After Paris Saint-Germain was removed from the list, I led England to victory!

There are less than three months left until this year's Golden Globe Awards ceremony.

The air itself seemed to become scorching as a result.

For Yan Yuan, who was at the center of the vortex, these days were like walking on a tightrope that was both glorious and narrow.

Every match, every touch of the ball, and even every expression is placed under the spotlight of fans and media around the world, undergoing the most rigorous scrutiny.

However, it is under pressure that true ability is revealed.

Yan Yuan's performance showed no signs of wavering; on the contrary, he became increasingly composed, sharp, and even exuded an undeniable dominance.

Aside from the unnecessary yellow card he received for protesting the referee's decision in the North London derby against Tottenham, which became a minor blemish on his recent perfect statistics.

His recent contributions on the field can be described as a highly efficient goal-scoring and assisting machine.

In the past three Premier League matches.

He was like an elegant assassin, dancing gracefully on the opponent's defenses, yet each move was deadly.

He scored twice against Manchester United, leading his team to a resounding victory;

He scored one goal and provided two assists against Bournemouth, fully activating the attacking line;

In a recent match against the formidable West Ham United, he delivered a spectacular brace, scoring two well-timed goals to completely extinguish the Hammers' comeback attempt.

3 games, 5 goals, 2 assists.

His terrifying attacking efficiency has allowed him to continue leading the Premier League's top scorer and assist charts without any doubt.

Not only are his statistics impressive, but his role on the field is also irreplaceable.

His running coverage, passing vision, and decisiveness in crucial moments are all breathtaking.

On the authoritative data website's weekly updated Premier League Team of the Week list, Yan Yuan's name has been present since the beginning of this season, as if branded with a hot iron.

He is not only Arsenal's helmsman, but also widely recognized as one of the most consistent and outstanding players in the entire Premier League.

The media has begun to describe Arsenal as having "Yan Yuan dependency syndrome".

Although this was said in a slightly sarcastic tone.

But this also proves how important he is to this team that aims to defend its title.

Everything seemed to be steadily progressing towards the Golden Globe Awards' prestigious status.

Training, competition, recovery—Yan Yuan's life trajectory is so simple it's almost rigid.

He understood better than anyone that the closer he got to the finish line, the harder the road became.

He carefully maintained this focus, devoting all his energy to football itself and ignoring the noise from the outside world.

But the cruel twist of fate lies in this.

It always happens just when you think everything is going smoothly.

It stirred up an unexpected huge wave.

Today, after the match against West Ham United, the Emirates Stadium dressing room was filled with a relaxed atmosphere of victory.

The guys sat in twos and threes in front of their lockers, changed out of their jerseys, and washed away their fatigue.

Yan Yuan had just finished showering.

He was wearing a simple sports T-shirt and was drying his wet hair with a towel, preparing to change his clothes.

Just then, Aubameyang, who was sitting diagonally opposite Yan Yuan, with his legs crossed and scrolling through his phone, suddenly let out a strange cry.

"My God! Wait! What the hell is this?!"

His voice instantly drew the attention of most people in the locker room.

Aubameyang sat bolt upright, his eyes wide as bells, staring intently at his phone screen, his fingers flying across the keyboard.

"Pierre, what do you see? A beautiful woman?" Zaka teased with a laugh.

Aubameyang ignored Xhaka's joke, his expression turning strange. He looked up, his gaze fixed on Yan Yuan, and shouted in disbelief.

"Captain! Come quick! Something terrible has happened!" he said as he stood up, walked quickly to Yan Yuan's side, and shoved the phone into Yan Yuan's hand.

"Hmm? What's wrong?"

Yan Yuan was somewhat puzzled by Aubameyang's reaction. He took the phone and looked down at it.

The phone screen displayed a push notification headline from the famous gossip website "Global Gossip," with the title written in bold scarlet font:

[Exclusive Scoop! Ballon d'Or frontrunner's image shattered? Arsenal captain Yan Yuan suspected of soliciting sexual favors at a hotel during national team matches! High-definition video included!]

Below the title is a short video that plays automatically.

The footage appears to be CCTV footage from a hotel corridor, with timestamps indicating it was taken several months ago during a European Championship qualifier for England.

In the video, two scantily clad young women with hot figures emerge from a hotel room one after the other, tidying their messy hair and clothes as they laugh and walk toward the elevator.

The video was deliberately shot at the room number. Although it was a bit blurry, combined with the content of the article, it pointed directly to the room where Yan Yuan stayed at the hotel where the national team was staying!

