* Qi Qi and Ji Bin are childhood friends born into families of table tennis players. They both started learning the sport at the age of five.
They later became professional table tennis players, joined the national team, and began dominating the world table tennis scene.
Over their twenty-year professional careers, they won countless titles and ranked first in the men's and women's world rankings for sixteen consecutive years.
After retiring, they became coaches for the national team and continued training talent for their country.
Unexpectedly, an accident sent them to the 1980s, where they became two fifteen-year-old children.
At the time, domestic table tennis had gone more than a decade without changing its techniques, leaving it with no advantage on the international stage and even behind other countries.
After suffering a series of crushing defeats and falling from their former heights, the team was described by foreign media as having "peaked and begun to decline," plunging into an unprecedented low point.
Remembering the ten-year period in history when the country won no world titles, the two resolutely decide to join the national team, determined to raise all three national flags at once on the international stage!
Reader's guide:
The male and female leads are top-tier players. They lead the team from a low point back to its peak, achieving new glory and dominating the table tennis world.
The setting is loosely based on reality, with some real-world references, but the characters aren't based on real people. Please don't overanalyze the details.
A plot-driven, progression-style sports story with satisfying victories. It doesn't get too technical, so even readers who don't play table tennis can follow along.
Theme: Table tennis, our national sport, is second to none!
