You're My Type, Dead Center [Esports]

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TT Club has a pretty new girl on the team. Her main job is cooking, her side job is sweeping the floor, and every now and then she moonlights as the package collector.

Whenever people ask about her gaming skills, the pretty girl gazes at them with a pair of dewy doe eyes, sweet and obedient, looking impossibly soft and adorable.

"I'm really bad at games... But you guys are seriously amazing!!! You're my idols!!! Keep it up, everyone!!!"

During a tournament in Bangkok, TT star player He Sui ran into the pretty girl at an internet cafe near his hotel.

She sat in front of a computer, fingers flying with practiced ease, calm and collected. Her moves flowed seamlessly, from switching seats and controlling recoil to jumping out of a car and nailing a quick-scope. She was insanely good.

He Sui: "..."

Just a few days ago, this girl had been acting coy and saying she was terrible, while doing everything she could to get into his lap so he could teach her by guiding her hands.

What the hell... did she call that being bad?

*

To completely kill off Huo Jiaxian's ambition to become a professional player, her brother tossed her into an Esports club funded by his own crowd of friends, so she could see the hardships behind the glamorous lives of the Esports idols and kick her gaming addiction.

Keeping a low profile, Huo Jiaxian's everyday persona was a girl from the slums who couldn't even afford instant noodles.

Half a year later, TT lost a tournament, the owner went bankrupt, and the club was on the verge of disbanding.

With the club in dire straits, Huo Jiaxian called her father.

"Dad, those supercars my brother gave me last time are still in the garage, right? How much could we get if we sold them now? ... Oh, that much? Then that should be enough."

The first team's players gaped in shock.

Wasn't her father supposed to have died young, her mother remarried, and her to be so poor she had to sleep under a bridge?

What the hell, this wasn't how the script was supposed to go!

Only He Sui remained perfectly composed.

"Sorry, my princess may have taken her act a little too far."

- Angel-faced, melodramatic gaming addict girl x aloof God Sui, cool on the outside but utterly flustered by her advances

- An Esports novel set in PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds. Even if you don't play, you can follow along. The main themes are romance and getting fired up.

- The tournament order and league rules differ somewhat from reality. Please don't nitpick.

- Updates every night at nine.

[No real-life models or allusions. Go, 2020 PCL!!!]

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Lin Hanqiu, a washed-up female idol, is exposed in a scandal involving paid overnight companionship.

In an instant, scandalous rumors are everywhere, and she is blacklisted across the entire internet.

Forced to leave the industry, Lin Hanqiu says: To hell with the pure and cute persona! I'm done with this!

Half a month later, a female streamer named Fall appears on Seafood TV.

She wears an assortment of masks, but even half her face can't conceal her beauty. She spews vulgar insults nonstop, can initiate fights and take out the enemy's carries with ease, and strikes with deadly precision. She soon becomes a notorious hunter of mothers in the King's Canyon.

Not long after, WAF announces its mid laner for the new season, and to everyone's surprise, it's Fall.

The news sets Weibo and the forums ablaze.

"WAF is finished."

"Holy crap, what kind of suicidal move is this? Have they lost their minds?"

"Seriously, after all that searching, they got God Lin a female mid laner who curses people all day? Is this really okay?"

No one expected that Fall, whose gameplay was even more beautiful than her looks and whose skills surpassed even her insults, would lead WAF to new heights a year later and bring home the World Championship trophy.

That night, @WAF-Fall posted a rare message on Weibo, gentle and calm:

"Thank you all for your support. I've learned a lot this year."

WAF captain and the league's number-one jungler, Fu Lin, quickly reposted it: "No need to thank me, honey."

The fans who had always felt indignant on behalf of God Lin: "???"

*

In the eyes of countless fans, Fu Lin was an untouchable flower atop a mountain in the Esports world: proud, composed, and beyond reach.

Only the few players on WAF's first team knew that their captain, so unattainable in public, was Lin Hanqiu's devoted simp behind the scenes.

His phone wallpaper was her, his WeChat profile picture was her, and there was even a huge photo of her on his computer.

As for other female creatures? They were nothing but air to Fu Lin.

Once, during an interview, Fu Lin was asked what kind of girl he liked. He described Lin Hanqiu exactly as she was:

"Gentle, cute, and innocent."

Then later, he accidentally discovered that Lin Hanqiu, after leaving the entertainment industry, was actually the trash-talking streamer Fall.

"Your daddy's here to teach you a lesson. Got a problem with that?"

"I'm treating you like a person right now, so do your best to act like one."

Fu Lin: "..."

What happened to gentle, cute, and innocent?

*

Before, Fu Lin's daily routine was training, killing, and winning championships.

Afterward, his daily routine was: She loves me, she loves me not, she loves me... Whatever, she definitely loves me!!!

- A female mid laner who can't take the slightest bit of mistreatment and would die if she didn't insult people x the league's number-one jungler, who doesn't care if people insult him but won't tolerate anyone insulting his wife

- The female lead's scandals are all fake. The game is Honor of Kings.

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