Chapter 1 #yux Angel's Will#
[@Eternal Rebirth Event:]
#2024roeCN All-Star Tournament#
All-Star voting has officially begun! Come and cast your vote for your favorite player/host/commentator/streamer!
This tournament features a new invitational event, where the three streamers with the most votes will have the opportunity to compete against the three most popular professional players in a 2v2v2 format.
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On October 18, a Weibo post about voting for an event unexpectedly went viral and became a trending topic.
Fifth on the trending topics list: #AllStarVoting#
The second trending topic is #yux 天使意#
The topic of discussion has become a battleground.
[Live update: Currently, contestant yux is in first place with 35,005 votes, and streamer angelic intention is in first place with 34,020 votes, both leading by a wide margin.]
[Holy crap, is Yux and Angel going to be on the same team? Are they finally going to meet?]
[The episode I'm most looking forward to, I can't even imagine how many screenshots my phone will take! [heart][heart]]
[What a terrible management! Voting for the All-Star game, which was supposed to be in February, started in October. Couldn't they have waited until after the World Championship? Are the players representing their region just tools for generating traffic in your eyes?]
[Yux's fans are too polite; they should just directly name the vampire competition and let Yux suck their blood.]
[I usually only watch the matches and don't follow the streamers, so who is this Angel Yi? Why is everyone looking forward to seeing him and Yux together?]
[She's just an entertainment streamer with a lot of fans, but many of them are just fans of her looks. She doesn't know Yux at all. Many people want to see them together simply because they're both good-looking [facepalm]]
What's the connection between the fan-created pairings and the streamer...?
[They're at it again with this pairing thing. If it weren't for his constant spiel about Yux, who would bother paying attention to a streamer like him? Has he ever even acknowledged you? I hope this guy who only knows how to hype and market himself dies soon.]
[You call a streamer supporting their favorite player "bragging"? Some of you should watch your mouths, or you might end up losing to YT tomorrow and returning as a lousy top 8 team after a long absence.]
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The social media platforms are already in an uproar, but Nan Zhiyi, one of the parties at the center of the controversy, is still completely unaware of it.
He had just turned his wardrobe upside down when he sadly discovered that his last pair of wearable pants had been chewed up by birds.
At 8:00 AM sharp, Nan Zhiyi, wearing ripped jeans that her beloved pet had carefully altered, sat in front of her computer, adjusted the equipment, and started her live stream on time.
[ROE/Just Playing Around]
He had barely typed the title of his live stream when a massive flood of comments instantly filled the chat:
【Good evening, Xiaoyi, Mom is here】
No cameras? No cameras? No cameras?
[Am I seeing things? Today is only the 19th, isn't it? Has the streamer changed their personality?]
The image of a streamer broadcasting for 16 hours straight at the end of last month is still fresh in my mind.
Wow, is Xiaoyi going to be commentating on CG's match later?!
"Good evening, good evening." Nan Zhiyi doesn't usually stream, so she had some difficulty deciphering the text amidst the dazzling barrage of comments. "I have to go out at the end of the month, so I'll just make up for the missed time... I won't be watching the matches for a while, I'll just play around... My webcam? It seems to be a bit broken, so I won't turn it on today."
The last sentence was spoken with absolute certainty.
While replying to the comments, Nan Zhiyi quickly pasted a moving QQ character onto the spot where she usually kept her webcam.
Q/Q has a head of messy white hair, big black eyes that blink innocently, and a pair of fluffy ears on its head.
This is a virtual avatar designed by his fans based on his game character. At first glance, it bears a striking resemblance to him.
Nan Zhiyi herself also dyed her hair a light creamy gray, and her eyes were round and bright, with a natural downward curve at the corners of her eyes.
He first appeared on the Stars platform's annual meeting live stream. At that time, he was still an unknown streamer with just over 500,000 followers. He didn't like to stream much, and only used the account "Angel's Intent" to post funny short videos of himself researching dark tricks in the game and making innocent random opponents cry for their mothers.
During that period, the most frequent comment in his comment section was, "You'd better not find out what you look like, or I'll solo kill you offline :)"
However, on the day of the annual meeting, the number of viewers in Stars' official live stream exploded.
