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Web Novel and Donghua
- The animation downplays this, but per the web novel, the reason why Ye Xiu lacked any money when Excellent Era forced his exit? He had been using nearly all of his earnings since he began competing professionally to keep his less successful peers in eSports afloat after their dreams went dry and they were in the process of finding jobs and going back to school.
- Episode 5 of the donghua has Ye Xiu and Su Mucheng's reunion in-game after Ye Xiu's forced retirement.
- Ye Xiu giving nothing, but encouragement to Qiao Yifan, building up the latter's confidence throughout The King's Avatar, leading to his Undying Loyalty to Ye Xiu, so much that Yifan decides to join his mentor when Happy is formed. Even when Yifan foolishly promotes himself as a Ghost Blade player at the 6th All-Star Competition by taking on the best player for that Character Class and loses horribly in the rookie vs. veteran event, Ye Xiu's lecture isn't one done out of anger, but rather to assure Yifan that he should take it slow and acclimate to the Ghost Blade first, as he still has plenty of years ahead, despite Yifan's impatience at wanting to succeed in the now rather than later.
- The fact that many pro players from different teams have an online group chat together: despite the rivalry and tension between some teams who harbor deep-seated grudges, these professionals are comfortable with amicably chatting with one another.
- Despite everything that had happened to him, once the Season 9 Challengers League is over, Ye Xiu decides to help Excellent Era stay afloat from its bankruptcy and, despite being the captain for Happy, continues supporting his old organization so its fans can regain some semblance of hope after all the scandals regarding his forceful removal from Excellent Era. Fans still respect and sees him as their captain for all he did for the team after more than eight seasons in the league.
- Knowing there's a huge price tag for the legendary "One Autumn Leaf" account after the Season 9 Challengers League, and being unable to justify the cost for his own team (despite many of its members being Idle Rich), Lou Guanning of Heavenly Sword still offers to lend Ye Xiu the money to buy back his old character from Excellent Era.
- Part of the reason why Happy's team members keep deferring to Ye Xiu's leadership and stays on the team is that he supports their place on Happy's roster no matter what: during the Season 9 Challengers League, when Qiao Yifan is beaten by Everlasting, Ye Xiu assures Yifan apologies are unncessary when Happy still has plenty of chances to stave off elimination. When An Wenyi's performance against Samsara in a Season 10 regular match was received poorly by critics and the news media, Ye Xiu defended Wenyi by saying that he specifically chose him to be on their roster (which is true - An Wenyi was recruited because Happy needed a Cleric-class player and Ye Xiu had scouted him out for that very reason).
- Ye Xiu's way of increasing Happy's morale after being defeated by Tyranny in the Game 2 semi-final playoffs for Season 10 is to make highlight videos of each member.
Live-Action Drama
- Episode 4 has Chen Guo seizing one of the fallen posters that a construction crew is taking down from Excellent Era's headquarters across the street from her Happy Internet Cafe - that of Ye Xiu's One Autumn Leaf, following the organization's announcement of his retirement. So desperate to save it, this shows just how much she appreciates and enjoys the man behind the Living Legend, especially since in this adaptation, were it not for Ye Xiu, Chen Guo's father would never have been able to introduce her to Glory in the first place.
- With their victory against Chen Yehui's failed plot to ambush them in Episode 10, Ye Xiu, Tang Rou, Bao Rongxing, Qiao Yifan and Luo Ji go out for a round of hot pot, courtesy of Su Mucheng. Even outside of Glory, the camaraderie between this group of characters during dinner proves how tight-knit the group has become, a Foreshadowing of the future Team Happy.
- When Huang Shaotian calls Ye Xiu during the festivities, he accuses Ye Xiu of not inviting him to dinner, but also how he's planning on forming a new team to enter the Professional Alliance with these players. While Ye Xiu hasn't thought that far ahead, it's clear from Shaotian's query that this train of thought has started to turn the gears in Ye Xiu's head as he begins listing off all the attributes and qualities his potential teammates have.
- After confronting Ye Xiu in Glory about ceasing his activities with regards to breaking records the guilds have no way of doing themselves in Episode 11, Captain Han Wenqing of Tyranny is scheduled for an interview when the reporter asks him about Ye Xiu's "retirement". Despite what he said previously about Ye Xiu being a "deserter" or growing weak, it's clear those were all empty insults - even after nearly a decade of competing professionally against one another, Wenqing has nothing, but respect and faith for his long-time rival.Han Wenqing: "Ye Qiu is not someone who gives up when he encounters difficulties. Since the first league game, he has been an opponent I've had to be careful of at all times. I don't know why he chose to retire at this point. But I believe that he will return to the league."
Reporter: "Did you say he's going to return to the league?"
Han Wenqing: "Yes. Because I didn't hear from Ye Qiu himself that he is giving up. He must be somewhere out there continuing his fight for Glory." - Unlike the donghua and web novel, rather than going up against Du Ming of Samsara in the All-Star Competition, who challenges her repeatedly and vice versa whenever either one lost a match, Tang Rou faces off against reserve member Li Rui from Excellent Era and nearly wins until Sun Xiang takes his place. Adding insult to injury, he uses low-level skills from Li Rui's Battle Mage, purposely dragging the fight on and demoralizing her. She looks ready to break down until Ye Xiu comes in to save her at the last moment, putting Sun Xiang in his place. Keep in mind that before she went on-stage when selected for the fan vs. professional event, Ye Xiu cheekily tells her to play well as to not embarrass him when he's her teacher; Tang Rou insists she's self-taught. Nevertheless, Ye Xiu holds his disciple in the highest regard and won't tolerate a public humiliation.
