If You Can't Beat Them, Join Them [Esports]

Lin Ze and Jiang Yan are both incredibly skilled, and are famous in the league as star players with exceptional looks. If they were on the same team, the fans would ship them to death and probably write long posts about them every day. Unfortunately, they aren't just on different teams. Whenever they meet in a match, they're the kind of rivals who are guaranteed to kill each other at least once. During the transfer window, someone revealed that Jiang Yan's team was interested in buying Lin Ze, and the news was being discussed on all sorts of platforms. Lin Ze himself tapped out a post and sent it to Jiang Yan. The title was: [If Jiang Yan's team bought Lin Ze...] The main post earnestly discussed how well Jiang Yan and Lin Ze might work together, praising Lin Ze as the best player in the world. It practically called him the final piece of the puzzle that would win Jiang Yan's team the championship, claiming that if Lin Ze joined, they'd be next season's champions. Lin Ze: Tempted? After reading the post, Jiang Yan sent him some of the other posts on the front page. [Is Jiang Yan's team really going to buy Lin Ze? Are they trying to miss the playoffs?] [Help, just imagining that they might actually buy Lin Ze makes my blood pressure shoot through the roof] Lin Ze's blood pressure rose too. Lin Ze: ...What exactly do you mean? Jiang Yan: I'm showing you how tempted I am. Lin Ze: ? Jiang Yan: You're so bad, and I'd still be willing to buy you. Jiang Yan: What else could that be but being tempted? Lin Ze: ...Damn. Lin Ze (bottom) vs. Jiang Yan (top) Theme: Friendship first, competition second.