I Play a Healer

In Rongcheng, within a bachelor's apartment.

The room was a mess, with dirty clothes and trash everywhere, and leftover instant noodles by the computer desk.

Zhao Yu, slumped over the computer desk, swayed his groggy head and forced his eyes open.

The first thing he saw was an unfamiliar room. The smell of sweat mixed with instant noodles made him frown involuntarily.

"Where... am I?"

Before he could recall anything, memories flooded his mind.

"Did I transmigrate?" Zhao Yu's pupils dilated as unfamiliar memories surfaced.

This body was also named Zhao Yu. His appearance, family, and even the first half of his life were identical to his own, as if he were a parallel version of himself.

The only difference was that this Zhao Yu wasn't a 27-year-old corporate slave, but a recent university graduate.

"Graduated from Rongcheng University of Science and Technology too? Could this really be a second chance given by the heavens?" Zhao Yu muttered to himself.

But this second chance didn't start off great...

According to his residual memories, the previous owner had no intention of becoming a corporate slave after graduation and planned to become a freelancer.

However, he failed as both an UP Master and a full-time writer. Now, he was a game streamer who played all sorts of games.

It was a pity that his gaming skills and eloquence were too poor, resulting in little entertainment value for his streams. His audience wasn't large, and his streaming income was barely enough to make ends meet.

Recently, due to the extremely low viewership, he had streamed for three days and three nights straight. He planned to use this as a gimmick, focusing on an "all-nighter" strategy.

The result was that he couldn't hold on any longer, which led to the Zhao Yu from another world transmigrating over.

"This stubbornness is just like mine, but his brain isn't quite as sharp," Zhao Yu quipped. After stretching his body, he stood up from the chair.

"I should clean up the room first. I don't know how he tolerated this smell." Glancing around the room, Zhao Yu found the messy scene unbearable.

It took him half an hour to finally clean up the chaotic room.

He skillfully pulled out his phone and opened his payment app. Looking at the three-digit balance, Zhao Yu felt a headache coming on.

"This money isn't even enough to pay next month's rent. It's also too late to find a job..."

More than half of the month had already passed. Even if he found a job now, his salary might not be enough to cover the rent.

Zhao Yu also didn't want to bother his mother with these matters. After all, he was an adult and needed to be self-reliant.

So... there was only one answer. Zhao Yu's gaze fell upon the black screen of his computer.

It was 2018, a time when live streaming was booming. As a person from the future world of 2024, it should be easy to get a piece of the pie.

He skillfully turned on the computer and logged into the streaming software. Zhao Yu then began to ponder what game to stream today.

What had the most popularity? It had to be League of Legends, right? After all, this year was the LPL's first championship...

Excellent, that's the one! Coming back to his senses, Zhao Yu cleared his throat and began to interact with his viewers.

"Ahem, can you hear me?"

[Damn! Is the streamer really a workhorse? Streaming for three days and resting for half a day, and starting again?]

[Tears, I usually watch the streamer's broadcasts to fall asleep. I just woke up and the streamer is already live again?]

[Is the charity streamer starting again? I lost all my happy beans on three accounts playing Fight the Landlord yesterday. I've never seen someone so bad.]

"I can't help it, streamers have to live..." Zhao Yu shrugged.

"I'm so poor right now that I have to pay for hemorrhoid surgery in three installments. What else can I do if I don't stream?"

[??? What kind of suggestive talk is that?]

[Hahahaha, damn, did the streamer switch? Why is he suddenly so humorous?]

Glancing at the comments, Zhao Yu continued, "No, I didn't switch. I just feel like we're all brothers, so there's no need to be so reserved."

[That's true. We're all buddies, so can you promise me you won't get it removed? I like it with texture.]

[Why are there homos here too? (Mind blown)]

"Ahem, ahem, we'll talk about this in detail after the stream, okay? As long as the money is enough, the streamer can do it on stream, or even in the heavens..." Zhao Yu was about to say something cheeky, but he immediately restrained himself when he saw the supervisor enter.

"To celebrate IG's championship, I'll just stream a bit of League of Legends today."

[Tell us more about the heavens!]

[Real gay streamer, huh?]

[Interesting, followed...]

[Speaking of which, I've never actually seen the streamer play League before. Is he as bad as he is at Fight the Landlord?]

At this moment, an old fan who frequently watched Zhao Yu's streams spoke up. After all, Zhao Yu had been playing Fight the Landlord and some single-player games recently. Suddenly switching to League of Legends would naturally make people suspicious.

"The reason I haven't streamed it is because League of Legends is my hidden trump card. If IG hadn't won the championship, I wouldn't have shown it to you all. Watch carefully, learn well, I'll give you a lesson today." Zhao Yu smiled.

Although he hadn't played League in a long time, he had reached Master tier before. Coupled with some unconventional strategies from his past life that hadn't been developed yet, creating some stream highlights would be easy.

[He's just riding the hype train again. Why haven't I seen so many people streaming League of Legends before the championship?]

[Waiting for the streamer to get stomped.]

[Anyone can stream League of Legends now, huh?]

Zhao Yu didn't respond to the questioning comments that suddenly appeared. Instead, he logged into his League of Legends account. Only when the words "Challenger Master" showed up did the comments finally stop.

[No way? You actually know how to play?]

[With that skill, why aren't you streaming League for us instead of Fight the Landlord?]

Zhao Yu couldn't understand why his previous self had chosen to stream PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds and other mini-games instead of League of Legends.

He could only attribute it to the fact that before IG's championship, League of Legends wasn't as popular as PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds.

But things were different now. Zhao Yu, who had traveled from 2024, knew very well that League of Legends would experience a resurgence in the coming period.

"Just playing like this doesn't seem very interesting. Why don't we find a girl to play with?" After a moment of thought, Zhao Yu opened the companion player software.

He didn't know who started it, but getting a companion player at this time certainly created more engaging content and boosted popularity.

A companion player wasn't expensive per game. To really make his viewers spend their virtual gold, Zhao Yu decided to give it a try.

[Oh! There's a girl? Then I have to watch...]

[Hurry up! If you say that, I'm not sleepy anymore.]

Seeing the comments increase, Zhao Yu sighed inwardly, thinking, As expected of the degenerates.

Coincidentally, I am one too... so it's fine.

Zhao Yu quickly selected a companion player whose photo showed a woman with a great figure and black stockings. He then started a voice call with her and entered matchmaking.

"Master, what should we play?" The girl's sweet voice echoed in the stream.

"Hmm... let me think..." This game, he was playing the marksman role. As Zhao Yu spoke, he randomly selected a hero.

"How about you play Healer and I'll play Ashe?"

"Okay, you Ashe, I'll be Healer." The girl nodded and instantly picked Healer.

"Love." Zhao Yu's expression was calm. After a moment of silence, he replied with a single word.

[????]

[?????]

Nothing but question marks filled the entire stream at that moment.