What Do You Mean, Esports Daji?

Xia Miao, ID MIAO, nicknamed Kitty by his fans, is a two-time world champion and a veteran jungler at the age of twenty-six. His playstyle is strange and unpredictable, exceptionally ruthless, yet he has a delicately beautiful face and a pair of alluring, soft-eyed peach blossom eyes.

After the transfer window, Xia Miao joins the good-looking MG team. Everyone else is a rookie, and the pressure of being captain is immense.

One day, while browsing online, he accidentally clicks on his own fanfic, "Esports Daji: Miao," and discovers that he's the ultimate bottom.

Xia Miao: ...Seriously?

In real life, Xia Miao is aloof and has never dated.

In the fanfic, Xia Miao is "forced to his knees, his skin glowing white, biting the hem of his clothes, eyes brimming with tears..."

Xia Miao slams his phone facedown.

What nonsense! What does "Esports Daji" even mean?

Keeping a straight face, he hurries back to his room and locks the door.

This is... kind of weird. Maybe I'll read just one more bit.

After a while, he realizes the fanfic's characterization is coming true in real life.

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The team prioritizes developing a substitute, and Xia Miao, despite being in great form, is benched in a rotation.

In the next match, the opposing team targets their strategy against them, and the substitute jungler gets killed so often that he goes ultra-negative.

The opposing jungler: "Yeah, I'm a Miao fan. Let's see what this substitute can do."

The team's coach deliberately makes things difficult and slanders Xia Miao. Once exposed, he goes on vacation and abandons the team. A star coach from the Southeast Asian league flies thousands of miles to join MG.

The coach from Taiwan: "Come on! What's the problem? I'm a Miao fan!"

At the world championship, Xia Miao encounters a serious bug with one of his champions. The game company considers whether he exploited it deliberately, and players from every league speak up in support.

"We're all Miao fans! The league must make a fair ruling!"

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MG's support, Hua Lang, is the son of a leading medical company's founder. He's known as the esports player most suited to being a boyfriend. His older sister, the founder of a fanfiction site, is a prolific creator of content for rare pairings, while his older brother is a world champion in interstellar esports.

When he was eleven, he went with his family to Iceland to watch the world championship. Onstage, MIAO, a jungler who had only just debuted, lifted the championship trophy, brimming with confidence and shining like a god.

At eighteen, he switched from jungler to support and became MIAO's teammate. When the media asked how he felt, he said, "It took me seven years to get here. My next step is to give my brother the championship ring."

Backstage after the interview, Xia Miao lowered his eyes, his expression cool. Beneath his fringe, the tips of his ears burned hot.

Those words... were from last night's update of the fanfic "Esports Daji: Miao":

In a dimly lit room, the younger support pins Xia Miao to the bed with one hand, leans close to his ear, and whispers hoarsely:

"Brother, I want to propose to you with a championship ring."

[Younger, scheming, green-tea-style puppy top x aloof, catlike beauty bottom with an active inner monologue]

1. The characters aren't based on anyone real, so please don't draw comparisons. The pairing is support x jungler, Hua Lang x Xia Miao.

2. A quick note on terminology: In esports, a player adored by other players is sometimes called an "esports social butterfly," "esports Daji," or "esports succubus." These are terms of endearment. The bottom is an extreme introvert. He's been a pro for a long time, plays well, and is a good person, so he's surrounded by admirers. He's popular without even trying.

3. The game is League of Legends, but the version, league relationships, geography, and buildings are all fictionalized. Please don't associate them with reality.

4. This is not a polyamorous story. The top is very jealous, and the whole world is a battlefield of romantic rivals, but no one except the top has romantic feelings for the bottom.

Theme: See the world from a different angle, and the scenery will look completely different