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Join the ServerYao: – [#Dream on#]
Cheng: – [#Bonk#]
Cheng: – [Video chat? I want to hear your voice.]
Yao: – [No, I don’t want to.]
Cheng: – [What don’t you want? I just want to hear you speak. Are you overthinking?]
Yao: – […]
Cheng: – [Want to play?]
Yao: – [Sure, I’ll log on.]
The two of them logged into the game one after another, turning on their mics directly in-game to chat as they played.
Both of them were using team-only voice chat, not connecting with the other three teammates in the lobby.
Although she played well enough, her hero pool was very shallow; she only knew how to play mid-lane and roam, rotating through just a few heroes.
Cheng was different; when they first met, he played as the jungler, carrying the whole match and securing kills effortlessly, making her think he was a dedicated jungle king.
Only after they played together more did she realize he was an all-rounder.
Aside from jungling, he played other positions exceptionally well, and his hero pool was bottomless, with virtually no hero he wasn’t skilled at.
There was only one catch…
When he played support, he didn’t actually support his teammates.
Even with a support hero, he wouldn’t build support items, playing instead with a damage-dealer style.
Rushing to the very front alone, he would secure kills without hesitation, ending the game as the match MVP and leaving his teammates utterly speechless.
Every time Shi Kezhen saw their teammates complain, she couldn’t stop laughing.
In this round, Shi Kezhen was playing her most proficient mage hero once again: Zhen Ji.
Gao Cheng had selected the “all-rounder fill” option, and the system automatically assigned him to the roamer role this round, so he chose Zhuang Zhou.
The game began.
Shi Kezhen’s Zhen Ji cleared minions in the mid-lane, periodically keeping the enemy Angela at bay, throwing out her second skill’s ice orb whenever it was off cooldown and bouncing it so much that the opponent dared not step out of the turret.
Cheng’s Zhuang Zhou was in the bot-lane with Hou Yi.
Before she even reached level three, the system broadcast rang out.
“First Blood.”
Zhuang Zhou had claimed first blood on the enemy marksman.
Just as Shi Kezhen was about to say “awesome,” another broadcast followed close behind.
“Double Kill.”
The enemy Yao was also gone; less than two minutes into the game, Zhuang Zhou had completed a double kill.
In the in-game text chat, their teammates began to pipe up.
[Teammate] Famous Fraud [Cheng Yaojin]: [Oh, our teammate this round is pretty beastly.]
[Teammate] Back to Nest to Sleep [Hou Yi]: [Don’t steal my kills; let me farm up first.]
[Teammate] Cheng [Zhuang Zhou]: [Steal your kills? Are you sure?]
[Teammate] Smooth Start [Zhao Yun]: [I just took a glance; Zhuang Zhou didn’t steal your kills. Hou Yi was almost beaten to death and hid in the turret, while Zhuang Zhou went outside the turret to get the double kill. Zhuang Zhou is a beast!]
[Teammate] Back to Nest to Sleep [Hou Yi]: [If you don’t give me kills, how am I supposed to carry? If I don’t get fed, how are we supposed to play at all?]
Cheng ignored Hou Yi, continuing to clear the minion wave after the kills.
By the time Hou Yi respawned and returned to the bot turret, Zhuang Zhou was already level five while Hou Yi was only level three.
Once Shi Kezhen reached level four and got her ultimate, she began to roam top and bottom to offer support.
Although she and Cheng were an in-game couple, they didn’t deliberately stick together to show off their affection during the game.
This was also the reason they were highly compatible as an in-game couple; both placed more value on the gaming experience.
Zhuang Zhou waited until Hou Yi reached level five before securing another double kill.
After that, he began to roam the entire map, no longer caring whether Hou Yi lived or died.
Left to farm alone in the bot-lane, Hou Yi was ganked from time to time, dying several times and failing to get his items, his resentment reaching the sky.
Shi Kezhen loved to join team fights when playing Zhen Ji.
Seeing Zhuang Zhou roaming everywhere to initiate fights, she completely abandoned the mid-lane, happily tailing him across the entire map, only occasionally returning to the mid-lane to clear minions with a couple of skills.
With Cheng’s Zhuang Zhou there, Shi Kezhen’s squishy little Zhen Ji charged forward incredibly aggressively.
Tailing behind Zhuang Zhou, she threw out her three skills the moment their cooldowns ended.
Especially her second skill’s ice orb—after purchasing the Holy Grail, the cooldown was extremely fast, and the orb bounced back and forth among the five enemies, completely wearing down their patience.
The Hou Yi in this round was indeed a bit subpar, dying the most times in the match, and he harbored a massive grievance against Zhuang Zhou.
But Zhuang Zhou had the most kills, the highest team fight participation rate, and a rock-solid MVP; the other teammates were completely won over by him, so no one took Hou Yi’s complaints seriously.
In less than twenty minutes, the game was over.
Zhuang Zhou was the MVP once more, with a record of 15-0-7.
Shi Kezhen’s Zhen Ji also earned the Gold Mid-lane medal, with a record of 9-0-11.
Returning to the lobby, they didn’t immediately click to start the next round.
Shi Kezhen curled her lip, her tone slightly sour.
– “You’re a support, yet you have more kills than me, the mage; you don’t even know how to let me have some.”
Gao Cheng let out a smug laugh, deliberately teasing her.
– “Getting kills is easy; I can go without a single kill and feed them all to you, as long as you…”
– “Stop!”
Shi Kezhen immediately interrupted him.
– “Don’t say it, I don’t need that; let’s just play normally. Getting MVP every single time isn’t even fun.”
– “You really don’t want it?”
– “Didn’t you find it amazing when I fed you kills all night last time?”
Shi Kezhen thought back to last weekend’s night; she had indeed enjoyed getting fed in the game, but after the game ended…
It had absolutely exhausted her; she never wanted that kind of enjoyment again.
– “No, no, start the game quickly, stop talking nonsense.”
Gao Cheng let out a low chuckle, no longer teasing her.
The two of them started another round, chatting and playing, and the afternoon quickly slipped away.
***
After dinner, Shi Kezhen returned to her room.
The two of them ultimately started a video call again, but tonight they truly only chatted, doing nothing else.
It wasn’t that Gao Cheng didn’t want to; she had simply rejected him very bluntly.
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