After Pretending to Be a Girl and Dating a Girl Online Through Her Stand-In

For laughs:

As the saying goes, if you want to be a general's wife, marry him while he's still a foot soldier.

If you want to be a pro gamer's sister-in-law, start dating him online while he's still at vocational school.

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Official version:

In Jiang Xunyuan's ridiculous life, he did one truly despicable thing worth mentioning.

He started an online relationship.

His partner was a girl he was playing, while pretending to be a woman himself.

The girl-for-hire was a beast at boosting, and dirt cheap. For minor-rank matches, she even threw in two extra games for free.

Staring at the friend requests saying "Got a mic? Daddy's here" and "Going pro? KW is recruiting," Jiang Xunyuan fell silent, wondering if he should ditch the job.

[Symphony: You got that high?]

[Girl-for-hire: My sister's account is sooo good. I got it there filling in, and I'm giving it to you.]

The girl-for-hire had a tragic Genshin Impact family situation. She was earning tuition money by boosting accounts while relatives on both sides of the family kept trying to take advantage of her. And yet she was kind and resilient.

[Girl-for-hire: This money is from my parents. After this, we're done for good.]

[Symphony: What will you do if you have no money?]

[Girl-for-hire: I'll take a leave from school and work as a full-time booster for a while.]

How could someone quit school just because they were broke? Jiang Xunyuan's inner old-fashioned Chinese instincts kicked in. He knew the other person liked him, so he said:

[Symphony: Keep studying. I'll cover your tuition and living expenses.]

[Girl-for-hire: Sis, you can't.]

[Symphony: Go to school, and I'll agree to be with you.]

[Girl-for-hire: ...]

And so Jiang Xunyuan spent his days interning and earning slave wages, then his nights checking his girlfriend's report card.

A 400 was pretty good. Jiang Xunyuan, a graduate of a top-tier university, thought with a smile.

His friends, meanwhile, started getting suspicious about the modest transfers he'd been sending for over six months. When they found out the other person was still in vocational school, they said:

Friend: "?? Should I call them out or cuss them out first?"

Friend: "Could the other person be pretending to be an old man?"

Jiang Xunyuan: "Get lost. I'm young."

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In the girl's third year of vocational school, she started an internship, and Jiang Xunyuan found a steady job too.

By the time the other person suggested meeting in real life, Jiang Xunyuan had already finished decorating their apartment.

By the romantic West Lake, there weren't many visitors on a weekday.

Jiang Xunyuan went to the place the other person had mentioned, but the only person sitting on the bench was a guy nearly six feet two.

Right.

That was Jiang Xunyuan's online partner.

Even more horrifying than his little girlfriend turning out to be a guy was that he'd slept with him.

Jiang Xunyuan: ...

Jiang Xunyuan: "You said you got an internship at an electronics factory?"

Sui Shan: "I play esports."

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Sui Shan had lost both parents, but they left him an apartment. He'd expected to spend his whole life getting by, playing games every day and earning a little extra on the side.

Then he met "Symphony."

A big sister six years older than him. She chatted with him and spent holidays with him. By the time Sui Shan fell for her, he realized how little he had to offer.

No money, no education, not even the ability to make the other person happy by passing physics.

He hadn't deceived many people in his life, but he had lied to Symphony about everything.

His gender was fake, his school was fake, and his internship was fake.

But even after learning that Symphony was a man, he was still going to make his way to Symphony, one step at a time.

Sui Shan had just signed a contract with PR Club when he went to meet Symphony.

Faced with Symphony's cold expression and complete silence,

Sui Shan took out the only two things he'd brought: his ID and his phone.

"If you don't look at me, I'll throw my ID in the lake, then my phone, and then I'll jump in too."

Jiang Xunyuan tugged at the corner of his mouth. "Jump first. Otherwise, I won't believe you."

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In the end, penniless Sui Shan clung to Jiang Xunyuan and moved back into his place. When he learned Jiang Xunyuan still liked him, he pestered him until they went to bed.

Sui Shan: "We slept together. I thought you'd take responsibility for me."

Jiang Xunyuan: "Heh. I should take responsibility for my own ass, not for you."

Jiang Xunyuan: "Also, pay me back."

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When the autumn tournament began, Sui Shan, who had several supposed girlfriends according to the obsessed fans, went public with his relationship. He had only one partner, whom he'd been dating since before joining the academy team.

At the final match of the autumn regular season, someone snapped a picture of Sui Shan leaving with a gorgeous cosplayer whose long legs and proportions were out of this world.

Not only was the cosplayer dressed as Sui Shan's favorite character, Sui Shan was carrying their high heels for them.

[It's nice when a pro gamer does well and his girlfriend isn't drama. This is a good relationship. Congrats!]

[But I heard this cosplayer talk, and I think he's a guy.]

[Huh?]

[Also, doesn't anyone think this cosplayer looks really familiar?]

[Huh?]

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Bonus scene

Everyone in SS knows SS has SS.

Jiang Xunyuan: Decode this, please.

SS: SS, your dick's still provoking people.

Jiang Xunyuan: ?

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Down-and-out pro gamer top x tsundere cosplayer bottom

Content warnings:

1. When the top and bottom dated online, they both pretended to be women. The top pretended to be a girl-for-hire to make money.

2. One of them is uneducated, and the other two have no manners.

3. More to be added.

Reader's guide:

1. The games in the tournaments are original, and there isn't much match content, so the story is easy to follow.

2. The story uses flashbacks. The couple is already together at the beginning.

3. Younger top; the bottom is six years older.

4. The story is set in 2029, in a partially fictionalized world.

One more thing: Jiang Xunyuan's most-used reaction image is the one in the story: [sideways laughing and crying] 🤣

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