LPL History

Chapter 110: Cause and Effect Reversal, Historical Records Divided into Two Volumes, Fierce Generals' Rebellion and Harsh Policies Revealed in IG
Zhou Li raised his head.

I felt a little dizzy, like I was still hungover.

On the table in front of me, the barbecue skewers were still smelling messy, empty bottles were scattered everywhere, and greasy playing cards were lying to the side.

Mingkai and Curly cuddled together and slept on the floor.

Smiling, still half-asleep, mumbled in her sleep, "I have a flush... what makes you think you can beat me..."

Strawberry's foot was pressing down on Ruofeng's big nose, and she was muttering, "Ruofeng, you beast..."

Zhou Li rubbed his head and saw someone push the door open and walk in.

His eyes lit up, and he said with a smile:

"Hey, Little Bu, you're all dressed up pretty much today."

Abu, who had just walked in, paused for a moment, and then his face immediately darkened.

Even from a distance, Zhou Li could sense that the woman's anger was escalating.

Abu took out his phone, snapped a picture, turned around and walked out, slamming the door shut behind him.

Zhou Li only vaguely heard something like, "In all my years in this profession, no one has ever dared to call me that..."

"What the hell is that old woman doing now? Looks like he's spoiled her rotten."

Zhou Li cursed, glanced at the WE team members who were still sleeping, and felt that something was wrong, but he couldn't quite put his finger on it.

He casually summoned the Records of the Grand Historian, but when he saw the Records of the Grand Historian in front of him, he was completely stunned.

Because there were two copies of the Records of the Grand Historian in front of him!

Furthermore, the covers of the two volumes of the Records of the Grand Historian have also undergone some changes.

One book is labeled S3 History Records, and the other is labeled S2 History Records.

Zhou Li quickly opened one of the books.

The historical records that should have been filled with detail are now completely blank.

A bad feeling crept into his heart.

I immediately opened the historical records of S2.

This is the Records of the Grand Historian that he has always been familiar with.

Zhou Li kept flipping through the pages, and when he got to the end, he was surprised to find that there was a lot of extra content at the end of the Records of the Grand Historian.

Under Zhou Li's leadership, the Chinese League of Legends esports industry flourished. At the S3 World Championship, Faker emerged as a force to be reckoned with, with Korean media hailing it as their most promising year yet, predicting he would revitalize Korean esports. Zhou Li and Lee Sang-hyeok faced off in the finals, with Zhou Li ultimately sweeping SKT 3-0 to claim the championship and achieve a back-to-back title.

[South Korea recognized Zhou Li's absolute dominance in the League of Legends scene and decided to pay a very high price to recruit him to the LCK, but was rejected. Meanwhile, many LPL professional players also came to the attention of LCK coaches. The LCK began tentatively introducing Chinese players.]

[At the S4 World Championship, LCK displayed an invincible presence in the group stage and knockout rounds. Although they ultimately lost 1-3 to Zhou Li's WE in the finals, this marked the first time in two years that a Korean team had secured a single game victory against Zhou Li. LCK recognized the competitive advantage that importing Chinese players would bring to the league. In 2015, LCK began a large-scale recruitment of Chinese players.]

In 2016, Zhou Li lifted the World Championship trophy again in Los Angeles, achieving a five-peat in his professional career. After the match, Zhou Li stated that he first lifted the championship trophy in Los Angeles, and now, still in Los Angeles, he would draw a perfect conclusion to his professional career. Zhou Li chose to retire. The LCK, which had been suppressed by the LPL for five consecutive years and was already in a hopeless state with its popularity waning and life nearly extinguished, was rekindled with Zhou Li's retirement.

In 2017, LCK finally won their first World Championship!

In 2018, Zhou Li returned to the game as a coach, leading IG to victory in Busan. At the same time, Riot Games erected a statue of Zhou Li at its headquarters to commemorate his outstanding achievements in League of Legends.

For many years afterward, the LPL and LCK regions engaged in healthy competition, with each region producing champions. However, for Korean fans, one thorn remained in their side: every LCK team that won the championship had Chinese players as substitutes. The LCK began striving to develop an all-Korean roster, but failed to win a title, leading to LPL fans mocking them: "Five Koreans can't win a championship."

Upon seeing this, Zhou Li couldn't help but smack his lips.

If he hadn't seen the historical records, he wouldn't have dared to imagine this plot.

