Cheng Siyan was a reporter for *Electronic Sports Home*'s City N branch, and she mainly covered the Howling Heights team in the Glory professional scene.

Seeing the "so tired, no love" comment, Cheng Siyan was even more shocked. She quickly flipped through several pages of comments and saw many fans wondering about the "so tired, no love" comment, but Fang Rui didn't respond to any of them.

If this sentence was aimed at Glory, did Fang Rui intend to retire?

This guess frightened Cheng Siyan.

Fang Rui became a professional player in the fifth season of the Glory Alliance. That year, many excellent players emerged in the professional circle, but because it was right next to the fourth season, a bumper year for the Golden Generation of rookies, the fifth season suddenly seemed very thin.

In terms of top players who have been selected for the All-Star team, in addition to Fang Rui, there was also Wu Yuce, another member of Void's Twin Ghosts, and Zhou Zekai, who is now the hottest player.

These three also became famous at a young age and are now in their prime, just like the Golden Generation, at the peak of their careers. No matter what, Fang Rui shouldn't be thinking about retiring, right?

Cheng Siyan shook her head wildly, denying the crazy guess of retirement.

So tired, no love – if it wasn't aimed at Glory, then was it aimed at the team? Or was it about his private life?

The Glory e-sports players are all young, so it wouldn't be too surprising to encounter emotional entanglements. However, Cheng Siyan, who was familiar with Howling Heights, had never heard that Fang Rui had begun to set foot in emotional life. After negating this possibility, then everything pointed to the team.

Did Fang Rui no longer love the team?

Was this... a signal that he was leaving?

Cheng Siyan was startled.

As the reporter who followed Howling Heights, she could say that she paid more attention to and understood the team's changes than anyone else. The addition of Tang Hao and the rise of Zhao Yuzhe filled the Howling Heights team with vigor and vitality. However, as a professional, Cheng Siyan also saw that Fang Rui's role was weakened in the tactical system established by these two players' styles. She had written articles pointing this out and looked forward to Howling Heights making adjustments. But throughout the entire season, Howling Heights started off with a bang and fell with a bang, and this problem was not properly resolved.

In the new season, Howling Heights began to introduce new players, and people who cared about this issue were also looking forward to what kind of tactical system Howling Heights would create in the new season. They probably wouldn't have thought that the final solution to this problem would be to let Fang Rui leave.

If he really couldn't integrate, then making such a choice would be acceptable, but the problem was that as the reporter who followed Howling Heights, Cheng Siyan didn't see much effort made by Howling Heights in this regard. What she saw was that Tang Hao and Zhao Yuzhe were displaying their styles to the fullest, while Fang Rui was struggling to keep up with their styles.

He didn't catch up, so he was abandoned?

If this was the case, Cheng Siyan could really feel what Fang Rui's "so tired, no love" meant.

Transfers were undoubtedly the highlight of the summer reporting season, and Fang Rui's transfer, as an All-Star player, was even more important. Therefore, Cheng Siyan would never take this discovery lightly. However, based on seven words on Weibo and her own extensive brainstorming, such a news article was really too mysterious and needed more material.

Cheng Siyan tried to send Fang Rui a text message, but didn't receive a reply. After hesitating slightly, she finally called, but the other party's phone was turned off.

Not being able to ask the person involved, and contacting the Howling Heights officials based on just seven words seemed a bit exaggerated. Cheng Siyan continued to read the replies under Fang Rui's Weibo post, thinking about what to do next.

Suddenly, she realized that Fang Rui's Weibo post was sent after the Hundred Ghosts Night Parade (Bai Gui Ye Xing) side quest. This shouldn't be a coincidence. Perhaps something happened during this quest that affected his mood, leading to "so tired, no love." If she could understand what happened in this quest, could she see some clues?

Who should she ask?

Cheng Siyan looked at her QQ group list. She had almost all the Howling Heights players as friends. But asking the Howling Heights team itself about this matter was probably not objective enough. What about the other teams? Cheng Siyan looked down. Chu Yunxiu? Su Mucheng?

There were fewer female players in the professional scene, and there were also not many female reporters who covered Glory news. As rare species, her relationship with these two female goddess-level players was actually not bad. Coincidentally, these two were also involved in this side quest. Cheng Siyan quickly inquired about the news from these two.

As a result, Chu Yunxiu seemed to be offline, but Su Mucheng quickly replied to her and introduced the situation of this side quest.

Because they had a good relationship, Su Mucheng didn't refuse Cheng Siyan's request to hear the detailed process. When she heard that Excellent Era and Howling Heights had a direct confrontation, Cheng Siyan was excited. She had really asked the right person this time.

