PUBG Online Romance of the Century

Chapter 46 - Are you also dating someone online?

Edited by Divetus and Noks

The game result page popped up. When the other three players saw his tiles, they also couldn’t help sending out questioning emoticons in the QQ mahjong game’s chat channel.

[?? What the fuck. What happened? Is that the 1 I know??]

[How did the 18,000 mahjong beans just disappear?!]

[Who the fuck is this Little Millet?]

[Little Millet is a female PUBG anchor, who talks especially coquettishly. She’s not using a voice changer and speaks using her real voice… The kind that teases and banters with her bosses every day. Not sure how many times her Weibo was banned. God, I don’t believe it!]

[Maybe you guys are overthinking it; you can change your StarTV username whenever you want to. There are so many people named 1! You guys wait, I’ll go and find out.]

Yu Yan pulled himself together, pressed to ready up, and started the next mahjong game.

“… Just clicked wrong.” He said, “Doesn’t matter. Honor tile sets can be made at any time.”

Yet, as a result, after the tiles were divided, one could see at a glance that Yu Yan’s tiles were just a scattered jumble. Don’t even mention honor tile sets, it would be considered a miracle if he could even get a ready hand before another person called out mahjong.

[Holy crap. It’s a good thing that you didn’t open a quiz game, or else I’d be ruined…]

[Did the game start? The hand shown can’t win.]

“Only going to start quiz games for PUBG. No other games will have quiz games.” The corners of Yu Yan’s mouth twitched. “It will be fine. Just need to grab some tiles…”

Before he could finish speaking, he suddenly heard the system sound effect for a completed hand—the person who had gone before him had declared mahjong.

3000 mahjong beans, instantly gone.

At this time, that stream follower who had just gone to Little Millet’s stream to investigate the situation had also come back.

[… It’s over, it’s all over. It really is 1.]

[????]

[His profile showed that he was a guardian rank in this livestream. The female anchor is still crazily thanking Boss 1. Her fans are still kicking up a fuss, wanting Boss 1 to spam her with gifts…]

Yu Yan looked up and saw that his stream’s viewer count was rapidly decreasing. In any case, there was no proper game content here, so everyone was just running over there to find out the truth.

He pursed his lips and looked back to the mahjong game. He received the 3000 beans that the system sent him for the second time.

“It’s normal for stream followers to watch other anchors’ livestreams. It’s also normal for them to send gifts to those anchors. Everyone, please don’t disturb other anchors’ livestreams.”

Even though he said that, Yu Yan kept feeling depressed inside.

There was an inexplicable feeling that just lingered inside his chest; it was very uncomfortable.

In fact, Yu Yan already had a hunch that something was wrong. 1 had recently been replying to his messages much slower, and he hadn’t been around that often to play games. Even last night’s video call was him sacrificing his face to ask for it first.

No stream follower only liked one anchor. He always thought it was quite normal for his viewers, even those who were his die-hard fans, to go watch other anchors when he wasn’t streaming.

Even groupies could like two different idols, and there were also fans who just jumped from idol to idol. So why did it matter if 1 went to another stream?

He comforted himself with this in mind. However, in the next game, where he decided to go for the honor tile sets right from the start, the win got stolen from him by an opponent’s single self-drawn tile win. He asked softly, “Err… I have to ask everyone something.”

“Has my livestream’s quality recently declined?”

The stream followers were stunned.

[How is that possible?!! I’m always lurking here every day, waiting for you to fucking stream!! You’re the best new anchor that I’ve discovered recently!!!]

[Wow, shit… Xiao Yan, why am I so aggrieved after listening to your tone? I’m dying; I have to spam you with gifts little by little.]

[Don’t undervalue yourself ah. Your livestream has always been very fun to watch; it’s my only after-school hobby!!]

[Maybe the female anchor is just Boss 1’s friend? He probably just sent some gifts to publicly show support. He’ll definitely come over here soon!]

[… Uh, Boss 1 sent the gift and then immediately went offline.]

[My god. Seeing that Xiao Yan is so upset, I actually think that 1YanTang is real?!]

