PUBG Online Romance of the Century

Edited by Divetus, xiin, and Noks

The stream followers were momentarily stunned before they followed up with an immediate response.

[Wtfffffffffff?? What smell???]

[Wait, how do you know that's my son's smell???]

[Fucking hell, this is too gay, 8. Who can stand this ah?]

The barrage was blabla-blaing on and had managed to send two screens worth of messages before Yu Yan took action.

"It's probably because… the hotel had good quality shower gel." His ears were burning. He subconsciously lowered his head to sniff himself. "Maybe that's why the smell lasts for a while?"

Yi Chen leaned back slightly and rested his head on the back of the chair. The fragrance lightly lingered around him; it smelt very pleasant.

"Maybe ba."

With that, he opened StarTV on his desktop browser and entered the livestream, accompanied by his chariot entrance special effect.

The person, whose video image was being displayed in the lower right corner of the streaming window, saw his entrance. At first, his eyes slightly brightened, but then an unnatural expression appeared on his face as he greeted him, "Welcome to the livestream, 1."

Yi Chen laughed and couldn't help but pick up his cellphone to send him a WeChat message.

1: So formal?

Little Anchor: …

Little Anchor: Then, how do you want me to welcome you…?

1: When calling out my name, you should be a little more enthusiastic.

Yu Yan subconsciously looked up at the number of viewers displayed on the counter on his stream, held his cellphone, and took a deep breath——

With such a kind of thing suddenly happening—why did it carry feelings of shame and excitement, just like that of a clandestine love affair?!

[Yanyan's face is so red, did he overdo his filter?]

[Is the person above new? Yanyan's heavily dependent on his good-looking face; he never turns on filters during his livestreams :)]

[Ah, I see. Thank you, Jie/Mei.]

After seeing Yu Yan flustered to this state but still trying to frantically type, Yi Chen was satisfied.

1: It's also fine if you wait until after the livestream to call out my name.

Little Anchor: …

Yi Chen wondered if he had teased him too much and was just about to yield a bit when—

Little Anchor: Then, I'll just owe you for now.

Little Anchor: Wait until after my livestream is done, then I'll call out your name for you to hear.

1:…

1: Okay.

Wearing a completely shy expression, Yu Yan quickly put down his cellphone and didn't dare to reply again.

"Manyang's weather has been hot lately, and I didn't turn on the air conditioner, so it's hot in here." Seeing that the barrage was still joking around, he quickly said, "…Then, I'll queue for a match?"

Just as he said that, a message suddenly flashed over his head on the screen.

[Little Fairy Wants A Hug has sent out a meteor shower.]

[Little Fairy Wants A Hug: Sent 2000 yuan worth of gifts, getting on the bus.]

Everyone was stunned.

"Sorry, today I'm playing another game so I'm not carrying stream followers." Yu Yan was also stunned. He recognized this name; wasn't it the liar who Lu Xiuhe kept talking about? "This gift can be kept until the next time you get on the bus, or I can refund half of it."

Their couple name was especially lovey-dovey, so as soon as the little fairy appeared, many stream followers recognized it.

[Isn't this the girlfriend of the anchor's friend? With this kind of relationship, she still needs to line up to get on the bus?]

Lu Xiuhe didn't say a word, but desperately sent a message on QQ——

Your Great Lord Lu: Save me!!!!! Save me ah!!!!!

Yu Yan hesitated for a moment before going against his conscience and saying, "Maybe it's just someone with the same name ba…"

[Little Fairy Wants A Hug: It's not just the same name. I already logged in and my ID hasn't changed; pull me into the party.]

“&#k2026;&#k2026;”

Yu Yan saw Lu Xiuhe frantically spam him with messages to save him and so acted blind, as if he hadn’t even seen the message in the barrage.

Who would've expected that a swish sound would appear, and their party suddenly gained another person.

Little Fairy Wants A Hug.

Yi Chen had directly and nimbly pulled this person into their party and asked, “Queue?”

A male voice sounded out. He seemed to have a cold since his voice was a bit hoarse. “Queue.”

A moment of silence ensued in the livestream barrage.

[???]

[……]

Since the barrage at this moment was mostly filled with just symbols expressing shock and speechlessness, any lines with actual content stood out particularly prominently.

[Fucking little fairy, fucking wanting a hug.]

[Whose male voice was that just now? Did I hallucinate that???]

