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The conclusion of the All-Star Game has stirred up a storm in the already turbulent Chinese esports scene.

If TPA's victory last year was just an unexpected upset, then the dominance shown by the Korean team at this year's All-Star game truly crushed the pride of all LPL players!

Not only was InSec's Lee Sin "Insec Kick" a spectacular moment, but there was another chilling scene in this China-Korea match – "One shot, four PDDs"! The image of Korean top laner TheShy's Jayce killing four Zacs under the tower with one shot was made into a GIF by countless netizens and spread on various forums.

Only at this moment did domestic players and industry professionals suddenly wake up:

They had always thought their biggest rivals were the strong European and American teams, but little did they know that in the corners they hadn't been paying attention to, South Korea's League of Legends level had quietly evolved to a breathtaking level!

Led by support legend Madlife, jungler InSec, and top laner TheShy, Korean players have made a strong entrance into the view of Chinese players with an invincible presence!

Suddenly, the domestic political climate changed dramatically.

Originally regarded as the highest level in the Chinese server, "Ionia" has begun to lose its prestige in the eyes of players.

"Korean server Challenger" has become a hard currency for measuring a player's skill!

A large number of hardcore domestic gamers even started using VPNs to watch the Korean OGN league, trying to learn from the West and offer advice to the LPL in lengthy posts on online forums.

Amidst a profound sense of national loss and anger over the defeat, online discourse erupted into a fierce battle of words and reckoning.

The first to be affected are naturally the star players who performed poorly in the competition.

PDD and Xiaoxiao were bombarded with criticism.

WE's mid-laner, Ruofeng, who was already controversial, was further humiliated by angry fans due to several eye-watering mistakes in the game. The derogatory nickname "Ruochu" spread like wildfire, and he became the target of ridicule across the internet.

However, a strange phenomenon emerged in this online bullying that affected almost all the contestants!

As the absolute core of WE and hailed as the world's best ADC, WeiXiao also withstood a huge barrage of firepower.

Many extreme fans and online trolls started stirring up trouble, claiming that "Smiling is getting old" and "the title of world's number one AD is undeserved."

Amidst this wave of pessimistic pronouncements, a voice, seemingly from nowhere, began to spread across various forums and online communities:

"The reason we lost this All-Star game is because we didn't bring Uzi!"

"Smile's playstyle is too stable; he doesn't dare to make any moves against Korean teams! If it were Uzi, he would have completely destroyed the enemy ADC in lane, and none of this would have happened!"

"If Uzi goes, we definitely won't lose! He's the best ADC in the world right now!"

The voice grew louder and louder, as if an invisible giant hand was shifting the spotlight of the entire internet from the older generation's smiling face to the chubby little guy who had just made a name for himself in the Spring Split!

What's even more unbelievable is that Clearlove, who was also dominated in the jungle by InSec during the game and who had boasted before the game that he would prove himself to be the "world's best jungler" but became a laughing stock... has miraculously disappeared from this storm of online bullying!

It was as if a silent yet powerful force was protecting him in the shadows.

Posts about the factory manager's poor performance quickly sink, replaced by various whitewashing articles emphasizing that he "tried his best" and that his "tactics were targeted."

In this dark web where capital and traffic intertwine, the two true gods of LPL, "Pig" and "Dog," began to accumulate their first wave of die-hard fans amidst the division and factional conflict following the All-Star game!

……

While the esports community was still arguing fiercely about the All-Star loss,

A major crisis, enough to shake the very foundation of League of Legends, quietly descended in the dead of night!

2:00 AM, Haofeng Network headquarters, game development hall.

The office area, which should have been quiet, was now brightly lit.

"Mr. Chen! Something terrible has happened! A serious cheat bug has appeared on the Chinese server!"

The on-duty technical lead stormed into the technical director's office. "Someone has exploited a data overflow vulnerability in the rune and mastery pages during ranked matches, enabling Summoner Spells to be cast without cooldown! Not only can they use Flash infinitely, but they can also use Smite and Heal infinitely!"

Upon hearing the words "CD-free cheat," Old Chen's sleepiness vanished instantly, and cold sweat poured down his back!

This is a fatal flaw! If it spreads across the entire internet, League of Legends' reputation for absolutely fair competition will be shattered!

"Immediately shut down the ranking system! Emergency server maintenance notice issued to all servers!"

Old Chen acted decisively, "Everyone in the tech department, get online within three minutes! Immediately retrieve the backend data and investigate the root cause of the vulnerability! Ban and freeze all accounts that are using this bug to gain points!"

If this sudden cheating crisis had occurred in another game company, it might have led to a major disaster due to a slow response.

However, at Haofeng Networks, this crisis was extinguished exceptionally quickly.

The reason is simple: Li Feng set an ironclad rule from the very beginning of the project: absolute fairness!

To uphold this bottom line, the boss once declared: "Whoever discovers a major bug in League of Legends that could significantly impact the game's balance will be rewarded with 100,000 RMB!"

Under the reward, there must be a brave man.

Long before this cheat had a chance to spread widely across the internet, a player named "Dazed Bro" had already submitted the detailed explanation of how the bug was triggered and the steps to reproduce it to Haofeng's security department through official channels.

Thanks to the firsthand information from "Staring Guy," the technical department identified the code vulnerability in less than two hours and worked through the night to create an emergency patch.

The next morning.

When players woke up, ready to watch the drama unfold, they found that the game had already been maintained, and the legendary no-cooldown cheat was now a thing of the past.

In the most prominent position on the official website of League of Legends, there is an open letter to all Summoners and a proposed solution, which was personally drafted by Lao Chen.

We sincerely apologize for the malicious cheating incident that occurred last night.

[Thanks to player 'Staring Daze' for their tremendous contribution to maintaining game balance, Haofeng Network has today transferred a reward of 100,000 RMB to the account provided by the player!]

Meanwhile, we have permanently banned 263 accounts that exploited this bug to maliciously gain ranking points last night!

[To thank the players who upheld the principles of competitive sports despite facing injustice, we will be awarding a limited-edition Ryze skin as compensation to the 5226 players who encountered cheaters last night but did not cheat themselves—Ryze: Unyielding!]

After this announcement, players across the internet not only did not lose faith in the game because of the cheating incident, but were also deeply impressed by Haofeng's vision!

A 100,000 RMB cash reward will be offered to anyone who finds the bug! Cheating users will be permanently banned!

What all players envy the most is the Ryze skin called "Unwavering"!

"Dedicated to those Summoners who, despite suffering greatly, still uphold the righteous path."

This exclusive text engraved on the skin's artwork, coupled with its limited rarity of only 5226 units across the entire server, elevates the skin's prestige to its peak!

"Holy crap! 100,000 RMB in cash! Boss Li is really spending real money to maintain the game environment!"

"Waaaaah, I should have stayed up all night playing ranked matches! I was so close! That's one of the limited-edition 'Unwavering Loyalty' skins, only 5,000 available across the entire server! That skin would have made you look incredibly prestigious!"

"Damn it, why didn't I run into any cheaters last night?! I'd be willing to get wrecked by them a hundred times just for this skin!"

A crisis that could have destroyed the game was not only averted but transformed into a brilliant marketing campaign.

Countless players not only didn't complain, but were heartbroken: why didn't they encounter any cheaters last night!