Chen Yufeng is an ordinary college student from a small town. With his ultimate talent for the MOBA game "Apex Showdown", he gave up a stable internship opportunity and joined a little-known start-up e-sports team. He thought this was a pure land for chasing dreams, but he soon discovered that the e-sports circle was far from pure as he imagined - club owners replaced core players at will to raise funds, coaches deliberately created "scripted games" for traffic, and connections forcibly placed by the management occupied the main positions. Even training equipment and basic salary had to be filled by players' live broadcasts.
He witnessed with his own eyes his teammates being frozen out for refusing to fight match-fixing, former e-sports idols giving up their competitive bottom line for commercial endorsements, and pure teamwork being torn to pieces by capital operations. In an industry ecosystem where traffic is paramount and profit comes first, Chen Yufeng must not only maintain his original intention of competing, but also face the pressure of survival and fight against the unspoken rules that erode the spirit of e-sports. From the quarrels in the training room to the behind-the-scenes operations on the field, from the disintegration of his teammates to his own struggle to persevere, between reality and dreams, he tried to tear apart the net woven by capital and find a way to survive for ordinary e-sports people.