Many people made a special trip to see him in person, and after seeing him, they had only one thought:
—Why can someone who looks so good and has such an innocent expression play such a dark game??
That annual meeting livestream became the starting point for "Angel Yi's" instant fame. In the short few years that followed, his followers on Stars exceeded 18 million, making him one of the top streamers.
Even after becoming an internet sensation, Nan Zhiyi remained true to her original aspirations and devoted herself to her scientific research career. Otherwise, she wouldn't often have more than half of the 45 hours of live streaming time stipulated in her contract remaining by the end of the month.
He mainly plays the currently popular game ROE, short for Resurgence of Eternity, a 4v4 action competitive game with a Western fantasy background.
Since its official launch six years ago, ROE has maintained a consistently high level of popularity, with its professional tournaments attracting hundreds of millions of viewers worldwide.
[It has no head... How can a news anchor with a temperature of 37°C utter such cold words?]
What is Xiaoyi planning to do at the end of the month? Is she going on a trip with friends?
[Just wondering, why did you vote for Yux and then delete it, Angel?]
Nan Zhiyi was opening the game client when she caught a glimpse of something ominous in the increasing number of comments on the screen.
Sure enough, in less than a minute, the sparks of a few words had completely ignited into a full-blown war:
[The streamer can vote for whomever they want. Do I need to apply to you to vote for Yux?]
[He's starting to yux again. He even manages to get a touch of that, unbelievable!]
[Who's trying to piggyback on whose fame? Why are Yux's fans not watching their own matches but instead coming to someone else's livestream?]
[A fan is suspected of having a deep, angsty love affair with the streamer]
[What's wrong? You dare to hype it up and piggyback on others' fame but not to admit it. You were caught secretly using your Weibo account to vote for Yux as the best player of the year, then deleted the post. Wasn't it your intention to get caught?]
Nan Zhiyi: "…………"
I'm so tired. I knew it would end like this.
Nan Zhiyi still doesn't know how he, a fan of an ordinary entertainment streamer, became rivals with the fans of CG.yux, the league's rookie king and a rising star.
In all these years, he hadn't spoken a single word to the other person.
In everyone's eyes, they should have no connection whatsoever.
Currently, the conflict between the two sides has escalated to the point where a bloody battle is inevitable if they meet.
He pretended not to see the comments on the screen and started the game. However, things didn't go as planned. As soon as the game loaded, a huge pop-up window that took up three-quarters of the screen appeared on his homepage.
[YT vs CG: Defending Champions or New Glory?]
CG, the champion team of this year's roeCN league spring and summer seasons, the only CN team to reach the semifinals of the World Championship, and the last lone force in the region, will face off against last year's defending champion, YT from the EU region.
Below the banner was a live broadcast of the match. The second game's pick phase had just begun, and the director focused the camera on the professional blue team's main carry player.
CG.Yux and his expressionless face against the backdrop of the black and white team uniform instantly came into everyone's view.
The score displayed at the very top was also particularly eye-catching: CG 0-1 YT.
Nan Zhiyi's heart skipped a beat, and she snapped the pop-up window shut.
"Well, what do you guys want to see today? Solo queue? ARAM? Or..." He touched his nose and casually started chatting with the viewers, "What do you guys want to see today? Solo queue? ARAM? Or..."
His mouse was moving erratically across the screen.
"Beep beep beep".
The notification sound for a friend's message in the game rang out at just the right time.
Nan Zhiyi breathed a sigh of relief and looked at the game friends list on the right. It showed that [WD.Pigeon] had sent him two messages.
However, by the time he saw what the two lines of text meant and tried to cover the message up, it was already too late.
[WD.Pigeon: Your Yux has a match, aren't you going to watch it?]
[WD.Pigeon: Oh right, wanna grab a piece of their CG gossip? Freshly baked]
Nan Zhiyi: "…………"
Just two short sentences.
Like a thunderclap from a clear sky.
He took a deep breath, quickly typed four words plus two punctuation marks, and clicked send.
[AngelYi: !! I'm live streaming]
After a long pause, the other end replied with a long string of ellipses: "………………"
[WD.Pigeon: Wait, it's only the 19th, are you out of your mind? Why are you streaming??]
[WD.Pigeon: Why don't you change your status while you're streaming?!]
