When Honor of Kings and League of Legends started fighting each other…
Needless to say, the momentum was beyond imagination.
The top ten Weibo trending topics were completely taken over.
Forums across every platform opened threads to discuss it.
Even the novel's comment section had tons of people chiming in.
That's how ridiculous it was!
Honor of Kings gets mocked as a "screen-protector mobile game," but no matter what, its player base is enormous.
Pretty much everyone has downloaded it at some point, and played at least a little.
And there's also a massive loyal crowd of elementary schoolers and college students.
The core keywords this morning were:
dine, TES, Top Esports…
The traffic and buzz were maxed out.
And the point of debate was simple:
Was the dine who brutally stomped KPL ace Yi Zheng yesterday actually the mid laner from TES's League division?
Was he a Honor of Kings player, or a League player?
Posts popped up nonstop, each with their own stance and arguments.
"How could he be a League player? The two games are both MOBAs, but the hero skills and control feel are totally different.
One is played on PC with mouse and keyboard, the other is touchscreen. There's no way someone can adapt perfectly in that situation."
"I agree with OP. Maybe this dine is really good at Honor of Kings, but to slaughter that many pro players—and even get Zhang Daxian to personally invite him—how high does that level have to be?
It's hard to imagine a League pro directly becoming a Honor of Kings pro.
Different games are like being separated by mountain ranges."
"Heh. Brother Infinite Borders' gaming talent is obvious. Naraka: Bladepoint is hard enough, right? He picked it up in days and now he's already top tier.
Genshin Impact is single-player, but he still plays it like a show, mechanics maxed.
How hard is Honor of Kings? I'm Silver in League, but I'm an Invincible King in Honor of Kings. So for someone talented like Brother Infinite Borders, casually stomping the pros you're talking about is totally possible."
"You guys used to hype up Menglei—wasn't he just a third-rate player League didn't want?
In Honor of Kings he shined and became a jungle king. I'll say it right now—that has to be Brother Infinite Borders!"
"I'm eating lemons. TES needs to speak up already. Why are they playing dead?"
They argued all morning, and the heat only got higher.
A bunch of people even went to leave comments under TES's Honor of Kings division.
Those comments made the manager over there completely dumbfounded.
What was going on?
The club hadn't had any roster changes lately.
Who was dine? Why were people saying he was a TES player? They never signed him. Was this just clout-chasing?
Totally confused, the manager quickly called the coach, planning to go check the dorms and ask what the hell was happening—how did a dine suddenly appear in the club?
Then the landline next to him rang.
He picked it up—it was a call from head office.
The reason: the company stock had surged this morning.
Head office looked into it and found out that Honor of Kings players and League players were tearing into each other over a player named dine.
So they called immediately to ask what was going on.
Since the rumors started on the Honor of Kings side, and many people learned from Zhang Daxian's stream that dine was "a TES player,"
naturally, head office asked the Honor of Kings division first.
The division manager could only say he didn't know the details yet and needed to investigate.
Considering TES's League division did have a player named dine, it wasn't impossible that someone in the Honor of Kings division idolized him and copied the ID.
There were precedents for that in the Honor of Kings pro scene.
After hanging up, the manager's smile grew wider and wider.
No matter what, this was a good thing.
If the company stock went up, the bonus next would definitely be fat…
So he eagerly headed to the dorms to ask.
But after hearing the players' answers, his smile slowly disappeared.
What?
It had nothing to do with them at all?
Then why did that dine yesterday claim he was a TES player?
Could it be he had intentions of joining?
"Quickly—if he has that intention, we need to contact him!"
"Post on Weibo…"
"No, no. If we post on Weibo, other teams will realize dine isn't actually with TES."
If he was a free agent, then it was all about who could pull him first.
Zhang Daxian already contacted him and got ahead of everyone, so they couldn't post.
"You guys contact him in-game. Spam friend requests—spam them!"
…
Meanwhile, in the League division next door, Guo Hao woke up and also didn't expect Weibo to be this explosive.
Good grief—traffic maxed out.
