To earn enough for tuition, Elliot enters a couples’ esports tournament and is forced to team up with the mysterious ace PhoenixKnight as a fake couple. Little does he know that this flirtatious partner, with whom sparks keep flying in the game world, is actually the scheming teaching assistant he can’t stand in real life. Falling hard in the game, clashing fiercely in reality—their feelings gradually heat up across the line between virtual and real, until the truth is finally revealed. Only on the night of the championship does this tangled romance, which has spilled from the game into real life, find its true answer.