[Football] Rose of the Pitch

Reborn as the second daughter of Italy's Berlusconi family, with a privileged upbringing and a chance to live her life again, Ceci doesn't hesitate to pick up her snowboard and vow to make up for the regrets of her previous life at the Winter Olympics.

Italy doesn't have a snowboard training facility? She'll build one herself. Women's snowboarding big air isn't allowed in competitions? She'll hold a competition herself. The snowboarding gear isn't professional enough? She'll start her own snowwear brand...

Before she knows it, Ceci's business empire keeps growing, and her popularity soars.

The Italian people even give her the title "The Rose of Italy."

Even her father, Berlusconi, wants to put AC Milan under her management...

What can she do? She can only smile and accept.

By chance, fourteen-year-old Kaka meets sixteen-year-old Ceci. That year, Kaka not only meets the love of his life, but also commits himself to a professional soccer career.

And so begins his long pursuit, from Sao Paulo to Milan, from the soccer pitch to the snowy slopes. Every goal he scores is just another step closer to her.

Content warnings:

This is a self-indulgent story written just for fun.

I'm not a soccer fan, and the technical details may not be very accurate. Please don't read if that bothers you.

This story is a slow burn, and there's little soccer content in the early chapters.

~~Coming Soon~~

My next story will be "The Psychic Detective of Hong Kong [The Nineties]." Please add it to your favorites!

[Synopsis]

Qu Xitong has two secrets:

First, she's a disciple of the Southern Maoshan tradition and can naturally see spirits.

Second, apart from a few simple talismans and the ability to communicate with the dead, she can't learn anything else. Even her founding master won't let her claim she's a Maoshan disciple in public, for fear she'll embarrass them.

Born in an age that believes in science, Qu Xitong has no way to use the skills she learned on Maoshan, so she takes a different path and becomes a police officer, working to clear the names of the dead.

But she barely has time to enjoy her recent promotion before a suspect, driven into a frenzy, runs her over with a car while she's responding to a call. She dies on the spot, full of regret.

Fortunately, thanks to her founding master's protection, Qu Xitong is reborn in 1990s Hong Kong as a girl who shares her name.

Her mother died when she was young, leaving her and her father to depend on each other. They scrape by with a tiny cha chaan teng, living hand to mouth.

With no other choice, Qu Xitong decides to return to her old profession and join the Royal Hong Kong Police.

Hong Kong in the 1990s is prosperous yet chaotic, with gangs running rampant and murders happening constantly. Countless cold cases have gone unsolved, and countless victims have died without justice.

With the worlds of yin and yang within reach and the dead whispering to her, Qu Xitong moves between the living and the spirits, listening to the truths the dead were never able to tell and solving one difficult cold case after another.

The once-unknown disciple of Maoshan will become a legendary detective, famous throughout Hong Kong, on this land of neon lights and shadows.

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