How Do I Deal with an Ex Who's Immune to My Jinxes? [Entertainment Industry, Esports]

[Synopsis]

As a rookie actress just starting out, Lu Tong is passable at acting, pretty good at video games, and an absolute master of the jinx.

While gaming, she complains about her teammates: "They're so bad they can barely scratch their own feet. I could act on set and play with my feet at the same time, and still do better than him."

The next second, her teammate pulls off a miraculous triple kill.

While watching a match, she complains about a team: "Their team fights are a total mess. They're so bad they'd ruin your appetite. Even my dog would eat two extra bowls after watching them."

The next second, the team wins the fight and takes the match.

Everyone: "Such a pretty girl, what a shame she has a mouth."

Lu Tong's jinxing buff has never failed, but it finally backfires when she goes up against her ex-boyfriend, Ji Zhelin, captain of Team ANX.

Lu Tong gives it everything she's got and unleashes her jinxing power...

Lu Tong: "Do we even need to watch ANX play? We'll wake up to another victory."

And sure enough, ANX beats their opponents 3:0.

Lu Tong: "Ji Zhelin and his bot lane partner have such great synergy. They're perfect together!"

And sure enough, they both take home the MVP award.

Lu Tong: "Something's not right! Why isn't my jinx working?"

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People who are meant to meet will meet again.

Lu Tong just never expected her reunion with her ex to be so bizarre.

One day, on a whim, Lu Tong streamed a ranked game and ran into an AD Irelia who went 2-10-2.

After the game, Lu Tong banged on her keyboard twice and grumbled, "That AD's mechanics were awful. If I sprinkled a handful of grain on my keyboard and let a duck peck at it, it'd land its E more accurately."

Only later did she find out that the AD whose "mechanics were worse than a duck's" was her ex-boyfriend, Ji Zhelin.

Then one day, with the chat overflowing with people mocking Ji Zhelin for having "worse mechanics than a duck," he started a custom game as Irelia, sprinkled a handful of grain on his mechanical keyboard, and set a little yellow duck on it for an experiment.

When the experiment was over, he calmly brushed the duck feathers from his hand and lazily called out as if speaking to someone from afar, "I think my mechanics are still a little better than a duck's."

From then on, a rumor spread through the esports scene: Ji Zhelin, the famously cool and detached member of ANX, seemed to pay special attention to Lu Tong, a rookie actress who had built a reputation for jinxing everything.

The rumor came up again at a celebration banquet.

In full view of everyone, Ji Zhelin, who was always so composed and self-controlled, walked over to Lu Tong and bent down slightly. Leaning close to her already flushed, burning ear, he asked with a laugh, his voice audible only to the two of them, "Are my mechanics any good? Haven't you tried them?"

Theme: To the young people in the prime of their lives