PUBG Online Romance of the Century

Chapter 54 - You’re different.

Edited by Divetus and Noks

Yu Yan didn’t look at the name carefully before clicking accept, and realized it only after the other party entered the party lobby and their names were displayed side by side.

Is it my fault I’m noob.

It’s not your fault.

“…”

Afraid that the microphone by the side of his mouth would capture and reveal his emotions, he carefully and imperceptibly drew in a breath.

[What are you guys doing??]

[You’re a PUBG anchor, not a LoL anchor, okay? …I’ll also watch LoL! Go for it!]

[I think that the fifth chapter of will be coming out tonight!]

Fifth chapter? Did that mean that the fourth chapter has already been posted?

He had thought that since 1 hadn’t come to play games recently, that PO author wouldn’t have gathered enough materials to cut and put together.

He was about to start a match when a dialog box popped up.

[Okay okay okay hugging you: ?]

[Okay okay okay hugging you: Match, together?]

1 was a novice, and it would be easy to get flamed if they met the sort of teammates who really wanted to win. Yu Yan agreed without even thinking about it.

Soon, the two of them entered the room at the same time, and the other person already there was “Little fairy wants a hug QAQ”.

“Xiao Yan, I saw that StarTV Weibo post, hahaha, so cool!” As soon as Lu Xiuhe came in, he couldn’t help but liven things up first.

Yu Yan replied, “Not really cool, start?”

“Start bei… Wait a minute.” When Lu Xiuhe saw his teammate’s ID clearly, he grew excited. “This ‘It’s not your fault,’ is this your—”

Yu Yan’s heart jumped, as he remembered that he had talked with Lu Xiuhe about matters related to 1 before. Knowing that he had misunderstood, he blurted out, “No…”

“It’s me.” Yi Chen said, “What’s the matter?”

Lu Xiuhe: “…”

Lu Xiuhe: “This is boss 1?!”

“En.” Yi Chen confirmed, completely unaware of Lu Xiuhe’s confused state, and moved around the screen. “Which of these two roles should I pick?”

Lu Xiuhe shut up. He had thought that these two names seemed like couple names and had even wondered if this person was the “suspected online partner” Yu Yan had mentioned to him before.

“You haven’t played before, so just pick first,” Yu Yan said.

Lu Xiuhe asked, “Then won’t me and my baby be separated?”

[Little fairy wants a hug QAQ: It’s fine. I can be the jungler and you can go mid?]

[Little fairy wants a hug QAQ: We can team up as mid and jungle to move together.]

Lu Xiuhe laughed pervertedly. “Okay, let’s move together, move together!”

“…” Yu Yan said, “I’m streaming, can you not use obscene language?”

Lu Xiuhe replied, “Okay bei.”

[Little fairy wants a hug QAQ: Your friend is an anchor?]

“Yes, StarTV.” Lu Xiuhe said, “A great God anchor, very powerful—of course, he’s a little worse than me.”

Yu Yan didn’t say anything and picked the ADC role for himself. Because he had been influenced by Lu Xiuhe, in his mind, LoL felt full of dog food everywhere.

At last, Lu Xiuhe brought a friend into their team, saying that he was a regular customer at his family’s Internet cafe, was very nice, and didn’t flame people. So now they had a perfect five-man team.

Entering the champion selection interface, Yi Chen looked at the numerous champions in front of him and asked, “What do I play?”

Lu Xiuhe asked, “Boss 1 hasn’t played before? Then whose account is that?”

Yi Chen replied, “Haven’t played before. Just bought it.”

“A new account should only have the starting champions and this week’s free rotation champions available?” Yu Yan glanced at the list of free champions and was preparing to help him choose a simple and understandable one.

“I have all the champions,” Yi Chen said.

“?”

“Just bought them.”

Yu Yan was speechless.

Buying champions with real money was very expensive. Few people, apart from those players who wanted to specialize in specific champions or suffered from the lack of in-game currency, would use real money to buy champions.

He had already become curious. “How did you know from where to purchase the name change and champions&#k2026;?”

“I searched up how to load RP and how to purchase the name change.” Yi Chen said. “The rest… The word ‘store’ is on the front page of the game, it’s very conspicuous.”

If the game didn’t offer the option to purchase a name change, then he would’ve had to go buy a new account.

[Wealthy people have a natural sense for loading currency and purchasing things. I didn’t believe that before, but now I do.]

“Why don’t you play Sona? The maven of the strings.” Yu Yan said, “Just keep pressing the four keys QWER, and it’ll be fine; she’s suitable for beginners.”

“En.” Yi Chen didn’t even think before typing the name in the search box and directly clicking on it.

