The Third Rift (Unconventional Online Game Esports)

[Beautiful Male Leads x A Handsome, Strong Bottom Who's Warm on the Outside and Cold on the Inside]

[Beautiful Male Lead Types] Xue: Gentle childhood friend, a smiling devil in disguise, top. Ji: Tough on the outside, soft on the inside, a crybaby top.

Cui: Cold, arrogant, sharp-tongued, rigid, but a lovesick, possessive top. Yu: Rich stan who collects idol merch, top. The plot-to-romance ratio is 7:3. Some classic hot-blooded shonen energy. The whole story is free, not contracted, and won't be paywalled. The main text will be checked and bug-fixed from time to time.

*Story elements: fandom culture disputes, esports, forum posts (lots of them), livestreaming, future tech, interstellar setting, some light horror and fright. The plot doesn't stand up to scrutiny, so just switch off your brain and enjoy.

There's also a ton of meme references, purely for fun and not meant to be taken seriously. There are plenty of detailed descriptions of the setting and in-game scenes, so please check the warnings.

*The online games in this story include, but aren't limited to, traditional MMOs, RPGs, asymmetrical games, survival games, horror dungeons, and more. I want to give you the best, so the games are very varied.

Synopsis:

Kui Yejian, YuBe's main duelist and breaker, is the only professional player in the league with a 100% win rate in best-of-one matches. He's unbeatable in one-on-one fights, racks up MVPs in matches, and has earned countless honors in the league.

But in the three years since the league began, he hasn't won a single championship. People call him the uncrowned king.

Someone once asked Kui Yejian what his acceptance speech would be if he ever won a championship. He said, "Buff Shadowbane Sentry, that bottom-tier profession."

But before Kui Yejian could keep fighting for his team, he was forced to leave the team he'd been with for three years. During the transfer period, he joined the newly formed FN team, owned by his childhood friend.

Looking at the four people gathered around him, who seemed a little familiar, he began the most colorful chapter of his professional career with FN.

I can't write a proper synopsis, so just go straight to the story. Long story short, it's a handsome guy getting all tangled up with four beautiful men.

*No role reversal, mutual topping, or switching who tops throughout the entire story, including the extras. No switching under any circumstances.

*The character designs on the cover and character cards are all drawn by me. The character cards will be updated whenever a new profession appears.

Setting:

At a time when Earth's energy reserves were about to run dry, humanity's civilization received a major turning point just as the dawn was approaching. It was taken over entirely by a higher-dimensional civilization in the universe, the Joy Exaltation Advocates, and became a subordinate civilization.

Unable to create joy themselves, yet regarding it as the universal truth, the Joy Exaltation Advocates saw humanity's extraordinary talent for creating entertainment and proposed that humanity could obtain desperately needed precious resources simply by using entertainment as a medium of exchange.

Thus, in an era when energy was on the verge of running out, hedonism and entertainment above all once again became the central principles of society.

The Third Rift, created with great effort by the Joy Exaltation Advocates civilization using the distinctive features of Earth's games, was born.

Kui Yejian, a fighting-game enthusiast and competitive gaming ace, was fortunate enough to take part in the beta test of The Third Rift. He became one of its earliest players. From becoming famous through livestreaming to going pro and joining YuBe, this game profoundly changed his fate.

Theme: Then fight your way to the peak, and entertain yourselves to death.