If You Can, Get Off the Jungler

*Not sure if I can hit the plot point in time. If I can't finish, I'll post a longer one tomorrow.

*Sweet, gentle girl x composed, cool older guy. Scroll down for content warnings.

Blurb One

Zhou Chi, KPL championship jungler and wildly popular pro player.

Cool and quiet, nicknamed the Heartbreaker.

The kind of guy who can break a girl's heart without lifting a finger, just by existing.

One late night, Zhou Chi started streaming, an unusual move for him.

He spent the whole night grinding his alt account from Silver to Master.

Just as the chat was laughing that he was so starved for attention he'd gone insane, a sweet, clear female voice suddenly rang in every viewer's ears:

“Zhou Chi, are you still mad? I just finished painting. I'm waiting in bed for you to come to sleep. It's not hard or tiring at all, you know.”

On-screen, the jungler who'd just dominated all three lanes froze.

The man who'd been expressionless a moment ago instantly switched out of the game, turned his face away, and lowered his voice to soothe her.

“I'm not mad.”

“Give me your hand. I'll rub it for you.”

Viewers: Why do I get the feeling Zhou Chi is the one getting picked up here?

Blurb Two

The day Zhu Youning first met Zhou Chi, rain poured from the sky.

Back then, he was the first jungler in KPL history to win back-to-back championships.

Young, confident, with a bright future ahead.

She accidentally broke his FMVP trophy at the team base. He merely glanced at her, then looked away.

“It's fine.”

“I'll just win another one.”

When they met again two years later, she had become a renowned concept artist in the industry, known online as Little Drizzle.

The former golden boy had been forced to switch to support and was going through the darkest period of his career.

A hand injury, a role change, and public pressure.

Week's era was over. That's what everyone said.

During a casual stream, the opposing team decided support was the easiest target and focused on Zhou Chi from the start.

The once-mighty jungler was now playing an enchanter support. His movement was clumsy, his skills missed, and it looked like he'd get wiped out in the deciding team fight.

Just then, Zhu Youning's jungler dropped in from above and sent several opponents straight back to the respawn point.

The opposing team couldn't take it. They started raging in chat.

[What rotten luck, getting matched against someone boosting a girl.]

[If you're so good, get off the jungler's back!]

His teammate had watched the whole thing. He glanced at the “girl” herself, who was chewing gum and ambling along behind the jungler, then said, “Aren't you being a little too underhanded?”

At that, Zhou Chi looked up at the girl in the seat across from him, her cheeks puffed out with anger.

“Maybe a little.”

Everyone knew Zhou Chi hated rainy days.

Whenever it rained, his right hand would start aching faintly.

Yet on the night he won another FMVP, he did something unprecedented and posted from his main account.

@WP-Zhou Chi: Little Drizzle. I like it.

[Reading Notes]

1. One-on-one romance, both leads have only ever been with each other, mutual salvation.

2. This story is also known as This Week's Drizzle. The blurb screenshot was taken on 2025.5.2.

3. The esports elements serve the plot. This is not a professionally researched esports novel. Tournament rules, formats, and some aspects of the professional scene are fictionalized, simplified, or based on author-created details, and may differ from reality. Please don't use it as a reference for professional esports.

4. All characters are entirely fictional, with independently created personalities, backgrounds, careers, and romantic storylines. They do not depict or represent any real person, nor are they based on the experiences of any real players. Please don't associate them with anyone in the real esports scene.

5. Please respect all real-life pro players and industry professionals. Don't bring real people into the comments, make real-person pairings, or speculate about who the characters are based on.

“I used to hate every rainy day, until you became my rainy season.”

Theme: You are wonderful, too