So What If My Knees Are Shattered? The National Championship Is Mine

The gym at Lanchuan No. 1 High School always comes alive promptly at 5:30 p.m.

The slightly worn floor steams with the smell of sweat and disinfectant, while the bleachers hum faintly beneath the vibrations of footsteps.

On the registration sheet hanging by the gym entrance, the field for the boys' basketball team bears a conspicuous red character: “None.”

Last year, this basketball team didn't even exist. But under the captain Li Maoyang's patchwork efforts, it has somehow become a proper team, little by little.

A runaway from the strongest middle school, a captain willing to ruin his own future, a center from a seaside town, a manga geek with no foundation at all...

Eight months, starting from zero, with their sights set on the top of the country.

Can these ten boys, thrown together in a rush just two months ago, each with a wildly different personality, create an underdog miracle in the history of the national tournament?

The stopwatch keeps ticking,

while everyone waits for...

the clear, sea-breeze-like sound

of the ball swishing through the net beneath a blue-green sky.