(A self-insert fanfic. Please don't associate it with the real person.)
The day she ran into him in the ranked tournament, she was using her younger brother’s pro account without permission and had even snatched the jungler role.
His amused voice came through her headset. “So fierce today, Nuan Yang?”
It wasn’t until the post-match stats screen that she noticed: right beside the ID of the strongest jungler on the server was the female gender symbol.
The next day, backstage at the competition, Yang Tao cornered Lin Xi against the wall. “Your brother’s account?”
She gripped the cheer stick in her hand. “My younger brother’s...”
From a distance, Xu Bicheng came sprinting over, waving his staff pass. “Wu Wei! Hands off my girl!”
When fans crowded around her at the garden fair to take pictures of her Da Qiao cosplay, he pushed through the crowd toward her.
He tossed a lantern straight into her arms, and his in-game voice played aloud: “Welcome home.”
That night, the trending topic exploded: #WuWeiClaimsHisLovedOneInPerson#
At the World Championship awards ceremony, he dropped to one knee in front of viewers around the world.
“Lin Xi, want to unlock a new life quest with me?”
She held up her phone to the camera. The party invite had already been accepted.
