I'm Really Just a Substitute [Esports]

#I'm Really Just a Substitute, Why Won't They Believe Me?#

Lin Lan, a genius mid laner who won the League of Legends Grand Slam, dies in a car accident. After waking up in a parallel world, he discovers that he's become a complete good-for-nothing?

Not only is this good-for-nothing bad at the game and friendless, but his team is also shabby and rundown. Luckily, the owner is decent and the training isn't too strenuous. After a lifetime of hard work, Lin Lan quickly falls in love with the place. To keep up his laid-back life, he occasionally lends the team a hand.

But why are the people around him looking at him more and more strangely?

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DT gets a new substitute support player. At first, everything seems normal. Then things gradually go off the rails.

When the starting support injures his hand, Lin Lan lazily stands up from the corner. "I'll play."

He picks Lux support and scores a pentakill, wiping out the enemy team.

Teammates: ???

Something happens at the AD carry's home, and he has to choose between the hospital and the competition. Lin Lan pats his shoulder. "Go. I'll take your place."

He picks Draven, reaches the enemy high ground in fifteen minutes, and takes out one opponent after another at twenty.

Opponents: ???

The top laner clashes with management, angrily throws down his gear, and walks out. Lin Lan lazily picks it up and takes the top lane position.

He picks Irelia top and destroys everything in his path.

Audience: ???

The mid laner's contract expires, and he'd rather join another team as a substitute than stay. The club is in chaos. Lin Lan calmly stands up again. "Captain, I'm actually a mid laner by trade. Why not let me try?"

Captain: ? I'm starting to think there's something off about this substitute!

*On the second day after being reborn, Lin Lan sees someone who looks just like the silly captain who used to be obsessed with him in his previous life. He tentatively calls out, "Hey, silly dog."

Xiao Shengjing coldly pulls out his phone. "Insulting the captain. That's a 200-yuan fine."

Lin Lan: ...Captain, let me explain!

[Reading Guide] 1. Feel-good, sweet, and satisfying, with a max-level expert dropping into a beginner's village. 2. The gong is Xiao Shengjing, cold on the outside and a puppy at heart. 3. The game is League of Legends, using the author's version. 4. A long story that goes from the secondary league to the LPL, and wins the Grand Slam. Two top players join forces to dominate everything.

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[Coming Soon 1] "The Captain Specializes in Shutting Down Complaints [Esports]"

"Sign a five-year contract with me? Dream on."

After seeing the club for what it really is, Lin Jiang tears up his contract without hesitation and walks away. He turns around and joins OT, the lowest-ranked team in the league.

Everyone says Lin Jiang must be under a spell. Even his friends and family urge him, "You could've stayed with the league's number-one team. Why go to some lousy little club?"

Only Lin Jiang knows that in his previous life, he worked tirelessly for KUG and helped build half the team's success, only to be betrayed by his teammates and cast aside by the club.

To promote some so-called traffic magnet, they forced him out of the starting lineup, leaving him unable to compete for three whole years.

Reborn, Lin Jiang swears he won't jump back into the blazing pit that is KUG.

He turns and joins OT. While nobody has any faith in him, he rolls up his sleeves to repair the equipment and renovate the team house, recruit a coach, and train the players himself, pulling his hopeless teammates back up again and again.

"Get up. I'll take you to Worlds."

He puts aside his accolades and creates new glory.

He single-handedly leads OT from the bottom back to the top.

Meanwhile, without Lin Jiang, KUG is on the brink of elimination, in complete disarray.

Only then do their fans finally understand: it was never Lin Jiang who couldn't leave KUG. It was KUG that couldn't do without Lin Jiang!

Everyone knows that OT's players are all masters of slacking off. The top laner is so broke he lives on instant noodles and is always ready to retire and go home to grow sweet potatoes. The jungler is cursed with bad luck and has never won a smite fight over an objective. The support is a weirdo who never scrims, and every staff member has to do the work of three people.

On top of that, their starting AD carry, Shen Ju, is the universally acknowledged crown prince of the Esports scene, with a terrible temper and a reputation for flaming everyone in the league.

Everyone thinks Lin Jiang must have a hard time as captain.

Until one day, at a match, Shen Ju is walking ahead, and Lin Jiang lazily calls after him, "Shen, you little dog, get me a bottle of water."

Shen Ju naturally hands him a bottle and even unscrews the cap for him.

Fans waiting for him to flame Lin Jiang: ???

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Coming Soon 2: "Your Spirit Form Is Petting Me [Infinite]"

Synopsis: Everyone has a form manifested from their mind, known as a spirit form. Those who can see spirit forms are called "kindred."

The wealthy and powerful kindred are "high-ranking kindred," born to stand above the rest. The powerless "low-ranking kindred" are rejected and killed by everyone around them.

Unfortunately, Lin Yu belongs to the latter group.

He carefully hides his status until his older brother falls ill. Forced to join an escape game to obtain rare medical resources, he finds more and more kindred gathering around him. Can he really keep his status as a "low-ranking kindred" secret?

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Kindred can easily see other people's spirit forms, but not their own.

An arrogant young man accompanied by a muscular black panther pins him down with sharp claws the moment they meet, then asks why Lin Yu trembles whenever he sees him.

A beautiful, friendless, lovesick young man doesn't know his Vermilion Bird is heating Lin Yu's cheeks until they're red. He thinks Lin Yu has a crush on him.

A shy young man with severe germophobia only opens his shell and reveals a beautiful, lustrous pearl when he's with Lin Yu.

A taciturn, aloof young man doesn't know his white dragon has wrapped its tail around Lin Yu and licks him from time to time.

Lin Yu, petted by all kinds of spirit forms, doesn't dare move.

Another day of trying hard to act like an ordinary person.

Theme: Rediscover your original aspirations and love life.