But Lin Fan was a League pro. What did that have to do with Honor of Kings?
He sat there with one leg crossed over the other, ready to call Luo Sheng over.
After all, Brother Infinite Borders had spent all day playing TFT yesterday, and plenty of fans were already leaving comments demanding the club "manage him properly."
But then he got news from the other division:
None of the signed players had changed their ID to dine.
"TIMI~"
Guo Hao suddenly remembered how Lin Fan looked on the bus playing Honor of Kings—thumb and index finger sliding nonstop across the screen.
And then… in Zhang Daxian's chat logs, dine said he was from TES.
No way.
Could it really be Lin Fan?
Holy shit!
Guo Hao couldn't sit still anymore. He jumped up and rushed to the training room to ask in person.
He pushed the door open and saw Lin Fan sitting there, yawning.
Looked like he'd only just arrived.
"Hao-ge's here? We've been training properly, fully prepared for the V5 match." JackeyLove called everyone "ge." It cost him nothing, but earned goodwill—real cleverness.
TL: Don't know if I addressed this yet. Ge is an honorific, referring to someone as a senior/older brother in a casual manner.
"Have you guys checked Weibo?"
Hearing that, everyone subconsciously shook their heads.
The matches were over, the praise had been read—why go on Weibo for no reason?
"So you don't know what happened yesterday?"
"What happened?" Mark didn't understand. He pulled out his phone to look.
JackeyLove did the same.
After scanning a bit, he said in disbelief, "Fan-ge… the guy who slaughtered the Honor of Kings pros yesterday… that wasn't you, was it?"
"Huh? What's going on?"
Lin Fan was confused. He took JackeyLove's phone and looked.
The more he read, the weirder his expression got.
"If we go by what this Weibo post says… then this dine really is me."
"Your mom's ass… it really was you!" JackeyLove was completely convinced.
"I don't know either, but I seriously didn't feel like I beat that many pros. My rating is only 2000-something. If I open the leaderboard, most of them are 2600+. Isn't that what pros should look like?"
Lin Fan hadn't expected that just by playing at 2000+ rating, he'd apparently beaten multiple pro players…
and trended for it.
But weren't those "pros" just… bad?
He was only doing normal stuff. He didn't do anything special.
And there was no hero buff or anything. He kept telling JackeyLove he was "training League through Honor of Kings"—everyone knew that was just a joke.
So… was his Honor of Kings level actually high?
Was he really a genius?
He subconsciously glanced at his system panel.
Passive boost: Game sense +40%, Mechanics +35%, Farming +15%, Reaction +40%…
It had to be the reaction.
A flat +40% reaction time boost—he'd already surpassed normal people.
In Honor of Kings, of course he'd feel comfortable.
"Hahaha, Fan-ge, if League doesn't work out you can just transfer to the Honor of Kings division," JackeyLove couldn't help joking.
"Cut it out, stop joking." After confirming the guy causing all the chaos was Lin Fan, Guo Hao suddenly worried about getting backstabbed.
If Lin Fan really got stolen away and switched to being a Honor of Kings pro, there'd be nowhere to cry.
After Spring Split they planned to trade Knight out—Lin Fan was the true core mid who carried the flag…
Still, he had to report it upward.
Humming to himself, face shining with oil, he took out his phone and called leadership.
Inside, he was grinning ear to ear.
Since discovering Lin Fan as their mid laner, TES had been smooth sailing—and so had he.
A lucky general!
With this momentum, the budget he could apply for in Summer Split would be beyond imagination.
After reporting, Guo Hao remembered something and quickly told Lin Fan:
"Fan-ge, if someone asks about this in your stream later, don't answer first. Let the club make the official response."
Lin Fan nodded, but he didn't plan to stream in the morning anyway.
Yesterday he'd streamed TFT climbing. Even with people trolling, the grind still got harder.
And now he was about to touch Diamond, where you could match into even more people.
If seven players targeted him, he couldn't hit 3-star Dump Truck every time.
He'd deal with streaming again after he reached Challenger.
At that point, people wouldn't even be able to queue in to troll.
