Feng Ling searched for the game website name and opened a long-dormant Flash mini-game collection site.
Flipping through rows upon rows of nostalgic game icons, she finally stopped on a two-player fighting game.
Yes, this one.
Compared to cooperative games that emphasize teamwork and coordination, this kind of one-on-one fighting game best highlights the gap.
There’s no teammate to blame, no random factors to complain about, just pure fighting pleasure.
In this, high proficiency crushes low proficiency, and the strong humiliate the weak.
It perfectly fit Feng Ling’s plan—she had to defeat Lian Ge with sheer domination.
“Then let’s play this. It’s a very simple mini-game.”
Feng Ling casually opened the game, and the character selection screen for two fighters popped up.
Lian Ge had never touched a fighting game like this before; she didn’t even know which buttons to press.
Feng Ling taught her step by step, explaining which key was for attack, which for defense, and which combination of keys could execute a special move.
“You’ve learned, right? Let’s start now.”
Feng Ling was already laughing on the inside.
‘Alright, now come challenge the great Feng Ling, who has over a decade of gaming experience.’
She cracked her knuckles, already prepared to utterly demolish Lian Ge.
Feng Ling picked a few characters she was good at, while Lian Ge, having never played before, naturally chose whatever looked nice.
When both characters entered the battle scene, Feng Ling even took her hands off the keyboard and generously said, “Try out your character’s moves first. I’ll wait right here. Once you feel comfortable, we’ll start the real fight.”
Lian Ge nodded, pressed every available key, tested the effects, and without trying any combos, nodded and said, “Okay, I’m done testing.”
“Great. Then I’ll count down from three, two, one, and we’ll start.”
Feng Ling straightened her back, placed her fingers on her half of the keyboard, and was already feeling impatient.
Feng Ling’s fingers danced smoothly over the keyboard.
Her character dashed forward in a few strides, reached Lian Ge, and executed a combo like a storm, with attacks raining down.
Lian Ge’s character barely blocked the first few hits, but the blocking rhythm clearly couldn’t keep up with the combo’s density, and soon a gap appeared.
Feng Ling followed up with an aerial combo that sent Lian Ge’s character flying into the air.
Lian Ge’s little character flipped up and down in the center of the screen, unable to land.
The HP bar dropped rapidly as the combo count soared, falling from full all the way to the critical red zone.
Fortunately, the game had a hitstun protection mechanism.
When Lian Ge’s HP was almost empty, the system saved her, granting invincibility time that allowed her to retreat to a safe area.
But her HP was already a candle in the wind.
“Feng Ling,” Lian Ge said without any frustration from being beaten, instead speaking as if she’d discovered a new continent.
“I found that after pressing the attack button, there’s a brief moment where you can’t immediately defend.”
“That’s called the recovery delay. All actions have a recovery time; you can’t immediately perform the next action. The counterattack you need to do is strike while the opponent is still in recovery, so they can’t block in time.”
Feng Ling casually explained a bit, then charged in for a few more hits, enjoying the rare opportunity to dominate Lian Ge.
But this time, Lian Ge’s control was clearly different.
She no longer just blocked or blindly counterattacked; instead, she began consciously observing the ending frames of Feng Ling’s combos.
Soon, during a slightly larger gap in Feng Ling’s combo, Lian Ge’s character moved, immediately switching from a defensive stance to an active attack, landing a solid hit on Feng Ling’s character.
“Indeed, you have to hit the opponent during the recovery delay.”
Lian Ge looked at the small chunk shaved off from Feng Ling’s character’s HP bar and nodded.
“What’s this, Lian Ge? You learn pretty fast…”
‘Feng Ling hadn’t expected Lian Ge to learn so quickly, to already be able to graze her… But that made it more interesting. Beating a completely still target wasn’t really satisfying anyway.’
“But from now on, I won’t go easy.”
This time, she played more seriously, deliberately varying her attack rhythm, mixing in feints and cancel techniques.
But Lian Ge’s adaptation speed far exceeded her expectations.
For the last fifth of her HP, she stubbornly held out for a considerable time by relying on precise blocking timing, dodging movements, and opportunistic counterattacks.
Although she ultimately lost under Feng Ling’s constant pressure, the HP Lian Ge had taken off in return was considerable—almost a large chunk of Feng Ling’s total health bar.
Feng Ling felt her palms getting a bit sweaty.
She wiped them on her dress and then glanced at Lian Ge’s state.
Lian Ge, on the other hand, showed no frustration at losing.
She used the break between rounds to start another round of button testing.
Her character jumped and swayed across the screen, movements growing more fluid.
As she tested, Lian Ge nodded and said:
“Feng Ling, I found that dodging can cancel the recovery delay of normal attacks.”
“Feng Ling, I found that pressing the ranged attack button during a dodge can make you stop immediately.”
“Feng Ling, I found that if you time normal attack, dodge, and ranged attack correctly, you can completely eliminate that recovery delay you mentioned.”
“Feng Ling, I found…”
Feng Ling understood what Lian Ge was saying.