Cheng Siyan didn't want to miss any details of this battle. Su Mucheng also knew that she was the reporter who followed Howling Heights, so she wasn't surprised. However, the battle between Excellent Era and Howling Heights ended with the forced kill of Tang San Da. After that, they quickly retreated and then ambushed, watching Howling Heights being surrounded by Misty Rain and Wind Howl. The dispute between Zhao Yuzhe and Fang Rui occurred after Tang San Da's death. At that time, Excellent Era was already retreating, so they basically didn't hear their conversation. However, Su Mucheng had some impression of the situation where Zhao Yuzhe went deep alone during the retreat, and then at the end, the entire Howling Heights army was wiped out, leaving only Fang Rui's Ghost Beckons alive. Naturally, she told everything as it was.

Cheng Siyan didn't directly hear what she wanted, but she was familiar with the Howling Heights team. Zhao Yuzhe's solo pursuit, then Howling Heights giving up the pursuit, and then Fang Rui surviving when they were surrounded by Misty Rain and Wind Howl – this series of changes allowed her to guess a lot.

She could be sure that there was a problem between Fang Rui and Zhao Yuzhe.

Because she was familiar with these Howling Heights players. Zhao Yuzhe, this rookie, to put it nicely, was very enterprising, but to put it bluntly, he was a bit impatient. In that situation, a decisive pursuit would be his choice, but Fang Rui, the master of the dirty play style, was definitely cautious and careful. In addition, he knew Ye Xiu's strength far better than Zhao Yuzhe. In that situation, he would definitely not lightly agree to the pursuit.

Unfortunately, Captain Tang Hao was not there at that time. Although Fang Rui was the vice-captain of Howling Heights, the second-in-command, because of their different styles, Zhao Yuzhe ate Tang Hao's style, but didn't recognize Fang Rui's approach at all. Zhao Yuzhe mostly disagreed with Fang Rui's instructions. He would still act according to his familiar style, so disputes were inevitable. And in their dispute, Captain Tang Hao would definitely lean towards Zhao Yuzhe's side, after all, their paths were closer. And Fang Rui, who had fought for Howling Heights for many years, probably looked like an oddball in their comparison.

Cheng Siyan sighed deeply.

She really understood the meaning of "so tired, no love."

Fang Rui probably had been trying to establish contact with Tang Hao and Zhao Yuzhe, but he couldn't get any response. This was exactly like the saying: "I offer my heart to the bright moon, but the bright moon shines on the ditch."

And this had not happened just once or twice. Throughout the entire season, Fang Rui had not been able to integrate with Tang Hao and Zhao Yuzhe. Even after the playoff failure, Tang Hao and Zhao Yuzhe still did not change their original intentions.

This may be a kind of persistence, a belief in and adherence to their own style, but now, Fang Rui was being hurt by their persistence. In despair, besides leaving, was there any other choice?

The Howling Heights club seemed to have no attitude on this matter and had always been in a state of indifference. But in fact, in the operating mode of Glory professional clubs, the captain has the right to speak on such matters. Tang Hao's attitude was equivalent to the club's handling plan for this matter. Unfortunately, this was the final result that Fang Rui got. Tang Hao insisted on his original style and did not cater to Fang Rui's dirty play style at all. Only Fang Rui's one-sided full response to the team's style had a very poor effect, resulting in his value not being maximized.

"Really... the times are changing..." Cheng Siyan murmured to herself. Rogue and Thief, Tang San Da and Ghost Beckons – when Howling Heights put out this combination after Fang Rui joined the team, it was called the criminal combination and attracted considerable attention. Although they ultimately failed to join hands to reach the finals, Howling Heights was at least a regular in the playoffs, and no team dared to underestimate their strength. But now, everything was over. Lin Jingyan had left, Fang Rui was also preparing to leave, and it seemed that the style of the Thief class was simply not to the taste of Tang Hao and these new Howling Heights people. Howling Heights probably wouldn't introduce a new Thief player again, and the criminal combination of Rogue and Thief would end silently like this?

Cheng Siyan didn't know. She still hadn't obtained first-hand information from the person involved, but at this time, she was already starting to feel sad. Although she knew that such a choice might still be beneficial for the development of the Howling Heights team, it was difficult for fans who invested their feelings to face this issue rationally. The criminal combination was a symbol of Howling Heights in their hearts, and now, breaking up this combination was like Hundred Blossoms without the Dazzling Hundred Blossoms, Void without the Twin Ghosts, or Blue Rain without the Sword and Curse – it always made people feel extremely uncomfortable.

"Why is the result like this?" Cheng Siyan didn't ask about the next battle in Hundred Ghosts Lair. She was too lazy to write about this content. She believed that many of her colleagues would write about it, but at this time, what she cared about was the Howling Heights team. She was preparing to visit them in person tomorrow morning to ask what was going on.

Who would have thought that early the next morning, Cheng Siyan hadn't even left the house when she received a call saying there was major news. Cheng Siyan was shocked, thinking that the transfer had already been completed overnight, but what she heard was that Zhao Yang, a player from Seaside, had announced his retirement.