I Heard the Champion's Partner Is Me

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Blurb:

Basketball superstar Lin Chenye could easily make a living off his looks, but insists on relying on his talent. People are intensely curious about his private life, but the superstar is just too disciplined.

Other basketball stars go clubbing at night. Lin Chenye practices basketball.

Other basketball stars leave some beauty's room in the morning. Lin Chenye practices basketball.

Other basketball stars marry their girlfriends. Lin Chenye serves as a groomsman, then goes right back to practicing basketball.

Other basketball stars have kids. Lin Chenye plans to practice basketball with their children.

Don't ask. Practicing basketball makes him happy!

Then, one day, this man, whose private life was as monotonous as a glass of plain water and had cost countless paparazzi a fortune, suddenly told the media that there was someone he'd liked for many years.

The news came out of nowhere and sent countless netizens into a frenzy. They swore they'd dig up every inch of the ground to find out who Lin Chenye's sweetheart was.

At that very moment, popular online novelist Jiang Xingzhou was furiously typing away at his computer. He happened to click on a gossip story pushed to him by a WeChat public account. Huh? I heard Lin Chenye's sweetheart is me?

One day, Lin Chenye knocked on Jiang Xingzhou's door.

Lin Chenye: "Xingzhou, I want to practice with you."

Jiang Xingzhou: "I don't play basketball."

Lin Chenye: "I mean I want to practice kissing with you."

Notes:

1. Basketball prodigy superstar (gong) x popular online novelist (shou)

2. Mutual pining, and they both make their way to each other.

3. This isn't really a sports novel. Sports are secondary; romance is the focus.

Preview: The Days of Being Carried by My Rival in Love [Reborn]

Xu Junxia spent his whole life being rivals in love with Yan Jiusi.

In kindergarten, they both liked Honghong from the class next door.

In elementary school, they both liked Huang'er, the class beauty.

In middle school, they both liked Xiaoqing, the school beauty.

But collecting all the colors of the rainbow didn't summon a girlfriend. It only left him with a rival in love who'd been there for years.

Later, they went to college, but there was no later for him. Yan Jiusi got into A University, China's top institution of higher education, as the highest scorer in the whole city. Meanwhile, Xu Junxia's dad quickly packed him off to study abroad, supposedly to polish his credentials, but really because he'd failed a retake and couldn't graduate.

The odds of dying in a plane crash are one in three million. Unfortunately, Xu Junxia was that unlucky one in three million. His flight abroad went "kerplunk" and plunged into the sea.

Before he could even process what had happened, his soul drifted to his own gravestone. Then he saw Yan Jiusi, who'd been at odds with him since childhood, crying like an idiot. If they hadn't been rivals in love, Xu Junxia would have believed Yan Jiusi was going to die for him.

When he woke up, Xu Junxia was back in his high school classroom.

Xu Junxia looked at the parabola on his exam paper, then at his rival in love sitting in the same class. Remembering that he would die if he didn't study hard, he immediately lunged over and smiled obsequiously. "Great God, let me cling to your thigh!"

Yan Jiusi: "???"

Xu Junxia: "Don't worry, there's nothing wrong with my brain."

Yan Jiusi thought... Oh no, his brain's broken.

A cool-on-the-outside, secretly seductive academic god (gong) x a guy who always wants to be everyone's dad but is so hopeless he can only be the son (shou)

Theme: Growth takes dreams as its cause and hard work as its result.