I'm Just Trying to Soothe You

[Please add my next story, the age-gap romance Fake Cute, to your favorites]

Blurb: 1. Four years ago, Xu Jingyu got involved with a sweet little puppy of a guy, then accidentally broke his heart.

She never found him again, so she remembered it as a beautiful encounter.

But four years later, she ran into him at the parcel station downstairs. The puppy glared at her with wide eyes and bared his teeth, holding her package hostage. He clearly still held a grudge over what had happened back then.

Shen Qingrang is a gaming streamer on a certain livestreaming platform, famous for being handsome enough to make a living off his looks, yet choosing to rely on his skills. Word is that several teams have tried to recruit him, only to be turned down. Plenty of fangirls have also asked him to duo with them and help them climb the ranks, but none have had any luck.

But no one knows that four years ago, he gave Xu Jingyu everything he had, only for the King of the Jungle to get thoroughly played.

Until one evening, when he found a parcel at the parcel station.

2. After damaging her vocal cords, Xu Jingyu retired from being a top-tier voice actor. Four years later, she made a comeback, signing on to stream game commentary for a certain platform. Her fairy-like image was transformed overnight, and she became the platform's hot-tempered queen of commentary.

[That red blob, Angela, already looked bad at the game. Turns out she really is bad.]

[Yang Jian in the top lane is holding a standard, and looks so distinctive. Maybe stop getting lost in the jungle and go home to look after your Howling Celestial Dog.]

[If I were that river crab in the bottom lane, watching that invisible Baili dancing down there, I'd jump up and smash him with a hammer.]

Yet she was beautiful and had a lovely voice, making her utterly addictive to listen to and drawing plenty of fans to watch.

Xu Jingyu had insulted everyone from professional players to gaming streamers, especially the handsome Shen Qingrang, making her his number-one hater.

Then one day, she started her stream half an hour late. When she finally came online, Xu Jingyu was blushing. She was usually all swagger, but now she was timid as could be.

Shen Qingrang's smug face appeared beside her. "Sis, which match are you going to roast me for today?"

Xu Jingyu smiled ingratiatingly. "No more roasting, no more. I'll do a special stream today to make it up to you."

The fans laughed: It's over, God Rang has come looking for her. The hot-tempered queen is soothing him live.

Xu Jingyu: Every insult you dish out has to be soothed away later.

To clarify: amateur streamer and jungler student boy x former voice actor, now voiceover actress older sister (voice actors and voiceover actors are different).

A story about an older girl helplessly placating a jungler boy and being forced to pay back her debt, day after day. Six-year age gap (don't bring your moral standards into it).

Game: Honor of Kings

Next story preview: Fake Cute

Blurb: 1. Nineteen-year-old Chen Zhi finally passed the college entrance exam on her fourth year of high school. That night, after packing her things and ending a year of living at her mom's house, she thumped her chest and promised her cousin and his classmate: "I'll be waiting for you at Anke University in two years. I'll treat you to a huge meal."

But once Chen Zhi got back to school and her dad's place, she promptly forgot her promise and threw herself into having fun.

Two years later, she got a call from her cousin's classmate: "I'm at the entrance to Anke University."

Only then did she remember that her useless cousin had failed to get in, while Jiang Wu, whose grades were even worse, had somehow made it into Anke University.

On Jiang Wu's first day, the boy was so pretty and adorable that he was surrounded by a pack of hungry older students. Chen Zhi's sense of justice flared, and she thumped her chest again: "Don't worry. Big Sis will look after you from now on."

Not long afterward, Jiang Wu patted her chest. "Sis, are you still going to look after me from now on?"

Looking at his wicked grin, Chen Zhi was so furious she wished she could go back to the day she got accepted and slap herself across the face.

2. When Zhou Tiao heard Jiang Wu had gotten into Anke University, he was even happier than if he'd gotten in himself.

Before seeing Jiang Wu off, he gave him a thousand warnings: "Keep an eye on my sister. She's a big-breasted, empty-headed beauty and a complete mess. Don't let some other guy run off with her."

Jiang Wu thought it over, then solemnly agreed.

A year later, Zhou Tiao still hadn't gotten into Anke University after a fourth year of high school when he heard Jiang Wu had run off with his useless cousin.

He rushed over on a train that night to settle the score. The culprit put on an air of perfect innocence and offered a ridiculous explanation: "You said some other guy. I'm not someone else."

Zhou Tiao: "You're my grandson!"

Fake-cute younger guy Jiang Wu and genuinely gorgeous, goofy, short-tempered older girl Chen Zhi.

Less than a three-year age gap, so let's call it two years (Chen Zhi insists it's three, because an older woman by three years is a golden treasure).

Theme: Love others and the world, but love yourself even more.