Yu Yan stared at the barrage for a long time and then laughed. “No. I’m just asking for your opinions while I’m not playing PUBG; I wanted to see if there was anything I need to improve on.”

QQ’s mahjong game only gave out beans three times a day. After he played his third match, all of the daily 9000 beans were lost.

PUBG’s minimum maintenance time was seven hours, but Yu Yan was kicked out of the QQ mahjong room by the system. He was at a loss and just kept his computer window on the QQ game lobby.

[How about loading 10 yuan into QQ for more mahjong beans to continue playing ba?]

“Won’t load any money, I’m stingy. I never put money into games.” Yu Yan exited the QQ game lobby and slid his mouse over to his desktop. “I’ll play other games ba. What do you guys want to watch?”

[I can’t resist stingy men.]

[Person who messaged before me, you should hurry up and snap out of it!]

[Want to see CS. LoL would be okay too ba.]

[Don’t play CS. The first-person perspective is too dizzying. LoL +1!]

Yu Yan looked at the barrage and followed the choice of the majority. “Then I’ll play LoL ba. But, I haven’t played this game for a long time, so I might be noob.”

The game finished updating, and he had just logged on when a message immediately popped up.

[Okay okay okay hugging you: Why did you log on here, isn’t it your livestreaming time right now?]

Yu Yan thought about who this was for a long time. He then recalled that Lu Xiuhe had changed his username to a couple name.

[Is it my fault I’m noob: PUBG is undergoing maintenance right now, so I came to play a few matches.]

[Okay okay okay hugging you: Play together? My baby just also happened to want to practice some champions, so we can play a few matches bei.]

[Is it my fault I’m noob: Okay.]

Entering the party lobby, there was indeed someone named “Little fairy wants a hug QAQ” in there.

Yu Yan hadn’t played LoL in a very long time, and the game had already been updated many times since then. Now, the party lobby had voice chat. As soon as he entered, he heard Lu Xiuhe shouting.

“Do you have anyone else joining? If not, we’ll just queue.”

Yu Yan directly ignored the barrage assistant, which was full of piteously and crazily begging stream followers. “No. Go and queue ba.”

As they entered the champion selection interface, Lu Xiuhe asked, “Baby, who are you going to play? I’ll choose based on your choice.”

[Little fairy wants a hug QAQ: I’ll keep playing Sorakaba~]

“Okay, then I’ll play a stronger champion to protect you.”

Yu Yan asked casually, “She doesn’t have a mic?”

“Yeah, her mic is broken.”

Yu Yan chose Zed as his champion. After they entered the game, he looked up her win rate.

She had played 100 games with Soraka and had a win rate of 79%.

[Holy shit. I went to check this Little Fairy’s match history and saw she’s Diamond rank. Apart from playing Soraka, every other champion she played were mid laners or junglers. She also has a lot of MVP titles. How is she so strong?!]

[One look and you can already tell that she found people to carry her. I’ve met a lot of these types of women.]

[Every time I meet this kind of teammate in my ranked games, I get angry. Can’t you just stay in Bronze and become the Bronze king?!]

“Don’t say stuff like that.” Yu Yan took the opportunity to add, “It’s not good to slander others without proof ba. Moreover, it’s obvious that I’m more of a noob in comparison.”

The stream followers in the barrage told him not to be so humble.

10 minutes later, the stream followers found that… he really wasn’t being humble.

The little Zed happily set out of his team’s base. Three minutes into the match, the opponent’s Annie had repeatedly stomped him into the ground with her little bear; he died and was sent back to his base.

Yu Yan opened the in-game match information and saw that next to the username of the player playing Annie, there was a female gender symbol.

In contrast in the bot lane, Lu Xiuhe playing an ADC had a score of 0/2/2 while the Soraka had… 4/0/2.

The 0/3/1 Zed left his base again. Yu Yan said, “… Girls are truly so fierce now ah.”

“Why doesn’t LoL have an all-chat mic? I want to beg her not to kill me.”

[??? What the hell are you doing? Show me some backbone here!]

