Chapter 58 I'll be with you forever... (couple's relationship)
There are still too many new fans. To prevent the history books from turning into a mess, let's review the dating scandal that Yux broke in early 2022.
0L (Original Poster)
Let's review the timeline.
On December 17, 2021, in the roeCN secondary league spring season, the team CG.Y, which was ranked first in points, was swept by AQ.Y, which was ranked last at the time.
On the evening of the 17th, someone dug up the match history of yux, who was the main carry of CGY at the time, and found that he had been playing duo queue in entertainment mode with another account for the past two weeks. The two accounts were marked as a couple.
On the 18th and 19th, people uncovered more records, including Yux and his sister-in-law's NetEase Cloud Music playlists (they even had matching profile pictures and shared the same IP address), as well as other corroborating evidence.
Because there were rumors at the time that Yux was going to succeed Nova, most of the CG team's fans were paying close attention to him. Some people even went and hacked Yux and his girlfriend's accounts, since having a female friend negatively impact performance was a serious offense.
On the 26th, my sister-in-law turned off the friend-adding function and changed her profile picture to a matching one, while Yux still kept the matching profile picture, suggesting they might have had a fight.
On the same day, yux went to the first ordinary person's account that exposed his sister-in-law and left a message. It's unclear what exactly he said (that person quickly deleted the account later), but the general content was probably a mutual insult.
In February 2022, a month later, during the Chinese New Year, yux posted the "Goodbye" message on Weibo, seemingly signaling a final breakup.
Overall, he was neither particularly good nor bad. Although he lost the game while playing with a girl, they eventually broke up. After returning after the New Year, he played only so-so in the first few games and often seemed to be sleepwalking. However, he became more stable throughout the year, which can be considered as him realizing his mistake and returning to the right path.
However, my sister-in-law is very low-key and probably not an internet celebrity. Someone tried to find out who she was, but they couldn't.
Since we're on the topic, I'll just mention something: I've noticed quite a few people seem unaware of Yux's past relationship during the secondary league. A word of advice to those genuinely shipping them: take it easy. Haven't you seen enough straight men shipping BL? Who knows, your brother might suddenly conjure up a sister-in-law in front of you one day = =
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“Look at yourselves at how you played. You dropped points before team fights, ignored commands, and kept feeding as soon as you gained an advantage. Did you just ignore what I said a few days ago? Don’t you feel ashamed of how you played?”
You Xin stood in the training room, lined up with his three teammates. The other three had their heads down, either fiddling with things or staring at their toes, like a row of droopy quails. Only he kept his head up, looking directly into the coach's eyes.
After the coach had vented his anger and calmed down, he met the coach's gaze.
He hesitated for a moment before speaking, then quickly reviewed the performance of the person in front of him in the previous match in his mind. He then realized that the person's current calm and composed demeanor, as if he hadn't been scolded at all, was based on something – in that match, apart from being thrown off balance by his teammates, yux's performance was flawless.
But soon, the coach remembered something else.
"Yux." He called the other person's name. "I heard from the team's management that fans online have been digging into your dating life lately?"
You Xin neither agreed nor disagreed, simply humming in response.
"Didn't we say before that you had to report to the team if you were in a relationship? Why didn't you report it?"
"My relationship didn't affect my training," You Xin said calmly. "That day was a day off, and there was no training, so I played games with him."
The coach seemed quite impatient with his "unruly" behavior. He suddenly slammed his fist on the table next to him, startling the three quails nearby.
"Is this about whether it affects training or not? This is about you not following team rules!" he shouted. "You didn't follow team rules, you didn't report it, and now the team has lost. How are we supposed to control public opinion?"
You Xin almost sneered. He nearly retorted, "Is losing the match my fault?"
But then, a pair of worried eyes appeared in his mind.
It felt as if an invisible hand was tugging at the hem of his clothes. He pursed his lips and finally said, "I'll figure something out myself."
The coach still looked furious.
"Always like this! Unruly! This manifests in the game as extremely poor discipline!" He slammed his hand on the table again and began a new round of lecturing.
He acted as if he were the coach of a top-tier global league team, someone who had just lost a crucial game in the World Championship finals. You Xin thought indifferently to himself, not understanding what role this purely emotional outburst could possibly play in improving the team.
