Hey, Weren't There Supposed to Be No Gays in Esports?!

[A love idiot × a clingy, straightforward guy + HE + Younger Top + Reconciliation + Esports]

After finishing a ranked match, Yan Ci, a youth training player for IVL, receives a team-up invitation from the association’s five-player squad. He thinks he’ll be playing the hunter role, but someone else beats him to it, so he fills in as a survivor instead.

The player who picks Novelist boldly tells Yan Ci to play Little Girl and stick with him. Yan Ci looks at their team’s three-observer lineup and falls into deep thought. Looking at the screen while streaming, he quietly asks:

“Is this a proper five-player team?”

…

He thinks they won’t cross paths again after this match, but the other guy latches onto him, praising his Little Girl gameplay and calling him “sis” at every turn. Terrified, Yan Ci sends a voice message calling him an idiot, then leaves the team, quits the association, and runs off. Only after the day is over does Xun Qingshi realize he’s trending.

#COIOsister

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The next time they meet is at an in-person youth training event. Xun Qingshi corners Yan Ci and asks plaintively why he hasn’t looked for him since that day. “You didn’t come looking for me, so I came looking for you.”

…

Yan Ci thinks Xun Qingshi’s feelings for him are just ordinary friendship between teammates. Holding hands and hugging now and then is one thing, but then one day he notices that the two of them have a CP fan page online.

“Me and him? No way!”

He plans to ask what the other guy meant by all those things he did, but when he looks up, he catches the other man’s subtle gaze.

No, no, no! Teammates can’t sleep in the same bed. Teammates can’t kiss! Don’t come any closer! We’re teammates with a powerful bond, damn it!