In 2026, Yang Sheng, a worker at the Bureau of Statistics, was pushed to the brink by his mortgage and divorce. He unexpectedly transmigrated back to his college days in 2002 and unlocked a pair of live football Systems: Become a Star and Master League!
To the outside world, he was an ordinary college student double-majoring in English and statistics. He used data analysis to land an internship working with China League One statistics, then went to Europe to become a team’s technical consultant.
Behind the scenes, his System skills were maxed out. He dominated the training ground against Dutch youth players, came off the bench in the Bundesliga and scored a world-class goal, then scored a last-minute winner against Barcelona at Camp Nou in the Champions League, becoming a legend overnight!
Real Madrid and Bayern offered him annual salaries of eight million, but he turned them all down. The worldline kept fluctuating until space and time nearly fell into chaos. After playing his farewell match, he vanished without a trace.
More than a decade later, the global media were frantically searching for the mysterious Chinese football king. A reporter finally found him at a local Bureau of Statistics, riding an electric scooter to work.
With the camera pointed at him, Yang Sheng remained unfazed. “You’ve got the wrong person. I’m just an ordinary civil servant.”
Nobody knew that the phantom of football, who had once stunned the top five European leagues and won the admiration of legendary players, had long since faded into the bureaucracy. In his spare time, all he did was fire up the football game and relive his glory days on the pitch.
The nostalgia it evokes in those born in the 80s is instantly overwhelming.