Want to Snipe Each Other, Bro? [Esports]

The next novel, The Sickly Beauty's Cross-Dressing Substitute Marriage Runs Into a Fake Eunuch, is now available! Xi Bai opened his eyes and found himself three years in the future. Three years ago, Xi Bai went missing in a landslide accident. Everyone thought he was dead. Three years later, a streamer wearing a bizarre mask suddenly appeared online. During a hero tournament, he performed the legendary sniper's signature moves from three years ago, leaving everyone stunned. The streamer only smiled. "Just a coincidence, just a coincidence." Soon, he took the shortest route to the top of the national server rankings, breaking the teams' hold on the game. Everyone was stunned all over again. The streamer: "Hey, just a coincidence." Later still, he joined Team AOK and fought his way to the international finals. He pulled off all three of the sniper god's signature shots, looking impossibly cool and leaving everyone even more stunned. The streamer: "Coinci..." Everyone: "Try telling us that was a coincidence one more time!" At last, when AOK won the international championship and the national anthem began to play, the streamer removed his mask... Three years ago, Xi Bai was framed and mocked. Three years later, everyone says they owe him an apology. Those who once hurt him set the record straight for him, and those who betrayed him are left with nothing but regret. After watching the little streamer compete in all kinds of tournaments, Lu Rao, his eyes bloodshot from staying up, bit down on the candy in his mouth. He used to be Xi Bai's apprentice. Now he was an esports star at the top of his game, leading an unbeatable team. He recognized Xi Bai at a glance, but the other man seemed not to know him and kept putting on an act. Fine, then. Let him act. At an interview during a tournament, everyone watched as Captain Lu pinned newcomer Xi Bai into his gaming chair. His voice was low and husky. "So, are you going to follow your captain's orders?" The newcomer nodded. "I am." Lu Rao: "Then if I beat you in this sniper duel, you come with me." The newcomer's "okay" caught in his throat, his ears burning red. As if! Netizens noticed that the duo queue in one streamer's channel was getting more and more intense. Not only were top esports stars showing up one after another, but even the ever-cold God Lu was showering the streamer with gifts like money was no object. Then netizens realized that these big shots were frantically sending gifts, trading threats with one another just to compete for the top spot on the leaderboard. Netizens: "???" Find your own stage, and dote on your own apprentice. Notes: 1. The author's headcanon is extensive. 2. Some scenes are just mindless fun, so don't argue about them. 3. This novel has been revised extensively many times. Stolen versions may not match. If you find inconsistencies between chapters on pirate sites, please don't comment about them. Thank you for supporting the official version. Next novel: Cross-Dressing Substitute Marriage Runs Into a Fake Eunuch Updates daily at noon. The Chu family was illustrious, a powerful clan for generations. The Chu twins were famous throughout the capital. But overnight, the family fell from power, its members stripped of their titles and property. Some schemer arranged for the twin sister to marry the Governor of the Western Depot, a eunuch, making her a laughingstock. The Governor of the Western Depot, Ji Yujin, was a bloodthirsty, capricious man who did whatever he pleased. Everyone thought the sister wouldn't survive two days after marrying him. What they didn't know was that the person in the phoenix crown and wedding robes, bowing before Heaven and Earth, wasn't the sister at all. It was her older brother, Chu Fengqing, a frail young man whom a miracle-working doctor had once declared would not live past twenty. As it happened, the governor hated men more than anything... If he found out, Chu Fengqing would surely die without a place to be buried. Every day, Chu, the frail invalid, danced on the edge of disaster while keeping his identity hidden. He said, "It's fine. He's a eunuch." Until one day... After everything was done, Chu Fengqing planned a fake death, hoping to bury their absurd affair. Everything should have gone perfectly, but after reclaiming his identity as a man, he ran into that fake eunuch again, and was recognized. The man seemed even more unhinged than before, his eyes bloodshot, as if he wanted to devour Chu Fengqing alive. People never got to see the great beauty killed. Instead, they witnessed the haughty governor drop to one knee and let the cool, aloof beauty step onto his shoulder. Ji Yujin: "The ground is cold. If you catch a chill again, what will become of me?" Chu Fengqing frowned, but ultimately didn't pull free of his hand. He turned his head slightly, while a faint blush quietly colored his earlobes. Cool, aloof, beautiful, sickly bottom x neurotic, shameless, fake-eunuch top Reader's guide: 1. The top is a fake eunuch. Fake, fake, fake. (Important things bear repeating three times.) 2. This is a fictional setting, though it's partly inspired by Ming history. Above all, it's fictional! 3. The bottom cross-dresses. Upcoming novel: Transmigrating Into a Terminally Ill Villain Ji Yan transmigrated into a book set in an Interstellar universe, becoming the powerful, terminally ill villain, the Emperor said to be impossibly handsome. The System tasked him with protecting the protagonist, Li Bei. The catch was that Ji Yan was the very enemy Li Bei had sworn to torture to death... Later, when Li Bei came to assassinate him, Ji Yan had to stick his neck out and offer himself as a hostage so Li Bei could escape. When Li Bei was captured by his subordinates, Ji Yan had to steal him away and hide him at home... Ji Yan was moved to tears. He had never been so magnanimous toward an enemy. Eventually, the alliance Li Bei belonged to toppled the empire. Ji Yan, once high above everyone else, became a prisoner of the alliance, while Li Bei became its new ruler. Imprisoned in the empire's dungeon, Ji Yan was about to be hacked to pieces and executed by a thousand cuts, just as the plot dictated. He was happy, because he could go home. But he waited and waited. His terminal illness flared up, and Li Bei still hadn't come to kill him... When he opened his eyes again, he met Li Bei's shattered gaze. Ji Yan closed his eyes. "Kill me." Li Bei: "You can forget about running away for the rest of your life." Ji Yan: "???" Theme: Ephemeral as a night-blooming cereus, its beauty leaves me breathless. Still, I would rather you were a cactus: steadfast and unbreakable, yet able to blossom beneath the blazing sun.