[Soccer + Light Supernatural Powers + Romance]
When Ke Jian suffered twelve consecutive defeats on the professional Go circuit and fell from the top, no one could have imagined he would become a legend on an entirely different battlefield.
Back at high school, he was a “delicate flower” who was even excused from PE, until he was unexpectedly dragged in to save a soccer match.
Everyone thought he was a useless last-minute substitute, until he quietly said two words: “No air.”
In his eyes, the soccer field was a giant Go board. Every move by an opponent, every defensive shift, was one of his plays. He could see the “liberties” between all the “stones” and send the ball precisely to the point where his opponents were about to run out of “liberties,” setting up a finishing blow.
One pass tore through the defense. Two brilliant moves turned the match around.
From then on, the Linhai High School soccer team had a mysterious number 21 who wore a mask, a “battlefield strategist” who played with an all-seeing perspective. He could recreate modern attacking tactics using the endgame of a Go master from a thousand years ago, and use Go’s strategy of “sacrificing a stone to seize the initiative” to fool the opposing back line.
He became an unstoppable BUG on the field, a monster who dominated matches with “brainpower” instead of “stamina.”
But as his fame grew and professional clubs and the national team came calling, the spirited girl who had led him into the world of soccer, Sun Yintong, stood in his way:
“Ke Jian, are you playing soccer to escape your failures at Go, or have you really… fallen in love with this field?”
