If the Scum Top Can't Do It, Let Me!

Synopsis from the protagonist's perspective:

Wen Yan, once the pampered young heir of a top Beijing family, is neither loved by his father nor his mother. As his family teeters on the brink of bankruptcy, his own father sells him off in a marriage alliance to their rival, making him sign an unequal treaty that robs him of all dignity: everything must be done according to Mr. Xu Youxian's wishes. If he says go east, Wen Yan can't go west; if he says beat the dog, Wen Yan can't touch the chicken.

In short: no rights whatsoever.

To escape the misery of living under someone else's roof, Wen Yan works diligently to earn money to buy back his freedom. While streaming a game, he gets matched with Xu Youxian and a junior student, who team up and flirt.

Xu Youxian: "He's just my junior. I'm only playing around with him. That's fine, right?"

Wen Yan: "OK, OK."

With a bang, two boxes started billowing green smoke, and Wen Yan smashed the scumbag and his shameless boy toy to death in one go.

In short: smiling on the outside, cursing on the inside.

Synopsis from the love interest's perspective:

When Qin Lan returned to the country, the person he had a crush on had already entered a marriage alliance. Heartbroken, he was matched in a game with the unattainable crush he'd been dreaming of.

His crush was a variety-game streamer who went with the times and followed the trends, streaming whatever was popular.

But his crush was a born rebel, treating only "obedient teammates" like Wen Yan with gentleness and special consideration?

To win the streamer's favor, Qin Lan made up his mind:

He had to put on an act.

Having long since figured out the game's rules, Qin Lan walked with the robotic gait of an NPC while pitifully trying to get a follow:

"Hey, can I stick with you this round? Getting the first kill at the start is scary."

"Hey, you can have the 8x scope and the painkillers. Don't think I'm stupid, okay?"

"Hey, can we add each other as friends? Don't worry, I won't bother you except to team up. I'm really super well-behaved."

With just three lines, he tricked Wen Yan into charging ahead and getting kills like crazy.

The guy who went off looting came back with a full haul, then dumped it all on him, keeping only an M4 for himself?

Even in a game where you had to find the traitor, he had to moonlight as Qin Lan's babysitter and protect him every step of the way.

Wen Yan thought he'd picked up a naive sweetheart, and even while streaming, he'd willingly play both mom and dad, becoming the bodyguard of a beautiful idiot.

Until he saw two videos sent to him by his fans...

How could the man who could knock out eight people like him with three punches say, without batting an eye, "Getting the first kill is scary"?

How could the top-tier big shot who could scheme the Xu family into bankruptcy claim, "Don't think I'm stupid"?

His fans were outraged and wrote three thousand bloody pleas, begging the little streamer to kill that shameless green tea bitch.

But the streamer, red-faced with anger, only paused briefly. "He's shy. Don't say that about him."

Fans: "???"

Fans: "Maybe listen to what you're saying?"

For the haters urging the streamer to kill him, Qin Lan pulled out a little notebook and wrote down their IDs one by one.

Egged on by the green tea bitch, the streamer gave his fans a treat and invited them to play in a private lobby.

Qin Lan pulled out his little notebook, then produced a huge iron wok.

The wok clanged again and again. Even as he was about to get eliminated, Qin Lan didn't forget to taunt them: "Can't help it. Wen Yan loves me so much."

Fans who'd been eliminated with the first kill came to complain: "God Yan, look at him!"

The streamer acted like he couldn't see a thing. "Can't help it. I love him."

Fans: "..." A million angry curses stampeded through their minds.

Content warnings:

1. The love interest changes. The love interest changes. The love interest changes. Important enough to say three times.

2. Both leads are each other's only ones, but their first kiss is gone, sob.

3. The eventual male lead appears in Chapter 2. It takes time for them to get together, so please read cautiously if you want the love interest change to happen right at the start.

Theme: Keep growing resiliently, even in adversity.