Jiangsu Super League: How Did an Amateur Player End Up at Bayern?

Sixteen-year-old Tong Wu from Yancheng has one big dream: to get a little steadier at kicking the peeling soccer ball in the alley beside his family's grocery store. In his teachers' eyes, he is "an average student and a problem kid"; to his mother, he's "a good-for-nothing wild boy." Yet on the Jiangsu City Super League pitch, he makes a name for himself in a pair of Warrior sneakers.

From the bench of Yancheng's amateur team to the podium as a Suchao champion, he carries the beer-scented sweat of his teammates and the coach's hoarse, smoke-roughened shouts with him.

The System he awakens by chance is both a helping hand and a shackle. An Inter Milan jersey carries a heavy burden, and Bayern's midfield demands even more courage. From the alleys of the old city to Munich's Allianz Arena, he measures the distance to his dream with his own feet. When he has three top honors to his name, Tong Wu looks back and seems to see a boy still in that old Yancheng alley, facing a wall and practicing nutmegs again and again.

This is not a myth about a System. It's the story of a Chinese boy on the soccer pitch, using sweat, stubbornness, and passion to kick the "impossible" into the realm of "possible."

This novel and its characters are entirely fictional. Any resemblance is purely coincidental. Do not imitate.