Reborn five years in the past, Jian Xi looks at the guilty faces of his biological parents and leaves the Jian family of his own accord, taking the so-called compensation money with him.
Since years of family ties have been lost and he can never truly fit in, he might as well use his still-healthy body to do the things he never got around to in his previous life.
As luck would have it, the newly popular shooter game Battle Glaive announces that it will hold a world championship. Jian Xi joins a nobody team with his own money, facing a medic who won't follow orders, a hotheaded young tank, and the assault player Bian Ji, who supposedly joined for him and is so arrogant he's been blacklisted by multiple professional teams.
Once the roster is announced, every platform is flooded with predictions of their failure.
Netizens sneer:
[With a body that frail, why bother with esports? You should go lie in a hospital bed instead.]
[I've never even heard of this ID. Fine, he's a parachuted-in captain, but he dares to play sniper too?]
Then, in their first match against a powerful opponent, Jian Xi plays while coughing, his fair eyes reddening at the corners as he chokes, yet his sniper skills steal the show and he leads the team to four straight wins.
Netizens: ...???
Later, the team wins the world championship, and Battle Glaive becomes a sensation everywhere. The Jian family is astonished to discover:
Since when has the shopping mall next door been displaying ads featuring sickly Jian Xi?!
Bonus scene:
After several victories in a row, the team manager still can't figure out how Bian Ji got along with the cool and aloof Jian Xi, or why he was willing to give up the captaincy.
Jian Xi's assessment: He's easy to get along with.
Manager: ?
The next second, Bian Ji walks in and asks quietly:
"If we win the match, can I take a little bite out of your neck?"
But their captain merely glances at Bian Ji, his tone calm:
"If we win, you can."
Manager: ???
A crazy, yandere, straight-up wolf-dog top x a cool, aloof, straight bottom who has no idea about men loving men and has been taken advantage of countless times.
Yes, there are two straight guys in this story (amused).
The top makes himself gay, then makes the bottom gay too.
Theme: Live toward the sun