Lian Ge’s experimental results had been presented on the screen in the most direct way.
Lian Ge’s character was like a different person.
Its movement trajectory became eerie—one frame it was blocking, the next it was attacking.
This made Lian Ge’s character seem to twitch, and it looked frightening.
Before Feng Ling could react, she found her character locked down by Lian Ge’s bizarre techniques, unable to move no matter what she pressed.
After barely escaping the hitstun through invincibility time, Feng Ling went in again only to be trapped by the same small loop.
She could only watch helplessly as her character fell to the ground with no room to maneuver, unable to get up.
The word “Perfect” flashed on the screen.
Feng Ling had been no-damage speed-cleared by Lian Ge.
The stream was quiet for a moment, then the comments gushed out like a floodgate had been opened.
Without guessing, you knew they were mocking Feng Ling.
But Feng Ling had no mind to read the comments.
She wiped the sweat from her forehead, looked at her palm… it was just sweat.
She coughed dryly to save face and said, “Lian Ge, what you’re using is considered a bug. Normally, us high-level players shouldn’t use it because it’s too cheap.”
“Oh, okay,” Lian Ge believed her and nodded obediently, then her fingers moved again.
“But I found another new mechanic…”
Feng Ling watched helplessly as Lian Ge reimplemented the “evil exploit technique” she had just banned, using a different button combination to achieve the same effect.
And this time, Lian Ge’s control was even smoother.
Feng Ling’s character didn’t even move before falling down with an urgh, unable to get up.
Even though Feng Ling promptly added new bans, permanently banning such techniques afterward, Lian Ge improved at a visible rate in every following round.
Even without using her evil repeating technique, Lian Ge could nearly no-damage clear Feng Ling just by exploiting gaps in Feng Ling’s attacks.
Now Feng Ling couldn’t even talk tough anymore.
She could only awkwardly watch as the one being dominated became herself.
It was then that Feng Ling realized that as a Magical Girl, Lian Ge’s dynamic vision and reaction speed were inherently far superior to hers.
Once Lian Ge brought her combat talent as a Magical Girl into the game, playing a fighting game with her was nothing but asking for humiliation.
After being dominated once more, Feng Ling silently closed the fighting game.
“Let’s play something else.”
The comments were in stitches.
The sight of Feng Ling being repeatedly crushed by Lian Ge had brought the stream’s atmosphere to its peak since the start.
The comments scrolled so fast that not a single one could be read clearly.
“I’m dying of laughter. Feng Ling, where’s your confidence from before?”
“Quitting in shame.”
“Feng Ling: ‘I won’t go easy.’ Lian Ge: ‘Who’s going easy?'”
“It’s not our Feng Ling’s fault. Lian Ge is a talent freak.”
Just then, a Super Chat arrived, affirming Feng Ling’s noob status:
“Feng Ling is so bad, getting destroyed by a newbie Lian Ge hahahaha, but I like the noob Feng Ling anyway.”
Feng Ling read the message aloud.
Her expression didn’t change much, but her mouth immediately became stubborn, ready to start the “chat, you do it if you’re so good” routine.
But she quickly realized this was a good opportunity to sell her persona.
Since she had already lost, she might as well reinforce her image as the “unreliable little useless Magical Girl”—she had already established that with Chiyun anyway.
“Because I’m just not very good at it. Lian Ge is too mean and too strong.”
She closed her eyes, shook her head, and put a hint of playful whining into her voice, all while putting on an expression of great grievance.
The comments didn’t continue attacking such a weak streamer.
A series of “Cute,” “Forgiven,” “It’s okay, Feng Ling baby,” reclaimed the screen.
This line was originally just Feng Ling building her persona, but Lian Ge took it seriously and gently comforted Feng Ling instead.
“It’s okay, I won’t look down on you. From now on, whatever game you want to play, I’ll be there with you.”
“N-no, you don’t have to go to such trouble.”
“I’m always free. Don’t worry about bothering me. I’m willing to accept everything about you.”
Lian Ge said quite sincerely.
The comments were full of “???”, “Sweet sweet sweet”, “Shipping it”, “This is clearly a confession”, all seemingly just stirring the pot.
‘But getting this close with Lian Ge is a bit dangerous…’
Feng Ling thought, but couldn’t refuse easily.
The yuri service effect was ridiculously good.
Feng Ling glanced at the stream’s viewer count—it was already a number she couldn’t have imagined.
Earlier, the gift event had only approached the numbers from when she collaborated with Chiyun.
But now, the program effect of her collaboration with Lian Ge had exploded.
The stream attracted a huge crowd of onlookers, and the popularity exploded again.
Popularity, traffic, income—everything she wanted was pouring in like crazy.
And the price was just getting a little closer to Lian Ge.
‘This left Feng Ling’s left and right brains fighting each other. Getting too close with Lian Ge as Feng Ling would easily bring trouble… but what Lian Ge could give was just too much…’
In hesitation, Feng Ling could only say vaguely, “Let’s talk about it next time.”