My Infinite Regressions Exist Only to End Messi’s Era

When modern football fan Lin Feng is reborn as Real Madrid's general manager in 2003, he carries one wild obsession: preventing Messi from winning a single trophy with Barcelona. But fate imposes a cruel rule: if Messi lifts a major trophy such as La Liga, the Champions League, or the Copa del Rey, time resets, and Lin Feng returns to the beginning, forced to start all over again.

From then on, Lin Feng is trapped in an endless struggle against Messi and Barcelona's “Dream Team” dynasty. He snatches away Xavi's backup, sabotages Iniesta's contract renewal, and locks down Alves with a sky-high release clause. He overrules everyone to bring in Mourinho, builds the “Ceremonial Midfield” ahead of schedule, and sets Ronaldo and Kaka's attack roaring ten years early. He predicts the referees' leanings in every crucial match and even sets off a storm in the transfer market, all to make Barcelona's tiki-taka system impossible to execute.

With every loop, his memories are both his weapon and his prison. Watching Messi's eyes grow colder with each defeat, and Real Madrid transform from the “Galacticos” into an invincible force, Lin Feng begins to wonder: is this campaign spanning more than a decade meant to rewrite history, or prove that some kinds of greatness should never be defined by wins and losses? And when the final loop arrives, will the trophies lining Real Madrid's walls be all he holds, or will he have reshaped the future of football itself?