Is That Any Way to Treat Your Teammate? [Esports]

[Exclusively published on Jinjiang. Thank you for supporting the official release.] Blurb: Jiang Wan is a newly hired commentator for the League of Legends LPL professional league. To pass his commentator rank assessment, he hires a gaming partner to duo queue and climb the ladder. The gaming-partner shop he often visits happens to be holding an anniversary blind-box event, and he draws “the shop owner's prized treasure: an overwhelmingly powerful, unstoppable jungle partner who sweeps through every rank below Challenger, the strongest in the empire, Partner X.” A day later, Jiang Wan angrily confronts the shop owner: “You call that a gaming partner? He ignored me for three minutes and barely said a word!” “He even called me bad!” “Though his mechanics really are sharp, and his voice sounds a little like my idol, Lu Shen. Not bad.” “But next time, give me someone else.” That very night, Jiang Wan draws Jungle Partner X again: “…” . Lu Shen is the world's number-one jungler and an S Championship winner. At his childhood friend's urging, he put up a listing at his gaming-partner shop as a “Korean server Challenger-level jungler,” but promised he wouldn't take any clients. One day, his friend suddenly messages him: “Shen, go take a client, will you? The blind box picked you. It's a Gold game, you could play it with your feet.” Lu Shen has no choice but to go. Later, he pinches the bridge of his nose and asks his friend, “What's with your boss? I don't care if he's bad, but why does he talk so much in a Gold game? He plays like he's commentating on the World Championship.” His friend laughs nervously. “Ahaha, don't worry, Shen. It won't happen again. There are over 150 gaming partners at my shop, so the odds of getting you in a blind box are basically like seeing the sun rise in the west.” Lu Shen: “Oh.” The following evening, his friend messages him: “Shen, the sun's risen in the west again qwq” Lu Shen: “…” . Later, as Jiang Wan commentates on matches, he often runs into his idol, Lu Shen. The more time they spend together, the more he falls for him. Unable to hold back, he confides in his gaming partner, now a close online friend, about his feelings for “that handsome idol senior I'm working with.” A few months later, the gaming partner suddenly asks, “Is your idol senior Lu Shen?” Thinking that neither of them knows the other's real-life identity anyway, Jiang Wan readily admits it. “Yeah.” Gaming partner: “Tsk.” Jiang Wan: “…?” 1. One-on-one pairing, happy ending. Star commentator bottom × world champion top. The bottom is 23, the top is 22. 2. Pro players don't take gaming-partner clients. [The top isn't actually a gaming partner; he doesn't charge the bottom and only duo queues with him.] [Some details about the commentary are fictionalized.] Thank you for understanding. 3. The game is LOL. [This novel is purely for entertainment. The characters are not based on real people; some details are exaggerated or fictionalized. Please don't compare it to reality or identify the characters with real people. Thank you.] A sweet RPG prequel is in the works: “I Switched Accounts and Started Dating My Nemesis Online” Chang Run is the best control-based healer on the entire server of a certain online game, but he is betrayed by a friend during the server-wide tournament. Disillusioned, he quits the game and focuses on his studies. Three months later, Chang Run thinks: “…I'm so bored. I'll reinstall the game and play for a bit.” Not wanting to get involved in his old guild's conflicts again, Chang Run makes a new account. Since he used to constantly get chased and beaten by a damn assassin, this time he makes an assassin character. He calls out in chat for a newcomer to practice arena matches with, and soon finds a new healer whose class is the control-based healer he used to play. They hit it off unexpectedly and quickly team up. As they practice, Chang Run gets frustrated with how bad he is and sighs, “How are you even supposed to play this damn assassin?” The healer says, “Want me to try? I feel like assassin might suit me.” Chang Run takes the opportunity to agree. “That'd be great. I've been wanting to try healer, too.” Later, the two win the doubles championship, team up for every dungeon and fight, make their relationship official, and complete a whole bunch of married-couple quests. Chang Run tells himself it's all for the combat stats from the marriage bonus. Until, during a fight in the wilderness, Chang Run suddenly realizes that the way his “husband” plays assassin and beats up his nemesis looks awfully like that bastard assassin who used to chase him around. . After camping his nemesis's corpse for two hours, his “husband” sets off fireworks for Chang Run right there. Chang Run's face burns hot. …They got married for the combat stats? And another thing. Why does his in-game husband have the exact same voice as the handsome guy who's been showing up in front of him lately? Theme: Young people should overcome their shortcomings, stay positive, and work hard to live well