I Want This Jungler [Esports]

Updated according to the word count requirements for the rankings! [My next novel, Chasing, will open soon. The blurb is at the very bottom. Thanks for your support.]

On the night of the LPL National Friendship Tournament, the little-known YN team burst onto the scene and claimed the championship.

Astonishingly, the jungler who led the team to victory was Ye Shu, who had spent two years watching the team from the sidelines.

That night, fans across the country went all out attacking him.

In their eyes, Ye Shu had abandoned his team and teammates back then. Someone like him deserved to sit on the bench!

The next day, the contract between YN jungler Ye Shu and the team expired.

In the end, LPL powerhouse YMG bought him for the staggering price of twenty million!

Fans: "Is YMG crazy? He's been watching from the sidelines for two years, and he's worth twenty million?"

YMG's official account: "Thanks for asking. God Fu said... he wants him. He's wanted him for two years."

Fans: "It's been two years! God Fu really hasn't forgotten his little seducer. God Fu, is your back okay?"

Not long afterward, YMG captain Fu Shen cornered Ye Shu in his room...

Fu Shen: "The fans asked if my back is okay. God Ye, what do you think?"

Ye Shu's face was flushed, his lips red where they had been wounded. "It's fine..."

YMG's manager asked Ye Shu, "Why did you choose to come back?"

Ye Shu glanced at the person who had just entered. "I'm here to pay back what I owed two years ago."

With their new jungler in place, Ye Shu and Fu Shen made a flawless duo, and YMG swept through the competition.

At the post-game interview, Ye Shu and Fu Shen took the stage together.

Ye Shu: "Other teams, please don't take me off your blacklist. It'd be a waste of time to add me again next year."

Other teams: "..." Thanks a lot, asshole!

Fu Shen: "Schedule the scrims early next year. God Ye will be busy going on dates with me and won't have time for you."

The whole internet erupted. So when did YMG's mid laner and jungler start sneaking around together?

YMG's manager: Working himself to the bone to keep the closet door shut, then miserably doing PR!

Reader's guide:

1. Fu Shen (top) and Ye Shu (bottom). No real-life inspirations, no real-life inspirations, absolutely no real-life inspirations.

2. League of Legends is the backdrop, but there are lots of headcanons. Lots. Please bear with me.

3. The blurb was written on 2020/10/16 and has been screenshotted and posted on Weibo.

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Chasing: Two top students. Top: top student in an ordinary science class. Bottom: top student in an elite class.

Qi Yu is a top student in the elite class in his second year of high school. When he got in, he ranked last in the class, but on his first midterm exam in his second year, he became the top student in the entire grade.

Qiao Shu is a top student in the science class in his second year of high school. If he'd performed as expected on his final exams in his first year, he would have qualified for the elite class. But to make way for someone, he left the final problems in both math and physics blank.

And so... Qi Yu, who just barely made it into the elite class in last place, became the protagonist of Qiao Shu's legend.

Qi Yu has a crush on someone, though that person is no good, a shameless flirt who sleeps around!

But he can't help it: the guy has been handsome since childhood, and Qi Yu is the kind of person who cares about looks.

Qiao Shu also has a crush on someone, though that person is so cold they couldn't possibly be any colder, and never gives him the time of day.

But he can't help it: his crush is so handsome that even a casual glance feels like a flirtatious wink.

The bell rings. Qi Yu blocks the entrance to Qiao Shu's classroom. "Set the record straight!"

Qiao Shu, as roguish as can be, leans in close. "Top student, what should I set straight?"

Qi Yu replies expressionlessly, "The rumors."

Qiao Shu grins even more roguishly. "There are plenty of rumors. Do you mean the one about me deliberately flunking my exams, or the one about you being one of the main characters?"

Qi Yu: "..."

Qiao Shu's expression gradually turns serious. He lowers his voice. "The first one is false. The second one is true."

Qi Yu is more rattled than he has ever been, even when he deliberately flunked his exams.

Is he the person his crush has a crush on?!

Mutual secret crushes, but they're both mad at each other and jealous of their own crushes, who are actually each other!

Theme: Never let down your esports dream, and never let down love either