Chen Ye takes over an amateur team in a run-down urban village, saddled with 100,000 yuan in debt and just eight underfed teenage boys.
Everyone laughs at him, waiting to watch him starve on the street.
Then he binds to the Football Prodigy Development System.
From the start, within a one-kilometer radius, he can see every person’s football talent and hidden loyalty above their head.
When he hands a bowl of beef noodles topped with an egg to the apprentice in the alley behind a barbecue stall, who is choking on chili powder and in tears
The System announces: [High-potential player detected. Loyalty potential: 89 (Extremely High)]
From that moment, he sets out on a completely different path to greatness.
From golden ankles in the alley behind a barbecue stall to a rebellious lone wolf in the shantytown; from natural ball control beside a garbage heap to a sprinting monster in the slums…
He signs one forgotten prodigy after another with the cheapest contracts.
With the harshest training, he hones them into the most loyal blades.
When the great clubs wave checks worth tens of millions, they despair at discovering that the rising stars they covet have already tattooed the emblem of “Awakening” on their chests.
When a reporter asks the mysterious chairman of a rising Champions League powerhouse how he built this football empire,
Chen Ye, now gray-haired, looks at the brilliant stars on the field, the players he once picked up from the dust, and simply smiles.
“It all began on that shabby pitch in the urban village.”
“And all I did was give those dying sparks a chance to burn.”