- Another heartwarming moment is that neither does anyone else. The other veterans who've played against Ye Xiu for years are openly scornful and disgusted at Sun Xiang's behavior, and even the commentators aren't happy watching a professional player publicly trying to humiliate a rookie. It just shows the depths Excellent Era has sunk to.
- The moment when Chen Guo finds out that Xiu is truly Ye Qiu, the Battle God of Glory that she has idolized and agonized whether or not he was truly gone. Up until that point, she kept second-guessing herself, with Ming damn near breaking her confidence and hope that Ye Qiu would come back. Then she sees Soft Mist perform Ye Qiu's Signature Move, Dragon Raises its Head. And Ye Xiu just happened to be absent when it happened. She put two and two together, and you can tell she is overjoyed beyond words that her idol has not left Glory, nor has he forgotten the people who believed in him.
- The relationship between the Ye brothers. Despite Qiu deliberately acting like an asshole, in order to get his brother to come home, the two do ultimately care for each other, first shown when Xiu takes his unconscious and drunk brother to bed, and in the morning after, prepares a go-home gift. Rather than leave immediately, however, Qiu goes to see Xiu, where they promptly get involved in a water fight. It's the first time in the whole episode that the audience sees that, despite the drama surrounding the Ye family, the brothers do actually care for one another.
- Ye Xiu's father watching his son compete against Mysterious Fantasy and cheering him on. While he doesn't stick around after the match ends, he leaves Ye Xiu with a key to the house. Remember that in the flashbacks, Ye Xiu ran away from home because he and his father had a disagreement over the former's choice to pursue eSports. Before leaving, his grandfather left him with a key so that he can come home when he wants to, although years later the key no longer worked. Therefore, the act of giving Ye Xiu another key is more than enough to let him that his father has fully accepted him and his decision to play Glory.
- And at the end of the series, Ye Xiu is seen on the phone with his father, who has also started playing Glory and is now calling his son for help and asking him to team up with him, just like how Ye Xiu's grandfather used to do.
- Sleeping Moon/Chang Xian being the only supporter for Team Happy in their first match in the Challenge round and enthusiastically giving his all to cheer for the team. Upon Ye Xiu winning Team Happy's first individual match, he runs towards Ye Xiu's father who is the only other audience on Happy's side and encourages him to cheer and proceeds to explain to Ye Xiu's father what makes Glory (and Ye Xiu) so great.Chang Xian: Don't think you are too old to be passionate ... it's a game that can bridge our age gap, awaken our dreams in the boring life and let a boy such as him become a public idol ... He has been telling us there is nothing impossible with life. Even if you were expelled, retired or challenged ... he is still standing on that stage!
- After the Happy café was vandalized with insults against Ye Xiu, the rest of Team Happy proceed to go online to defend Ye Xiu. While their efforts don't sway the public fan opinion, it's a nice touch on their part for their captain after knowing what he went through.
- After Everlasting's disbandment from their loss to Happy, Ye Xiu gives Wu Chen a second chance at Glory by recruiting him into Team Happy, and insists that he join not as a manager (like in the novel) but as a player. It will never be the same as Everlasting, but he's still given an opportunity to still do what he loves until he no longer can; an opportunity that senior professional players rarely get.
- Huang Shaotian, Yu Wenzhou, Han Wenqing, Wang Jiexi, and Xiao Shiqin - all rivals of Ye Xiu, agreeing and coming together to support Ye Xiu and convincing the chairman to not ban Ye Xiu.
- In general, their support of Team Happy is quite heartwarming, with almost all of them at one point coming to sit in the stands to watch Team Happy in the final Challenge match against Excellent Era.
- Team Happy celebrating their victory against Excellent Era in the series finale. It's just another well-done example that an underdog story will never stop being touching.Han Wenqing: Records are there to be broken. That's why Glory could create so many miracles.
- You'll also be proud of them both as a group and individually, when you keep in mind where some of the teammates started off before joining Happy. For example, there's Tang Rou, who initially saw Glory as merely another challenge she must only win at; Bao Rongxing, a casual player who always dreamed of joining the professional league; Qiao Yifan, who spent a long time as a bench-warmer and errand boy before being mentored by Ye Xiu; and Wu Chen, whose previous team dissolved from never being able to win a championship. And they've all come so far.
- Whereas Tao Xuan in the web novel hands Su Mucheng her professional account "Dancing Rain" for a token sum of less than half a million renmenbi after the Season 9 Challengers League to use in Happy (an incredibly cheap offer considering the character's legacy and reputation in the league), he instead hands it to Ye Xiu in the live-action free of charge, out of respect for the friendship that he once had with Ye Xiu and Su Muqiu.
- In Episode 38, Xiao Shiqin's old teammates at Thunderclap are seen in the stands cheering for their ex-captain. Despite leaving, there is clearly no hard feelings and they still deeply respect their ex-captain.
- After the Myriad Manifestation Umbrella breaks, Team Happy and the entire Happy Guild work together to gather supplies and help Ye Xiu repair it.
