The Laid-Back Streamer Carries the Whole Team [Esports]

[The next romance novel is Tea Arts Class, Anyone? [Quick Transmigration]. The free extra, It's My Turn to Perform, is available in the author's series.] When Black Flag, a second-tier team in the top league, loses its only other reliable mid-laner to injury and retirement, everyone wonders how soon the team will vanish from the second-tier league. Then Black Flag brings in a new player and announces her name on Weibo, drawing ridicule from the entire internet. Their new mid-laner, Zhu Cijing, is a woman and a famous face-card streamer on Jinjiang TV, known as a couch potato who only bullies weak opponents in low-ranked games. The internet erupts. [Black Flag is doomed. Hiring a woman is one thing, but they picked a troll who can only coast on her looks?] [Click here to watch Black Flag give up treatment. A girl playing esports? Unprecedented.] [I'll bet my life this trash woman will get the team kicked out of the second-tier league within a month. What a shame for my handsome little Yan Shu, sob sob.] After days and nights of vicious abuse and empty boasts, the new season begins. The whole internet waits for Black Flag to announce its retirement, but instead... ---Breaking! Zhu Cijing gets a triple kill and takes MVP! ---Breaking! Black Flag wins three games in a row in the second-tier league! ---Breaking! Black Flag wins ten straight and makes it into the regular league, a first in history! ---Black Flag wins the world championship! What the online trolls of yesteryear never expected was that this mid-lane menace could do it all, from cutting down the enemy carries to team fights. Her brilliant support play kept her teammates safe time and time again, and she dragged a team on the brink of collapse all the way to the top. Before long, rumors that the team's mid and support players were dating spread like wildfire. Zhu Cijing posted to clarify that she only cared about the competition. That very night, she saw a handsome young man with peach-blossom eyes leaning pitifully against her bedroom door. "Sis, when are we going to make our relationship official?" #The male lead has the championship and the heroine in his heart, while the heroine only has the championship in hers: a disastrous pursuit of love #Older woman-younger man romance, two or three years apart, a cool and sexy big-sister type × a loyal puppy who's cold on the outside and warm on the inside PS: An original MOBA game. No lore sleuths, please. A feel-good story with a strong female lead, focused mainly on the plot with romance as a secondary element. The completed novel of the same type is The Cannon Fodder Is the Team Darling in an Esports Novel. Also on the author's list is I Made Myself a Top-Tier Star Before Leaving the Industry: As empress of her country, Yu Shuling fought heaven and earth until she finally outlived the emperor and became empress dowager. But the next day, she woke up transmigrated into a book as a member of a flopped idol group. She's the heroine's cannon-fodder foil, all appearance and no substance: beautiful but useless. She is scheming and malicious, accomplishes nothing, frames her teammates, and is a shameless, troublesome mess who dates three people at once on a dating show. She's buried in debt and foolishly tries to steal the heroine's man, only to be mocked across the internet and forced to sell her body to pay it off. The System tells her that if she plays her role as a cannon-fodder and gets humiliated by the heroine, she can return to her original world and live out the rest of her life in peace once she's written out. At first, Yu Shuling says with a laugh, "I'm tired. I'll just lie flat and take it easy." Then she spots the reincarnated emperor among the show's self-righteous male guests. Yu Shuling slams the table and leaps to her feet. "I can't take this anymore!" * The emperor performs for a female contestant. Yu Shuling insists on joining their flirtatious moment, and the audience calls her a green tea. But the next second, Yu Shuling hands contestant A a photo, looking envious. "Sis, you look so much like his first love. Unlike me, he thinks I'm not gentle enough because of my looks." A playboy heir makes a heartfelt confession to contestant B. Yu Shuling pulls out the ring he secretly gave her, looking deeply aggrieved. "Why is the ring you gave her two millimeters bigger than mine, brother?" The production crew sets up a romantic segment. While the other female contestants go on shy dates, Yu Shuling turns down an invitation from a two-faced puppy-like guy, makes herself a cup of the sponsor's goji berry and red date tea, and beams. "Red dates are good for your health, and goji berries boost your energy. No romance, just a long and healthy life." After the male contestants reveal their true colors one by one, the viewers who had wanted Yu Shuling kicked off the