Full-time: The Strongest Sniper

Manager Cui was even happier to hear what the other party said. After all, as the manager of Team Excellent Era, he had to consider not only the team's wins and losses in matches, but also how to convert those into economic value for the team. Because Excellent Era was relegated and had left the professional league, there had been very little attention paid to them during this period. As a result, sponsorships and endorsements for the team had decreased one after another, and now they were almost at a standstill.

After all, those businesses don't care how glorious you were before. What they care about is whether you can create value for them. And the value of these clubs comes from the exposure of their players. Only if you have enough exposure will they choose to invest.

Excellent Era still has a very bright future, so it's unlikely that all investors and sponsors will leave at once. But even so, those who stay are mainly just expressing their intentions, and most of the cooperation will have to wait until Excellent Era returns to the professional league.

Therefore, exposure becomes extremely important for Excellent Era at this time. Only with exposure can they continue to seek other partners for cooperation. And now that a reporter from Esports Home has come to interview them, this is definitely a good thing.

Just as Manager Cui was happily thinking about it, Chang Xian, who had already parked his car, waved to him and said, "Manager Cui, I'll go back to work now. You go ahead and do your work."

Upon hearing the other person's words, Manager Cui's previously bright smile instantly froze, and the words that were already on his lips were swallowed back. However, the stiffness on his face was still very obvious.

At this point, Manager Cui knew perfectly well that this kid hadn't come to interview him about Excellent Era. Luckily, he hadn't brought up that topic beforehand, or it would have been awkward.

Manager Cui was well aware that while Honor of Kings was currently the most popular esports title globally, it didn't mean other excellent esports didn't exist; rather, esports existed across various games. As a professional esports media outlet, Esports Home naturally covered other esports, but due to Honor of Kings' popularity, most of their reporting focused on Honor-related topics. For convenience, their reporter station in H City also conducted interviews with other esports teams based there.

So Manager Cui assumed the other party was going to interview teams from other games. But just as he finished thinking, he looked up and saw Chang Xian already at the internet cafe across from Happy. Seeing this, Manager Cui was completely dumbfounded. So the other party wasn't going to interview teams from other games, but rather Happy!

Manager Cui's feelings became even more complicated, and he was speechless. In the end, he could only stand there and stare blankly in this direction.

Although he was in a very bad mood, he had to admit that Happy's decisive victory over Wuji, another professional team, yesterday, coupled with the outstanding performance of the big star Qiao Jingjing, had indeed attracted a lot of attention and curiosity. However, seeing that the reporter specialists, who were supposed to be specially set up for them, were now going to interview their biggest rivals this season, he couldn't help but feel a little frustrated.

In the end, the only option is to avoid seeing it altogether!

He returned to the club indignantly, completely losing his will to walk. Even though he couldn't see, his thoughts kept drifting back to what had happened; what kind of report would the other party receive from Happy?
Inside Happy Internet Cafe.

Chang entered the internet cafe first, told the receptionist his purpose, and after showing the receptionist his press card, the internet cafe manager immediately called Chen Guo.

As for Chen Guo playing the game, yesterday, Happy played against a professional team for the first time and achieved such an advantage. After the match, they celebrated properly. Today is a holiday, and it's still early, so the Happy team members haven't all arrived yet.

Currently, there are only Xiao Nai, Ye Xiu, and Qiao Jingjing, who always feels that her man will be taken away by another man.

When Chen Guo heard that a reporter was coming to interview them, and that it was a top e-sports media outlet like E-sports Home, an authoritative benchmark in the industry, she wondered if she hadn't slept well the night before and had misheard.

"Tell him to wait a moment." Chen Guo said, immediately turning to Xiao Nai and Ye Xiu to tell them what she had just overheard. "Oh, an interview with Esports Home? Sounds good, a great opportunity to increase our team's visibility," Xiao Nai said after thinking for a moment.

“I have experience dealing with the media, Guoguo, do you want me to join you later?” Qiao Jingjing said at this moment, after all, she was a professional at dealing with the media.

"Jingjing, you're involved too? Is that alright?" Chen Guo was still a little worried that the team's affairs might have some impact on Qiao Jingjing.

“Don’t worry, I’m already tied to the team. If I keep hiding, people will say I don’t want to take responsibility. Besides, this kind of exposure is also very beneficial to me,” Qiao Jingjing said.

"So, does that mean we'll accept this interview?" Chen Guo looked at Ye Xiu and Xiao Nai again, somewhat uncertain.

“Of course, since Jingjing has no problem with it, we have even less reason to refuse. It just so happens that Jingjing’s TV series is also coming to an end in the next couple of days, so we can ride on Jingjing’s popularity again. And the higher our popularity, the safer our online game guild will be,” Ye Xiu said.

"And... what about you?" Chen Guo looked at Ye Xiu again. After all, Ye Xiu was different from the others. This legendary player had never participated in a single press interview or made a public appearance since his debut. It's important to know that players in the league are obligated to attend pre- and post-match press conferences on New Year's Eve. Failing to fulfill this obligation would result in punishment, though it wouldn't necessarily mean being banned, at most a fine. But every year Ye Xiu ignored this; he would pay the fines as usual, but he wouldn't even go to the press conferences.

Later, Ye Xiu developed a strange tacit understanding with the league, resulting in him now knowing the accounts for paying fines better than he knows his own. Back in Excellent Era, he regularly paid fines to the league every month, much to the league's amusement and exasperation. Eventually, the league even softened its stance, but they couldn't let the rules go unpunished; after all, the rules were there, and abolishing them once would make things difficult in the future.

“Uh…actually, even if Lao Ye goes down, the other party probably won’t recognize him,” Xiao Nai said at this moment.

"Xiao Nai means that Lao Ye will go down as Ye Xiu," Chen Guo asked.

“That’s right,” Ye Xiu affirmed.

"But doesn't this still count as you giving an interview? Is that okay?" Chen Guo was still a little worried.

“Actually, none of this matters to me anymore,” Ye Xiu said.

"Why?" This time it wasn't just Chen Guo, but also Qiao Jingjing.

"Because I don't have much time left!" Ye Xiu said. (End of Chapter)