Don’t Be Afraid, Let’s Do It Together (E-sports) - Chapter 3

I thought I could make the opponent feel nauseous before the crystal explodes, but unexpectedly, it was Xie Yao who felt sick himself.

As we all know, straight guys love to bully their opponents in 1v1 with their CP, and surrendering after being bullied to death is standard.

There’s also that phrase, “okay.”

Unexpectedly, he spent the whole day hunting geese, only to be pecked in the eye by a swallow, bringing bad luck.

Xie Yao silently took a sip of cold powder and exited the settlement page without even looking at the barrage reaction. However, before he could glance at the game, a friend request popped up.

…?

A big question mark appeared over Xie Yao’s head, and he had a bad feeling about it.

He reached out and clicked on it, and sure enough

Spear of Blaze applied to add you as a friend, note: CPDD?

Without waiting for the fans to react, Xie Yao directly rejected the request with a black face, promptly ended the game and threw out a line: “Time’s up for today, ending the stream.”

The live streaming screen suddenly went black, leaving the fans confused

Fans : ????

Fans : Hey, are you kidding me? You forgot about your fans once you got a CP?

Fans : Your gameplay today still made my heart flutter, but your expression made me feel a little heartbroken. Goodbye.

Fans : What could you be hiding from your esteemed member? Why are you feeling guilty????

Fans : Ungrateful! How could you kill the donkey after using it to grind the mill!

Fans : Something’s not right with you.

Fans : Something’s not right with you.

Fans : I’m going to expose you on the video website, Princess Yao Yao the Shark!

…

After the streamer ended the livestream, although the screen turned black, fans could still comment in the chat. At this moment, a large wave of fans who were suddenly confused by Xie Yao’s abrupt ending flooded the chat to denounce him.

However, Xie Yao didn’t see it. After ending the stream, he turned off the small, old computer on the table and stood up from his chair, ready to throw away the cold powder on the table.

Just thinking about that Li Bai from earlier made Xie Yao furious. He had been playing Honor of Kings for so long and had never been beaten to death at the fountain by anyone before, going 1-5…damn it.

Thinking about it was embarrassing. The reason why he ended the stream so quickly wasn’t just because he was embarrassed by Li Bai’s teasing, but also because fans saw the crash.

Xie Yao’s one year of streaming wasn’t entirely smooth sailing. He had gone through a lot of conflicts with haters and fans of other streamers. However, because of his strong performance during the streams and the good results, he always managed to come out on top.

Of course, the power of his fans support couldn’t be ignored either.

He actually didn’t turn on his camera at first. If it wasn’t for the black fans who provoked him and accused him of using a substitute player, he wouldn’t have turned on his camera. Even if he did, he only recorded his upper body and didn’t show his face.

Today, not only was his winning streak broken, but he was also defeated at the spring. He could already imagine how active the returning black fans would be tomorrow when he starts his live broadcast again. Today’s failure was like a dream come true for the black fans!

Xie Yao walked out holding a takeaway box and forcefully closed the door behind him, getting angrier the more he thought about it.

“Brother Yao Yao!”

As soon as Xie Yao’s hand touched the door, a little girl suddenly appeared from the neighbor’s door, carrying a backpack and looking like she had just finished school. She greeted him with a sweet smile.

But Xie Yao’s whole body stiffened, and he instinctively opened the door and went inside, slamming it shut with a bang, suddenly feeling nervous.

Just when he thought the little girl would go home after being rejected, there was a sudden knocking at the door.

“Knock, knock, knock!”

Xie Yao’s hand trembled.

Believe it or not, the online trash talker who could spar with haters for half an hour until the room was shut down by the building manager, Xie Yao, is actually socially anxious in real life.

Although this news is so unbelievable that even if Xie Yao were to announce it to his fans, they would probably dismiss it as a rumor spread by haters who hacked his account.

However, the truth is often the most absurd. Xie Yao is very aware of his own limitations and is only able to chat comfortably online, using written text. In reality, he becomes a nervous wreck even when talking to his young neighbor girl.

It’s really pathetic.

Today, he was so angry with Li Bai that he lost his mind. He usually checks his neighbor’s movements through the peephole and avoids their times of travel, but today he was so angry that he forgot and just took out the trash. And he happened to run into the little girl next door on her way home from school.

“Knock, knock, knock.” The knocking sound came again.

Xie Yao struggled for a long time, but finally gave up and opened the door. He couldn’t let a little kid wait outside for too long.

He opened the door and saw the little neighbor girl standing outside with her backpack. She looked up at him and greeted him, “Good afternoon, Yao Yao brother!”

“Good afternoon, Yue Yue.” Xie Yao was still holding the garbage and sounded awkward. As soon as he spoke, he turned back into a nervous wreck.

