【Yes! He never kissed Road!】

"Alright, the match is starting." Ryan Cooper interrupted the rhythm of the barrage, moving his own video window. "Is this video window blocking the match interface? I'll turn it off for a bit."

【Turn it off my ass! I'm here just to see your face! If you turn it off, I might as well go watch the official stream!】

【Don't turn it off, your blue thing is the only thing keeping me awake.】

When Ryan Cooper first started streaming, he was assigned to the "Looks Zone" by the stream admins because he was too good-looking.

He had fair skin, long and thick eyelashes, eyes even more lively than a girl's, and a small mole on the right side of his nose tip. If you muted the stream and just looked at the person in the video, you'd think he was at most seventeen or eighteen.

But the key reason Ryan Cooper was put in the "Looks Zone" was that he had dyed his hair blue.

The aqua blue made him look even paler, and with a mic hanging on his ear, he could debut as an idol any time.

However, Ryan Cooper didn't stay in the Looks Zone for long. He got reported for insulting viewers, and after dozens of complaints, the admins obediently put him back in the LOL section.

After all, the brothers and sisters in the Looks Zone just couldn't handle it mentally.

Obviously, Ryan Cooper wasn't asking for their opinion. After he finished speaking, he swiftly turned off the video.

With the camera on, even eating noodles felt awkward.

He ignored the protests in the chat, went full screen, and focused on watching the match.

The match was a BO5 format—best of five, first to three wins. It tested not only the players' skills but also their mentality and patience. But none of the people on stage were rookies; everyone was in a very stable state.

In the first game, TTC targeted the enemy's top lane and successfully counter-ganked the enemy jungler twice, easily securing victory in thirty-five minutes.

In the second game, TTC's bot lane created a huge advantage right from the start, breaking the enemy's bot inhibitor first. But because Kan got caught and killed twice in a row, they gave the enemy a chance and unfortunately lost the game at forty-five minutes.

The score was now 1:1.

The chat was going wild, all flaming Kan for being bad, and some were asking why Ryan Cooper wasn't flaming Kan anymore.

"I'm tired of flaming him." Ryan Cooper looked at the stats from the last game and said, "8300 damage... Forty-five minutes, and he only did 8300 damage. If I put a Rift Scuttler in mid lane, even the Scuttler would do more damage than him."

【All you do is bbbbbb in the stream. If you're so good, why don't you play?】

"If you're so good, you do it"—Ryan Cooper saw this phrase in the chat a thousand times a day.

He couldn't be bothered to respond, leaned back in his chair, and focused on the third game.

If the first two games could be considered Kan being reasonably bad, then in this game, at five minutes, Kan made a ridiculous misflash and gave away first blood for free.

Fortunately, Road stepped up as always. In the mid and late game, using Camille's pick-off advantage, he led the top laner to catch the enemy several times, and they barely managed to win.

The fourth game was even longer.

Kan finally did something right in the early game—no mistakes in lane—but in the mid and late game teamfights, he actually bailed on his teammates twice while still at half health.

Some less skilled players might think Kan's escapes were understandable, but Ryan Cooper knew very well that if Kan had dealt enough follow-up damage in those two teamfights, they could have easily traded two or three enemy players.

Forget pro players—even if you put a Platinum-level player in that teamfight, they wouldn't choose to abandon their teammates and run.

At fifty-two minutes, TTC lost the fourth game. The score was now 2:2, both teams at match point.

The moment the fourth game ended, Road was the first to stand up, walking straight to the backstage without even glancing at Kan beside him.

【Why isn't the streamer talking?】

【I'm so immersed, I've already smashed Kan's dog head for Road.】

【The streamer hasn't flamed Kan for two whole games!】

Ryan Cooper was quiet for a moment, until the camera cut to Kan.

Kan was a tall, slightly chubby guy, with an honest and easygoing look. Right now, he was hanging his head, looking extremely guilty.

"What do you think he's thinking?" Ryan Cooper suddenly spoke.

【Probably feeling bad. After all, he's getting old—already 24 this year. His hands and mind can't keep up with the younger guys...】

【Kan wasn't that great even when he was young, OK? He was always the weakest link on the team.】

【Haters, have some decency. Kan has helped the team win plenty of times too.】

The chat was lively, but Ryan Cooper cut them off with one sentence: "I bet he's thinking... 'I acted so well these last two games, the bookie better give me a bigger cut later.'"

As soon as he said that, both haters and fans were stunned, and the screen was instantly filled with question marks.

Ryan Cooper's meaning was clear—he was sarcastically implying that Kan was throwing the game for the bookies.

With the LOL league having developed to this scale, it was inevitable that gambling would get involved. Many teams had been suspected of "match-fixing," but it was always just private grumbling among viewers, never said out loud.