Chapter 61 Tao Xuan's Thoughts

Tao Xuan, sitting in front of his computer, was truly smiling at this moment. He could completely understand Ye Qiu's feelings. Building a team from scratch, only to face a behemoth like Excellent Era in the Challenger League, the pressure would be unimaginable. For Tao Xuan, participating in the Challenger League wasn't something that would make him happy, but seeing how much trouble it brought Ye Qiu, he felt inexplicably excited.

He didn't know when it started, but Tao Xuan had grown increasingly annoyed with Ye Qiu's earnest and dedicated attitude towards Glory. Wasn't it just a game? What was more important than bringing joy to people? But this guy was filled with passion and obsession for victory, using it as the starting point for everything he did, and showing indifference and ruthlessness towards everything else.

If it were just his personality, it wouldn't be a big deal. When it came to commercial packaging, a bit of personality was easier to work with than no personality at all. But this guy completely rejected commercial collaborations. Since the contract was signed early on, it lacked foresight, with no specific clauses regarding commercial cooperation. You couldn't blame the bosses for being too careless; who would have thought someone would directly reject such a win-win partnership?

With the rapid development of the Glory Professional Alliance, the star players in each club team brought countless benefits to the clubs through commercial operations. Tao Xuan became increasingly restless watching this. Although he had Su Mucheng, a top-tier money-making star, the more he felt the benefits that commercial operations could bring from Su Mucheng, the more he resented Ye Qiu's lack of cooperation.

Ye Qiu was Excellent Era's trump card, the creator of the three-time championship dynasty. His One Autumn Leaf was known as the Battle God, and he won the Best Partner award with the ultra-popular Su Mucheng year after year. What a gold mine this was! But he couldn't extract a single bit of it. And year after year, day after day, it seemed like that day would never come. Tao Xuan finally couldn't sit still. Since Ye Qiu wouldn't cooperate, why shouldn't he abandon him?

Tao Xuan had long had this thought in his mind, but he hadn't made up his mind because he couldn't find a suitable replacement. The newcomer he needed couldn't just be an operator of a Battle Mage. One Autumn Leaf was known as the Battle God, a top-tier Glory account. It had to be a top-tier god-level player to match this account and create the highest commercial value.

That's right, commercial value. Tao Xuan was now always considering it as a starting point. He also wanted to let Ye Qiu see the heights that this character and its operator could be pushed to after commercial cooperation. He wanted to make Ye Qiu regret rejecting commercial activities. He wanted to make Ye Qiu realize that he was wrong.

However, although there were many Battle Mage players in the league, none of them met Tao Xuan's expectations. Replacing Ye Qiu? How easy would that be? He had no choice but to keep waiting until he saw Sun Xiang's emergence. Such a young man, with talent and a future, and without a matching god-level account, with considerable skill in the Battle Mage class, was undoubtedly a very suitable replacement.

The changing of the guard was normal for any team, but no club was as eager as Tao Xuan. He had really endured Ye Qiu for too many years, and a young man like Sun Xiang might be snatched away by another strong team if he didn't act quickly. In recent years, Excellent Era had long lost the domineering aura it had when it swept through the alliance. Now it was just one of the top teams.

Tao Xuan not only wanted Sun Xiang to take over, but he wanted him to take over immediately. He couldn't wait for Ye Qiu to disappear from the next second.

This was Tao Xuan's true thought. If it was something he could decide with a single sentence without any adverse consequences, he would do so immediately without hesitation. But there was no way. Ye Qiu's reputation in Excellent Era was too high. Such a legendary player who had led the team to the top and was destined to be recorded in Glory's history even before retirement, if treated so rudely, the club would become a public enemy. Tao Xuan, who valued commercial success above all else, considered the support of fans to be of utmost importance. After all, even the best commercial operation required these supporters to pay the bill. Tao Xuan had to be extremely careful about offending the fans.

Considering this, even gently transferring Ye Qiu away was full of obstacles. First, the fans would definitely not accept it emotionally. Second, Tao Xuan himself was unwilling. No one knew Ye Qiu's capabilities better than him. Sending him anywhere would create a strong enemy for himself and a gimmick for the other side. So the best result was for Ye Qiu to retire, and retire forever.

Tao Xuan had understood this long ago. Therefore, he had a plan early on.

As the real boss of a team, there were too many things he could do. Simply put, the perfect operation of a team required the active cooperation of various departments up and down. As the boss, the most substantial leader of the team, his cooperation with any party, even just an attitude, would have a tremendous impact.

For example, the famous incident of Tyranny Team: When Han Wenqing was lecturing his players, the boss's phone rang and interrupted him, and he was sent out with a single sentence.

Did Han Wenqing really have so much power? Was the boss really so afraid of Han Wenqing?