He squinted and saw that the large image of Sona in front of him was wearing sexy clothes, with most of her chest exposed. He looked through the skins available, picked the pentakill skin with the very cool background, and directly clicked to buy it.

Upon entering the game, Yu Yan controlled Lucian to run into the jungle and pinged on the map. “1, come here… After I finish helping the jungler leash in a bit, you can follow me. We’ll go down to the bot lane.”

Yi Chen asked, “Just the two of us?”

“En, they’ll go another way.”

Yi Chen replied, “Okay.”

“Baby, come help me gank at level 2.” Lu Xiuhe was playing Annie. “I’ll flash and stun him, you need to follow up oh.”

[Little fairy wants a hug QAQ: Mmhmm.]

The thought of the ‘great lord’ Lu Xiuhe—sporting his crew cut hairstyle—softly calling someone baby over and over again, made Yu Yan feel that was very funny.

The other friend in the team also laughed. “Xiao He, why are you this lovey-dovey? You’re so young, you shouldn’t be dating online. Be careful lest I go tell Boss.”

Lu Xiuhe clicked his tongue and said, “You know shit all. I’ll be going to Jincheng to find my baby at the end of the year, and then it won’t count as online dating.”

Online dating?

This word was a little new to him. Yi Chen manipulated the sexy 36D character to follow the little anchor and asked, “You’re coming to Jincheng?”

“Yes ah, I heard it’s fun there. I haven’t been there yet.” Lu Xiuhe then paused before saying, “Boss 1, it couldn’t be that you’re also in Jincheng ba?”

“En.”

“What a coincidence! Xiao Yan, why don’t you accompany me to Jincheng at the end of the year bei? I’ll go find my baby, you go find Boss 1. We can stay in the same room and save money.”

Yu Yan was stunned, and at that exact instant, the monster spawned. He stepped forward and fired two attacks. “… You two meeting offline, what does that have to do with me and 1?”

“Boss 1 has sent you so many gifts, you can invite him out for a meal to thank him ma. You can also go to Jincheng to have some fun…” Speaking of this, Lu Xiuhe suddenly turned around and said, “Oh no, I forgot, you’re also about to start dating online. Where’s your online partner from?”

[Who? Whose online partner??]

[Wtf, I watch Xiao Yan livestream every day, how did I not know he was dating online?!]

[Who are you dating online? Female stream follower?]

[Son, you must not get into online dating!! All the loli voices and domineering Jie voices online are fake!! FAKE ah!! It’s only 1, who diligently helped you pile up popularity points, who is real ahhhhhh—(cracking voice)]

A pile of question marks appeared in the barrage at once.

Yu Yan had a headache and said, “I’m not… stop talking nonsense.”

“Oh, I’m sorry. I talk too fast, I’m slapping myself.” Lu Xiuhe said, shutting the stable door after the horses had already bolted, “You’re not dating online!”

“….”

Yu Yan attacked the jungle monster a few more times before turning around to leave. As he was running through the jungle, he found that Sona, wearing her large black dress, wasn’t following him.

He moved his game view back to the monster and found that Sona was standing in the same place, still auto attacking the jungle monster.

Little Fairy seemed to be worried that the jungle monster would be killed by 1 as he just stood there. However, since the monster didn’t have much health left after the leash, Sona ended up killing it and taking the monster’s buff.

[Little fairy wants a hug QAQ: ?]

“Sorry.” Yu Yan hurriedly said, “He’s a rookie and doesn’t know how to play yet.”

[Little fairy wants a hug QAQ: It’ll be difficult for me to get to level 2 now. Can’t gank without the red buff.]

Lu Xiuhe said, “Don’t worry, just get the blue buff when you have the chance.”

Yi Chen snapped out of it and looked at the red buff under Sona’s feet. It was only after that that he turned around and walked over to the bot lane.

“1, in the beginning of the game, the jungle monsters should always be given to the jungler. They use the buffs to level up and gank people,” Yu Yan explained to him.

Yi Chen responded with a neither light nor heavy ‘en’ sound, and after a while said, “You…”

After saying just ‘you,’ he fell silent again.

Yu Yan uttered an “Hm?”

After spending a long time looking at the skill description boxes, Yi Chen said, “…nothing. ”

Sona really was an easy champion to learn how to play. After using her for ten minutes, 1 had a general understanding of her skills; but just understanding what her skills were didn’t mean that he could use them effectively. Additionally, Lu Xiuhe’s and his little girlfriend’s elo weren’t low, so the people they were matched against were Platinum and Diamond ranked—it wasn’t easy to play against them in the first place.

