The game started, and Mu Wan, playing as an archer, Xiao Yu(a character in the game and Mu Wan’s character), moved to the bottom lane. She had just begun farming when she noticed the enemy jungler and support both targeting her.

Mu Wan: “??”

Twice, she barely escaped to the tower with low health, completely baffled. Is it really necessary for your jungler to camp in the bushes by the bottom lane instead of playing the game properly?

“Wan-jie, the enemy jungler and support are professional players. Stay cautious,” O Lan advised.

Mu Wan, standing under the tower, suspiciously aimed an arrow at the bush. Sure enough, two enemy heroes were hiding there perfectly still. Frustrated, she typed:

[Team Chat: Xiao Yu:] Are you two okay? Is my life so important to you?

[Enemy Team: Jing Ke]: Not really, we just wanted to see something.

[Team Chat: Xiao Yu]: See what?

[Enemy Team: Ah Fei]: To see Jianjia CP.

Mu Wan: “…”

That’s it. I’ve had enough!

She grabbed the health pack that had just respawned by the tower and coordinated with her teammates in the voice chat. Within moments, four reinforcements charged out of the jungle behind Jing Ke and Ah Fei.

O Lan shouted, “Engage! Take them down!”

The screen lit up with flashes of swords and abilities, and after a flurry of battle, the enemy Jing Ke and Ah Fei lay defeated. Mu Wan gleefully hopped around their corpses.

[Live Chat Reactions]:
– “HAHAHAHA, who can understand the joy on my three screens right now? Yu Tai and Wei Hong must be losing it.”
– “What a play! They got cocky and ended up losing everything.”
– “I’m dead laughing—Wan didn’t fall for the provocation. Instead, she delayed them by typing while secretly calling in reinforcements, taking down two pro players! The lucky viewers who queued with them must be thrilled!”
– “I need a teammate as calm as Wan.”

In the professional players’ own livestreams—whose viewer counts far surpassed O Lan’s—viewers quickly flooded in after learning what had happened.

– “I’m crying from laughter. Watching four players jump out of the bushes was hilarious.”
– “I screenshot their shocked expressions. It’s golden.”

Someone shared the screenshots, showing the stunned faces of the two pro players. Mu Wan couldn’t help but laugh out loud.

However, professional players are no pushovers. Once Wei Hong and Yu Tai got serious, Mu Wan and O Lan, as amateurs, didn’t stand a chance. Their team was soon wiped out.

As the game ended and their crystal was destroyed, Mu Wan and O Lan found themselves matched with other professional players in subsequent games. Strangely, these pros all seemed unusually focused on Mu Wan.

Some would spare her when she was low on health, while others would chase her down even if they were on the brink of death themselves.

Gradually, Mu Wan realized the truth. They must know that Su You is Kuang Ye!

Frustrated, she sent her ten-game losing streak record to Kuang Ye.

Kuang Ye: “???”

He immediately shared the screenshot in the professional players’ group chat, tagging several accounts that matched the names from her match history.

[Kuang Ye]: “Shame on you all. Can’t beat me, so you bully my family? If you’re so tough, solo me one-on-one. I’ll make you call me dad!”

[Player 1]: “Pure coincidence. Totally unintentional.”
[Player 2]: “Wait, Wild God’s girlfriend is playing ranked? I’m queuing now!”
[Player 3]: “Thanks for the reminder.”

Kuang Ye: I’ve made a mistake.

That afternoon, the in-game canyon^[1]In League of Legends, Canyon is a player who has reached many milestones turned into a battlefield of blood and chaos. What should have been casual matches among random players started looking like an online version of the LPL Fall Season Tournament.

Interestingly, since matchmaking sometimes placed professional players on Mu Wan and O Lan’s team after their losing streak, the duo ended up gaining quite a few points in later matches.

Fans watching all this unfold began piecing things together from the professionals’ behavior.

[Fans]:
– “Why do all the pro players know who Wan is? It can’t just be because they all ship Jianjia CP, right?”

[WF’s Yu Tai accidentally revealed during his livestream that when Mu Wan, playing Little Egg, passed him with barely any health, he didn’t kill her. A viewer mocked him for being blind, and he explained, “If I killed her, her boyfriend would hunt me down in the canyon.”]

[Viewer 1]: “So, who is Wan’s boyfriend?”
[Viewer 2]: “He’s a mysterious jungler named Su You. We only know he’s skilled and only queues with Wan.”
[Viewer 3]: “I have a theory: could Su You be a pro player’s smurf account?”
[Viewer 4]: “That’s highly likely. But the real question is, what kind of pro player’s girlfriend could prompt the entire pro scene to log in?”
[Viewer 5]: “…I have another theory… Su You = Wild God. Isn’t the ST team part of Su You Tech’s club?”
[Viewer 6]: “Holy crap, you cracked it!”

The chat exploded in excitement. Kuang Ye, known as Wild God in the esports scene, had always maintained a low profile—no livestreams, no advertisements, and rare public appearances outside of tournaments.

[Fan 1]: “I once queued with Wild God in a game!”
[Fan 2]: “AAAAAH, Wild God is in a relationship! I don’t approve! La-la-la, I’m not listening!”
[Fan 3]: “These are just baseless guesses. One Su You ID doesn’t prove anything. Could just be a Kuang Ye fan pretending to be him.”
[Fan 4]: “No wonder they lost the recent match! It’s because Kuang Ye was distracted by dating! Sweetly duo-queuing with his girlfriend every day must have tanked his skills.”

As with any fandom, there were both fans and haters. Being a seasoned pro, Kuang Ye had accumulated his share of critics. In esports, “being bad” is considered an unforgivable sin. The ST team’s recent loss was dredged up and scrutinized endlessly by netizens.

[Fan 5]: “The streamer is so lucky, gaining tens of thousands of followers in one day. If nothing goes wrong, he could easily become a top-tier streamer!”
[Fan 6]: “Don’t count on it. Didn’t you see the posts on Weibo? Someone exposed this streamer for being abusive—cheating, abandoning his ex-girlfriend, and even beating her so badly she couldn’t have children. Total scum!”
[Fan 7]: “Haters, get lost! The Weibo post only said it was a streamer. There’s no proof it’s O Lan!”
[Fan 8]: “Eighteen years old, started as a small-time streamer, suddenly blew up after associating with a rich woman. Doesn’t that seem obvious?”
[Chat Moderator]: “Kicking trolls!”

Mu Wan had her tablet open, using a small account to monitor the livestream chat. When she saw these comments, she quickly took screenshots. She decided to investigate the situation further.

After logging out of the game, she unexpectedly received a WeChat transfer of 11,100 yuan.