And he only wanted a tournament eligibility spot, not rank #1. No conflicts of interest—so even if he matched into someone, nobody would throw on purpose.
So for the next two days, Lin Fan didn't plan to stream TFT.
The people camping his stream room got nothing.
"What's with the workhorse Brother Infinite Borders? Why no stream today?!"
"I'm pissed. After seeing the news last night, I couldn't sleep. Felt like a cat was scratching my heart. I got up early just to wait here and find out if it's really him."
"I think it's him. It's basically confirmed. He said he's a TES player and his ID is dine."
"Brother Infinite Borders is just that noncommittal. That's talent—he can casually play Honor of Kings and stomp pro players."
"Normal. How many pros has he slaughtered in Naraka: Bladepoint? His CrossFire is high level too. The guy on trending was definitely Brother Infinite Borders."
"Okay, so it's him—but why no stream?"
Meanwhile, Lin Fan had been quietly climbing hard.
In a single morning, he won five lobbies in a row!
He broke through Platinum I and climbed straight to Diamond II.
"Seems like at this pace, in two more days you'll hit Challenger."
Even Lin Fan hadn't expected it to be this easy.
Looks like TFT was a luck game… and since he reincarnated with a system, he had the protagonist's luck.
As long as you understood comps, the rest was up to luck…
League players and Honor of Kings players spent half a day fermenting the topic. The discussion only grew.
Just the participation numbers alone had already exceeded 150 million…
That level of heat was outrageous.
The traffic made other capital circles' eyes turn red with envy.
Then, TES finally spoke up.
Perfectly cashing in the traffic.
Top Esports Esports Club:
"Response regarding the dine player currently being discussed online.
He belongs to Top Esports League of Legends Esports Club, not Top Esports' Honor of Kings division."
Then they attached Lin Fan's photo.
"Pine-and-cypress resolve; even under frost, it stays lush. Follow your dreams forward, and grow toward the sun."
And of course, underneath they tagged all the sponsor daddies.
#FightWithNoRegrets#
The moment the post went live, the entire platform exploded.
Honor of Kings players couldn't believe it.
A League pro had blown up Honor of Kings pros—
not in League,
but in Honor of Kings.
Four simple words: can't accept it!
And it wasn't like he stomped some random nobodies.
He stomped top-tier players with real league reputations and results.
What did that mean?
He could casually play and still have the power to massacre the Honor of Kings league?
"Holy shit, I knew it was Brother Infinite Borders!"
"I told you not to be too curious at the start. Now you got the answer and you can't accept it. But Brother Infinite Borders is ruthless—how is his Honor of Kings level this high without a sound?"
"I finally understand why Brother Infinite Borders doesn't train. It's so the league still has challenges. If training makes it too easy, he just goes to conquer other games."
"Damn, you're right! If someone pisses him off, he'll retire on the spot and transfer to TES's Honor of Kings division."
"If Brother Infinite Borders can win Worlds this year, I'm telling you, he'll be a god."
"After hearing this, I only have one thought: when is Brother Infinite Borders going live?!"
Honor of Kings players couldn't accept it… but they still wanted to see what kind of monster this was.
They looked him up and got scared.
"Seems like he really has something."
Leaving aside how he saved TES in the league,
his overall game skill was absurd.
The variety he played was too wide.
Honor of Kings and Heroes Evolved—fine, those are MOBA-like.
But then… Naraka: Bladepoint, CrossFire, Counter-Strike? What the hell?
And the reviews were all extremely high.
Insane.
In any pro league, just understanding your one game is already impressive.
But someone who masters everything like this—he's a monster.
Even if he hasn't stacked trophies yet…
They found Lin Fan's stream and quietly clicked Follow.
In no time at all, his follower count jumped by another 700,000—an absurd number.
All because the overnight incident had blown up everywhere.
Even people outside the circle had heard about it.
Even with the stream offline, the black-screen room still had over two million viewers,
ranking #1 in the League category.
And then…
the black screen suddenly lit up.
The chat exploded instantly!
Brother Infinite Borders went live!
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