Then he looked at the last line of text.

You saved the LPL in this timeline; your merit is immeasurable.

Looking at these words, Zhou Li had a bad feeling.

In addition, there is the content just recorded in the Records of the Grand Historian.

This prompted him to open another copy of the Records of the Grand Historian.

This time, after Zhou Li's careful examination, he finally found a page of text on the title page.

[Zhou, a native of Linhai, was the commander of the IG battle group. He was lazy and averse to work, and treated his subordinates harshly. He would often embezzle a soldier's pay for even minor delays, demonstrating his authority. He also enjoyed gathering his men for gambling; on the first and fifteenth of each month, he would summon them to sit and play cards, engaging in games reminiscent of the "eight delicacies and six drinks" described in the *Zhou Li*. However, his soldiers all suffered from this disturbance, daring to be angry but not daring to speak out.]

Zhou Li was taken aback.

"When did I become IG's manager? And now I'm lazy, withholding wages, and making the players play cards every day?!"

Amidst the doubts surrounding the Zhou rites, another line of text emerged in the Records of the Grand Historian.

Having averted the calamity of S2 and restored order to the Dragon Realm of China, the Korean Demon Realm's fortunes have not yet run out, secretly harboring a Demon King. The Lee family, favored by Heaven and rising with its own destiny, is like a star falling from the sky, inevitably disrupting the order of time. Wherever their halberd points, the universe trembles, and all realms crumble. You wield the Sword of Cause and Effect, and must follow the rift into the Mystic Realm of S3.

Upon seeing this line of text, Zhou Liqi laughed.

No wonder today's beaker cloth doesn't resemble a beaker at all; it's completely a hermaphrodite with a rotten asshole.

But looking back now, it seems that everything was foreshadowed.

Back then, when he kicked Abu and exposed Abu's overseas returnee status, didn't that cause the timeline to rewind?

In fact, when Zhou Li saw that the exploration of the Records of the Grand Historian had reached 100%, he had a premonition.

The system also stated at the time that as long as the exploration task was completed 100%, one could leave that world.

Zhou Li never expected that after leaving, he would be thrown back into 2013!
The Records of the Grand Historian seems to have sensed the sentiments of the Zhou rites, and the text continues to emerge.

Once you complete all the world exploration missions, the Chronicles will automatically integrate all timelines into a single, complete timeline. At that point, you can choose to become a god in the League of Legends, or you can choose to return to the initial world and once again lie in bed, happily reading a novel about Uzi taking a bath.

Achievements you made in the previous timeline will be carried over to a certain extent in this timeline.

You have inherited all assets from the S2 timeline.

You can choose to inherit three abilities gained in the S2 timeline.

Looking at the contents of the Records of the Grand Historian, Zhou Li took a deep breath and composed himself.

Seeing that his previous achievements could be inherited instead of going down the drain made him feel a little better.

On second thought, although going from a world champion to the manager of an unknown IG team was a huge drop in status, the way he pretended to be weak to show off seemed more satisfying than the bulldozing-style show-off he had done with absolute strength.

Furthermore, because of my existence, the paths of many professional players will inevitably change, and it is also a pity that they cannot compete with those famous players.

If you think about it carefully, if the timeline doesn't change, then the historical records won't be able to accurately record those chaotic moments in the LPL.

The thought that he could inherit three abilities stirred within Zhou Li.

"Retrieve all my abilities."

The Records of the Grand Historian soon revealed a dense collection of text.

[The Deceptive Enchantress.]

The ability obtained from Abu increases credibility when deceiving people, teaches voice imitation, and increases proficiency in the Enchantress class.

This is the ability Zhou Li acquired from the very beginning, and its greatest function is to help Zhou Li, in his avatar Li Li, earn his first pot of gold.

Besides that, I helped Abu complete the main quest for Dead Sister.

However, it seems to have little practical use now.

Personal charisma.

The abilities gained from Ruofeng enhance personal charisma.

This is indeed a good skill, which helped him quickly unite the team at WE, while also gaining a very high reputation and popularity outside the company.

You should know that reputation and traffic can sometimes be more useful than winning a championship.

After all, even winning a championship doesn't guarantee you a place in the Hall of Fame.

[Wild Card.]

The card's unique ability is immediately disregarded.

[Socialite.]

The ability gained from Xiao Lou is also the ability to gain reputation.

Rabies.

