I Won Over a Top Underworld Official by Gaming

[Metaphysics] [A Little Esports] [An Unconventional Second Chance Romance] | A cool, jade-faced underworld judge on the receiving end × an irreverent game streamer on the pursuing end

After the Underworld modernizes, Judge Qing Yan works diligently every day, striving to be one of the Underworld's ten best employees.

One day, he watches in horror as a shikigami from a certain MOBA game actually, really, truly gets reincarnated after dying!

Looking at the souls crowding the Underworld's gates, Qing Yan says, "Investigate! We have to get to the bottom of this! If we don't fix this bug, even the Great Emperor Beiyin of Fengdu will take away our iron rice bowls that have lasted a thousand years!"

To keep his job (not really), and to maintain the balance between yin and yang, Qing Yan sneaks into the mortal realm to investigate the game. There, he unexpectedly meets a metaphysical game streamer who isn't in the Book of Life and Death. The streamer is a carefree romantic with nothing on his mind but falling in love.

The streamer's ID is "Daylight," and his stream title is always "I'm Using Metaphysics to Beat the Chicken!" His gameplay is wild, and his lines are even wilder:

Daylight: "Your marriage palace looks full and smooth, and you have rosy lips and pearly teeth. Looks like you're lucky in love."

Qing Yan: "Speak plainly."

Daylight: "You look exactly like my late ex, the one I still can't forget. Would my rich boss be interested in an exciting little replacement romance?"

Qing Yan: "...How dare you be so impertinent!"

Daylight: "Even that shy little look is exactly the same."

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Qing Yan has been dreaming a lot lately.

In his dreams, someone dips a brush in ink. A blue-gray sleeve sweeps over the desk, and a warm, smiling voice says, "May the seas be calm and the rivers clear... What a lovely name. How about I call you Qing Yan?"

When Qing Yan opens his eyes again, Daylight's handsome face is right there, enlarged before him. Leaning against the headboard, he smiles meaningfully. "What were you dreaming about, Judge? You look awfully pleased with yourself."

Daylight's figure gradually overlaps with the hazy blue-gray silhouette in the dream.

Qing Yan turns away, unable to suppress the smile at the corner of his lips. In a muffled voice, he says, "...It's a secret."

"What secret could you possibly keep from your ex-husband?"

Reading Guide:

1. The game is Onmyoji Arena, but everything is my own invention! The setting is completely made up! Readers who care about canon details, beware!

2. They are each other's only partners, one-on-one, in both their past and present lives. There is absolutely, absolutely, absolutely no replacement! They were each other's true love in their past lives, too!

3. The receiving partner seems cool, ascetic, and like an old-school bureaucrat, but is actually innocent and easy to tease (only by the pursuing partner). The pursuing partner seems flighty and hopelessly romantic, but is actually devoted, determined, and responsible.

4. A wild mix of metaphysics, a little esports, and modern Underworld office life (?), but at its heart, it's a sweet story about falling in love under a secret identity and rekindling a relationship!

Theme: Keep up with the times.