Stay and Watch the Golden Rain With Me [Esports]

[Cold on the outside, warm on the inside, growth-oriented top x sociable online tech streamer and game team captain, socially anxious offline bottom]

Qiao Ruiyi had only just started playing games, yet showed astonishing talent. He soon received invitations from numerous teams and studios, but turned them all down without exception.

Qiao Ruiyi wanted nothing more than his freedom, but he never expected someone else to latch onto him.

[Shanxing] You're pretty good.

[Shanxing] Let's duel. The loser has to agree to a condition set by the winner.

Qiao Ruiyi replied coldly: Not interested.

[Shanxing] What, you know you can't beat me, so you're afraid to accept?

Qiao Ruiyi: Hmph.

*

[Shanxing] Sorry, I won. You have to change your name to Anyue Yinyin and join my game team.

Qiao Ruiyi not only lost the duel, he lost his ID and his freedom, too.

Qiao Ruiyi: How annoying.

Qiao Ruiyi wanted to keep his life as peaceful as before, but one thing after another came looking for him.

The game team members exclaimed: You and our captain have matching couple IDs?

The game team's management questioned whether Qiao Ruiyi was qualified to compete in internal matches: You're not on our management team. You have no right to get involved in our affairs.

A couple they matched with became their in-game friends and sometimes even doubled as relationship gurus: The two of us started out as an online couple, too.

They also ran into Qiao Ruiyi's idol, En, a professional gamer: I'll give you two tickets. You can bring your partner or a friend to watch the match.

*

On the day of the match.

Qiao Ruiyi still couldn't connect the young man whose ears turned red whenever he spoke with the chatterbox he knew online.

He volunteered to go buy drinks, but when he came back, the other guy was surrounded by several girls.

"Are you the big streamer Yaoxing?"

"It really does look like him! Yaoxing, we're your biggest fans!"

"Streamer, where's your little boyfriend?"

Yuan Xingyou, wearing a hat and mask, hadn't expected anyone to recognize him anyway.

"He went to buy drinks. Please don't tell him who I am!"

The girls fell silent as they watched the tall young man walking toward them.

*

After a professional match, the winning team was interviewed.

"Anyue, what are your goals for this season?" the host asked.

Qiao Ruiyi took the microphone and answered firmly, "My goal is to win the championship!"

An uproar immediately erupted in the audience. They'd never seen such an arrogant rookie!

With a mischievous smile, the host turned to Yaoxing, whose ID seemed to be a couple's match with Anyue's. "Yaoxing, what about your goal?"

"My goal is to help him win the championship." Yuan Xingyou made no effort to hide how much he cared about someone.

As soon as he finished speaking, deafening screams erupted from the audience.

No one could have imagined that the couple they'd once shipped would appear on the professional stage one day, sporting such conspicuous matching IDs.

I can't take it, I'm passing out from shipping them!

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*Both are strong; their romance and personal stories develop together. An ensemble cast, from casual gaming to the professional stage, though the pro-gaming storyline comes later.

*The bottom is the captain of a game team, not a professional team captain.

*The game is Honor of Kings. At heart, this is a romance wearing a gaming-themed outfit, so don't expect the gameplay to hold up to technical scrutiny.

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Secondary couple: aloof substitute player x lovesick popular male singer

Tertiary couple: innocent little lamb x big-shot cross-dresser with a voice changer

*Check out my upcoming stories on my author page!

*The Tomb Owner Is My First Love: My first love rose from the dead!!

[An attacker who gives his all in the early stages, then takes things as they come later x a sharp-tongued, scheming Fourth Prince who endures humiliation]

A new emperor takes the throne, and the court changes hands.

Ji Xingze was at the height of his power, but after losing a battle, the emperor stripped him of his title as general and ordered him to guard the imperial tombs.

Anyone would sigh at such a drastic fall in status.

Yet the man at the center of all the talk wasn't angry at all. He quickly packed his belongings and headed off to the tombs.

"This emperor knows how to play favorites. Of all the imperial tombs, he had to assign me to guard yours. What do you think, my first love?"

*

To make it easier to clean the tomb, the man built a thatched hut in front of the Fourth Prince's tomb and moved his daily life there.

Whenever he got the urge to drink, he would take a small flask of wine to the Fourth Prince's tomb, sit on the ground, and reminisce about the past.

"If only we'd gotten to see each other one last time. Then I wouldn't have had to keep guarding the border in your name... Anyway, none of you from the Yu family are any good!"

Ji Xingze got drunk. With flushed cheeks and bleary eyes, he seemed to see the Yu Shanzhi of his memories slowly emerging from inside the tomb.

That sobered him right up.

"I was only saying I wished we'd seen each other one last time. You didn't have to rush out of your tomb to see me!"

Yu Shanzhi, who had only come out for some fresh air: "..."

Why was some idiot drinking in front of a tomb in the middle of the night?

*There's also My Sugar Baby Husband Has Turned Over a New Leaf: A kept man works hard to improve himself and gets back together with his ex-husband.

You can save them to your favorites on my author page~

Theme: What stays with you isn't the game, but the people who played it with you