The article vividly describes how Yan Yuan "couldn't stand the loneliness".

During a break from the intense competition representing their country, they contacted the two ladies through a "special channel" and arranged for them to "relax" in their hotel room.

The text describes the physical characteristics of the two women in detail: one is a tall, blonde, fair-skinned Eastern European woman with distinctive features.

The other was a Black woman with an unusually full figure.

Yes, exceptionally full-figured.

How unusual is it?

It's like an excavator standing up.

Calling him Optimus Prime is an understatement.

The air in the locker room seemed to freeze instantly.

Saka was listening to music and also pressed the pause button.

The sound of the shower water stopped, and the once noisy space became completely silent.

All of Yan Yuan's teammates focused their attention on him, their eyes filled with shock, doubt, and a hint of barely perceptible...inquiry.

We are all young and energetic professional athletes, and we are well aware of certain needs.

But the fact that this happened to captain Yan Yuan, who is known as a "model student" and is in the crucial period of his Golden Globe campaign, is really shocking.

Yan Yuan stared at his phone screen, the fatigue and relaxation on his face vanishing instantly, replaced by an offensive anger and a sense of absurdity.

His brows were furrowed tightly, and his breathing became noticeably heavier.

A few seconds later, he abruptly looked up, handed the phone back to Aubameyang, and uttered a curse through gritted teeth:

"Fking Hell! 'Global Gossip'? What a bunch of shady media! Are these guys fucking insane?!"

Yan Yuan looked up at the complex expressions on his teammates' faces, took a deep breath, and tried to calm himself down, but his tone was still excited:

"Wait, guys, you...you don't actually believe this bullshit news, do you?" His gaze swept over familiar faces like Odegaard, Rhodes, and Saka.

"Me? During the competition? Looking for...looking for women? Or this kind of..."

He pointed at the blurry images of the two women on Aubameyang's phone, his face showing an expression of extreme disgust and amusement.

Suddenly, Yan Yuan's tone changed.

"Come on, everyone, take a look at this video!" He took Aubameyang's phone and held it up a little. Although the image was blurry, the general outline was still visible.

"First of all, this 'blonde beauty'..." Yan Yuan pointed at the white woman, "that face shape, those features, forgive me for being blunt, but she looks a bit like... um... Dobby the house-elf from Harry Potter after his liberation? Or does she look like a squirrel whose face got caught in a door?"

"Pfft..." Rice couldn't help but laugh out loud.

Yan Yuan didn't stop, continuing to point at the black woman, his tone even more exaggerated.

"And look at this guy! Goodness! That 'impressive' physique! That 'powerful' aura! To be honest, this isn't just for fun, it's like I've hired a WWE superstar as my 'personal bodyguard'!"

Don't you think this Black woman's physique and demeanor are remarkably similar to that of the legendary heavyweight, The Undertaker Mark Henry?!

Even if I were really interested, how... how unique would my taste have to be to order both a "Dobby the Elf" and a "Female Mark Henry" at the same time?! I'm going to play football, not to participate in a WWE audition or study Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them!

(You can search for Mark Henry and then imagine a female version of Mark Henry.)

"Hahahahahaha..." A deafening roar of laughter erupted in the locker room.

"I can't take it anymore... Yan... Hahahahahaha..." Zaka was laughing so hard he couldn't stand up straight.

Aubameyang laughed so hard he lay down on the locker and pounded on the door.

"Mark Henry! Yan! You are truly a genius, a master of metaphor!"

Saka laughed until tears streamed down his face: "Captain... Captain... Dobi... Hahaha... I can't take it anymore!"

Even the usually composed Rodri and Lacazette couldn't help but burst into laughter, clutching their stomachs.

Erdgao patted Yan Yuan on the shoulder while laughing.

"Captain, your mouth... is even more powerful than your right foot! This way of clarifying things is truly something else!"

Yan Yuan looked at his teammates who were laughing hysterically, and smiled helplessly, spreading his hands.

"So, do you understand now? This is a complete and utter slander! I don't know where this video came from, I don't know if that room is mine, and I don't know who wants to mess with me at this time."

But I can assure you that I, Yan Yuan, am neither so desperate nor so foolish as to do something so self-destructive during a national team match, in the team's hotel.

His tone became serious and firm again.

"It's obvious that someone saw us having a smooth ride, and that I was leading in the Ballon d'Or voting, so they got restless and started resorting to off-field tactics. They wanted to use these despicable methods to break my mentality and tarnish my image."

