I'm Not a Good Kid [Esports]

Three days after the end of the S9 autumn season of "Doomsday Battlegrounds," MLA, fresh off a third-place finish, suddenly announced that it was terminating its contract with Autumn, the new starting medic promoted this season. Soon after, several other players on the team posted that they were leaving as well.

This mass contract termination clearly smelled like a scandal. Before the internet sleuths even had to dig, Autumn posted a video of himself lounging on a sofa during a break between rounds, casually declaring, "Then I'm not playing."

The whole internet: "??? What a huge ego!"

The video gradually climbed the trending list. The league handed Autumn a penalty for unsportsmanlike play.

Autumn accepted the punishment head-on. He livestreamed himself paying the fine and packing his things, and said he'd livestream signing the termination papers too. Before leaving, he had to give them a proper scolding.

After the online crowd waited along with Autumn for another three days, the team's logistics assistant finally came to call him to the conference room.

But instead of termination papers, they were met by a single line from retired star Leaf: "Kid, you've been very naughty."

The naughty kid didn't manage to get a single word of abuse out. With the livestream still running, he put his packed belongings back in the dorm, one item at a time.

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Autumn, Xie Zhiqiu, was the S9 season's Best Rookie. In the game, he was the calmest medic; outside it, he was a troublemaker who had cursed out everyone on the team, coaches included. He was usually right about what he said, but in the eyes of the coaching staff and the club, the rookie didn't know his place.

Yet it was this very player who had no idea how high the sky was who forced a substitute into the lineup in a crucial match, then led the team to come from two games down and win three straight to claim the third-place trophy.

After the competition, there was a huge upheaval inside the club. Autumn's contract termination seemed all but certain. No one expected the outcome: the head coach was fired, the starting point man terminated his contract, and Leaf, whose real name was Yan Ye, became the new head coach.

The whole internet was in an uproar.

A day later, Autumn livestreamed himself writing a self-criticism.

Half a month later, Autumn copied out his past insults by hand on stream.

A month later, Autumn livestreamed himself finishing off nearly dead bots for three hours. (Apparently, this was because he'd missed three kills on nearly dead opponents in five rounds of a scrim.)

Autumn, who refused to lose and always wanted to prove himself, became the only pro player that season to fulfill his livestreaming hours.

Finally, with dark circles under his eyes, he turned his head and said, "Coach, I was wrong. Can I stop streaming now?"

"Didn't you say you liked livestreaming? Keep going."

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Leaf, Yan Ye, was once the strongest free agent in "Doomsday Battlegrounds." He only played for one season, retiring abruptly just after the S7 regular season ended. Now he was back in the public eye as a coach, and everyone was dying to know what had happened.

With a crowdfunding campaign, netizens paid Autumn to pump him for information.

Autumn secretly started a livestream and knocked on Leaf's office door. Under pressure from the cool, cocky kid, Leaf answered "without the slightest resistance": "I left to inherit the family business. I came back to catch a naughty kid."

"You must post this on Weibo in the morning, afternoon, and evening, so every netizen knows. Collect the best comments and compile them for me. And make sure the whole thing is livestreamed."

Autumn: "..."

The viewers in the livestream: "Hahahahaha!"

One night, after staring at the livestream page until he nearly threw up, Autumn complained, "Shouldn't you get half my livestreaming salary?"

Leaf: "If it wasn't included in the prenuptial agreement, then yes, I should get half."

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A well-behaved kid with claws, bottom x A quiet big bad, top

The game and setting are fictional, so please don't read too much into them. I'm a romance-focused writer. Please don't be harsh if the matches are rough~

Theme: You don't have to change for anyone or anything. Just be yourself.