Jiang Xubai, a freshman in a key high school and a former member of the youth training team, is 185cm tall, with cold fair skin, bangs covering his eyes, and an expressionless face.
He has a secret that no one knows: As a hermaphrodite, he has a male penis, but he experiences painless menstrual periods every month - urinating blood, wearing pajamas, accurately controlling the amount of water he drinks, and never taking a shower in the locker room.
He also has a problem that everyone knows about: not passing the ball.
The youth training team played sixteen warm-up games, averaging thirty-eight points per game and zero assists. The coach threw the tactical board and said, "Basketball belongs to five people!" On the day he was persuaded to quit, no one stayed.
The afternoon after he left the youth training team, he walked into a dilapidated concrete court on the corner of the street wearing his school uniform and enduring the embarrassment of urinating blood. A group of wild football boys are fighting. He joined in and challenged the whole audience. Sam Gold caught the butterfly and passed through three people, and then performed a one-handed chop - and then looked down at the ball to confirm that it was not missed.
Since then, this man who didn't pass the ball has become a legend on this court.
But the legend will eventually be broken. When his secret was accidentally revealed, when those eyes turned from admiration to prying eyes, when the real reason behind the words "not passing the ball" was forced to the forefront - Jiang Xubai discovered that the penalty area in life is more difficult to break through than the penalty area on the basketball court.
Concept: The body is the biggest forbidden area, but the real forbidden areas are those parts that people dare not see.
Jiang Xubai doesn't pass the ball, not just because of his style of play - it's because he can't let people get close. Every confrontation, every breakthrough, every landing is a bet on whether a secret will be exposed. The secret was not his fault, but it became a weight that he had to bear alone.
Basketball is for five people, but there are some roads that can only be walked by one person.
Keren is not an island after all. When the secret is broken, when those prying eyes turn into knives, when the fear behind the words "not passing the ball" is forced to the forefront - what he must learn is not how to hide deeper, but how to face those who have seen everything about him, and still stand in the sun, dribble, break through, and layup.
The real failure to pass the ball is not that you don't believe in others, but that you don't believe that you are worthy of being caught.
And one day, when he finally passed the ball -
That's the real shot.
