Eighteen-year-old Su Ran has a secret that cannot be told - he wants to play professionally.
In the eyes of parents, games are poison that can destroy their sons; in his heart, the keyboard and mouse are the tickets to the world. After registering for an international competition without telling his family, he met three equally lonely souls on the late-night voice channel: Lin Yu, who operated the ceiling but was at the bottom of society; Zhao Yang, whose tactical board was full of stars but couldn't find his direction in reality; and Wang Hao, whose hands were faster than his brain and always rushed to the front.
Four teenagers crowded into a leaky old warehouse, using a second-hand computer that took three minutes to start up, and named themselves "Ling Yun".
They fought their way through the ridicule of the Internet cafe game until they met the unavoidable mountain - the "Batian" team. That was a reversal that could be written into textbooks, and it was also the beginning of all nightmares. Betrayal was torn from within, tactics were leaked in advance, the team was defeated miserably in the first round of the international competition, and the word "Ling Yun" became a joke within the circle.
Some say they deserve it, others are waiting to see them disband.
But there are still people in the leaky warehouse who have not left. Su Ran saw herself in the reflection of the broken screen, and also saw three shadows behind her that refused to leave. They threw away the tactical boards that had been thoroughly studied by their opponents, closed private messages full of abuse, and fought back from scratch, one game after another, just like they did when they first formed the team.
The lower bracket was defeated and they met again in the finals. At the moment when the golden rain fell, Su Ran saw his parents holding mobile phones in the last row of the auditorium.
This is not a story about revenge, but a group of misunderstood teenagers who used a victory to prove that some dreams are worth spending their entire youth to pursue.
