the kill!"

Garen, seeing the jungler finally arrive with double buffs, charged forward like he was on steroids. As a player in the Silver tier, he conveniently forgot the time it would take for the jungler to arrive and the time it would take to kill Riven.

Seeing Garen suddenly charge forward, Li Xianghe knew the jungler was there. But if you play Riven without the confidence to 1v2, why play Riven at all?

After a set of Light Speed QA, Li Xianghe didn't even use his ultimate, but stunned the fleeing Garen with a W and finished him off.

Garen, with about three-quarters of his health restored and the real damage from Ignite, managed to reduce Riven's health to one-third.

At this moment, Watch's Lee Sin circled around the tower.

Li Xianghe, however, dove into the first bush in front of the enemy tower. Watch, unhurried, approached, placed a ward, and used his W to stick to Riven. But just as he was about to use his E to slow and Q, Li Xianghe used his E to leave the bush, Flash into the minion wave, and moved toward the river bush.

Watch, unwilling to let Riven go, used his Flash to follow.

Li Xianghe, however, turned around at the moment he entered the bush.

Watch thought, "Now, let's see how you run," and kicked Riven with his Q.

The Q skill hit Riven precisely, and Watch, seeing the hit, immediately used his second Q to kick again.

But Riven, who was running forward, suddenly turned around, and her short blade glowed with a green light!

"The day the broken sword is reforged, the knight returns!"

Watch suddenly found his Lee Sin hanging in the air, marked with Ignite, and felt a sense of foreboding. But before he could use his ultimate to kick Riven away, he was stunned by Riven's W, and then hit with a quick three Q skills, reducing his health from full to critical. When he was finally kicked to the ground by the last Q, Watch hurriedly used his ultimate to kick Riven away, but a green glow followed.

It was Riven's ultimate, Slicing Maw!

The characteristic of this skill is that the higher the damage dealt before, the higher the burst damage when it hits!

Riven, who was already at critical health, was instantly killed, and Li Xianghe didn't look back, directly entering the Dragon pit to return to base, as Ignite was still hanging on Lee Sin.

A second later, Watch's double buffs turned into a wisp of light floating toward the returning Riven.

At this moment, Watch's live stream room on Azubu was in an uproar. What happened? The MVP jungler of the OGN Summer Championship team was counter-killed by a player in the Silver tier?

"This Riven must be a professional player's endorsement. How could he counter-kill Watch?"

"Although I support Watch, I have to say, this Riven's play is really impressive!"

"Can someone tell