But the little girl who is used to his behavior clearly doesn’t care whether Xie Yao is expressionless or too friendly. After hearing Xie Yao also greet her, the little girl nodded seriously and praised, “That’s right. The teacher said that when I greet you, you should also greet me. That’s what a polite and obedient child does.”

Suddenly being labeled as a polite and obedient child, Xie Yao stuttered, “Th-thank you.”

“Yue Yue?”

Perhaps hearing her own daughter’s voice, the door next door suddenly opened, and an old grandmother’s head popped out. She immediately saw her granddaughter and Xie Yao standing together.

The old grandmother walked out of the door, looking very kind and smiling at Xie Yao, “Ah, it’s little Xie from next door.”

Xie Yao’s expression was a bit stiff, but he knew it would be impolite to the old grandmother. He struggled to pull out a smile, stood upright, and nervously squeezed his fingers, saying, “Good afternoon, Grandma Li.”

“Ah.” Grandma Li smiled and responded, turning her head to wave at Yueyue. “Come on over, don’t delay your brother Yao Yao from doing his work!”

The little girl ran over quickly.

“Ah, Xiao Xie, don’t mind my granddaughter. She just likes good-looking big brothers. Did she bother you just now?” Grandma Li asked with a smile.

The good-looking big brother, Xie Yao, immediately blushed and became flustered. “N-no, I was just throwing out the garbage. Yueyue didn’t bother me!”

Grandma Li’s smiling demeanor was very gentle. She had been living in this neighborhood for many years. Xie Yao had rented this apartment from the landlord before he started live streaming, and had lived here for about two years. Although they didn’t have a lot of contact, Grandma Li occasionally saw Xie Yao every day and had already figured out his personality.

He was someone who didn’t talk much and seemed cold on the surface, but was actually easy to get along with. Yueyue also really liked her good-looking brother Yao Yao.

Xie Yao didn’t know Grandma Li’s evaluation of him, and at this moment, the streaming sensation Yao Yao princess just wished he could escape from there as soon as possible. Fortunately, Grandma Li seemed to sense Xie Yao’s awkwardness and called Yue Yue to say goodbye.

“Then you go throw away the garbage quickly. I’ll take Yue Yue home for dinner.”

Xie Yao nodded. “Okay.”

After Grandma Li and Yue Yue went inside, Xie Yao breathed a sigh of relief and quickly went downstairs to throw away the garbage. He then ran back upstairs, opened and closed the door in one go.

C City was a city with a slow pace of life but a developed tourism industry. Even on summer nights in places far from the city center, the outside was still full of lights and revelry.

At eleven o’clock, Xie Yao usually took a shower and went to bed. Before sleeping, he thought to himself, what a rough day it had been.

Little did Xie Yao know, a new scissor-handed fan had joined his group of followers. This scissor-handed fan had quite a following on video websites, and her works usually consisted of various CP pairings.

Today, while Xie Yao was live streaming, this scissor-handed fan was also watching. To a normal fan, Xie Yao’s banter with Li Bai in the live stream might not have been interpreted in a certain way. But as a CP enthusiast, the scissor-handed fan’s sharp eyes immediately caught onto something different.

“Oh my god, this is a living, breathing CP!” The scissor-handed fan thought to herself. “Arrogant little anchor x mysterious great god, and the ‘humiliation’ at the end by Xie Yao is the perfect finishing touch!”

Excited, the scissor-handed fan worked through the night and a video titled “Shock! After getting killed five times, the little anchor did this to the mysterious great god -” was born.

At midnight, many night owls were still awake and working hard. Many of them saw this video and immediately became curious.

Netizens: “What? Are you all so good at playing games?!”

The video was quietly pushed to the top of the video platform’s hot search.

At 11 o’clock in the morning, Xie Yao was bombarded with phone calls, which woke him up from his sleep.

He answered the phone with a lot of morning breath and sat on the bed, threatening the person on the other end of the phone with a grim expression: “Zhou Tian, you better tell me about the flower today, or else be prepared to be buried with my unfinished dream.”

As Xie Yao’s childhood friend, Zhou Tian was used to Xie Yao’s threats and didn’t take his morning breath seriously.

Zhou Tian asked over the phone, “Did you meet a person named Li Bai during your livestream yesterday?”

Xie Yao’s hair was messed up from just waking up, and the back of his head was standing up. He yawned and asked, “How did you know? Are you spying on my livestream again?”

The voice on the other end immediately became gloating, “Who would deliberately watch your live stream, Xie Big Brother? You should go check out the video website. I’m afraid the whole country knows that there is a host named Yao Yao Princess on Shark TV now.”

“Huh?”

Xie Yao was in the middle of a yawn when a question mark popped up in his head. “What do you mean?”

Without expecting his unreliable childhood friend’s reply, Xie Yao opened the video website’s app himself. He was about to ask what to search for when the opening screen showed a hot search topic labeled “Shock! After getting killed five times, the little anchor did this to the mysterious great god-“