(Hey, friends, do you read sweet romances? If you do, you might even help me and your buddy get together.)
When a “family emergency meeting” called by their parents to discuss marriage suddenly connects, what arrives isn’t a lecture but a box of bright red wedding candies and the keys to a south-facing two-bedroom apartment. The lives of Lin Ye and Su Tang, longtime gaming buddies, are instantly thrown into an unexpected new game.
They are partners who used to sneak into arcades, do homework online together, and stay up all night playing Starfield. They are interns working side by side at the same game company, and best friends who get potato chip crumbs in each other’s hair and find it easier to criticize each other’s gameplay than to flirt. Faced with their parents’ bombshell suggestion that they “get the paperwork done first,” along with a “marital home” said to have room for two gaming PCs, the pair are stunned for a moment. Then they spot the familiar glint of mischief in each other’s eyes.
“Get the paperwork done? Does that mean we can stay up gaming all night without hiding it?”
“And we can replace the gaming chairs with a two-seater!”
So these two twenty-year-olds, brand-new marriage certificates in hand, plunge into the new level called “marriage.” They discuss house rules like “no team battles during this time” on a note stuck to the IKEA mattress, plan star-gazing cushions for the bay window, and awkwardly learn how to take their “duo queue” from the virtual battlefield into the everyday realities of life, from meals to bills, in front of their gleaming collection of game consoles.
