Qiao Liuyue couldn’t help but glance at her, her eyes full of confusion.
“Are you sure?”
Dong Jiaoyan let out a light snort, the corners of her mouth lifting slightly.
“My boyfriend loves it when I call him by his game character’s name.”
“Before, when he jungled as Yao, I’d keep saying ‘Brother Yao is the best,’ and he’d be over the moon.”
Qiao Liuyue was half convinced, half doubtful.
The World’s Cutest Support (Sun Shangxiang): [Brother Liu Shan, what do we do? Are we gonna lose this match?]
The message sent.
Before Thanks, Goodbye could reply, the teammates had already lost it.
AAA Kuoming Hardware Store (Li Xin): [I’m about to throw up yesterday’s dinner. Go flirt somewhere else! Can we just focus on the game?]
Rice Soup Cat (Xiao Qiao): [If I did something wrong, let the enemy team kill me instead of making me listen to this cringe.]
Ice Shrimp Goof (Lanling Wang): [I’m not ganking anymore. You two can rot in the bot lane…]
Thanks, Goodbye (Liu Shan): [???]
Thanks, Goodbye (Liu Shan): [Are you crazy?]
Thanks, Goodbye (Liu Shan): [Don’t start anything.]
After the triple question, he probably remembered that this was the paying client.
A bit abruptly, he added one more line.
Thanks, Goodbye (Liu Shan): [I’m not taking this order anymore.]
Ice Shrimp Goof (Lanling Wang): [So she’s a paid carry? I thought it was some cringey couple’s weird kink.]
Rice Soup Cat (Xiao Qiao): [Let’s just play properly, everyone.]
AAA Kuoming Hardware Store (Li Xin): [Jungler, get over here and help gank!]
Meanwhile, Dong Jiaoyan had already taken a call from Sui Feng the moment Thanks, Goodbye sent those three question marks.
She shot Qiao Liuyue a look, signaling her to keep playing.
She needed to step out to take the call.
“Go ahead,” Qiao Liuyue mouthed silently.
This time, once Dong Jiaoyan reached the balcony, she carefully closed the door, making sure no sound could leak through the gap.
As she took the call, she turned to glance at Qiao Liuyue.
She saw her playing the game intently.
Good.
“Brother Suifeng,” she said sweetly, her voice deliberately pitched and coquettish.
A voice laced with exhaustion and drowsiness came through the phone.
“Jiaojiao, I have a question for you.”
“Sure, Brother Suifeng, go ahead.”
“In your heart, what have you always seen me as?”
“Ah… this… I’m too shy to say…” Dong Jiaoyan trailed off, leaving plenty of room for imagination.
But Sui Feng wasn’t in the mood to beat around the bush anymore.
“Would you be my girlfriend?”
“Ah…” Dong Jiaoyan froze.
That direct?
Of course, she didn’t want to. Sui Feng was utterly average-looking, and only his wallet interested her even a little.
But if she refused bluntly, those little red packets and transfers would stop coming.
So she decided to keep leading him on.
Smiling, she said:
“Brother Suifeng, don’t you think we’ve only met twice? Isn’t this a bit fast?”
“You know I’m a simple girl—I’ve never even been in a relationship before…”
Yes!
Dong Jiaoyan’s persona to Sui Feng was that of a gaming-loving college girl who had never had a boyfriend.
Sui Feng: “So that means no?”
Dong Jiaoyan: “I just think we don’t know each other well enough yet. We’ve only met twice, like you said.”
Sui Feng: “Then let’s meet again this Saturday.”
Dong Jiaoyan hesitated: “Ah…”
Sui Feng: “I have something to tell you. Something important.”
Dong Jiaoyan thought for a moment and agreed casually: “Alright, see you Saturday.”
While Dong Jiaoyan was on the phone with Sui Feng, Qiao Liuyue kept playing the game.
After sending that overly nauseating, syrupy message, she stayed quiet.
But her actions showed she wasn’t anything like that message suggested.
This time, the enemy jungler was down. She carefully chipped away half of the enemy shooter’s health, and when Liu Shan activated his ultimate, she used her mobility to flash into position.
Basic attacks combined with her third ability aimed right.
Boom—
A single shot took him down.
She killed the enemy shooter. The support tried to escape, but just as he made it under the tower, he was taken out with a sliver of health.
Double kill.
Rice Soup Cat (Xiao Qiao): [Is our shooter hacking?]
Ice Shrimp Goof (Lanling Wang): [Was that a bit? A troll? A streamer?]
The World’s Cutest Support (Sun Shangxiang): [Not a streamer.]
The World’s Cutest Support (Sun Shangxiang): [My bestie was next to me before, messing with the support.]
Rice Soup Cat (Xiao Qiao): [Oh, got it.]
Thanks, Goodbye (Liu Shan): [Messing with me?]
Thanks, Goodbye (Liu Shan): [What bestie? A fake friend? Dump her.]
He wasn’t wrong—she really was a fake friend.
And that person happened to be your online girlfriend.
Surprise?
The World’s Cutest Support (Sun Shangxiang): [You wouldn’t be able to.]
Thanks, Goodbye (Liu Shan): [???]
Thanks, Goodbye (Liu Shan): [Don’t insult my intelligence.]
Thanks, Goodbye (Liu Shan): [I don’t have friends that stupid.]
Qiao Liuyue thought to herself: You don’t have friends that stupid, but you do have a girlfriend that stupid.
This match was intense.
Early on, they were getting crushed. But after Qiao Liuyue’s shooter, Sun Shangxiang, claimed two kills, the enemy’s shooter lane started to crumble.
Soon, the first turret was gone.
The enemy mid laner rushed down to help, but allied mid laner Xiao Qiao took the mid turret. An enemy Angela tried to go through the river, sneaking through the brush but was picked off by Lanling Wang.
The Angela started cursing, shouting about how dirty Lanling Wang’s ambush was.
Ice Shrimp Goof (Lanling Wang): [Thanks for the compliment.]
Everyone else: “……”
Thanks, Goodbye and Qiao Liuyue coordinated well. He, as support, stuck with the shooter the whole time, making sure she didn’t die.
Finally, they pushed the turret.
They overturned the losing game.
The match started rough, but the more they played, the more satisfying it got.
Back in the game lobby.
Thanks, Goodbye: [Boss, want to go again?]
The World’s Cutest Support: [Didn’t you say you weren’t coming for the next match?]
Thanks, Goodbye: [I thought that disgusting message came from you, but later you said it was your friend. So no problem.]
The World’s Cutest Support: [Disgusting? My friend said guys love this stuff.]
Thanks, Goodbye: [Your friend is a scammer.]
The World’s Cutest Support: [Your girlfriend never acts coy?]
Thanks, Goodbye: [My girlfriend’s not that dumb.]
That was when Dong Jiaoyan hung up the phone and saw the last two lines.
Good thing she hadn’t seen her online boyfriend calling her a “scammer” or she would have lost it.
She quickly said, “Go on, ask him—if his girlfriend is so smart, has he ever hid anything from her?”
Qiao Liuyue typed calmly.
The World’s Cutest Support: [You say she’s smart, so she’d catch you lying. Have you ever tricked her?]
