Xiao Chen (ID: Lion), a grassroots player from the ice city of Harbin, embarks on a thorny road with an e-sports dream. From the difficult start of the makeshift OV team to joining PET Gaming, which was also not optimistic, he and a group of like-minded partners burned their youth in a corner that no one was optimistic about.
In the midsummer of 2024, they miraculously won the CS2 "Obsidian Cup" championship, and the PET team logo symbolizing the North Star shined in the Asian competition. At that moment, the world seemed at your fingertips. Xiao Chen and his teammates believe that this is just the starting point for reaching the top of the world.
However, the glory is short-lived. The professional league (ECL) is far more cruel than imagined, with limited capital, gaps in strength, and internal cracks following one after another. The afterglow of the championship quickly extinguished, and the team completely collapsed in continuous defeats, being demoted, disbanded, and abandoned. The dream partners who once fought side by side have become separated, and even childhood sweethearts are drifting apart due to different paths ahead.
In just one year, Xiao Chen fell from the championship podium to the ruins of the empty training room. The North Star has fallen, and the road to the world stage has been completely cut off. What is left is only the endless chill, the nightmare that cannot be woken up, and the sad monologue of an e-sports boy who went from passionate to cold and empty.
This is an e-sports tragedy that sings about the short-lived glory and cruel reality.