Of course not. On the one hand, it was Han Wenqing's personality. On the other hand, it was the boss's attitude in line with his personality. Answering the phone immediately, such a small action, occurring in this special scene, had an immeasurable effect on Han Wenqing's establishment of his authority as captain.

In the eyes of many people, this incident seemed to reflect Han Wenqing's domineering nature, but in fact, it was a boss's resolute and decisive support for his own captain.

Support, trust.

This was the cooperation that the boss needed to have with the players, especially the captain of the team, who needed the boss's full support. Sometimes, even an ambiguous attitude could damage the authority of the captain. Because too many players knew who was the real boss of the team, who could truly determine their future, and who paid their salaries in their hands. Without the boss's support, it was difficult for the captain to establish authority.

After deciding to give up on Ye Xiu, Tao Xuan had been subtly weakening the influence of Ye Qiu, the captain, on the team. Excellent Era's performance would inevitably be affected under such circumstances, which was also what Tao Xuan expected. After all, he couldn't have all the good things. To make changes, performance fluctuations were inevitable. And the weakening of the performance could just weaken Ye Qiu's position in the fans' minds, which made it easier for Tao Xuan to accept.

Until Sun Xiang made a brilliant debut in the professional circle, Tao Xuan finally saw the person he needed. So the idea that had been in his mind for a long time was finally implemented at the beginning of the eighth season. Team problems intensified, the performance was a mess, the fans complained, and Tao Xuan quickly signed a winter transfer agreement with Sun Xiang.

It was just that the team's performance declined so drastically that Tao Xuan was greatly surprised. He still underestimated Ye Qiu's importance to Excellent Era. But the more this happened, the more he hated Ye Qiu. In his eyes, this kind of Ye Qiu was not the core of the team at all, but a tyrant, a tumor that had to be removed.

So everything still developed as he had expected. Sun Xiang transferred in the winter, and Ye Qiu retired and left. Although the fans missed him very much, their support for Excellent Era did not change much because of this change.

Tao Xuan breathed a sigh of relief. None of the possible adverse effects had broken out, which made him feel that the difficult time had passed. What he regretted at this time was Su Mucheng. However, Tao Xuan had already accepted the fact that he might have to give up Su Mucheng when he decided to kick Ye Qiu away. After all, his tolerance for Ye Qiu had reached its limit, and Su Mucheng's existence could no longer shake his determination to kick Ye Qiu away and rebuild the team.

Tao Xuan originally thought that everything that followed would develop as he had expected. But in the end, the team's performance continued to collapse, which also surprised him. He was completely clueless about the team's erratic state. As the boss, he knew a lot, but of course, there were also many things he didn't know.

His resentment towards Ye Qiu ended when he drove Ye Qiu away. He didn't expect that team members like Liu Hao had even deeper resentment towards Ye Qiu than he did. Liu Hao's pursuit of Ye Qiu was the first time that it affected his state, causing Excellent Era to lose a good game. After that, Liu Hao adjusted quickly, and Excellent Era's team gradually stabilized. But Ye Qiu did not give up after leaving, and tried to start again, making waves in the new server, stirring up trouble for the pioneering guilds of major clubs, and gradually involving professional players in the professional circle.

If it was just Huang Shaotian and Wang Jiexi running over to exchange a few moves with Ye Qiu, it wouldn't be a big deal. But Excellent Era had deep resentment towards Ye Qiu! Liu Hao wanted to knock him down at every opportunity, and later encouraged Sun Xiang to come and make trouble, and called all the main players of the team together. So the previous time, Liu Hao's state was affected, and this time, the whole team's state was affected. Excellent Era, whose foundation was not well laid this season, declined linearly as soon as its state deteriorated. Sun Xiang, a newcomer, was really unable to recover, and his performance was awkward no matter what he did.

It was already the end of the season, and the team was rocketing towards the relegation zone, so the players panicked. Relegation was definitely a disaster for a team, and no one wanted to be a passenger on this ship, so the morale was immediately scattered and could not be recovered. Tao Xuan was also unable to turn the tide, so he had to seize the time to preemptively do public relations for the disastrous result of relegation, and get through this crisis of confidence first.

Falling into relegation was definitely not within Tao Xuan's expectations. He was not happy at all with this result, and all of this, in the final analysis, was attributed to Ye Qiu.

If it weren't for this guy, how could it be so troublesome?

Jun Moxiao? Do you think you can really start over? Looking at the account number that had been renamed on the QQ window, Tao Xuan smiled coldly. At this moment, he suddenly felt that it was not bad to participate in the Challenger League. Although the loss of image and economy this year was certain, it was also good to enjoy the mental pleasure of personally destroying Ye Qiu. At this time, Tao Xuan finally saw the other party's reply: "Are you afraid of me?"