Love and eSports

Prologue

Author's Notes: I've been watching too many eSports shows lately so blame that. Since I am unable to play Chinese Ghost Story due to my reading of Chinese is less than a preschooler so I am going to pull various styles of gameplay from games that I have played that have PVP features and team battles. I know from what I have seen that the Chinese Ghost Story most likely does not have a PVP game play like it is in normal professional tournament games but work with me here. Also while I wont be fully going through step by step canon before they actually meet face to face what is going on in-game canon is going to be untouched for the most part of that time. I am just skimming through it because I want to focus on the changes in canon instead.

As always, I own nothing. 

When Weiwei got a friend request from the top player on the server that she was on she nearly had a minor stroke. Why would Yixiao Naihe, the number one player on the server, send her a friend request? Sure she was in the top ten leader board for PVP and had a modest following of people on her streaming account. But this was Yixiao Naihe, player extraordinaire, and rumors had been saying that he might just have a hand in creating the new professional league that is going to debut later this year but that had yet to be confirmed. Simply rumors at this point. Just as soon as she clicked on the approval option a chat bubble came up from Yixiao Naihe commenting on the wedding caravan that just passed. She figured that he like most other people might like to gossip and who was she to not fill his need for it. She replied that it was grand. What she did not expect was what she read next.

"Would you like one even grander?" the chat prompt said.

The friend request must not have given her a stroke; it must have killed her and now she was on her journey to the afterlife. This couldn't be happening. Once she pinched her cheek to make sure that she was still alive she replied by asking if his account had been hacked. He replied that there was a couples championship coming up and that she was the only female within the top ten PVP players. Weiwei toggled to pull up the game's forum and right there on top was the announcement for the Spring couples' contest. She took a few moments to glance at the rules and was rather surprised that the only rule was that the couple had to be married in-game. It was odd and she had to wonder if there was something more to the contest and wasn't being said. Weiwei flipped back to the game and agreed to Yixiao Naihe's request. She tried to get him to just go to the Marriage Temple right away without the prompt circumstance but her now in-game fiance refused and requested three days so their characters could be wed on an auspicious day. Shaking her head, Weiwei agreed and traded contact information on Wechat before logging off for the night.

The next morning Weiwei took a glance at her Wechat page and noticed that Yixiao Naihe sent her a few messages asking her things like if she played any other classes than Swordsmen. She replied that while she can play all classes but the alchemist, painter, and shadow spirit were her weakest classes. He asked what were her preferred placement within group battles. She replied she preferred to be either the dps or the tank. She admitted she was not great in the support role, preferring to be the one doing the damage versus the one watching people's health bars. It was as if he was trying to figure out what her style of playing was. She shrugged it off and figured he was asking so he would know how to be a better partner in the couple battles. She was tempted to just give him her streaming handle but figured that he most likely already had it and continued on with her day to day life being a student.

As time went by after their grand wedding caravan Weiwei was almost giddy whenever she was able to play with her online husband.While his gestures were not romantic in ways that people normally thought of like showering her with costly gifts or beating a boss for her; instead he did little things like taking her to areas of the game that had beautiful scenery so she would have something pretty to look at while she was gathering herbs or sitting and playing guzheng while she was crafting potions so she would have pleasant music to listen to as she performed the tedious task of making high level potions. His little gestures truly were touching her heart.