Guide to Raising a Support at Home (e-sports)

In a nutshell, from Yu Xinche's perspective: Eighteen-Year-Old National Server Prodigy Gets Invited to Play Professionally by a World Champion After They Match in Ranked

The serious blurb:

Everyone knows that transfer season in esports is full of gossip. The biggest story this year is: He Ci is picking a support.

Unlike most close-knit bot-lane duos, the bot-lane duo at TZ Club never gets along. They change supports every year, but none of them can satisfy He Ci, their AD carry.

[The club is running out of time.]

[He complains that the skilled ones don't listen, and that the ones who do listen are trash. LOL.]

[It's fine, just sign a rookie. Doesn't He Ci always claim he could win with a dog as his support?]

With the club in a panic, He Ci brings in a boy who's just turned eighteen. “Let him try.”

The club: ?

Wait, this pale, neat-looking kid with a good-student face can play games?

As it turns out, he really can.

He single-handedly makes the opposing team focus all their attacks on a low-tier enchanter support; gets MVP after five support picks are banned in one match; and even inspires the game designers to release an entirely new set of support gear...

After unanimously winning Rookie of the Year and Best Support, Yu Xinche humbly tells the interviewer:

“How did I do it? Maybe my AD is pretty obedient.”

[He Ci is obedient??? Did you get that backwards?]

[If you're making things up, at least make them believable.]

[No way I'm buying that.]

After the award ceremony, netizens question Yu Xinche's claim. In the middle of the lively debate, He Ci posts:

“Everyone knows the greatest virtue of an AD: listening to the support at home.”

*

He Ci is proud and arrogant, and Yu Xinche is the first support he's ever truly clicked with. After they miss their chance once, He Ci takes decisive action at the rookie draft and finally secures Yu Xinche.

The rookie is great in every way. He's just too popular.

When the two have a minor disagreement on stream, the whole league can't resist jumping into the chat to get involved.

[You should transfer to our team. I'll give the support blue buff.]

[Why is the streamer being mean to his support? If you don't want a support this good, give him to me.]

[God Xinche, check your messages. I've booked you for my next game.]

Before He Ci can fire back, Yu Xinche speaks up beside him:

“No thanks. I still prefer the blue buff He Ci gives me ^_^”

Anyone can see how well He Ci and the rookie support he personally trained work together, and how much care and favoritism He Ci shows Yu Xinche.

Someone asks their teammate what he thinks of it.

Teammate: “The old supports only joined him halfway through. Our God Xinche was personally trained by him, step by step: life, competition, and how to conduct himself. The full package.”

“A homegrown support? Who can beat that?”

Rich heir top who'll have to retire and inherit the family fortune if he doesn't win (He Ci) & fox-like bottom who acts sweet and obedient but knows exactly how to handle He Ci (Yu Xinche)

1. The game is a fictional MOBA I made up. Details about the abilities are in the pinned comment below.

2. The cover was commissioned exclusively.

3. They don't win every match. They do win in the end, but they lose a very important match in the latter half of the story [please take note]. I don't recommend auto-renewal or buying the whole novel at once~

Added note: One of the bonus side stories mentions the top dressing as a woman. It's not described in detail, but it does happen, so please keep that in mind.

Here's a coming-soon recommendation, an ancient-to-modern story: Medicine Can't Save This Circle. Blurb:

“If you can't save the Third Prince, you'll all be buried with him!”

To avoid being buried alive, the Imperial Medical Bureau works itself to the bone. After reading medical texts nonstop for two days and nights, Shi Miao collapses onto his desk.

When he opens his eyes again, the Third Prince is standing right in front of him.

Blood at the corner of his mouth, but in good spirits and very much alive.

Alive!

Overjoyed, Shi Miao instinctively grabs the Third Prince's hand and checks his pulse for signs of illness.

The pulse is steady and healthy. He looks up in delight, about to congratulate the Third Prince, but a crowd surges around them and roughly drags him away.

“Holy crap, where did this sasaeng come from? Security, security!”

Shi Miao is bewildered. Then he realizes that everyone around him is dressed and speaking in unfamiliar ways.

Looking at the Third Prince, the only person dressed like him, he tries to keep calm. “Your Highness, are you planning to have all these people buried with you?”

*

Kuang Yi takes a role in a historical drama. After filming wraps smoothly, a C-list actor suddenly tries to latch onto him, and an intimate photo of them holding hands and gazing at each other through tears unexpectedly leaks.

He's told to pretend to be a couple with the other man, but the other man seems incapable of acting.

Kuang Yi gently strokes his hair. Shi Miao jumps three feet in the air. “Ahhhhh, Your Highness, please behave yourself!”

Kuang Yi reaches out to hold his hand. Shi Miao immediately grabs his wrist with both hands. “Your Highness's pulse is healthy today too!”

Kuang Yi: “...”

Pretending to be a couple? Not happening.

Their staged romance is full of obvious blunders, and the fans treat it as a joke.

But the more they watch, the more something seems off.

Why are these two checking each other's pulse eight hundred times a day? Is it really a pulse check, or just hand-holding on the company dime?!

A lighthearted, sweet story. Please add it to your collection, mwah.

Theme: Stay true to yourself and dare to break through.