Who Wants to Duo with You? [Esports]

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Blurb below↓↓↓ [The support is the top] + [See the author's note in Chapter 2 for content warnings]

[Sweet, seemingly innocent, secretly dark dog-like top x awkward, cold-faced cat-like bottom]

Gu Mingyi x Chen Que

The league's top ADC is Single, Chen Que. He's handsome and highly skilled, but notorious for being difficult to get along with.

SKG has swapped out several supports, as if holding tryouts, but its strategy of protecting the bottom lane at all costs has never changed.

After their spring split defeat, SKG announced its new support, Moon, Gu Mingyi.

He turned down offers from countless teams, only to join SKG, whose AD is the hardest to work with.

He's strong, but everything he does goes against Single's preferences.

Starting at level three, he roams. The AD is on his own.

Haters: My interest in watching matches is back. I just want to see if Single will go berserk and beat someone up on stage.

Fans: What a trash team, buying a support with no family. Single, run!

After joining the team, the new support gives ADC's pink cat-ear gaming gear a meaningful look.

Teammate: Single treasures this. Nobody knows who gave it to him, but he won't even let us touch it!

Gu Mingyi: Is the gear still working for you?

Chen Que: ...It's all right.

The players: ???

Later, SKG's bottom lane duo becomes a pair of stars whose minds seem to be in perfect sync.

Host: How did Moon manage to coordinate with Single so seamlessly in such a short time?

Gu Mingyi smiles: Because before he became Single, he was already making sweet lo... with me.

Fans: ???

Gu Mingyi: ...doing time in prison.

Cover art by @Yiru Er'er

Next novel: Summer's Humid Rain, blurb below↓

[Racer x painter]

Ming Xuan first meets Qi Suizhi at the end of an alley.

A gang of thugs has him cornered at the intersection. Qi Suizhi zooms past on his motorcycle, his long legs straddling the bike, and reaches out to him. "Hop on."

After that, everyone at school knows that the most unruly Qi Suizhi has been hounded by a rich kid from the neighboring school who paints.

Even Qi Suizhi's friends tease him, saying they don't believe anyone could win him over. But Qi Suizhi acts completely out of character, flicks open his lighter, and replies with a crooked smile, "Maybe he can."

Just as everyone is marveling that Qi Suizhi really did fall for Ming Xuan, Ming Xuan suddenly disappears one day without a trace.

All that remains is Qi Suizhi, standing alone in the city's summer rain.

-

They meet again years later in a bar.

Ming Xuan locks eyes with Qi Suizhi, sitting in the corner with an impassive expression. His heart skips a beat, and, emboldened by alcohol, he gets into bed with him.

Qi Suizhi watches in silence as Ming Xuan pretends not to know him and runs away. Later, he silently looks at Ming Xuan's paintings from overseas:

There is a mole on the waist of the person in every painting. He touches the mole in the same spot on his own body and gives a self-mocking smile.

Just like back then, everyone thinks Qi Suizhi will never look at Ming Xuan again, including Qi Suizhi himself.

But as he gradually gets closer to the truth behind their separation, he lowers his head to the one he loves.

Ming Xuan is like a butterfly drowning in the humid summer rain. At last, he can spread his wings again.

Theme: Competitive striving