Against All Odds [Esports]

[Starting Wednesday, this novel will be marked complete from Chapter 16 onward. Coming soon: "Sinking" and "Snow-Fried Tang Pears." Please add them to your reading list. Mwah~]

As the FMVP of two world championships, Lu Huai was the brightest "godhand" on the stage and the first player ever to win the League of Legends Grand Slam. With millions of fans, he was one of the game's most prominent figures.

But he was aloof and proud, and never seemed interested in women. Fans and media dubbed him the executioner who killed without blinking on the stage and a Buddha who wanted nothing offstage. Some even bet that Lu Huai would be alone for his entire life.

Until one day, a photo of him holding hands with someone was posted on Weibo.

The man in the photo was elegant and refined. He bent down to speak to the girl, his eyes so tender they seemed about to overflow.

Everyone: Has Buddha finally returned to the secular world...?

Ning Wan was a noob at League of Legends, but she had a pro-level player in her friends list, someone she'd somehow added without knowing when. He carried her to win after win.

After winning several games by clinging to his coattails, someone curiously asked, "Do you like guys who are good at games?"

Ning Wan: "He can't be worse than me, can he?"

After another game ended,

a deep, magnetic voice came through her headset. "Is this score good enough?"

One day after they got together, Ning Wan found a photo tucked inside one of Lu Huai's books.

In the photo, she wore her school uniform, her twin ponytails bouncing as she walked. On the back, he'd written a date from ten years ago.

Ning Wan: "So it was love at first sight for you."

Lu Huai pulled her into his arms and kissed her softly. "I never forgot you."

You are the deity I hold in my heart, appearing so pure and clean in my chaotic world, becoming my light.

Note: The esports details are mostly for show; this is truly a romance novel. Some game scenes are necessary. The game is League of Legends.

Both leads have only ever loved each other.

Every coincidence in the story serves the plot. The characters' values do not represent the author's.

The teams and players in this novel are entirely fictional. Please don't associate them with real people.

I'm working hard to improve my writing. If it's not to your taste, please stop reading. A bow.

Coming soon: "Snow-Fried Tang Pears"

Gu Huaizhi, the new tycoon of the business world, was cold and aloof, ruthless and calculating. He kept women at arm's length, and the OC Capital he founded quickly established itself in the business world. He was known as the man no one dared to offend.

Then one day, someone saw this famously frigid, untouchable man get slapped hard across the face.

Everyone thought the woman was finished. Instead, Gu Huaizhi curved his lips into a devilish smile, wrapped an elegant hand around her waist, and coaxed her softly, "Feeling better?"

Everyone: ???

Had he been possessed or something?!

Years after they broke up, Lu Li and Gu Huaizhi met again at the negotiating table. They were polite, courteous, and distant, each perfectly composed.

At a later celebration banquet, they both went to the restroom. When Lu Li returned, her eyes were red, and it looked like the lipstick had been bitten off her lips. The other half was smeared at the corner of Gu Huaizhi's mouth.

Everyone looked at them knowingly.

Lu Li sat down and said with blunt sarcasm, "Some mad dog from who knows where bit me."

The mad dog himself calmly swirled the red wine in his glass, his eyes gleaming as he maintained his dignified composure.

Later, Gu Huaizhi pulled her into his arms again as before. His voice trembling, he called the pet name that had once belonged only to him, over and over, his voice so low it sounded like a plea:

"Diandian, could you look at me again?"

/The luckiest thing that ever happened to Gu Huaizhi was meeting Lu Li./

Coming soon: "Sinking"

Everyone in the capital's business circles knew that the business prodigy Gu Qichen had a fiancée from a family of equal standing.

The young woman was a well-bred beauty with fair skin and long legs, and her heart was full of Gu Qichen. Unfortunately, Gu Qichen was cold and unfeeling, and couldn't stand his fiancée.

Everyone envied the alliance between Jiang Xi and Gu Qichen, but only Jiang Xi knew that a chasm and a contract stood between them.

She thought that if enough time passed, Gu Qichen would eventually love her. Until one day

"You really don't like Jiang Xi at all?"

Gu Qichen's eyes were cold. His handsome, sensual lips curled into a disdainful sneer. "She's nothing but a pawn with a pretty face. She's clingy and annoying. What's there to like?"

Jiang Xi felt as if she'd fallen into an ice cellar. That very day, she packed her things and moved out of the Gu house.

After Jiang Xi left, Gu Qichen carried on as if nothing had happened, and his life went on just fine.

At a later business banquet, Jiang Xi, dazzling among the other women, was cornered outside the restroom. Reeking of alcohol, the man with bloodshot eyes carefully wrapped his arms around her. "Come home with me, please."

/Gu Qichen had never loved anyone before. Once he did, he loved with everything he had./ Chasing his wife to the crematorium

Theme: Learn to love