Football: Manchester United’s Castoff? From the Start, I Blast One into the World

Lin Chen, who had died suddenly on the national team's training ground, opened his eyes in 2010 in a parallel world. He had transmigrated into the body of a good-for-nothing player sent by the Chinese Football Association to train at the youth academy of Bundesliga club Fortuna Dusseldorf.

On the day of his final evaluation, the coach announced in front of everyone that he had been cut. The whole crowd jeered that East Asians could never play professional football.

Just seconds before he picked up his luggage and walked out of the academy, the [King of Football Development System] roared to life!

Substituting into his farewell match, he silenced every doubter with a thunderous long-range strike, then led his team to a comeback with a stoppage-time hat trick. Moments later, a scout from a relegation-threatened club cornered him in the players' tunnel and offered him a professional contract.

From then on, football had an unstoppable Eastern striker.

So what if his team was fighting relegation? He carried them to stunning victories over Bayern and Dortmund, shocked everyone by winning the Bundesliga, and broke a single-season scoring record that had stood for forty years!

In the Premier League, he swept aside England's biggest clubs. In the Champions League, he struck down Real Madrid and Barcelona, competing alongside Ronaldo and Messi and bringing the era of the two superstars to an end with his own hands!

Donning the national team jersey, he led the once hopeless Chinese team past Japan, South Korea, Iran, and Australia, all the way to the World Cup final, where a last-minute goal against Argentina won them the trophy!

Years later, a reporter asked, “Do you consider yourself the greatest striker in history?”

Lin Chen smiled and pointed to the wall of scoring records behind him. “Nothing special. I just made up for all the goals I never got to score in my previous life.”