"Don't worry, Captain!" Rice was the first to step forward, patting his chest vigorously. "We definitely believe you! Only a fool would believe such a low-level frame-up!"

"Exactly! Do you think I don't know the captain's character? He was already very good back in the Bundesliga," Upamecano chimed in.

"It seems winning the Golden Globe is really not easy; all sorts of weirdos and monsters have come out," Pepe remarked.

Pepe is a man of the world; during his time at Real Madrid, he saw far too many of these underhanded tactics.

Unity and trust have been restored in the locker room.

Although Yan Yuan resolved the trust crisis within the locker room with his high emotional intelligence, the outside world was already in an uproar because of this bombshell.

This news spread like wildfire across the global internet.

Topics such as #YanYuan'sLifestyle#YanYuan'sPersonalImageCollapse#GoldenGlobeFeverSignatureScandalInstantlyExplodedOnSocialMedia

Within Arsenal's fan base, the vast majority chose to unconditionally support their captain.

On social media and forums, gun enthusiasts started the hashtag "#WeStandWithYanyuan".

"Ridiculous! This is absolutely a setup! We've watched Yan play for so many years, don't we know what kind of person he is? He's been a model player since the Bundesliga!"

"A model idol with zero negative news since his Hoffenheim days, his lifestyle is practically textbook-worthy! And his first scandal is so 'explosive,' and the timing is so coincidental?"

"The video is clearly secretly filmed and edited. Who knows what happened in the room? The chain of evidence is completely incomplete!"

"It's just the standard procedure before the Golden Globe Awards, but some people got impatient and started using underhanded tactics."

"I trust Yan Yuan's character; this mudslinging is incredibly low-class!"

Fans dug up photos and reports of Yan Yuan participating in charity events, spending time with his family, and focusing on training in the past, trying to use his long-cultivated good image to counter this sudden scandal.

However, the public discourse in the football world has always been divided and polarized.

Fans of other clubs, especially those who have rivalries or grudges with Arsenal and Yan Yuan, seized the opportunity to ridicule and attack them to the fullest extent.

Tottenham Hotspur fans were naturally at the forefront:

"Haha! Arsenal's 'model captain'? Turns out it's the Ladybug captain!"

"Two at once? Or different styles? Yan Yuan has good taste! He even went after Mark Henry?"

"You're really creative, playing with two at once, black and white, a unique flavor. You like Oreos, right?"

"Putting aside Yan's behavior, his taste is really terrible. Has he never seen a woman before?"

"No wonder he's so fierce on the field, turns out he's been doing extra training off the field!"

"Golden Globe? He should worry about his own finances first! Does he even deserve it?"

They created a large number of parody images and memes, photoshopping Yan Yuan's image into various obscene scenes, doing everything they could to insult him.

Barcelona fans naturally joined the fray:

"So Arsenal's 'beautiful football' is something they practice off the pitch?"

"The video evidence is irrefutable, yet they're still denying it? Arsenal fans are only good at defending themselves!"

"There might be even more dirt on them that hasn't been revealed yet; this is just the tip of the iceberg for the Arsenal captain."

"With this kind of lifestyle, daring to do such things while on the national team, how does he expect to win the Ballon d'Or? A disgrace to football!"

In addition, some neutral fans, who enjoy watching the drama unfold, also harbored doubts:

"There's no smoke without fire, so why was it you who got photographed?"

"I understand athletes, but it's a different story when it gets exposed."

"The video doesn't look fake; Yan probably won't be able to clear his name this time."

The internet became a chaotic mess, with voices of support and attack clashing, and various conspiracy theories, jokes, and insults flooding the comment sections of related topics.

For the first time, Yan Yuan's name became the focus of global football discussion in such a negative way, even overshadowing the recently concluded league.

This storm will inevitably affect the players themselves.

Despite Yan Yuan's efforts to remain calm and focus on training with the support of his teammates and the club, his brow would still furrow involuntarily when he finished a day's training, turned on his phone, and saw those malicious comments and distorted reports.

The competition for the Ballon d'Or has never been confined to the football field.

This sudden off-field controversy was like a bucket of cold, dirty water, splashed onto Yan Yuan, who was steadily climbing towards the top.

The test will no longer be just his ball skills, but also his mental resilience, the public relations team's ability to handle the situation, and the trust that everyone around him has in him.

The battle has just begun.