[What kind of devilish stream is this? I'd better go first ba, I'm afraid I'll get infected by your gay spirit. I misjudged you, Lu Xiuhe.]

Lu Xiuhe couldn't endure anymore. "Hey, did you misjudge me as being bent?"

He couldn't let these stupid, heartless stream followers know that he had been catfished, let alone have them find out that the person he had constantly lovingly called baby was actually a man.

Thinking of this, Lu Xiuhe opened his mouth and said, "Who told you guys that this is a man? They're a woman. They just have a cold so their voice is a little hoarse!"

Once again, the stream fell silent.

Yu Yan's cellphone vibrated.

1: Your friend seems to be a bit foolish.

At this time, the hoarse voice emerged again.

"En, I'm a woman." It was said with a trace of impatience and irritation, and with a voice that had obviously been pitched up a little.

1: …

Little Anchor: …

1: Kick them out. We can just play with the two of us.

Little Anchor: That's not very nice ba?

Lu Xiuhe urged him. "Xiao Yan, queue ah!"

Yu Yan replied, "Oh… okay."

After entering the match, Yi Chen chose Soraka—the unrivalled support specialized in just healing teammates.

The one random person on the team chose to play top lane, so there were only three positions left: mid, jungle and ADC.

The little fairy chose Aatrox. "Mid-jungle combo?"

Lu Xiuhe didn't respond and spoke to Yu Yan, "Xiao Yan, I'll play bot with 1. You can play jungler…"

He had barely finished speaking before Yu Yan rapidly selected Tristana and locked it in, pretending to be stupid as he said, "What did you say?"

"…" Lu Xiuhe silently locked in Lee Sin. "Nothing."

The match began. After helping Lu Xiuhe kill his jungle buff minion, Yu Yan and 1 went down to their lane.

Yu Yan explained to him, "Do you know how to play Soraka? Her main skill key is W; W is the skill for healing…"

Yi Chen said, "I do. After reading through the skills, it seems very simple."

Seven minutes later, Lu Xiuhe went down to the bot lane to help gank.

Lee Sin fired out his skill, hitting his Q twice to jump to the enemy's side and dealt a massive amount of damage to them.

At the same time, he was also caught by the enemy Thresh's hook. Yu Yan followed up with Lu Xiuhe's attack and thus got a kill on the enemy Thresh.

The opponent's ADC saw that he couldn't run away, so he decisively tried to fight back. All his skills could only be aimed at Lu Xiuhe, who was instantly reduced to just a sliver of health.

Lu Xiuhe screamed, "Heal me, heal me once, Boss Yi!"

As soon as his voice fell, he heard the distinct healing sound effect. Next to him, the Tristana who still had 600 HP lit up, and now, she had gained an additional 100 HP.

The healing had been cast on Yu Yan.

Lu Xiuhe was brutally killed by the enemy ADC.

"I'm sorry." Yi Chen turned on his mic and said, "Instinctively clicked on him. Healed the wrong person."

Yu Yan happily grabbed two kills. "It's fine, let's go back to base."

Lu Xiuhe: "?"

12 minutes later, Lu Xiuhe went to the top lane but was ambushed by a wave of attacks from the hidden enemy mid-laner. He was returned to base, free of charge.

15 minutes later, Lu Xiuhe didn't give up and went to the bot lane again.

He was as fierce as a tiger with his next play, yet it wasn't able to cause enough damage for the kill before he was shackled in place. He watched with his own eyes as his teammates chased after the enemy bot lane, both of whom only had a bit of health left.

But Yu Yan just chased after the enemy from behind without attacking.

As expected, he was a good bro. Lu Xiuhe emotionally thought that Yu Yan knew to leave him his kills.

Yu Yan damaged both of the enemies down to a sliver of health, and Lu Xiuhe was finally released from Thresh's ultimate ability. Just as he used his Flash to catch up, Yu Yan said, "1, toss down a Q."

Soraka very obediently dropped down a Q, earning a double kill.

Lu Xiuhe only earned two assists and left the lane in tears.

Maybe this was the price the boss was making him pay for his upgraded airplane seat ba.

[…How should I put it? Boss 1 is truly playing like a Warwick. When I play as Soraka, every time I see low health, I reflexively heal; I can't help it. But he can just directly ignore his dying teammates and seriously achieve the "My eyes only contain the ADC" mentality. I admire him.]