It was 13 minutes into the game, and Yu Yan and 1 had been double-killed twice by the enemy bot lane.

The screen grayed out for the second time, and Yu Yan pursed his lips. He opened the shop to buy some equipment.

He hadn’t played LoL for a long time, so it was hard to carry a novice.

At this time, a message popped up on the screen.

[My Support is the Cutest (All): Is the little Jiejie Sona there? Your ADC is so noob, come and play with me ba. I’ll definitely carry you every match~]

Yi Chen stared at this for several seconds before he realized that the person was talking to him.

[My Support is the Cutest (All): I have even thought up our couple name; you can change yours to “My ADC is the most Handsome in the Universe”. I provide both online dating and marriage—a one-stop service = 3 =]

Yu Yan opened the chat box, and had just typed in a ‘scram’ when his teammate’s message popped up first.

[It’s not your fault (All): Scram.]

He paused, then deleted his message. “1, you can turn off the all-chat function in the settings.”

“Turned it off.” Yi Chen paused for a bit before saying, “You see, most of the people you meet on the Internet are such people.”

Yu Yan froze, not understanding. “Ah?”

“So when you’re online… Be careful when you make friends.”

Yu Yan didn’t understand, but he obediently responded, “Okay.”

Yu Yan played LoL all night, and didn’t stop until the stream moderator reminded him about not livestreaming a game that didn’t match his section for too long. He had just stopped and upon glancing over, he realized it was already time to end the stream.

He said goodbye to his stream followers. Just after he turned off the computer, the cellphone in front of him suddenly vibrated.

1 was initiating a voice call with him.

Why was it not a video call? Yu Yan stared at the screen for a long time before sluggishly picking up.

He asked, “Yanyan isn’t here today?”

Yi Chen raised his eyebrows, and it took awhile for him to respond, “He just ate his fill and is sleeping now.”

Yu Yan picked up his cellphone and sat on the bed. “Do you usually take care of him?”

“No.”

“Then… Your girlfriend?”

“I don’t have a girlfriend.”

“Oh.” Yu Yan couldn’t help it, but since the camera wasn’t on, the corners of his mouth drew up in a very obvious manner. “I’m not good at playing LoL, I can’t carry you. How about you redownload and reinstall PUBG again? It should be that the client was corrupted.”

“It’s already better, it was a problem with the game booster.”

“That’s good…”

Yi Chen lightly tapped the top of his desk and then suddenly threw out a sentence. “You’re dating online?”

“Ah?” Yu Yan was stunned. “I’m not.”

“Then who was Lu Xiuhe talking about today?”

It’s you ah.

This sentence had reached his throat and was forcefully swallowed back down by Yu Yan.

“He… He was talking nonsense.”

Yi Chen’s eyebrows loosened slightly. “Then that’s good.”

Yu Yan asked, “Why did you ask this all of a sudden?”

“No reason really.” Yi Chen said lightly, “Afraid you’ll be corrupted by bad examples.”

“… Online dating doesn’t mean getting corrupted by bad examples ba.”

“How is it not?” Yi Chen said, “People on the Internet will only show you the side they want to show you. Just by relying on sound and text, can you tell what kind of person is sitting on the other side of the computer?”

“…”

Yi Chen continued, “There are also people who specialize in deception and cheat people out of money and affection. You can’t even be sure whether the person is a man or woman, or whether they actually have a boyfriend or girlfriend in real life. Not even talking about online dating, you should also be cautious when you are making online friends.”

Yu Yan paused, then said in a low voice, “But the two of us… are also online friends ah.”

Yi Chen choked.

Yu Yan went on. “Even though you’ve given me gifts, I have never pretended anything.”

“…”

Yu Yan finished. “I’m also really a man.”

“You’re different.”

Yu Yan stared at his profile picture, his heart beating very fast. “…how am I different?”

The silence lasted for half a minute.

Yu Yan waited for a long time and didn’t get a response. So he said in embarrassment, “I’m just casually asking.”

Yi Chen was dumbstruck, and only after a while had passed did he make a slight “en” sound.

How was he different?

He also wasn’t completely sure.

—

Juurensha: HE’S DIFFERENT BECAUSE YOU’RE IN LOVE WITH HIM BOSS YI (also, I went through youtube LOL tutorials and wiki pages to translate this. I’m sure Divi will perfect it, but please enjoy)

Divi: Thank you for your well wishes. I’m just here to help clarify the league stuff, I probably won’t be back for a while *bows*.

Noks: Yanyan asks Boss 1 to delve deep into his feelings… And again, Lu Xiuhe plays the role of a dense wingman, creating misunderstandings that’ll bring our CP closer!!! Ah, thank you, LX!

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