1. Lu Yi thought she and Yan Chu first met on the day her friend dragged her to watch a match. In the space of one day, they ran into each other three times.
The grandest of those encounters was at the packed arena that evening, amid the cheers of tens of thousands. Yan Chu had just won the championship. Surrounded by his teammates, he was being interviewed by the host.
She sat below the stage, looking up at him and listening to the crowd around her loudly chanting their names.
When she told Yan Chu about it, he simply smiled, drew her into his arms, and kissed her forehead, accepting her version of events. "By your count, we must have met five times that day."
Only later did she learn that they had first met even earlier. She simply didn't remember, so Yan Chu had never brought it up. To him, their present and future together mattered more than anything.
2. His female fans never believed that Moon, the world's number-one ADC with tens of millions of followers, could have a girlfriend.
The VK team was widely considered the esports world's team of male models, and Yan Chu, aka Moon, was its star. With a face that made anyone who saw it fall for him, he looked like a total playboy. But everyone knew that "girlfriend" and "Moon" simply didn't belong in the same sentence.
The woman at the center of the rumor, Lu Yi, a hugely popular cosplayer with millions of followers on Weibo, clarified: "A friend just asked Moon to play games with me. He's a really nice person."
The moment she posted her clarification, Yan Chu's Weibo was flooded with tags.
After training that night, Yan Chu saw the post and casually reposted it: "A friend asked me? You think I'm that easy to talk into things?"
At the same time, Lu Yi received a message from Yan Chu on WeChat.
He must have just finished training. Yan Chu's low, slightly hoarse voice sounded in the voice message: "I thought I'd made it pretty obvious, Lu Yi."
"I'm pursuing you."
Reader note:
There's not much esports content. At heart, this is a short, sweet romance.
Theme: Dreams come true