I Treat You Like a Brother, and You Treat Me Like a Son?

"Logging off..."

"See you, Brother Qie..."

"Bye, Director Di..."

Shark, FPS section, Liu Peiqie's livestream.

Having just finished grinding ranked points in King of Shooters, Liu Peiqie rolled his shoulders and said goodbye to his five-stack friends.

As one of CrossFire's official streamers, his daily content mainly consisted of King of Shooters ranked matches.

But anyone who often played FPS games knew that performing well in this genre required an extremely high level of concentration.

Generally speaking, being able to maintain one's skill level for three or four hours without slipping was already quite impressive.

So Liu Peiqie's peak streaming time usually only lasted around three hours.

He started streaming at five-thirty in the afternoon and went until around eight-thirty.

After that, he usually browsed for little games to relax with and fill out the rest of his stream.

"Hello? Is anyone still here?"

After saying goodbye to his teammates, Liu Peiqie called out in the voice channel to see whether anyone had stayed behind.

A moment later, a young voice spoke up in the channel.

"I'm here, Brother Qie. Got anything planned?"

The one who answered was Coconut Juice Cake, though everyone was more used to calling him by his old ID, Dong Gua.

He was famous in the FPS community for raging helplessly for ten minutes straight after getting killed, earning himself the nickname Hyperthyroid Warrior.

"Nothing planned. I was thinking, since it's just the two of us, why not find some little co-op game to play?"

Liu Peiqie suggested.

"Sure. Let me know when you find one, Brother Qie. I'm checking out female streamers right now..."

"WDNMD... You really are an animal..."

Liu Peiqie laughed and cursed as he opened the Yiyou Platform.

Meanwhile, the chat was still lively, filled with discussion—

'Brother Qie wants to watch the big show too, but his wife's at home.'

'You really understand the family hierarchy.'

'There haven't been any fun games on Yiyou lately.'

'Didn't Xingmang Games release a co-op versus game recently? I heard the reviews were pretty good.'

'Fantasy Hegemony 2, right? A fighting game. Those good reviews are all botted. It's boring as hell in practice, not even as fun as arcade games.'

'The main thing is, it costs 50 and still has microtransactions. You can imagine what that means.'

'6.'

'My review: it's a cash grab. Run.'

'Brother Qie, aren't you playing Mario Bros.?'

'Did you just get back from Mars, bro? Brother Qie's already smashed three controllers over that game.'

'Hahahahahaha...'

'...'

Liu Peiqie browsed newly released games while reading the chat.

Sure enough, Fantasy Hegemony 2 by Xingmang Games was prominently featured in the top new-game recommendations.

Liu Peiqie shrugged.

He had never been interested in fighting games to begin with, let alone a cash-grab sequel like this.

As for Mario Bros...

His feelings toward that game were complicated.

You could say it was fun, but its design was downright hellish—one pit nested inside another, torturing people until they lost their minds.

But if you said it was no fun, the sense of accomplishment from clearing a level was so addictive that it left you refreshed and wanting more.

After thinking it over, Liu Peiqie asked his stream, "Oh, right—does the company that made Mario Bros. have any other games? What was that company called again?"

The chat quickly gave him an answer.

"Oh, Golden Wind... Found it."

Following the chat's instructions, Liu Peiqie entered the developer's name into the search bar.

Soon, two games popped up on the search page.

The first was Mario Bros., which had tormented him for over a week.

The one below it was a strange game with an incredibly absurd art style.

"Who's Your Daddy? WDNMD, what kind of name is that?"

Liu Peiqie frowned, finding it utterly ridiculous.

Driven by curiosity, he clicked into the page, and the game description appeared—

Who's Your Daddy

Type: Role-playing, online versus, casual puzzle

Description: In this game, you and your friend will play a father and son. The father must do his best to protect his child, while the child... please freely unleash your curiosity and destructive instincts!

Release date: Just released

Price: 5 yuan

"Ehehehehe... What kind of idiotic game is this..."