Originating from a young Uzi, it enhances early-game lane dominance, but has a negative buff in the late game.

PASS.

[The Demon Wizard.]

It's the same ability as Ruofeng's, a real-life version of the Mejai's Soulstealer. It increases one's attributes by constantly killing opponents, but the description seems to suggest that it only works in the mid lane.

[Open the door, Chao Xiong.]

The ability to declare death.

Unlocked doors also grant Karthus proficiency.

Five minutes of exercise is equivalent to one hour of exercise.

There is another line of text following the "Open Door" and "Super Heroic Ability" prompts.

The protagonist's acquired abilities through skills, as well as hero proficiency, have been automatically inherited.

[Such as lock-picking ability, or physical qualities improved through training in superhuman abilities.]

"In other words, my physical fitness is still the same as after training, but I've lost the ability to make five minutes of training equivalent to an hour..."

[Factory Manager.]

Skills inherited from young Mingkai.

When invading the jungle, all attributes such as hand speed are increased, and Lee Sin's proficiency is increased.

Bathhouse attendant.

Curly's ability: Provides a one-hour boost to all attributes after bathing. Provides either a buff or a debuff when both allies and enemies have Night Hounds present.

【clown. 】

Joker's ability grants proficiency to the champions Nidalee and Shaco.

[Sister-in-law's cloth.]

From Abu, enter level 5 state, five seconds of true manhood, followed by one minute of weakness, providing Sword Saint proficiency.

[Master of the Mid Lane]

Young Lee Sang-hyeok's abilities, when played as a mid-laner, are enhanced by 10% across all attributes including mechanics, awareness, and reaction time. His mastery of all mid-lane champions reaches a perfect level.

In addition, there are some other, less important abilities.

For example, the skills I gained from my two foreign language teachers.

There was also a gynecological expert who suddenly appeared during the global finals.

The key is that this gynecological expert's abilities were already stored in his brain as a result of his knowledge, so there was no need to inherit them at all.

Just as Zhou Li was pondering which three abilities to inherit, someone rushed in in a great hurry.

"Zhu Kai?"

Upon seeing the newcomer, Zhou Li asked in confusion.

How come Zhu Kai is with WE?

In the normal world, Zhu Kai should still be a fan on Instagram.

"It's terrible, Brother Zhou! Something horrible has happened!!"

Seeing Zhu Kai's panicked expression, Zhou Li was stunned for a moment.

He still calls himself Brother Zhou?
However, Zhou Li quickly realized what was happening.

His current role is the team manager of IG, so it's perfectly fine for Zhu Kai to call him Brother Zhou.

Zhou Li almost thought that Zhu Kai Na's script as the chosen female lead had been used to travel through time with him.
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IG training room.

PDD stubbed out his fifth cigarette.

"Damn it, where did Liu Zhihao go to take a dump? Why isn't he here yet?! I'll fuck that pigskin monster!"

Xiaoxiao was chatting with his girlfriend when he spoke up:

"Is this guy chickening out?"

Frustrated, PDD wanted to light another cigarette, only to find that he was out of cigarettes.

He just bought this last night and only smoked the first one this morning.

"Damn you, Sun Yalong! You smoked my whole pack of cigarettes in one night?!"

PDD was so angry that his fat was flying everywhere.

Sun Yalong is a real bastard. In the whole team, his smoking habit is even worse than PDD's, but he's never bought a single pack of cigarettes. (*)

Last night, when he remembered he'd left the cigarettes he'd just bought in the training room, his heart sank. This morning, sure enough, there was only one left. (*)

"Damn it, Liu Mou! Is this the time to worry about these things?! Is that guy Zitai even coming or not? Have you messaged him yet?"

PDD paused for a moment.

Also.

Their primary task now is to rebel.

Whose rebellion are they rebelling against?

The beastly manager who built the battle team, Zhou Li's rebellion!
That Zhou Li is such a jerk. He plays cards with his team every day and then deducts their wages.

PDD and the others were late, and Zhou Li deducted their wages without saying a word. As a result, Zhou Li himself was playing Blade & Soul on the Korean server every day while he was at work.

What PDD and his friends found most unbearable was that their girlfriends would come to the club and bring them fruit or something.

As a result, Zhou Li simply put up a sign at the entrance of the club.

Women and dogs are not allowed.

PDD and his group could have tolerated it.

