The fire in the ruins After Liu Ziang failed miserably in the provincial team trials, he was told by coach Zhou Jianguo not to come. He dragged his luggage back to his hometown in the county. His father, Liu Dazhu, sold fish in the vegetable market, and his mother, Zhang Xiulan, worked as a cashier in a supermarket. The family is in debt, and his younger brother Liu Zihao is still in high school. Liu Ziang worked at a courier station during the day and secretly went to the abandoned Workers' Cultural Palace to practice ball at night. There was an old gatekeeper there named Lao Suntou. He was a sparring partner for the city team when he was young. He noticed that there was something wrong with Liu Ziang's ball and his backhand twisting movement was deformed. He learned it from imitating videos when he was a child. Lao Suntou said: If you really want to fight, you have to break the bones and regrow them.