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"How have you been these past few days? Has your training been affected?"
Nan Zhiyi placed the handle on the tatami mat beside her and collapsed onto the light green beanbag chair, exhausted.
The game on the big screen in front of him had entered the results screen, but You Xin was still holding the controller, as if he was in a daze.
So he turned his head to look at the other person and received the reply: "It's okay."
Two concise words. Nan Zhiyi knew perfectly well that when he said those two words, it meant "bad." So, taking advantage of her lying position on the ground, she moved a little distance away, reached out, and hooked his fingers hanging by his side: "What are you thinking about? Are you unhappy?"
After a long while, You Xin hummed in agreement.
“The team told me to solve the problem myself,” he said. “I don’t know what there is to solve—first, I didn’t play casual mode during training; second, I’m not a star and I have the freedom to date; and third, the game we lost was not my fault at all.”
His hands, hanging by his sides, tightened slightly, as if trying to clench into fists. Finally, he squeezed out a question through his teeth: "...Why?"
Nan Zhiyi sighed inwardly.
Judging from the other person's mood at that moment, he felt that now was not a good time to talk, but they didn't have many opportunities to meet, and this was a problem that had to be resolved face-to-face: "Okay, listen to me."
“Let’s stop playing Eternal together from now on, and let’s undo the couple relationship on our accounts. Let’s just lay low for a while,” he said. “If you want to play other games, I can play with you. Look, like today, let’s play offline together. Then you won’t be constantly being scrutinized by those people.”
You Xin suddenly turned around and looked into Nan Zhiyi's eyes: "So, you also think I did something wrong?"
“…No. What are you thinking?” Nan Zhiyi knew he would say this, and for a moment she was both amused and exasperated. “It’s just a formality… Think about it, now that the team has lost the game, the fans are definitely looking for an outlet to vent their frustrations. There’s no point in you continuing to argue with them. You can’t understand them, and they will never understand you. It’s just a matter of severing ties and calming down the fans.”
You Xin frowned deeply, and after a long while, he uttered a few words: "I don't want to."
“You Xin…”
“I didn’t do anything wrong!” You Xin raised her voice slightly. “Xiao Yi, do you know why I don’t want to do this? Because doing so would mean admitting I was wrong. I don’t want to make ‘playing games with you’ a mistake. I don’t want to make your existence a mistake in my life. I don’t want that, Nan Zhiyi. I just want to be with the person I like. I didn’t do anything wrong.”
Nan Zhiyi's heart softened, but now was not the time for him to be indecisive.
He took a deep breath, sat up from his lying position, and looked at the other person at eye level: "You're not wrong, but things are different now. You're destined to become a public figure, and you'll receive much more attention. If you join the team and take over Nova's job, hundreds or thousands more people will be paying attention to you than they are now. Do you know how much pressure you'll face then?"
“I don’t care,” the game said bluntly.
"But I care!" Nan Zhiyi was a little anxious. He didn't say the second half of his sentence, "I don't want to see you being criticized by so many people online." "It's just a casual end to our relationship, it's not like I really want to break up with you..."
As soon as she finished speaking, the hand gripping him suddenly tightened its grip, squeezing him painfully.
Nan Zhiyi called out softly, and the force immediately loosened.
You Xin lowered his head, his shoulders trembling slightly. Nan Zhiyi was momentarily confused, wondering what was wrong with him: "...Are you alright?"
After a long silence, You Xin finally spoke.
"No..." His voice was so low it was almost a whisper, almost a plea, "You can't bring up this kind of thing in front of me..."
Nan Zhiyi froze.
...That wasn't a serious remark. There wasn't even any threat in it.
But he felt things were getting increasingly complicated.
He had always had a vague feeling that the other person was a little too dependent on him.
This dependence intensified after the confession that day. He tried to comfort her and pull her out of her emotional slump, but in reality, their relationship was like someone trapped in a swamp; the more they struggled, the deeper they sank, inevitably heading towards an incurable end.
"Did I do something wrong?" Nan Zhiyi wondered. "Should I not have done this in the first place?"
This shouldn't be the case between them.
