A Guide to Getting Exposed in an Online Romance

A popular thread has appeared on the built-in forum of the hit online game Nine Thousand Miles. Title: Any players from the Stopping Clouds, Falling Moon server? What's up with Baiyujing's guild leader, Drunk Jade, Slumped Mountain, the number-one player on the combat ranking? Original post: As the title says, this is hard to put into words. I mean this without any negativity, but lately he seems like a peacock, showing off to someone every single day. 1st reply: I'm here for the gossip. Isn't Baiyujing the top guild on Stopping Clouds, Falling Moon? I remember Drunk Jade, Slumped Mountain was also number one on the server's combat ranking. Wasn't he the loneliest loner on the server, barely ever saying a word? 2nd reply: He used to be, but it looks like spring has come for our loner. 3rd reply: Um, so who is this "someone"? I'm listening. 4th reply: They say it's his apprentice, supposedly a young guy with a really nice voice. 5th reply: Apprentice? I heard it was an underclassman. 6th reply: A young guy? Wait, am I remembering wrong? Wasn't the Baiyujing guild leader a man too? 7th reply: Who knows? They're just two guys. Nth reply: ...He's really something. Lin Yan got into the online game Nine Thousand Miles on his roommate's recommendation. But after his roommate helped him reach max level, he had to leave. Dressed in beginner gear, Lin Yan stood helplessly in front of the dungeon recruitment board until a kind player picked him up and brought him into a battle royale match. Before entering the battle royale map, the kind player said: Don't worry, I'm bad too. We're not the tryhard type, so let's just play around and get used to our skills (￣~￣) After entering the battle royale map, the kind player said: Oh no, we're on the same team as our guild leader. Is he going to yell at you until you cry? O_o Lin Yan: ...QAQ After Lin Yan accidentally messed things up for the supposedly fearsome guild leader several times in a row, he saw the other player's voice-chat icon flash twice. Just as he was about to get chewed out, Lin Yan nervously switched on his mic and apologized first. The other side fell silent, then tossed him a pile of gear. [Drunk Jade, Slumped Mountain: Pick it up.] [Drunk Jade, Slumped Mountain: New player? Need a master?] Lin Yan: ... Maybe he's not that scary after all. OVO As the start of his second year of college approached, He Yu, an upperclassman staying on campus, was asked by his advisor to meet a freshman who had arrived early. The younger student had an elegant face and a distant air. He stood beneath a plane tree in front of the classroom building, his voice cool and clear when he spoke. From that moment on, He Yu began a six-month-long secret crush. >>>> The next book I'll write is The Beloved Insect Queen Gets the Whole Team's Love. Click the first book in my author profile to add it to your collection! Ci Tan was sickly from childhood and spent years in the hospital. He died in his hospital bed on his twentieth birthday. When he opened his eyes again, he found himself in the interstellar era, as a genetically modified human created by an underground research organization. In short, a living experimental subject. Fortunately, he was rescued by the Interstellar Alliance just a few days after arriving. He thought his life would gradually get back on track, but Ci Tan noticed that the people around him were acting stranger and stranger. His fellow modified friends praised him uncontrollably, and the exchange students from the Zerg he met looked at him with increasing fervor. And... The Imperial Marshal he had accidentally rescued offered him a badge of authority. In the interstellar era, the Zerg of the Lanna Empire were the strongest fighting species, but they had been without their Queen for a full three hundred years. Without the Queen's mental soothing, the mental instability of high-ranking Zerg grew more and more severe. In the year 3062 of the interstellar calendar, an illegal underground research organization defied interstellar law and grafted Zerg genes onto humans, hoping to create modified humans capable of alleviating the Zerg's mental instability. The organization called these genetically modified humans Shadow Zerg. In the year 3082 of the interstellar calendar, the Interstellar Alliance destroyed the underground research organization. Though life without their Queen was long and arduous, the Zerg would never allow their Queen to be defiled by such lowly modified humans. Yet not long after the illegal research organization was destroyed, the crystal in the sacred grounds on the Zerg capital planet, a symbol of the Queen's vigorous life, began to glow again. The Zerg sensed their Queen's mental link once more. Clias, the First Marshal of the Sialen Empire, was severely wounded after being set up during a mission. He was also unexpectedly rescued by a young man with modified-human genes. The boy pushed aside the fragments of his mecha and offered him a long, pale hand. His brilliant golden eyes were full of concern. At that moment, Clias, known as the "war machine," felt a tremor deep in his genes for the first time. This story is also known as The Story of a Real Insect Queen Transmigrating into a Fake Insect Queen. [Please note] This is not a typical Insect Queen story. I've made up a lot of the worldbuilding, but the whole-team adoration is guaranteed, and there will absolutely be no angst. Theme: Life needs a vigorous spirit.