Sister, Choose Me, I'm Super Sweet [Esports] - Chapter 9

Chapter 9: I’m Not a Hater

—First Bl00d!

Tong Yi watched her support hero charge into the enemy and get killed, and she couldn’t help but type a question mark in the in-game chat.

Tong Yi: “Another hand slip?”

Yuan: “I’m so, so sorry. I promise it won’t happen again.”

“Uh…” Tong Yi looked like she wanted to say something but held back. She typed a few words into the chat box, but quickly deleted them. In the end, she didn’t send anything.

“Forget it, let’s just focus on the game,” Tong Yi said.

Tong Yi observed her support’s gameplay for a while and noticed it was inconsistent—sometimes fine, sometimes not.

“Don’t you guys think this support is actually okay, just… weird?” Tong Yi couldn’t help but complain to her viewers.

At that moment, Song Jinyuan, who was in a tug-of-war with Tao Tao in front of her computer, was still watching Tong Yi’s live stream on her tablet. Hearing this suddenly, she was startled, and her hand shook, causing her to use her Flash skill in place.

Tong Yi: “…”

Just as she finished talking, the support made a huge blunder.

The viewers in the live stream were responding to Tong Yi’s words.

“Weird in what way? Weirdly bad?”

“I don’t see anything good about this support. All I see is how terrible she is.”

“Remember to report her after this game.”

“It’s a bot, right?”

“Definitely not a bot. A bot wouldn’t do something like this.”

The viewers didn’t see it, but Tong Yi did. The support’s game sense was good, but her gameplay was very strange, always making jaw-dropping blunders in the middle of a play. Tong Yi couldn’t help but observe the support more closely after that.

And then she got completely screwed over by the support. Both of them died, handing over a kill to the enemy.

Tong Yi looked at her gray screen and couldn’t help but rub her forehead.

“It’s fine, it’s just a casual game,” Tong Yi said to herself, adjusting her mindset. After respawning, Tong Yi began her journey of constantly getting screwed over by her support. The entire game fell into a disadvantage. The enemy team’s gold was completely suppressing them, and Tong Yi was forced to retreat to her tower.

Finally, during a small team fight in the bottom lane, Tong Yi found an opportunity to dive the enemy tower with her support. The support initiated the fight, throwing a Q skill to slow down two enemies, and then immediately following up with her ultimate to stun them.

“This is good,” Tong Yi said, understanding the support’s intention. Without hesitation, she followed them under the enemy tower to get the kills. If the support had cooperated well and used her skills in a timely manner, Tong Yi could have gotten a triple kill.

However, at that moment, the support just stood still under the tower.

Tong Yi: “?”

The support had indeed stopped moving. She just stood there and took damage, not using a single skill. In the end, Tong Yi and her support gave the enemy a double kill. Tong Yi only managed to get one enemy kill before she died.

Tong Yi: “…”

At the same time, Song Jinyuan was so angry she couldn’t even speak. Just now, at the most crucial moment, Tao Tao had suddenly snatched her mouse, unplugging it from the computer.

Song Jinyuan got up, re-plugging the mouse, while looking at Tao Tao and gritting her teeth. “You better wait and see what I do to you after this game.” This was her first time playing with Tong Yi, and this brat had ruined everything. She wanted to hold the child down and beat him right then and there.

Tao Tao, however, showed no signs of remorse and was even making faces at Song Jinyuan. “Blegh, blegh, blegh…”

Song Jinyuan took a deep breath and sat back down at her computer. Sure enough, her screen was gray. In that last fight, both she and Tong Yi had died.

Song Jinyuan picked up her tablet and looked at the live stream. She saw that Tong Yi’s face was grim, clearly annoyed. The live stream chat was also full of complaints.

“This support’s gameplay can’t even be described as bad.”

“She’s doing it on purpose, right?”

“I can tell she’s doing it on purpose too. God Yi must have run into a hater.”

“My God Yi is so miserable.”

“This is so annoying…” Song Jinyuan looked at the live stream page and couldn’t help but grab her pink bangs.

For the rest of the game, Tao Tao continued to cause trouble, and without any surprises, they lost. The two with the worst match stats were Tong Yi and Song Jinyuan.

“You little brat, I’m done with the game.” Song Jinyuan let go of her mouse, turned around, and looked at the culprit who had made her lose the game, saying through gritted teeth, “You are so dead!”

Tao Tao was startled and turned to run. But it was too late. Just as he was about to get out of the door, Song Jinyuan had already closed it.

“No, don’t, cousin…” Tao Tao looked at Song Jinyuan’s terrifying expression, trying to use the word “cousin” to appeal to her last bit of familial affection.

“Nothing you say will help!” Song Jinyuan had learned martial arts and combat, and her fighting ability was ridiculously high. She had once seen a criminal and beaten them until they couldn’t get up. Her record was verifiable.

