A Hint of Sweetness in Xingyang

Gaming god × adorable newbie

Cold top student × healing, talented writer

Love goes both ways · All sweetness, no angst · From school uniforms to wedding gowns

You were love at first sight, a heartbeat that lasted a thousand years, and the place I return to after wandering through a galaxy of stars.

In a sentence:

The years the top player on the server spoiled me rotten, and then married me in real life.

Huaqing University has two legends

One is Shen Xingci from the computer science department.

Top GPA, a coding god, three consecutive esports championships. He's known as “the walking AI”: cool and detached, keeping everyone at arm's length, too aloof to even spare them a glance.

They say there are only two things he's interested in: coding and gaming.

The other is Su Yangyang from the Chinese department.

On her first day of freshman orientation, a side-profile photo of her took over the campus forums. She was the top scorer in Chinese on the college entrance exam, and when she smiled, it felt like spring had arrived three months early.

They call her the “little sun of the Chinese department.” Wherever she goes, she seems to carry her own soft-focus glow.

The two legends were separated by an entire avenue of parasol trees and never crossed paths.

Until one day

Shen Xingci stood outside the computer science building and saw her walking beneath the parasol trees.

Sunlight scattered across the ground, and her ponytail swayed gently in the breeze.

His heart skipped a full beat.

That night, the top player on the server, “Starfall,” found a little newbie being chased all over a low-level dungeon by a boss.

ID: Milky Way Yangyang.

He sent her a party invite.

From then on, the game had a little follower whom the big shot kept in the palm of his hand.

In real life, everyone at Huaqing University noticed that Shen, the eternally expressionless gaming god, had started showing up near the Chinese department building all the time.