Love stories love stories originating from games have never been rare. However, whether these relationships have a happy ending is a completely different matter. It is already difficult to meet in the hustle and bustle of life, let alone in a virtual world with equally virtual people. The girl in this story, despite being a “real person with real feelings”, ended up facing a bitter ending.
The story begins with this girl being a player of Honor of Kings in China, similar to Arena of Valor, this game has a lot of many young gamers… pros and a significant number of child players. Pairing up to climb ranks and feeling compatible before progressing to become “virtual lovers” is quite common in this game. This beautiful female gamer fell in love with a “pro” in Honor of Kings for a full year without knowing what he looked like, and when she finally discovered, it turned out the boy was only 8 years old.
Gamers in Honor of Kings can easily be “attracted” by the ability to play as well as the colorful skins, very similar to Arena of Valor in Vietnam. Therefore, this 22-year-old girl was captivated by a talented male gamer with impressive rank climbing skills. After a few conversations, the two took it further than just being strangers.
However, throughout a year of “dating” and gaming together, the girl never got to see the boy’s face and vice versa. After many times of pressing for answers, the 8-year-old gamer finally confessed that he was still young. In her mind, she thought that “young” here didn’t mean too much, so the girl told her real age thinking her “boyfriend” was around 17 or 18, then sent him two selfies.
The result was the young gamer “ran away” and honestly admitted that he was only 8 years old. The girl was shocked as she never imagined she would find herself in such an unfortunate situation. Thankfully, everything ended here and did not escalate further.
The above story serves as a lesson for gamers that one should not trust virtual love stories online. Because in the virtual space, an “8-year-old hot boy” can claim to be mature without anyone being able to verify. The beautiful girl mentioned is just one of many cases of being “duped” by being too trusting in the online space.