[AngelYi: Is it possible that I've only been online for two seconds?]
[WD.Pigeon: ...]
[WD.Pigeon: I'm finished]
Nan Zhiyi replied coolly: 【Yes, you're finished】
Pigeon, whose real name is Song Baiyu, is a friend he met a few years ago. He later went to play professionally for the WD team.
Because he often accidentally reveals various news from the professional circle during live broadcasts, he is nicknamed "Big Leaky Spoon".
Every year during the transfer season, the number of viewers in his live stream increases exponentially, filled with fans and marketing accounts eagerly awaiting his announcement of their players' destinations.
At this point, the live chat was in an uproar, filled with question marks.
【？？？？？？】
【? Did I read that right? What do you mean by "your home, yux"??】
[Is this a pro player? What does he mean by talking about CG's scandal? Isn't CG still competing?]
[This is hilarious! Even pigeons know that streamers never go live in the middle of the month, hahaha!]
[Holy crap, Yux, does this pro guy know something inside?]
[What's with this sudden ship? So, streamer, you really don't know Yux? Confess now!!]
There's no message recall function in ROE. Of course, recalling it at this point is useless. About ten minutes later, this live stream recording should be flooding the pages of various marketing accounts.
Fortunately, perhaps because Pigeon's reaction was too funny and tragic, the tension in the comments section wasn't as intense as before.
[WD.Pigeon: ...Sigh, just pretend I farted.]
[WD.Pigeon: Want to duo queue? I'll carry you to the top]
Nan Zhiyi thought for a moment and replied: 【So diligent? Training even during the off-season】
His words were somewhat hurtful to Pigeon.
After all, just half a month ago in the round of 16 group stage, WD team was brutally defeated by all their opponents and had already slunk back to China, becoming the fastest team to be eliminated in the CN region.
[WD.Pigeon: ...You call taking me to training? This is called taking a girl!]
[WD.Pigeon: Come in!]
Nan Zhiyi smiled and accepted the other person's duo queue invitation.
Pigeon's character is a green-haired, punk youth with a flamboyant style, creating a stark contrast with the white-haired character next to him who has large, fluffy ears.
"What position do you want to play?" Pigeon turned on his game microphone.
Based on different task assignments, there are a total of four different positions in ROE: Commander (Support), Main DPS, Sub-DPS, and Tank.
Pigeon and Nam Ji-yi both play support in WD. Usually, players in different positions get along better, but support players especially like to play with their own position.
The two played a Diamond ranked game, with Pigeon assigned as the main carry and Angel assigned as the secondary carry.
Pigeon immediately chose the professional witch who lived on the edge, while Nan Zhiyi selected the invincible archer.
The two shiny professional badges and streamer badges probably stunned the passersby, and the remaining two quickly chose to be the dog and the meat in the front row, respectively.
Twenty-five minutes later.
Nan Zhiyi stared at the 1-7-1 main carry and 1-4-2 sub-carry on the battle results panel, and sighed dejectedly: "Weren't you going to carry me?"
Pigeon: "…………"
Pigeon: "Next game, I'll play support."
Then he added, "Don't try to take it from me."
The comments section was already filled with laughter:
[The sky is falling for random players. They finally got matched with a streamer and a professional player, and then... hahaha]
This is even a Diamond rank game; the pro player's account had been losing a lot of points in training.
My friend and I are confident in being C-belikes.
[If this pro player keeps playing like this, he might just ruin his transfer value in the next transfer window, hahaha]
Nan Zhiyi felt both helpless and amused.
During a break in the ranked matches, without turning on his camera, he openly picked up his phone and glanced at it.
His phone was on silent the whole time, but it was still playing in the live stream of 【ROE2024 World Invitational Tournament CG vs YT】.
The scoreboard now clearly showed CG 0-2 YT.
Nan Zhiyi felt as if her heart had been squeezed tightly.
At this point, Pigeon started urging him: "Hurry up and get ready. What's wrong? Don't you want to line up with me anymore?"
Nan Zhiyi: "No, I'm just replying to a message."
He let out a soft breath, exited the live stream on his phone, and clicked "Ready to Play".
Over the next three hours, he played five more games with Pigeon. This time, Nam Ji-yi chose the main carry role first, and he won all five games cleanly and decisively.
