The Streamer and His Acquaintance

[My other novel, Working Hard to Clean Up the Internet Again [Quick Transmigration], is now available!]

Game streamer Lin You'an had 5G-level skills and 2G-level engagement, until he hired an editor, Rioyz, to add some fun to his videos.

They played games together and promoted their streams together. The videos were entertaining, and overall traffic went up. Lin You'an was very pleased.

His livestream fans were pleased, too. The very next day, they started shipping him with Rioyz.

Lin You'an (watching a video, at a loss for words): They say your videos are full of bromance.

Rioyz (secretly liking every comment shipping them): Huh? Isn't that just brotherly affection?

Oh, so matching couple IDs and flirtatious contracts were brotherly affection.

Sending rose gifts and fighting to be the one and only favorite were brotherly affection, too.

And how could the pink filter, sweet love songs, and inexplicable looks and microexpressions added during editing not be brotherly affection?

Never mind, it was just fan culture. Lin You'an decided to let it play out. Then he turned around and saw

How come Rioyz had the same IP address as him?

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Editor Rioyz had taken countless jobs, but had never edited videos for anyone long-term.

Then one day, he looked at the game streamer who'd come to him of his own accord. "Hmm?"

Wasn't this his first love from high school, the one he'd fallen out with?

Why were their IP addresses in the same place even after they went to college?

All anyone remembered was that Jiang Yanzhi and Lin You'an were at odds. Whenever they met, even the dogs passing by got snide remarks. No one knew what had happened between them back then.

Rioyz took the job.

If he was editing videos... it was okay to slip in a little something of his own, right?

But the little streamer acted completely disgusted whenever he ran into him at school during the day, then spent the evening playing sweet, lovey-dovey games with him (or rather, his secret identity). Was that really okay?

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After getting together with Jiang Yanzhi, Lin You'an went to a convention hosted by the platform, and Rioyz had also been invited.

Then, the moment he met Rioyz's eyes in person

Jiang Yanzhi: "..."

Lin You'an: "..."

Jiang Yanzhi made one last desperate attempt. "Boyfriend, I..."

Lin You'an gave a cold laugh. "You're Rioyz's boyfriend. What does that have to do with me?"

That night, the hotel room was a mess, and Jiang Yanzhi, now unmasked, was kicked out of the room.

#One of the people in the ship is the head of the shipper fandom#

#Whose idols make their own fan content? Oh, mine do#

#God welded my door shut and then closed my window, but the problem is he locked me in with a jerk. What do I do?#

[His heartbeat had betrayed his words from the very first moment they reunited.]

[Unhinged logic, drama queen, self-shipping seme (Jiang Yanzhi) x says one thing but means another, streamer, very good at flirting uke (Lin You'an)]

Reader's Guide:

1. A very strong mutual attraction. No one else is involved. The couple dotes on each other.

2. The games played on stream are fictional. Streaming and gaming don't take up much of the story, so you can follow along even if you don't play games or watch streams.

3. The cover uses a mass-produced character design chosen by the designer. The little expressions on the character cards are kindergarten-level doodles made by the author.

4. Hope you enjoy reading. "Bows"

Theme: Believe that every gloomy scene will become a bright future.