dating show say, "Lingling is the only sane person here!" * Yu Shuling's miraculous talent for breaking up couples on dating shows makes a splash, and her floundering idol group returns to the public eye. Her manager slips her the boss's hotel key card. "From now on, just focus on variety shows and be a useless crowd-puller. If you want better opportunities, you know what to do." Yu Shuling knows exactly what to do. In an interview, she heaps praise on the boss. "The boss is great in every way. He's just a little scatterbrained. He mistook hotel key cards for dorm key cards and handed one to each of us." The boss, who ends up blacklisted, divorced, and estranged from his family: "?" Her antis mock Yu Shuling, saying she's just trying to make one last buck before the group disbands and she leaves the industry. But Yu Shuling turns out to have amazing variety-show skills and incredible singing and dancing talent. She sings and dances live, without backing tracks, and can break out all kinds of lost dance styles at a moment's notice, leading her teammates to victory against the odds. When the cannon-fodder foil of old becomes a nationally beloved top-tier star and the undisputed top member of her girl group, invitations pour in from industry bigwigs. Even the original novel's male lead and the emperor, who once looked down on Yu Shuling, reach out to her. Yu Shuling just sneers. "Get lost. I'm not dating during my rise to fame." Because what's the point of dating when you're an idol, when building a career is so much better? A miraculous top-tier star never falls from grace! [Coming Soon 2] Tea Arts Class, Anyone? Lin Feiran, a quick-transmigration worker who has mastered every kind of tea and is a born actress, is about to reach the highest level and retire. Her final assignment is to transmigrate into various derailed, melodramatic novels and put the plot back on track for heroines who are hopelessly in love with the male lead. The supporting female characters are often so steeped in tea that they have the male lead wrapped around their little fingers, making him abandon the gentle, virtuous heroine and start an ambiguous relationship with them instead. Lin Feiran: "Being a green tea is nothing special. Our all-around tea arts class is now in session. Anyone interested?" So Lin Feiran pulls herself together and gets back to work... Scenario 1: You're the foil to a supporting character on a mother-in-law reality show, a spoiled wife who won't lift a finger. Your husband will fall for the gentle supporting character, save her from the depths of despair, and end up with her after more than a thousand chapters of misunderstandings. When the supporting character serves tea and water to her fierce mother-in-law and still gets scolded, Lin Feiran puts on heavy makeup and takes her own mother-in-law out to dance to health-themed music. When the supporting character massages her mother-in-law, cooks for her, and plans for a second child, Lin Feiran orders spicy hot pot and beer and tells her that this is what life is really about. After the show ends, the supporting character finally earns her mother-in-law's approval after bending over backward to please her. Meanwhile, Lin Feiran's mother-in-law grasps her hand earnestly. "Get a divorce. I'll find you someone better. My son isn't good enough for you!" [Uniquely refreshing white tea: Life should be lived freely. I'll be myself.] Scenario 2: You're a down-and-out first love in a chase-your-wife-to-the-crematorium story, but you're actually the real heiress! Now you have to be a good little doormat and get your unscrupulous sugar daddy's love meter high enough to unlock the next part of the plot. Lin Feiran: Wouldn't it be better to focus on my career and make him come crawling back to me? When the once-arrogant tycoon kneels before his first love and sincerely offers her a diamond ring, Lin Feiran tears up the marriage contract, wraps an arm around a young hottie's shoulder, and walks away. [Fragrant night-blooming cereus tea: Playing the poor, pitiful victim is so passé. Let's try playing hard to get.] After breaking free of her love-brain, a female idol with a bad reputation who used to chase men becomes a sensation in the entertainment industry. [Sweet peach oolong tea: A lively young girl is the world's treasure.] A girl humiliated after being dumped by her fiance becomes the unattainable first love of three powerful men on a dating show. [Rich, fragrant black tea: I only think of you guys as friends!] A girl from a mountainous region in the 1980s, where boys are favored over girls, becomes an international supermodel. [Pure, cool lotus tea: Unstained by the mud, strong even in adversity.] CP: A dramatic tea-art expert (Lin Feiran) × a gentle tea expert (Qiao Mi). The male lead is not the scumbag from the original novel. Theme: "The road is a masterpiece made beneath our feet."