He Gave Her a Dream [Esports]

Fang Yu, a famous master of witty banter, shares pick-up tips on his livestream. The key is: be funny!

His good friend and fellow streamer, Xiang Gui, listens to him speak with such conviction, then secretly "reads the whole thing thoroughly and memorizes it."

Zeng Linxi is a regular random teammate in the streamers' squad. She never expected to run into an online friend at the start of the school year and get hit on by him. As luck would have it, she'd overheard the very technique he was using. She plays along with the clueless online friend without giving anything away, then gently compliments him: "You're funny."

Xiang Gui beams. He looks up and sees his crush's eyes glistening, her smile gentle.

She says, "But I like cool guys."

Then she looks at Fang Yu beside him, teasing him with a faint smile: "Like the guy next to you. He doesn't say a word, just watches the show. He's pretty great."

Twenty minutes later, the three of them meet again in the classroom, except

They're sitting in the back row, while she's standing at the lectern.

That night, Xiang Gui recaps the day's bizarre events in the squad chat and declares Fang Yu's technique "a useless skill."

Fang Yu disagrees: If you use the technique on the wrong person, you're the useless one.

Fever: Care to elaborate?

Fang Yu sums it up: That's the teacher he can't flirt with.

Xiang Gui jumps up: How did he become my teacher?!

Zeng Linxi, wearing her online friend's secret identity, answers first: Once a teacher, forever a father.

Reader's Guide:

1. An esports story, based around a mobile battle royale game. There's a lot of gameplay, which will be explained in detail. You don't have to have played the game to follow along.

2. Gentle sniper big sister x sharp-tongued streamer younger brother. The story is mostly told from the male lead's perspective at first, because I want to write the whole process of a younger guy being unable to resist the boundless charm of a mature, gentle older woman, falling head over heels and secretly losing himself in love, haha.

3. The timeline is mostly set in 2021, when social activities were relatively unrestricted. The game setup is also based on the version at the time. However, the characters' dialogue includes internet slang from 2022 for readability. Please don't nitpick the timeline, and thanks for understanding!

4. Extreme sweetness warning!!! No angst at all. Diabetes patients, beware, haha!

Theme: A gentle big sister with boundless charm; a sweet romance full of push and pull, sweeter than a first love