Introduction
Under the century-old ginkgo tree of Mingde Middle School, football was once the most unfamiliar language to top academics.
Until 2020, a pair of fateful teenagers shattered prejudice——
Chen Xiao, a second-generation rich man's football missed the ball and hit "Yeats' Collected Poems" in the arms of the scholarly girl Shen Shuyi;
Zhang Ningyuan's gentle voice apologizing for his teammates concealed his torn cruciate ligament and unhealed inner demons.
When Lin Hai, the commander-in-chief, returned from Spain, he met Dorje Tsering, the strong guard in Tibetan areas, Wu Yi, the brain of chess, Zhong Zhen, the goalkeeper, and Li Tieshan, the "Wall of Sighs"...
A group of incompatible geniuses and mortals began to march towards the impossible——
