High school student Ling Xiao has just taken first place in the national league and secured a recommendation to Tsinghua or Peking University, only to end up living the miserable life of a cannon-fodder character in a fully immersive game.
His homeroom teacher angrily waves a disciplinary notice threatening expulsion, listing his offenses: not studying, not doing homework, skipping class, and hanging out with delinquents.
"How can you be less than a tenth as good as your younger brother? If you do this again within 15 days, you're expelled!"
Still unsatisfied, the teacher humiliates him by posting the disciplinary notice beside a school bulletin-board poster celebrating his younger brother's first place in their grade.
His parents hear the news and look on coldly. "How did your brother end up with such an embarrassing older brother? You're nowhere near as good as him. Get out of my sight."
Wen Chengjing will never know that he is just a cannon-fodder character, there to make his younger brother look dazzling and successful. He is gloomy and numb, yet he keeps trudging through each day.
After entering the game, Ling Xiao thinks he has lived like this for sixteen years.
In reality, he puts up with it for only three seconds,
then flips the table and quits.
Using Wen Chengjing's frail little body, he runs twenty laps around the track in 40-degree heat, firing the first shot in his war against gloom and apathy.
Six months later, Wen Chengjing has a six-pack and is a natural at every sport.
His homeroom teacher, clutching his grade's highest exam score, excitedly asks whether he wants to go to Tsinghua or Peking University.
His younger brother hides in his room and angrily tears up his certificate for second place in the grade.
His parents drag him around, proudly showing him off to everyone as their wonderful son.
The school arranges a talk for him on "How to Go from Last Place to First."
Teachers and students across the school watch the newly popular student everyone is vying to claim, listening with rapt attention.
Who could have guessed the answer would be shorter than the title?
Wen Chengjing casually offers six words: "Nothing special, just practice makes perfect."
Theme: Live bravely, love bravely.
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