Volume 1 Chapter 26
by Need_More_SleepVolume 1 + Chapter 26: No Title
To grow her popularity more quickly, and with the steady stream of tips she had been receiving, Shuo Yan decided, for once, to splurge a little. She bought a name-change card and altered her username to include the name of the streaming platform along with her own channel ID.
Combined, it became [Mengya Nuoyan].
Mengya Live is currently a very popular streaming platform, widely recognized and home to many top-tier streamers. “Nuoyan” was the ID her boss used on Mengya Live.
After changing her name, whenever she queued for ranked matches, others could immediately tell she was a streamer. Curious players would often go search for her on Mengya Live and maybe drop a follow.
Sure enough, after the name change, every time she entered a game, her teammates would interact with her. Once they crushed their opponents, sometimes even the enemy players would grumble a bit and say they’d stop by her stream, maybe even as “haters” just to hang out.
However, by the seventh match, they seemed to run into a highly skilled smurf. He was the opposing mid laner, playing Zed, the Master of Shadows. He utterly demolished their mid-lane Viktor, constantly solo-killing him, even diving towers for kills.
After the mid laner had been killed several times, Shuo Yan gradually sensed that something was off about this match.
With multiple solo kills and turret plating gold, Zed’s items came online far too quickly. On top of that, Zed himself was an assassin, and in this patch, an assassin with a massive item lead could instantly kill anyone on sight. Anyone on their team who entered Zed’s range was practically guaranteed to die.
Even Shuo Yan’s Nidalee was killed several times by Zed in the jungle. Nidalee was simply too fragile, there was nothing she could do against such a hard counter.
But Shuo Yan did not give up. She believed their team composition was strong in team fights. As long as they grouped up and claimed Zed’s bounty, a comeback was still possible.
Their mid laner Viktor, surprisingly, maintained a very stable mindset. Even after being solo-killed multiple times and flamed relentlessly by teammates, he continued to play properly and participate in team fights.
A teammate like that was worthy of respect. After all, there was nothing you could do when facing a smurf far above your level in lane.
As the game entered mid-phase, things unfolded just as Shuo Yan had predicted. The overfed Zed grew arrogant, diving in with his ultimate whenever he saw someone. But their team was now grouped together, if he dared to engage, they could burst him down instantly. Even if they lost one teammate, trading for his bounty was well worth it.
By the time Zed realized he could no longer win team fights against them, it was already too late. After a decisive exchange where they traded two for five, they secured Baron and pushed straight through the base to win the game.
After the match ended, Shuo Yan finally relaxed from her tense state. To encounter such a formidable opponent in a mere Platinum-ranked game, she had nearly thrown the match. Fortunately, her teammates had maintained good mental composure and never gave up easily.
She exited the results screen and noticed a friend request, it was from the enemy mid-lane smurf from the previous match.
After thinking it over, Shuo Yan accepted the request. After all, he was quite a skilled player.
Not long after adding him, he immediately sent a message.
[The chat says you’re a female streamer on Mengya, want to play together? I’m also a streamer there. My channel ID is ShadowFlow Miao.]
Realizing he was a streamer on the same platform, Shuo Yan found it quite a coincidence and was inclined to agree. However, they were currently playing solo/duo ranked, which couldn’t accommodate three players, only a flexible queue would work. So she typed back:
[There’s another girl on my side. We can’t add you in solo/duo, let’s play flex queue instead.]
[Hehe, another girl? Invite me in.]
With a soft thunk, a player with the ID “Mengya ShadowFlow Miao” joined the lobby and activated voice chat.
A slightly magnetic young male voice sounded: “Hello, ladies, good afternoon. That jungler girl from the last game was pretty skilled, turning around a losing match.”
“Your Zed was good too, you practically crushed our mid laner into silence.”
Shuo Yan was naturally outgoing and had no trouble chatting with strangers.
But I felt a bit withdrawn. I didn’t know this person at all and had no idea what to say. Besides, I wasn’t particularly interested in him.
“Your voice is so cute, little sis. Are you even an adult?”
“Just call me Nuoyan. And… my voice only sounds young, my age might be about the same as yours.”
“Haha, Nuoyan, you sure know how to joke. And the other girl, you were the support from the last match, right? Your Yuumi was pretty good, sticking close the whole time.”
The way he kept calling us “little sisters” made me uncomfortable, so I only responded briefly, “Mm, hello.”
Unexpectedly, after hearing my voice, he teased, “This support girl sounds even more like a loli. Nuoyan, did you bring a kid from home to play?”
Hearing that, whatever little goodwill I had toward him instantly dropped to rock bottom, straight into the negatives.
I didn’t even want to respond to him anymore.
Although Shuo Yan also felt somewhat uncomfortable, this was still a livestream, so she maintained her composure and kept the atmosphere lively. “Of course not. My friend is the same age as me. Honestly, you’re the one who sounds a bit like a creepy uncle, should I call the police?”
“Hehe, no need for that. I’m a decent guy. Come on, girls, let’s start, I’ll carry you to victory.”
They clicked to start the game. While waiting in the queue, ShadowFlow Miao kept striking up conversations, asking questions like he was conducting a background check, where are you from, how old are you, where do you work…
In short, it was extremely annoying. As expected, men really could be such pests, even girls who sounded this young weren’t spared from being flirted with.
Shuo Yan, however, had a good temper and responded patiently to each question.
As for me, I only spoke with Shuo Yan. Whenever ShadowFlow Miao tried to talk to me, I simply ignored him completely.
That said, ShadowFlow Miao was a somewhat well-known streamer. When he joined the lobby, Shuo Yan’s stream suddenly gained a surge in popularity. Most of them were viewers from his channel, some rather lecherous ones, who, upon discovering two cute girls, immediately migrated over to Shuo Yan’s stream.
Along with them came a wave of bizarre chat messages, such as…
[Ah, I’m dying from this cuteness!]
[I want to hear the streamer scold me!]
[Can you call me “Onii-chan”? I’ll send a rocket gift!]
[Can you step on me?]
As expected, perverts really are everywhere.
Though, come to think of it, when I was still a boy, I used to do the same, sending teasing messages when I saw cute girls, secretly following them, and so on.
Realizing this, I felt I needed to defend myself a little.
Hmph. I’m a respectable person, what I did couldn’t be called perversion at all. At most… at most, it could only be considered being a gentleman.
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