A little kid like Tao Tao was no match for Song Jinyuan, who could easily handle him with one hand.

Two minutes later, loud and miserable sobs echoed from Song Jinyuan’s room. Tao Tao was tied to a chair, his face red from crying.

“I’m sorry, sis, I’m sorry…” Tao Tao cried, admitting his mistake.

Song Jinyuan held a wooden hanger, pointing it at Tao Tao. “You were so cocky just now, even making faces at me?”

“Wuwuwu I won’t make faces anymore, please let me go!” Tao Tao cried even harder. This cousin of his was way too terrifying. Her strength was a hundred times greater than his mom’s.

Song Jinyuan snorted. “No. When Auntie comes back, you can explain to her yourself why you’re tied up here.” With that, Song Jinyuan returned to her computer desk, placing the hanger on the table.

Then, Song Jinyuan was surprised to find that Tong Yi had invited her to join her team. Of course, she wasn’t so naive as to think this was a good thing. She knew Tong Yi was angry and wanted to pull her into a party to scold her.

On the other side, Tong Yi invited Song Jinyuan twice. Seeing that she didn’t join, she stopped. “She probably ran into a hater who hates me and recognized me,” Tong Yi said. Otherwise, it would be hard to explain why she could play well but always sold her out at crucial moments. If she was just a bad player, Tong Yi wouldn’t have gotten angry, but the opponent’s behavior was making her feel terrible.

“Don’t be mad. Just report her quickly so she doesn’t harm anyone else.”

“This person is a coward. She won’t even join the party after I invited her.”

“Such a coward.”

“Actually, I’ve wanted to say this for a while, but this person’s ID looks familiar.”

“I know, you’re thinking of that ‘Yuan’ on the national server leaderboard, right? She’s a jungler. It’s definitely not the same person as this support.”

“She probably just used a trendy name to get attention. I know ‘Yuan.’ She’s a top jungler, a true ‘Jungle King’ with countless national rankings. She’s obviously not the same person as this idiot.”

The popular players on the national server leaderboard are either professional players or streamers. Some club coaches also regularly check the leaderboard to find talented players. The jungler named Yuan was neither a professional player nor a streamer, so very few people knew about her. The chat only mentioned her in passing and then moved on.

“Wait for me, I’m going to get some water,” Tong Yi said, getting up and leaving.

When Tong Yi came back with a cup of water, she found that there was one more person in her party room. The player with the ID “Yuan” was waiting quietly in her room. The chat was also spamming question marks.

“???”

“No way, she actually dared to join?”

“She wasn’t content with just screwing over God Yi, now she wants to mock her to her face?”

Compared to the viewers, Tong Yi’s reaction was much calmer. She took a sip of water, put down the cup, and directly turned on her mic, saying, “I didn’t invite you for any other reason. I just wanted to tell you that what you’re doing is meaningless. It’s not a big deal if you sabotage me, but you also ruin the game experience for our other teammates. I think that’s a very bad thing to do.”

“Captain Tong is too gentle. She should just cuss her out!”

“Don’t. She’ll just get maliciously edited and posted online, and then she’ll be cursed out again. If she curses too much, she might even get fined.”

“The person above is right. Tong Yi’s approach of reasoning with her is the right one.”

“I just hope she doesn’t get cursed out later…”

After Tong Yi finished speaking, the small microphone icon next to Yuan’s avatar flickered, and some rustling static sounds came through. After a while, a sweet, soft female voice rang out: “I’m so sorry, sister, I didn’t mean it…”

At this, not only was Tong Yi stunned, but even the live stream chat was silent for several seconds, as if it had fallen into a state of disbelief.

“?????????”

“What? It’s a girl??”

“Alright, I declare that she couldn’t have done it on purpose!”

“I admit that I was a little loud just now. How can a girl with such a sweet voice be a hater?”

“Yeah, I thought it was some stupid guy too.”

“I’m sorry, sister. A child was bothering me while I was playing. I’m not a hater,” Song Jinyuan explained again.

Then, a rustling sound came from her end, and then Song Jinyuan’s voice was heard: “Sister, if you don’t believe me, listen… hurry up, apologize!”

A little boy’s crying voice was heard: “Wuwuwu, I’m sorry, sis, I’ll never cause trouble again, wuwuwu…”

“No way, I thought it was just an excuse for being bad. There’s really a kid there.”

“Good discipline. If someone bothered me like that while I was playing, I would have been furious.”

“My frustration just vanished.”

Tong Yi clicked on Song Jinyuan’s avatar and saw a simple drawing of a rabbit eating a strawberry, with the overall avatar being pink. But Tong Yi hadn’t noticed the other player’s avatar at all.