"A Crown as a Sacrifice"
Wuxue 2002, Wuxue, Hubei.
Song Bolin touched the mouse for the first time when he was seven years old. His grandfather patted his head and said, "If you win, you will eat."
For twelve years, his grandfather was his only audience and the only auditorium.
On May 17, 2020, 21 days before the college entrance examination, my grandfather sat on a wicker chair and left, but he was kept secret until the end of the college entrance examination. Those 21 days became Song Bolin's lifelong debt.
He withdrew his college admission letter, carried his grandfather's military coat and a seven-year-old G1, and fought all the way from Wuxue Internet Cafe to LPL and then to the World Championship.
He was surrounded, ridiculed, and pushed down by T1 before the finals for three consecutive years.
But every time he wanted to give up, his grandfather's words sounded in his headphones:
"My grandson is happiest when he is playing games."
So he continued to fight.
Until the 2023 Seoul Finals, at the end of the decisive game, he stopped Faker's Azir with a reverse arrow, and the crystal exploded.
At that moment, he held the trophy and cried until he was shaking, and said to the world:
"Grandpa, I won."
This is a story about a belated farewell.
The boy spent ten years burning a world championship trophy into paper to commemorate the "I'm back" that he couldn't say in those 21 days.
