Lu Xuxing was an eighteen-year-old prodigy who rose to fame on the clay courts of Roland-Garros. After five years in a slump, he fell out of the top fifty in men’s tennis and became known as “the fallen clay-court prodigy.”
Chu Mu is a planner at a second-rate game company who made a name for himself with a hit rolling-stone game. He has another identity, too: the well-known League of Legends streamer RGace, whose Riven soars through the Rift.
One day, Lu Xuxing watched his partner for a celebrity exhibition match happily swiping away on his phone. Unable to resist, he leaned closer to take a look.
When he saw the screen displayed the rock-pushing game that had swept the internet two years earlier, Lu Xuxing blurted out what he was really thinking: “Damn, Mumu, how did you beat this inhuman game?!”
The designer of the “inhuman” game stopped what he was doing and slowly looked up, giving his boyfriend a complicated look.
That’s right. The young man before him could never have imagined that the maps and stones on that screen would accompany him for hundreds of days and nights on the clay courts of Roland-Garros.
Until that star shone over the court once more,
Until his name was engraved on the Musketeers’ Cup again.
Hand in hand, Xuxing,
Let’s wait for dawn and dusk.
