We Despise That Streamer!

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How Can a Commoner Like Me Survive at an Aristocratic Academy?

This is a hit survival game set in a luxurious aristocratic academy, known for its exceptionally high degree of freedom. Players take on the role of an impoverished scholarship student newly arrived at an elite school, with just one goal: graduate successfully.

But the real reason the game took the internet by storm was the huge prize the developers dangled before players: the first player to achieve the graduation ending would win a million in cash!

The developers certainly weren't going to let players take home the money without a struggle. The map was packed with all kinds of absurd deaths and elaborate Game Over scenarios, leaving players everywhere close to tears:

?? What do you mean I starved to death because I had no money for food?

This is ridiculous! Why was I forced to drop out because I failed my final exams?! I came to play a game, not go to school!

Soon, the top streamers in every major gaming livestream were doing everything they could to stand out:

One streamer known for being a top student: Tonight, I'll study by lamplight and claim the number one spot in my grade!

One streamer focused on everyday life: Tips on legal part-time jobs for high school students and extreme budgeting.

One short-tempered streamer passed by and declared: Forget gaming. Fighting bullies is what really matters!

While livestreams all over the internet were blooming in every direction and competing fiercely, one livestream with a peculiar style was met with widespread scorn and endless teasing from viewers.

The reason was simple:

The streamer named Bai Yang had shamelessly and without a shred of dignity cozied up to the most powerful person in the school, the president of the Academic Council!

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Facing a screen full of accusations and doubts that he was sucking up to the powerful, Bai Yang immediately retorted:

What do you mean, cozied up to him? Don't sully the pure and flawless friendship between me and my best bro!

Livestream chat: Vomiting.jpg / Have some shame, streamer!

The viewers started listing the streamer's offenses:

1. You used every rare free-dialogue card you earned from missions on the president, but only use the System's preset dialogue with everyone else. Streamer, tell me: Does saying to an NPC, "It is my honor to serve a beautiful lady," sound like something a real person would say?

2. You check in at the president's office every single day, no matter the weather, without fail. You don't even show up to check in at the livestream this faithfully!

3. What kind of best bro says, "Bro, you smell so good!"?

And so on. The evidence was irrefutable and too numerous to count.

But the streamer still stubbornly refused to admit anything.

The forum even opened a highly popular betting thread about it:

[Guess when that gay-as-hell streamer will finally show his true colors.]

[Day one: The streamer hasn't done it.]

[Day two: The streamer hasn't done it.]

After the game ended and the livestream never came back, the thread gradually faded into obscurity. Then, one day, a bombshell reply sent it rocketing back to the top of the rankings:

[Day five hundred and twenty: The streamer came out!]

Thread starter

[...I knew it. Hah, sneaky gay man.]

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Later, when people asked Bai Yang how he and Ji Quan got together, Bai Yang would always gaze back fondly on their "romantic" first meeting:

It was the first time in his life he'd met an NPC with such a poisonous tongue. Bai Yang got so angry that he immediately went head-to-head with him online. The game's freedom was so high that they nearly staged a martial arts showdown in the aristocratic academy's fountain plaza.

That was when Bai Yang knew:

This NPC was something special!

Theme: Meeting is a twist of fate.