Stellar Glory

Sixteen-year-old Li Yuran has two lives: During the day, she was the "cheater" who was rumored to be on the pillar of shame in a key high school, and the graffiti on her classmates' desks that couldn't be wiped off. Her schoolbag is always in dirty water, her homework books always have strange footprints, and her name is an unspoken joke among the class. At night, she is "Aran", the top shooter in "XG" who makes her opponents fearful. In the smoky underground Internet cafe, her movements were as precise as a scalpel, and all the arrows pointed at were dead souls. The turning point of everything started with the invitation letter to the provincial competition. When Li Yuran and her Internet cafe teammates - the hotel daughter who dropped out of school, the power-training master who stayed at home, and the idle street kid - this team, which everyone regarded as a "rabble", unexpectedly entered the provincial selection competition, she did not know that the gears of fate had begun to turn. And when Li Yuran led the team to counterattack and stand on the stage of the national finals, she no longer faced the childish bullies on campus. They are the masterminds of match-fixing manipulated by capital, the deep-rooted prejudices in the professional circle, the heavy past behind their teammates, and the millions of pairs of scrutinizing eyes under the spotlight. In the microphone, she heard her own calm voice: "Attention all." "This round is not about operations, nor about the later stages." Her eyes passed through the blinding stage lights and locked the screen. "Starting from the first line of troops——" "I want to break their mentality." Intention: The game can be restarted, but life cannot - but some people insist on winning both rules on the same battlefield. I wanted to write about a girl who was stepped on by everyone in school during the day, but who silently practiced her unique skills in the corner of an Internet cafe at night. She doesn't need to please anyone or wait for anyone to save her. While those who bullied her were still playing childish tricks, she was already on a crueler and fairer playing field, using a method they couldn't understand to win back her dignity game by game. The key point is the fierceness that is held back. Turn the grievances you swallow every day into calm operations on your fingertips; turn the curse words on the toilet wall into the ID flashing on the screen after victory. When the spotlight finally shined on her, those who had spat at her could only look up and watch her lift the trophy on the live broadcast. To put it bluntly, this is a story about "changing the track to win you". In that world that you look down upon, I became the king.