In the sea of stars in e-sports, 18-year-old Lin Ran is like a meteor locked by fate. When he scored five kills using a hot mechanical keyboard in a smoky Internet cafe, the bloodshot eyes in front of the screen burned with the persistence of a lone wolf. From the Internet cafe game to the cold iron bed in the youth training camp, from the bench of the second team to the spotlight of the global finals, this thorny road is paved with broken keyboard keycaps and self-esteem crushed to dust. When hand injuries are like poisonous snakes gnawing at nerves, when teammates' sneers pierce eardrums, when millions of taunting barrages turn into torrential rain, Lin Ran will always touch the flame tattoo on his left wrist when he is licking his wounds alone in the training room late at night - it is the oath he burned on his skin with a lighter. Three years of dormancy, 762 qualifying games, and 49 tactical reviews, until the golden rain poured down from the Seoul Dome Stadium. The man once known as the "Internet Addicted Boy" stood on the ruins and touched his Summoner's Cup with his blood-stained fingertips.
