Lin Yi, the KPL’s top jungler, is a force to be reckoned with on the field, but in private he’s a wealthy second-generation heir who has shut himself off from others under the pressure of his family. After a loss, he logs into an alternate account to clear his head and is matched in a ranked game with a support player whose ID is “Zhaozhao Riyue.”
She is Lu Zhao, a third-year finance student who plays for fun. Yet with her remarkable understanding of the big picture and her belief that “the purpose of support is to help others shine,” she repeatedly shields him from deadly blows with her wholehearted trust. Across their screens, two lonely souls quietly grow closer through the game.
He teaches her pro-level strategies, and she helps him rediscover the joy he once found in gaming. He doesn’t know she’s a hidden genius who has studied all of his match footage, and she doesn’t know that her taciturn online “office worker” is the very person on her roommate’s phone wallpaper.
Then, at an offline exhibition match, he stands beneath the spotlight and says, “I want someone to see me at my best,” while she sits in the audience. As their understanding in the virtual world carries over into reality, can a romance that began in the Rift help a lost star jungler find his way again, while giving an ordinary girl the courage to shine?
This is the story of two lonely champions saving each other, and of a tender battle where reality and ideals intertwine. When the truth behind their game IDs comes to light, the paths they choose will finally meet in the real world, and shine as one.