Looking at that absurd description, Liu Peiqie let out his signature goose laugh and immediately called for Dong Gua.

"Dong Gua! Dong Gua, stop watching! I found something fun!"

The chat burst into laughter—

'Hahahahaha, summoning your good buddy to be your son, huh?'

'Hyperthyroid Warrior: I treat you like a brother, and you treat me like a son?'

'Liu Peiqie: From now on, we'll each call each other whatever we want. I'll call you brother, and you call me Daddy.'

'Damn, hahahahaha, this game is so stupid.'

'An ethics-joke game? Never heard of one before.'

'You can tell it was made by Golden Wind. It has that exact vibe.'

'An absurd company. Absurdity is this company's whole brand.'

'This looks like it'll be great for stream content, okay?'

'...'

Over here, Dong Gua quickly responded to Liu Peiqie's call.

"I'm here, I'm here, I'm here, Brother Qie! What game?"

"Open Yiyou and search for Who's Your Daddy," Liu Peiqie said.

A moment later!

Laughter came from Dong Gua's side as well.

"Hahahaha, damn! Why does this company keep making such fucking weird games? It just came out too. Let's try it!"

With such a bizarre game, and one that was also the latest work from the developers of Mario Bros., the two immediately hit it off and quickly finished downloading it.

When the game screen opened, the pair of father and son characters appeared on the screen, making everyone cry out at how ridiculous it was.

However, a problem soon arose—

"Which one of us is the dad?"

Dong Gua asked.

"It's one-on-one rounds. I'll be the dad for the first round," Liu Peiqie said.

"Fuck, why?"

Dong Gua immediately protested.

"I want to be the dad too!"

Liu Peiqie calmly replied, "My King of Shooters rating is 3800. Come on, compete with me."

Dong Gua fell silent for a moment.

"Dad—dy—!!!"

That single shout nearly made Liu Peiqie lose it.

"WDNMD, you seriously have no shame..."

After assigning their roles for the first round, both of them entered the game.

The game's visuals were not particularly refined.

They could even be called a little rough.

Liu Peiqie looked around and discovered that he was inside a small two-story villa. It seemed this was his home.

The game's UI was also very simple.

In the quest panel at the upper right was his only task: protect the child.

At the upper left was his status bar.

It displayed his HP, fullness, and oxygen.

The game's graphics were somewhat rough and carried a bizarre sort of beauty, but overall, nothing particularly strange seemed to have appeared yet.

However!

Just as Liu Peiqie was still getting familiar with the controls!

Suddenly, a burst of wild laughter rang out in the channel!

"Hahahahahahaha, holy shit! Brother Qie! Brother Qie, come look at me!"

"Huh?"

Liu Peiqie was completely confused.

"Wait, where are you?"

"The nursery! I'm in the nursery on the second floor! You don't even know which room your own big son lives in—what kind of dad are you?"

Dong Gua said in the channel.

"Wait, wait, I'm coming, I'm coming..."

Following Dong Gua's directions, Liu Peiqie made his way to the second floor and found the nursery.

Click.

The door opened.

Inside the warmly decorated pink nursery, a diapered baby was crawling on its knees atop the crib, staring at him with a look of utter resignation.

"..."

After three seconds of silence, Liu Peiqie could not hold it in anymore.

"This is you???"

"That's right!"

As Dong Gua answered, the little baby instantly sprang to its feet like a spring, its art style bizarre beyond words.

With both hands on its hips, wearing an expression of shameless confidence, it stared at Liu Peiqie with vacant eyes.

"Watch closely, Daddy! Your big son's gonna put on a show for you!"

"Ignore!!!"

With Dong Gua's explosive shout!

The baby performed a standing backflip on the spot... then smashed its head into the window and flew out through the second-floor opening along with the shattered glass.

The entire sequence was smooth and fluid.

Liu Peiqie stood stunned for a full five seconds!

Then a scream rang through the livestream—

"Holy shit! Son! Son!!!"

"WDNMD, are you fucking stupid?!"