No one should be another person's entire life. No matter how much you love each other, that's not enough.
Nan Zhiyi sighed, placed her hand on the other person's shoulder, and looked at him seriously: "You Xin, you really, really are not a child anymore."
"Now is not the time for you to throw a tantrum. If you don't face these things now, you'll have to face them someday. Besides, this is really just a small matter... To put it another way, if you want to play ROE for ten years, then you don't need to maintain a romantic relationship during those ten years, but we will definitely have many, many more decades after that, and I will maintain a romantic relationship with you for the rest of my life... Listen to me, okay? Just this once."
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You Xin walked to the training room door, opened it, closed it, and sat down in his seat.
His teammate, Guard, had never seen him look so dejected before, and asked in surprise, "Dude, what's wrong? Did the coach scold you again?"
You Xin didn't answer. He opened the ROE launcher on his desktop, logged into his main account, opened his profile page, and accessed the Intimate Relationships feature.
It was completely empty.
He couldn't describe his feelings at that moment, nor could he explain them to anyone in the world. He knew perfectly well that he was on the wrong path, yet he persisted stubbornly.
He couldn't express his feelings verbally, to tell her that he wanted to see her every day, that every day he couldn't see her was unbearable, that he wondered if she still loved him, if she didn't love him as much, and if one day she would meet someone more suitable for her.
He knew it was all wrong. Hateful. Deserving to be rejected.
But he couldn't stop.
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Nan Zhiyi sat at her desk, carefully manipulating the mouse to close the couple relationship and friend requests on her account.
His friend requests now show 99+. ROE allows strangers to send up to 10 messages, which has become a way for some to vent their emotions. Although the official word filter helps filter some messages, he still caught a glimpse of some, so he quickly closed the client to avoid seeing them.
He thought, "Things will get better once this period passes." He opened his phone, figuring that You Xin had probably seen that they had ended their relationship and was likely not in a good mood. He wondered what message he could send to comfort him.
However, the next moment, he saw a red "1" appear in his friend request list.
Nan Zhiyi almost thought his WeChat account had been leaked and he was about to be attacked by his furious fans. However, when he opened his contacts, he found a friend request from someone using a beautiful woman's profile picture.
[You Qing: I'm You Qing~ Let's chat.]
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14L
...Why did you call me out to see something so trivial?
Call me next time Youyi officially announces his marriage, thank you.
15L
Uh, the solo fan sister can't hide it anymore; the transitions and shifts in meaning are too obvious.
16L
How many times have I told you not to interfere with our freedom to ship couples?
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344L
OP, stop stirring up trouble. I followed the whole story from back then. Guess why that Weibo account that initially exposed Yux's sister-in-law ended up being deleted in a sorry state? Because it was revealed that he wasn't a CG fan, but a pure gambler who bet his entire fortune of 130,000 yuan on the CGY vs. AQY match, thinking he could "make some pocket money," only to lose it all in one go. That's when he lost it all and started digging into Yux's interpersonal relationships.
So many years have passed, and if you ask me, any normal person would think that the victims from back then should be exonerated. Your sister-in-law was just a decent person, never causing trouble or showing off, and you guys caused her breakup. OP, I can't really say what your intentions are.
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475L
Holy crap
[Images][Images][Images]
The streamer posted this in his fan group...
For those who can't see the pictures, here's a description: it's a multi-angle selfie of Angel Yi and Yux sitting in the back seat of a car, with Yux's head resting on Angel Yi's shoulder as they sleep. It was posted at 1:04 AM.
476L
…………
Is there something wrong with my language center and I can't recognize Chinese?
What does "He accompanied me out late at night and is now so tired he's fallen asleep leaning on me. He's really worked hard" mean?
477L
Angel, if you've been kidnapped, just blink... Ahhhhhh, did you really type out such sweet and affectionate words yourself, streamer? This is terrifying...
478L
OP, here's a piece of advice... never mess with... couples deeply in love...
478L
It seems that after Yux went crazy, Angel's Will has finally gone mad too, haha.
Actually, neither of them is crazy; the one who's really crazy is me! Hahahaha...
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Author's Note: It took me a whole hour to come up with this copy.
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