[The King's Avatar] Clouds Rise from the Water

During summer vacation, there will be double updates on Wednesdays and Saturdays. If you haven't seen an update by noon, there's a good chance I've flaked.

1. Shen Chuyun, an utterly average high school senior in H City, says his ideal life is to lie around like a salted fish until the end.

---But he never imagined that one day, on a whim, he would make a salted-fish leap and fling himself into a vast ocean.

As a rookie in this ocean, he puts on a desperate struggle for survival every day, striving to be a salted fish that doesn't drown.

2. As a professional player, Shen Chuyun successfully unlocked three achievements: getting screwed over by his boss, being stabbed in the back by a teammate, and being led around in circles by his former captain.

What's more, his former captain shamelessly patted him on the shoulder and said solemnly, "Chuyun, my boy, Heaven is about to place a great responsibility on this man..."

Shen Chuyun expressionlessly knocked his hand away, then opened a drawer and started looking for something.

His former teammate asked, "What are you looking for?"

Shen Chuyun took out a pack of wet wipes without even looking up. "A sly old fox just pawed at me. What bad luck. Want one?"

3. Three years later, Shen Chuyun had achieved none of those great things and had become a bona fide old salted fish. He could calmly handle all kinds of open and hidden attacks anytime, anywhere.

A teammate tries to stab him in the back? Sorry, you can't get me, because I don't even listen to orders. Nyah nyah nyah!

The boss wants to screw him over? Sorry, our contract is only three years. You and I were never meant to meet; money brought us together.

As for his former captain, well, he retired.

--- A deeply satisfying outcome.

4. Shen Chuyun, an utterly average professional Glory player from H City, says his ideal life is to play until retirement, then lay down his armor and return to the countryside. One morning, he woke up to find that both his Weibo and QQ had exploded with messages.

While one colleague bombarded him on QQ with a message every second, he opened the post that had set the entire Glory audience abuzz.

User: Strawberry Milkshake

No way, are young people this affectionate these days? This single dog is crying.

The only thing attached to the post was a video with the clarity of a pirated film, blurry enough that you could only make out the general movements. A young man and a young woman left a venue and hugged for two or three seconds. Then he lingered by her forehead for a moment before finally giving her a gentle kiss.

There was no background music or dialogue, only a long stretch of noise, like a silent movie.

Anyone else would have glanced at it and scrolled on. Shen Chuyun did the same.

That is, if he hadn't been one of the people in it.

The trouble was that nosy netizens noticed how much the clothes in the video resembled what Shen Chuyun had worn in photos from an event. They even helpfully identified the brand of his black sports cap.

Shen Chuyun: I f***ing thank you all.

The heroine is Dai Yanqi, though the character with the most screen time is Glory. Updates are probably once every two or three weeks. The hero is the very embodiment of a Gary Stu. He gets beaten down in the early stages, but he'll fight back later.

Theme: Fair competition, friendship first.