The Coach Told Me to Fake a Couple Ship [Esports]

[Confident, peacock-proud jungler top × aloof outside, warm inside, taciturn marksman bottom] The team Yan Dubai had just joined was short on funds, and one of its players had been sidelined by injury. The day after Yan Dubai moved in with his suitcase, the coach sneaked up to him and gave him the once-over. “You’ve got the looks. How about we cook up some CPU…” Faced with the request, Yan Dubai agreed without a second thought. He’d only have to do it on the side during training. He could just copy what everyone else did. And so Matching couple avatars, sharing a camera during livestreams. The top jungler plays support for love, and the marksman gives you his red buff with a kiss. As the team’s results kept improving, captain Fang Shixu’s usually cold expression grew softer and softer. Sometimes even Yan Dubai couldn’t help marveling to himself. The captain was a much better actor than he’d expected. Until the night of the finals, when they lifted the trophy together. Fang Shixu solemnly handed him his championship ring, his ears faintly red. “From now on, it’s all yours.” Yan Dubai: “?” Only later did he learn that the useless coach had never told the captain a thing. Tips: The top makes the first move, but the bottom pursues the top. Yan Dubai is extremely handsome. The author’s esports knowledge and skill are based on Honor of Kings. No real-life inspirations. Don’t overthink it. This is mainly a romance. A preview of an upcoming story: After the White Moonlight Awakens, He Boldly Becomes a Live-In Son-in-Law After the brilliant top scholar Xie You angered the new emperor for reasons he couldn’t understand and was thrown into the imperial prison, he received a heavenly book. The Emperor’s Obsession He coughed a few times, confused as he watched the characters in the book, bearing the emperor’s name, get tangled up with his friend. Xie You didn’t quite understand, but he saw that in the story, the emperor was jealous of a general’s infatuation with “Xie You.” So he fabricated charges to have him thrown in prison, then turned around and arranged for him to marry his crippled elder brother. The “Xie You” in the story was confined to the inner quarters and mocked. He abused the prince, colluded with foreign enemies, and was eventually beheaded by Huo Yang and displayed in public. …What a despicable man. He wasn’t sure whether he was judging that Xie You or the new emperor. But by an extraordinary coincidence, they shared not only a name, but the exact same fabricated charges. If he didn’t accept the marriage, death was the only other option. The next day, when he was brought before the court and told of the marriage, Xie You shut his eyes and knelt on the ground. Gritting his teeth, he said, “Though I am unworthy, I still wish to serve the court. I only ask Your Majesty to let me marry into the Prince of Huai’s household.” Seeing the emperor’s hostile expression, he immediately swore an oath: “I will take the prince as my one and only spouse for the rest of my life. I will never waver or choose anyone else, and I will stay by his side until we are old.” As the court officials whispered among themselves, the emperor seemed to think of something and actually agreed to his request. Marrying into the family was hardly better than being married off, and for the Xie family, a family of scholars celebrated for a century of integrity, it was an even greater disgrace. One marriage contract destroyed Xie You’s path to a prestigious career, as well as the Prince of Huai’s reputation and dignity. But the fact that Xie You could keep his official position was already a blessing. He didn’t mind becoming a live-in son-in-law as much as he would have minded being trapped in the prince’s household. But only after crossing the threshold of the prince’s residence did he understand why the emperor had agreed so readily. Was that violent, gloomy cripple really the Prince of Huai? Now that the other man was the one confined to the inner quarters, he looked at Xie You as if he wanted to devour him. Thinking of how the Xie You in the heavenly book had abused him, Xie You finally sighed, strode over to the Prince of Huai, and sat down in front of him. He poured liquor into the prince’s cup with one hand and drank from his own with the other. There was no helping it. One of them had to be the unlucky one. Though the Hanlin scholar from the court had become a live-in son-in-law, Xie You himself didn’t care much about empty prestige and didn’t feel ashamed. To be fair, regardless of who he married, he’d actually been looking forward to it. If things went well, they could spend winter evenings around the stove, brewing tea and admiring the snow like his uncle and aunt, then laze around in summer listening to the rain patter against the windows. The land deeds and household accounts belonging to the Xie family’s young mistress should, in theory, all go to his spouse… “Xie Huaiyu, if you look at me like that again, sooner or later I’ll gouge out your eyes and feed them to the dogs.” The man spoke in a chilling voice. He’d been forced into the most dazzling fabric in the capital, all to suit Xie You’s tastes. But with half his face covered in deep scars, even the finest clothes only made him look more terrifying. Now he stared at Xie You with a cold smile that didn’t reach his eyes. All right, things weren’t going well. But no matter what, they were married for life now. Besides, the emperor was only too happy to see them “in love.” Xie You was selfish, after all. He wouldn’t stoop to tormenting the other man, but he’d rather make the Prince of Huai a laughingstock throughout the capital and disgrace the Xie family than give up his place at court. But when a rebellion brought a new emperor to the throne, Xie You saw the new ruler standing in court, smiling at him with a sinister look in his eyes, and felt a chill run down his back. It was over. His eyes really were going to be gouged out and fed to the dogs. Aristocratic scholar-family top scholar, live-in son-in-law, beautiful top × dark, scheming, usurping prince bottom Content warning: The bottom is a sinister, wicked man, six years older than the top. They start as a couple consumed by mutual hatred, then become a resentful husband and an indifferent spouse. The top is very much a people magnet, and deeply shaped by the scholar-officials’ way of thinking. They marry first and fall in love later, if at all [highlighted] Theme: Improve together and lift the trophy as one.