Welcome to Your Eighteenth Year [Esports]

[A tough, quiet mid laner bottom × a jungler top who never stops flirting]

A new sensation has appeared on the Douyu streaming platform. An unknown streamer vowed to make the top ten on the Korean server within twenty days.

The chat was full of mockery, until he tore through the Korean server with his seemingly bottomless champion pool and reached the top of the leaderboard. Only then did everyone realize they'd underestimated him.

It was the transfer window, and managers from all the major LPL clubs came knocking with contracts worth a fortune. But the prodigy turned them all away.

Everyone in the esports scene lamented the loss, convinced they were about to miss out on another brilliant young talent.

Then, not long afterward, an official announcement shot to the top of Weibo overnight.

Jiang Xian V: @Xu Du I've finally found you, my mid laner. // Welcome to the team.

That night, countless people ground their teeth and cursed Jiang Xian for being such a scheming bastard.

No one knew that, ever since an ordinary ranked game, Jiang Xian hadn't been able to take his eyes off that username.

To lure the prodigy onto his team, this top LPL jungler had hidden his identity. Back when Xu Du was still an unknown streamer, he had quietly approached him as the channel's top donor.

Over the course of a month, Jiang Xian carefully wove a gentle net around him.

But unexpectedly, the soul caught in that net was deeply scarred.

The young man shut himself away from the world, made no friends, avoided interaction, and rejected anyone who tried to get close.

Jiang Xian devoted every bit of patience he had to approaching him, bit by bit, until he finally drew the young man gently out of the darkness.

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Darkness can swallow the light for a time, but it can never extinguish a truly brilliant flame.

On the eve of the Worlds draw, the entire LPL region prayed they wouldn't be matched against VOR.

Once, VOR had dominated the competition with Jiang Xian's carry-jungle playstyle alone. With Xu Du now on the team, they'd evolved into a flawless, six-sided powerhouse.

Their opponents now faced a desperate question.

What do you do when you don't have enough bans?

Looking at Xu Du's enormous champion pool, the coaching staff of every team wished they could put the player himself on the ban list.

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[Reader's Guide]

1. Both leads are strong.

2. They only have eyes for each other. No side characters will have unrequited crushes on either lead.

3. Healing from childhood trauma and a reveal of his real identity.

4. There will be a side couple. Please don't read if that's not for you.

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[An anxious, cautious bottom × a sinister, ruthless top]

One day, Lin Xingyue transmigrated into a story and became a doomed cannon-fodder character.

On the surface, the original owner was a notorious playboy in the capital, gambling on cockfights, racing dogs, and spending money like water, passing his days drunk in brothels and pleasure houses.

But in secret, he'd been plotting for years, hoping to overthrow the imperial throne.

To make matters worse, when Lin Xingyue arrived, the original owner was lounging with his arms around two women in a brothel, while the emperor on the throne had already begun to suspect the Yong'an Marquis's son, who was pretending to be a fool.

Without any of the original owner's memories, Lin Xingyue couldn't tell which people around him were conspirators and which were informants. He had no idea how far the rebellion plot had progressed, either.

The only thing he could rely on was the novel he'd read.

He remembered the original character's ending all too clearly. After his rebellion failed, the sinister and ruthless emperor had him torn apart by five horses.

To save his own life, he decided to run away at once, as far from that man-eating capital as possible.

Forcing himself to stay calm, Lin Xingyue hurried out of the brothel and walked straight into someone.

The man before him wore a moon-white robe. His handsome, refined features and noble bearing seemed completely out of place in this pleasure district.

He stood with his hands behind his back in the night, his head tilted slightly as he quietly watched Lin Xingyue.

Lin Xingyue didn't recognize him at all, but the man's gaze was impossible to ignore, as if he were looking right through him.

Lin Xingyue's heart clenched. Why was this man staring at him? Could he be someone the original owner knew?

With no time to think, Lin Xingyue had no choice but to keep up his playboy act. He put on a dashing, flirtatious smile and drawled, "My, what a handsome gentleman. I fell for you at first sight."

The man curled his lips, but the faint smile never reached his eyes. "Is that so?"

The man's smile made Lin Xingyue's hair stand on end. He could tell something was wrong, but he couldn't put his finger on what.

He didn't know that the man before him should have been seated in the highest halls of the imperial palace. He'd come here in disguise tonight specifically to see Lin Xingyue.

That flirtatious remark had just made Lin Xingyue the first person in history to openly hit on the emperor.

And that supreme ruler, his gaze cold and aloof, had clearly taken note of Lin Xingyue.

Theme: May your eighteenth year be filled with applause and glory