[Normally, other people turn on their mics to beg you not to kill them in PUBG, but I’ve never seen you show mercy ah?]

[Retribution is coming, die ba!!!]

[Little fairy wants a hug QAQ: How about you be support and I’ll play mid ba? If we let Annie get fed, it’ll be hard to fight her in the late game.]

Yu Yan turned off the in-game mic and said, “This is simply shameful.”

But then he typed out his reply.

[Is it my fault I’m noob: Alright.]

Ignoring the wave of question marks in the barrage, Yu Yan turned and walked down to the bot lane.

“Wtf, you have got to be kidding me.” Lu Xiuhe said, “You’re Zed. How are you going to support meah? Just don’t steal my minions.”

Yu Yan was obedient and dazedly stood in the brush.

It wasn’t until Lu Xiuhe saw Yu Yan’s various game actions that he began to feel that something was wrong.

Although Yu Yan was better at playing shooters, his ability in MOBAs like LoL wasn’t this low. In the past, Yu Yan was even at Master rank. Even if he hadn’t touched it in a while, he shouldn’t be unfamiliar to the point of being like a Silver-ranked player ba.

When Yu Yan was pulled by Blitzcrank for the second time, Lu Xiuhe couldn’t hold back anymore. “Xiao Yan, what’s the matter with you ah. Are you in a bad mood today?”

When the screen grayed out, Yu Yan opened the game’s shop menu to buy items. “Huh? No, it’s just that I’m playing like trash. I’ll leave when the match ends so I won’t drag you guys down.”

“It’s just a normal match… It doesn’t matter.” Knowing that he was livestreaming, Lu Xiuhe didn’t keep prodding.

The enemy team’s Annie was just too fed. They couldn’t fight against her during the teamfights, and the match ended in just 25 minutes.

Looking at the huge defeat pop-up in front of him, Yu Yan exited the game. He said goodbye to Lu Xiuhe and went back to playing PUBG.

After PUBG’s maintenance this time, his computer kept freezing. Yu Yan had bought his customized computer over two years ago. In the anchor industry, such a lengthy period meant that he was long overdue in getting an upgrade. Otherwise, if all the hardware wasn’t the best, it may affect the performance of the livestream.

The barrage couldn’t endure anymore as Yu Yan’s game character floated above the ground for the third time.

[I’m thinking that we should crowdfund a new computer for you?]

[Be careful. After a while, that computer will freeze again. It’s fine anyway, this botter will get the ban hammer. The livestream’s notice is gone!]

[Why isn’t the anchor talking at all? When he was searching for items, I actually thought that I hadn’t turned on my sound.]

Yu Yan glanced at the barrage and said, “No, I am talking… and it’s not a computer problem; the game is lagging. It happens often after maintenance.”

Having said that, he raised his gun and knocked down a few people nearby with several gunshots. “It’s fine as long as it doesn’t affect gameplay.”

Before accompanying players grew popular, he had been a booster. He had spent more than 10,000 yuan on this computer. After getting everything customized and paid for, there was only 400 yuan left on his card. When he paid with WeChat pay, the bank notification had popped up and the salesman coincidentally saw it. The other party’s eyes unconsciously showed a strange expression, but Yu Yan didn’t care. In order to save the delivery and handling fees of 100 yuan, he took the bus home while holding the PC in his arms with a smile on his face that couldn’t be contained.

Being able to do what you liked as a profession, how could that not make people happy?

In addition, he was diligent and supported himself with that last 400 yuan for a month. He never experienced this dilemma again after his salary was paid to him at the end of the month.

Now, it wasn’t that he couldn’t buy a new computer, he just thought that it was unnecessary. Anyway, even with its average graphics quality, the stream followers could still see everything clearly.

When he made it to dinner time, he breathed a sigh of relief. He opened a recent and popular foreign horror film for the viewers, and then turned off his webcam.

[Put on a horror movie and then just slipped away??]

[It’s fine if we watch a horror movie, but you at least need to show your face ah!]

Yu Yan replied, “I’ll turn it back on after dinner.”

