The League's Dark Moonlight Returns for Revenge [Esports]

Shi Wen was livestreaming as usual. The instant the camera switched on, his furious fans fell silent.

You have to hand it to SG. They know how to keep their fans in line.

The summer split ended just last month, and SG once again fell short of the championship. They were mocked as "all talk, every year," and the team everyone had pinned their hopes on couldn't even make it past the national qualifiers.

Even so, a group of fans continued to support SG wholeheartedly. After all, SG had once been the first domestic team to reach the semifinals of the World Championship.

If that incident hadn't happened back then, they might even have won it all.

The starting player Nine disappeared without a word. Since SG had submitted a roster with no substitute players, they were forced to forfeit.

That match ended the careers of three SG players, and the team never recovered.

During this transfer window, SG's roster changes were the most baffling of all. Ever since their support player announced his retirement, SG had once again struggled to field a full starting lineup, inexplicably bringing fans' minds back to the darkest moment three years ago.

[Sure, he ghosted us for days, but of course we've forgiven him.]

[They're making Swen take all the heat again. What does management even do?]

[So, did SG recruit anyone? They've really been stringing us along.]

At the club's request, Shi Wen tried to reassure the fans.

As for who they were recruiting, that hadn't been decided yet.

At times like this, he couldn't help thinking of someone.

Mu Jiu, Nine.

Irresponsible, and willful.

But no matter how much he didn't want to admit it, he'd never found a teammate who worked better with him.

An invitation popped up in the chat window. It was for the solo practice session he'd arranged yesterday. Shi Wen was about to click on it when his mouse stopped. His eyes were drawn, beyond his control, to an ID.

An ID that had been inactive for a long time, gathering dust at the bottom of his list.

Nine.

After three seconds of silence, the public chat went wild.

[Wait, am I seeing things? Nine's back?]

[Mom, I must be sick. I'm already dreaming in broad daylight.]

[The forfeiting dog dares to come back?]

[We've already put out a bounty to punish the forfeiting dog. Details on my profile.]

Although Shi Wen tried his best to remain composed, the tight line of his lips betrayed the turmoil inside.

Once he'd finally recovered, Shi Wen took a moment to glance at the public chat and frowned almost imperceptibly. "Moderators, make sure to ban people."

His words set off a storm.

Everyone remembered how Nine had forfeited back then. Shi Wen had flown into a brief rage, then hesitated for ages on the delete-friend screen before removing Nine from his pinned contacts.

That look in his eyes, full of love and hate, with just a trace of longing, conflicted and confused, had sent the phrase "Your eyes still love him" straight to the top of the trending topics.

[Your eyes still love him.] Three years later, it was flooding the chat again.

-

Fan wars between esports teams had always been chaotic, until one person returned.

[The battle is on pause. Everyone focus fire!]

[The whole league's dark moonlight is back! I never thought I'd see the esports scene unite like this.]

Mu Jiu looked at the flood of insults in the public chat and smiled, saying nothing. His dazzling smile nearly blinded the haters.

[...With a face that gorgeous, maybe you should quit gaming and join the entertainment industry.]

While busy playing, Mu Jiu effortlessly replied to a comment in the chat. His tone was soft but firm.

"No. I'm back to win the championship this time." To fulfill his promise to share the glory with someone.

Watching him play with effortless precision and carry his teammates to victory, the chat fell silent. They finally remembered that before Mu Jiu was known as the league's dark moonlight, he had another title:

The league's number-one mechanically skilled player.

The league's dark moonlight, with insane mechanics but an unpredictable mental state (bottom) x The aloof, elegant genius shot-caller who is all bark and no bite (top)

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"My Ex-Boyfriend Is an Esports God [Esports]"

One-line summary: My crush is the ex-boyfriend I treated like garbage?!

As a famous esports player who made a living off his looks, Qu Xiangfeng's outstanding beauty overshadowed his skills. Clubs fought over him so they could send him out to promotional events.

Naturally, Qu Xiangfeng became a top-tier pretty-face admirer. Just when he thought that looking in the mirror every day had stopped feeling breathtaking, he started dating a guy online.

He kept him company in chat and in games, and showered him with gifts. Qu Xiangfeng was completely smitten.

After confirming that the photos the guy sent weren't taken from the internet, Qu Xiangfeng fell head over heels for his handsome face. After dating for half a year, he finally worked up the courage to arrange an in-person meeting.

But he arrived early and hid nearby. When he saw the person who'd come to meet him, Qu Xiangfeng nearly crushed his phone.

He lowered his head to confirm again: "Baby, are you here?"

The reply came: "I'm here. White shirt, black pants."

Qu Xiangfeng looked up. The man waiting nearby had a height and weight that seemed close to a perfect cube. He even spat on the ground without a care. Qu Xiangfeng's brow furrowed deeply.

The thought that he'd been dating someone like that for so long made him nauseous. It was a disgrace to his career as a pretty-face admirer.

To put an end to this mistake, Qu Xiangfeng turned and left, then blocked and deleted the guy. He was also glad he hadn't made their relationship public, or people in the industry would have laughed at him for the rest of his life.

Faced with Qu Xiangfeng's cold-hearted breakup, the guy begged him to stay again and again, nothing like the aloof person Qu Xiangfeng had pursued at the time.

If he hadn't met the guy in person, Qu Xiangfeng might have enjoyed it. Now, he was just annoyed.

"Are you going to dump me?" the guy asked one last time.

Qu Xiangfeng let out a scornful laugh. So what if he dumped him? He hadn't even confronted the guy for using fake photos and catfishing him!

He hammered at the keyboard: "That's right! I'm dumping you! Contact me again and I'll call the police."

The guy had used fake photos and still dared to meet him in person? Was he trying to provoke him?

Meanwhile, fans of Bai Yunzhe, a well-known gaming streamer famous for his technical skill, were surprised to find that their streamer seemed heartbroken. At three in the morning, he went live, drunk, then posted some incomprehensible, melodramatic heartbreak messages.

"Perhaps only by becoming a regret can you be remembered."

The next day, after sobering up, Bai Yunzhe discovered that he'd lost his real name and become "Mr. Remembered."

In his twenty-odd years of life, he'd never wanted to kill someone so badly, just to teach him who he could and couldn't mess with.

After much reflection, reason finally won out. He didn't make an account to go after that scumbag.

But he couldn't stop a certain someone from shamelessly coming right back to him.

-

The club found Qu Xiangfeng a new job. He'd never had much patience for promotional events like this, but somehow he ran into his "ex-boyfriend" here.

The photo had already made him fall in love at first sight. The real person was even more stunning.

So he was a game streamer. Qu Xiangfeng nodded, convinced he'd figured out the truth. No wonder that liar had gotten hold of his photos.

Having worked it out, Qu Xiangfeng boldly went up to ask for his contact information.

After all, he really was weak for that face!

Once his friend request was accepted, the other person fell silent. Qu Xiangfeng fell silent too, his eyes wide and his scalp tingling. Slowly, he looked up at the increasingly dangerous smile on the other's face.

Bai Yunzhe was quick to react. He grabbed Qu Xiangfeng as he tried to run and slammed him against the wall, sneering.

"Dump me?"

-

Later, Bai Yunzhe's only condition for signing with the club was that they sign Qu Xiangfeng too.

His excuse was: "He's our support player. He's convenient to have around."

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