The live stream room was filled with laughter and joy.
[Let's see who dares to slander the streamer now! Haters, speak up!!]
[This is my first time watching a live stream, and I'm surprised he plays C so well! I always thought he was just good at doing silly things.]
[The entertainment anchor is incredibly talented!]
[22 years old is the perfect age to play professionally. Teams that lack a main carry can come to the live stream to buy players.]
[@WD Did you hear that? My older brother is calling you to buy people.]
Pigeon, who had been carried by a female player for five games, said he needed to rest and had left the duo queue room. Nan Zhiyi calculated that she would still need to stream for about 10 hours this month.
"That's all for today," he said to the live stream audience. "I'll continue streaming this week, tomorrow night, still at 8 PM. Goodnight everyone."
The comments section was flooded with messages like "Goodnight baby" and "See you then."
Nan Zhiyi turned off the live stream, took off her headphones, grabbed her phone from the table, and collapsed back onto the sofa in the room.
He closed his eyes and lay quietly for a while, feeling his heart pounding.
After a while, Nan Zhiyi pulled her phone out from under her and reopened the official live stream of the Eternal Rebirth tournament.
【CG 3-2 YT】
The live stream is showing the MVP of the fifth game: CG.Yux, 8-0-3, DMG 35%.
— Coming back from 0-2 down to win 3-2.
The moment Nan Zhiyi saw the score, she breathed a strange sigh of relief.
The huge weight that had been pressing on his heart tonight has disappeared.
Nan Zhiyi opened WeChat and sent a message to the person whose contact name was "Pigeon": [What happened to CG?]
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Within half an hour of the live stream ending, a post on the ROE gaming forum overshadowed other discussions about the event and appeared at the very top of the homepage.
[Who's watching streamer Angel's Live? There's a professional leak in his chat saying there's something going on with CG.]
0L (Original Poster)
So that rumor is true? Yux has a falling out with someone on the team, which is why CG struggled so much at this year's World Championship.
Also, does anyone have connections to tell me if Yux and Angel Yi really don't know each other at all? Judging from Pigeon's subtle tone, it seems like that's not the case at all.
The main post was published at 10:29:31.
Just 3 seconds later, the first reply came.
1L
She really has connections. A friend of hers works in operations at CG, and according to her, the two people don't actually not know each other; they've met before and are just pretending not to know each other.
If you don't believe me, there might be a bombshell leak in a while, then we'll see.
Also, knowing someone doesn't mean having a good relationship... Judging by their network, it probably means they have a grudge.
A note from the author:
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New story started! Red envelopes will be dropping in the comments section ww It's been a while since I've written anything, so I was honestly a little nervous.
Let's talk about some articles related to this:
1. Update time is currently 9 PM. Before VIP chapters, updates will follow the rankings. After VIP chapters, I can guarantee daily updates for the first month (October, if I have enough drafts). After that, I'll try to update as much as possible. I've been too busy lately, lol.
2. This story has a different style from the bot lane story. It's more lighthearted and has a stronger romance element. The protagonist will play in competitions later, but he won't be going to the league (there are other plans later, so I won't spoil it).
3. Regarding the romance: It's a story of reconciliation after a breakup, but not in a melodramatic or overly dramatic way.
Additionally, due to the story's premise, some fans might ship the protagonist (the antagonist) with other characters (this will be punished; the seme will say it again: What are you shipping?). The main romance in this story is 1v1.
4. Regarding character design: The main character is not a perfect person; he will have certain flaws in his personality, especially Mr. Asia's Jealous King.
5. This game is fictional, but it references existing games. The settings aren't particularly detailed, as it's not purely a game review. Please be gentle with your feedback. The characters also have no real-life counterparts.
6. Due to the involvement of live streaming elements, there will be some bullet comments, reviews, and forum-style content.
7. The illustrations on the character cards are basically the game character images of the seme and uke, dressed in their real-life clothes? Basically, a mix-and-match. The uke isn't white-haired; he has a creamy grayish-white complexion. The seme has the same hair as in the game, but black eyes. The facial data for both characters' game avatars uses their own faces.
8. That's all for now. I'll add more if I think of anything else. Happy reading! [droopy-eared rabbit head]
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