My Mission Is to Become the World's Greatest Jockey

[Hardcore Tech-Savvy Streamer Top x Racehorse Bottom with Competition PTSD]

Wen Renqi is a streamer with impressive technical skills but nothing to say on camera. His only selling point is "maxed-out gameplay," and his livestream usually has single-digit viewers. That is, until he's told to stream a wildly popular horse-racing game, with the gimmick: [Zero spending, zero pulls from start to finish. Reach world number one through sheer skill!]

Viewers: ??

Everyone else starts with a full team of SSRs, and you don't even have a horse?

And so the stream takes a complete turn:

While everyone else spends money on pulls, he cleans the stables, hoping to win a horse over with his good looks. It doesn't work, but with the help of a good friend, he lands a great-value job instead.

While everyone else raises their stats, he grinds for cash, hoping to win the horse owner over with money. But in his debut race, his affection score is too low, so the horse refuses to enter the starting gate. With neither horse nor money, he has to go mooch food and lodging from his good friend...

While everyone else shows off their racehorse stats, he somehow develops a rider stat sheet: Agility E, Control E+, Ability to Take a Beating MAX

The viewers flood the chat with jeers:

[Everyone else is playing a horse-raising game, but the streamer turned it into a wage-slave simulator.]

[Sell the rider and racehorse stats separately! Youjun, come copy this homework!]

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But the game's awful pay-to-win mechanics mean you can't clear it without pulling cards.

After countless reloads, Wen Renqi sets his sights on the one good friend whose affection score is high enough that he won't throw Wen Renqi off during a race: Yangmu Jianqing.

[That's what being broke is like. In a pinch, you don't even spare your own friend.]

[But... isn't this friend a horse?]

That's right! And now, the "maxed-out gameplay" donkey-riding strategy makes its glorious debut!

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Yangmu Jianqing still carries the trauma of being surrounded and left with a broken bone. When a herd of horses corners him during a race, he feels the young horse beneath him panic. Wen Renqi holds the reins in one hand, then suddenly reaches over with the other and gently covers Yangmu Jianqing's eyes. He whispers to the horse, whose ears are soft and supple, "You don't have to worry about a thing. Just look at me."

The next second, he throws his head back and shouts, "Number Eight, the one who was throwing the race, is done for! We're the world's number one horse-racing duo, "

The first half: A heart-stopping moment.

The second half: Instant death.

The viewers explode: [Streamer, can you stop mixing sweet nothings with trash talk?]

[Reader's Guide]

1. In this world, racehorses take human form in everyday life and turn into horses only when running.

2. The bottom is a horse, but he was mistaken for a donkey early on because he was so thin and weak.

3. One-on-one, both virgins, happy ending.

Theme: Take the initiative when facing adversity