[Are you sure what he did was only "having the ADC in his eyes"? It's good that Xiao Yan is playing bot in this match. If he was playing anything else, I'm afraid that the ADC wouldn't even see the Soraka after 15 minutes.]

At this moment, Little Fairy, who had been silent up until now, had nimbly managed to kill the top-laner who had tried to gank him. Although his words were pleasant, the tone that he spoke with contained traces of sarcasm. "Baby, if you come to mid, I'll give you all my kills."

Lu Xiuhe cursed, "You fucking…"

[Is this really a girl?? No matter how you listen to this voice, it's a man ah. The anchor's friend has truly been bent into a gay guy.]

"You fucking… why is it so nice to listen to you speak?" Lu Xiuhe's words took a huge turn. "I'm actually fucking going over there right now."

"En." Little Fairy lightly said, "If you keep cursing so much, I won't like you anymore oh."

Lu Xiuhe: "…"

While Lu Xiuhe went to gank the mid lane, the opposing jungler went down to the bot lane. They went around the jungle and came from behind. Because Yi Chen didn't notice in time, the enemy jungler caught them by surprise.

Fortunately, the two of them weren't that extended and were closer to their side. They were almost about to successfully escape with just a sliver of health remaining when the enemy Lucian suddenly used their ultimate ability, and countless bullets hit Yi Chen.

Just before Yi Chen died, a mysterious sort of play occurred——

With a crackle, the Tristana that had previously successfully escaped suddenly turned around and landed right behind the healer, blocking the last few deadly bullets.

Yu Yan's screen immediately grayed out. After confirming that Soraka had smoothly escaped, he calmly opened up the shop and bought himself a B.F. Sword.

[As a person who plays support all-year round I can't watch this anymore. I just have to say that I've fallen in love with this kind of ADC.]

[The ADC in exchange for a support? It's a big loss ah.]

"Not a loss." Yu Yan said, "Soraka just got a double kill, so the bounty reward is 400 gold."

Looking at the Tristana lying on the ground, Yi Chen asked, "How much money is it… to get the equipment needed so that I can get stronger?"

Yu Yan didn't play support too often. He thought about it and named two items, "Ardent Censer and Redemption?"

Yi Chen opened up the shop and found the two items that Yu Yan had mentioned. He looked at the amount of gold he needed to buy them and then said, "I don't have enough gold."

Yu Yan said, "That's fine. You'll get enough after you get a few more assists."

Yi Chen asked, "Can you pay for items with real money?"

Yu Yan: "?"

Yi Chen continued to ask, "Also, there aren't many item slots, so can I spend money to buy more slots?"

Yu Yan: "…"

"I can't find the place to charge money," continued Yi Chen.

[?]

[Consider this as me begging you to shut up ba. Don't say this bullshit. What if you're heard by Riot Games?]

[So it's not unreasonable for me to hate the rich…]

"You can't buy items with real money; items can only be bought with the gold earned in the match." The stream followers all thought that Yi Chen was joking, but only Yu Yan knew that he was serious.

Thinking of the earnest manner in which the man had asked the question, Yu Yan laughed. "In LoL and PUBG, you can only buy skins and items like name changes with real money."

Yi Chen heard his words. He let out a displeased "en", frowned, and then bought some of the recipe items to build the Ardent Censer.

What was the matter with the game companies now?

He remembered that a few years ago, Yi Ran had been addicted to an MMORPG and the way to play it was particularly simple and crude—by spending money.

By using money, you could have the highest quality equipment and summoning beasts.

Whoever had the most money was everyone else's daddy. No matter how skilled the other players were, it was useless.

Although he had never touched those sort of online games, he very much missed those simple and straightforward pay-to-win type of games.

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Juurensha: I'm pretty sure Boss Yi is the only one wanting MORE pay to play. Although I do wonder if the game Yi Ran was addicted to happens to be NCH from GHFOD…. And LXH's "gf" cracks me up, long-suffering and just playing along still. And thank you to Divi again for providing so much pro feedback for the LoL parts!

Divi: And that's why these types of competitive games are so popular… LoL, PUBG, APEX, Valorant, Fortnite…. Because you can't pay-to-win your progress. Only pure skill lets you advance your rank (or buy a boost). Yi Chen makes me laugh, but Yu Yan also makes me laugh with how cringey his game play is. An ADC sacrificing their life for a healer worth the same value? Aiyaaaaaaaa. Enjoy the mountain of notes! Back to my recovery corner Q A Q.

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