The sound of cuju in Bianjing's imperial palace still echoes in the ears, while on the green fields a thousand years later, a legend of fated reincarnation is unfolding. Gao Qiu, a powerful Northern Song official, once made the emperor laugh with his dazzling Mandarin Duck Hook kick before the Zichen Hall. Yet in the cycle of reincarnation, he fell into poverty among the common folk. When the modern boy Gao Qiu juggles a ball in a run-down alley, he has no idea that the rhythm of his dancing feet is a bond to his past life, etched into his soul.
When this football prodigy from the slums reveals his supernatural “magnetic ball sense” in a street league, the wheels of fate begin to turn. An olive branch from the reincarnation of sports magnate Cai Jing takes Gao Qiu from an open-air pitch straight to a prestigious club. He stuns everyone in the top league with his “Shooting Star Chasing the Moon” shot, but gradually loses himself amid the applause. The cuju master of old now finds himself in league with the likes of Tong Guan and Yang Jian, reincarnated as officials in the football association, expertly wielding modern schemes such as “black-money match-fixing” and “yin-yang contracts.”
Just as football sinks into the mire of power and money, a spark lights up in the depths of the common streets. Programmer Yan Qing, the reincarnation of the free spirit Yan Qing, cracks a mysterious code on a football forum and awakens the supernatural “Eye of Data.” He gathers a team of extraordinary allies: a team doctor descended from Lady Lin, who can read muscle memory, and an heir to a family of referees who can control acoustic resonance. Together, they form the “Cuju 108” League of Justice. They dig into betting data on the dark web and use holographic projections to reconstruct incidents of biased refereeing, fighting a thousand years of corruption with modern technology.
The battle between good and evil across time reaches its climax at the World Cup qualifiers.
Can the spirit of football, nurtured by a thousand years of cuju culture, be reborn in the age of electronic scoreboards? A thrilling battle between good and evil begins.
