The Fringe Player Everyone Called a Good-for-Nothing

Jiang Ye, a backup goalkeeper branded useless by the entire internet, trains alone until the early hours every night, using his own body to hold together a team on the verge of disbanding. When star striker Lin Xiao suffers a breakdown on the eve of the Ballon d’Or, when mysterious scout Victor drops a bombshell, and when reporter Su Rui uncovers a bloody tragedy from a soccer field twenty years ago, videos of Jiang Ye’s extra training suddenly go viral. It isn’t talent, but a desperate conviction forged through ten thousand saves. He isn’t a dark horse. He’s a ball the world kicked to pieces, only for him to put himself back together.