When he returned to the computer with his takeout, he saw his cellphone light up.

Your Great Lord Lu: Xiao Yan, what’s going on with you ah? Why do I feel like you don’t look okay?

Yu Yan: There’s nothing ah…

Your Great Lord Lu: Still saying nothing’s wrong? I went to watch your livestream for a bit; you didn’t talk much the entire afternoon. How’s this ba, how about I come and see you tomorrow?

Your Great Lord Lu: I’ll bring you breakfast. A breakfast full of love with a guaranteed amount of food to satisfy you.

Yu Yan: No need. You’re all the way over there, and I’m all right.

Your Great Lord Lu: Look ba, I’ll get up early tomorrow. Remember to open the door for me. Hey, I’m delivering breakfast to you out of love, it’s extremely sincere. If she knew how kind I am to you, I’m afraid she’d be pissed off.

Yu Yan dazedly held his cellphone for a long time.

Yu Yan: Let me ask you something.

Your Great Lord Lu: Ah, you ask.

For a long time, Yu Yan repeatedly typed and deleted his words. He dawdled for a good while before managing to ask the question he wanted an answer to.

Yu Yan: It’s just… say that there’s a friend who is very good to you. Your relationship with them is also pretty good, but one day, this friend also started to be good to others. Would you feel sad?

Your Great Lord Lu: Not at all ah. Isn’t that very normal? It’s impossible for that person to have only you as a friend ba. You see, I’m usually so nice to you, but now that I have my baby, I won’t even go on your stream. Do you feel sad?

“…”

Lu Xiuhe’s metaphor was simply fantastic.

The more Yu Yan looked at his words, the more reasonable it seemed!

But throughout the entire afternoon, all he had thought about was the gift notification that had popped up at the top of his screen.

Had 1 also added that female anchor’s WeChat?

The stream followers had said that Little Millet was particularly good at chatting. Maybe the two of them had a good time chatting together ba.

People shouldn’t be idle. When they become idle, their thoughts just wander to the ends of the earth.

Yu Yan held his cellphone: You’re right.

Your Great Lord Lu: Wait. When that person is good to other people, you feel sad?

Yu Yan pursed his lips: En.

He thought it was a normal reaction.

Your Great Lord Lu: Do you guys chat frequently?

Yu Yan: It used to be quite frequent, but we haven’t talked much recently.

Your Great Lord Lu: Why?

Yu Yan: I don’t know either. We also haven’t played games together as much.

Your Great Lord Lu: … Games? Are you talking about a game friend?

Yu Yan: Can be considered that ba.

Your Great Lord Lu: … Hold on.

Your Great Lord Lu: Do you feel very happy chatting with her? When you play games with her, do you like to rush in front and just carry the game? If someone said that she’s to blame, do you want to hold that person to the ground and blow his head off?

Yu Yan was shocked.

Lu Xiuhe had mistyped the pronoun.

But…

Yu Yan: How did you know?

Your Great Lord Lu: …

Your Great Lord Lu: Xiao Yan, are you also dating someone online?

…

The wording of that sentence was extremely frightening, and it shocked Yu Yan. He opened the on-screen keyboard, ready to refute Lu Xiuhe, but his thumbs were so agitated that they collided with each other. As a result, the cellphone suddenly fell out of his hand and directly collided with the drinks included with the takeout.

With a bang, the bottles tipped over. A full bottle of Coke poured out and the liquid dripped down the gap of his computer desk onto his computer below.

The computer screen in front of him suddenly went dark.

“…”

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The author has something to say:

No scum, no abuse

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Juurensha: Awwww, poor Yanyan. Boss Yi, there better be a good explanation for this! You cost Yanyan a computer!

Divi: Ah, the author said no scum so I assume Boss Yi has a good explanation. Anyway, Yu Yan was made aware of his feelings so quickly! But… I’m so sorry for the computer. Carbonated/sugary drinks are the absolute worst for computer parts.

Noks: Damn. He will have to get that upgrade now… And 1… stop distancing yourself from our Yanyan and give him an explanation pronto!!!

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