But they were in the prime of their lives, full of youthful vigor, and now that their women had been touched, they truly couldn't tolerate it anymore.

PDD spent nearly a year creating a notebook to record Zhou Li's various instances of arbitrarily deducting wages, not deducting wages for being late, organizing team members to play cards, and playing Blade & Soul during work hours.

Furthermore, he had already made an agreement with Zz1tai and Sun Yalong to go together to IG's management and fire Zhou Li.

Today, PDD even received a high-resolution photo directly from a helpful coach at WE.

This time, Zhou Li didn't play cards with the IG players. Instead, he went straight to the WE club and played cards with the WE players all night long!

This is outrageous!
It's one thing for you to mess up your own club, but you also go and mess up other clubs!

What kind of club is WE?!
If this really blows up, the area in front of your IG club will be a funeral home tomorrow.

Then look at those seven or eight 60-second voice messages from Abu; they really took a woman's tantrum to the extreme.

PDD knew that the time they had been waiting for had finally arrived.

They immediately called out to Zitai and Xiaoxiao, indicating that they were going to rebel today.

After listening to PDD's words, Zita said that he had an upset stomach and needed to poop.

As a result, after pulling for half an hour, it still hadn't come back.

"We're not waiting for Liu Zhihao."

PDD stood up, feeling somewhat angry.
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When Zhou Li returned to the entrance of the IG club with Zhu Kai, he saw the sign at the entrance.

Women and dogs are not allowed.

Zhou Li has now figured out the current situation and knows what role he played in the IG club in the past.

Zhu Kai came to him in a great hurry to warn him that PDD and others were planning a rebellion.

However, Zhou Li didn't seem to care much about this.

Instead, he stood in front of the sign at the entrance and began to ponder it.

It must be said that although the original owner of this body did nothing particularly virtuous, she handled this matter quite well.

These guys haven't even achieved any results yet, and they're already thinking about dating all the time.

Is that club a place for your girlfriend to come and be lovey-dovey?

There's absolutely nothing wrong with the rule that women and dogs are not allowed inside.

He swaggered into the club, went to the training room, and saw Zz1tai scratching his head and apologizing to PDD.

"Uh, I ate something bad yesterday and got diarrhea... Have you guys finished your rebellion?"

PDD saw Zhou Li approaching, kicked Zita, and signaled him to stop barking.

Just now, he and Xiaoxiao handed over all the evidence of Zhou Li's crimes to the higher-ups at IG.

He added that if Zhou Li wasn't allowed to leave, he and Xiaoxiao would depart.

The higher-ups also promised that they would hold a meeting soon to discuss the issue and would give the two a satisfactory answer.

However, all of these things were done behind the backs of the Zhou Dynasty's rituals.

Although PDD felt he had done nothing wrong, he still felt a little guilty.

Furthermore, Zhou Li hasn't left yet, and if he finds out, he'll inevitably make things difficult for him, even if it's just for a few days, it'll be disgusting enough.

However, the person who had been kicked by PDD clearly didn't understand PDD's intention and thought PDD was still angry, so they said:

"If that doesn't work, I'll go and try to find out more. We must get Zhou Li to leave."

Zhou Li stood at the door and said with a smile:

"What's wrong? You want me to leave? Have I been too harsh on you all?"

PDD and Xiaoxiao looked at Zhou Li without saying a word.

Zhou Li took out a small notebook.

“PDD and Xiaoxiao left the training room without permission during training time. They will be fined 200 yuan.”

"Posture: Stepping into the training room with your left foot first will result in a fine of two hundred."

Xiaoxiao instantly flew into a rage.

"What the hell do you mean?!"

Instead, PDD pulled Xiaoxiao aside and said:

"Don't fucking pay attention to this bastard, he's going to be packing his bags and leaving soon anyway."

Zhou Li remained unperturbed by the two men's hostility and walked to his seat in the training room.

Looking at the current exploration progress of zero percent, Zhou Li was somewhat worried.

I just tried to get a response from PDD and Xiaoxiao, but Shiji didn't react either.

It seems I need to organize my thoughts.

Based on his previous experience, he now needs to recall some key events in League of Legends in 2013.

Just like in 2012, Abu, as the guide of the dungeon, started the dungeon with the Death Sister quest, and Ruofeng, as the boss, allowed Zhou Li to continuously fleece him. Mingkai is the main content of S2.

What major events happened in 2013?

(End of this chapter)