Dai in This Match [Esports]

Map 1 ✅ Training Camp + Draft: Little nobodies make a name for themselves at the training camp, alongside childhood versions of friends, enemies, and the Big Bad. Map 2 ✅ Finding the Missing Pieces of a Championship Team + Qualifier for a Temporary Slot: The whole main cast appears, and everyone's eyes are on Ruan Dai. The main cast truly comes together as a team during the temporary-slot qualifier. (The earlier teammates aren't necessarily part of the main cast.) Map 3: Competitive Gaming World + Worlds: There are probably another two or three hundred thousand words to go. Anyway, the main story will reach the S15 World Championship! Then I'll write some cathartic bonus stories~ * Eighteen-year-old prodigy jungler Ruan Dai was just one deciding game away from the championship trophy she'd dreamed of when she transmigrated. She had been forced to play in a closed-door match in the locker room of a stadium packed with tens of thousands of people. When she opened her eyes, she was in the streaming room of a rented apartment, stuck with the script of an impoverished orphan girl about to end up on the streets. But Ruan Dai had a healthy pair of hands now, and people soon discovered Low-ranked streamer Ruan Dai effortlessly soloed a signature hero of one of the platform's top streamers, then conned, swindled, and wheedled her way into getting a keyboard, a mouse, skins... and an offer from a training camp! Amateur from nowhere Ruan Dai could even type insults at rumor-mongers in the all-chat between using her ultimate, and personally beat the spoiled heirs groomed by the major clubs. Ruan Dai became the record-breaking top pick of the draft! At the national tournament, where match-fixing ran rampant, Ruan Dai made her cheating teammates pay the bookies ten times as much. Amid the backlash against “Miss Smurf Account” making her debut on the professional stage, Ruan Dai made a name for herself as a star player's substitute. In the cutthroat second-tier league, “Miss Smurf Account” Ruan Dai personally knocked her former team out of a slot worth a hundred million! During the regular season, she settled scores with a long list of enemies. In the playoffs, she stepped over the old king's corpse before slaying the current emperor. She ascended the throne on the Ghost Festival, with a hundred ghosts parading through the night... There's nothing new under the sun in competitive gaming. One day, a mechanically gifted player will bet everything on his own skill and throw away a crucial game. The best mid laner in the world will get utterly outplayed by an opponent using his own championship skin. A duo renowned for their perfect synergy will split over a single sentence, while old enemies will end up on the same team after many twists and turns, fighting side by side. Everyone will think that a young prodigy who debuted at his peak will win plenty of championships, but he'll let the years slip by. A veteran who's been called a washed-up starter collecting a paycheck for years will somehow beat the rising stars head-on. Training-camp peers who once made a pact to become famous together may take entirely different paths, and the reason for their divergent fates was already apparent when they first met. A businessman who's always chased profit may spend a fortune on a childish dream, but good luck never comes to everyone... The competitive gaming world makes no sense and turns in endless circles, but this time, Dai is here. * Years later, news of the Olympic training camp reignites interest in Arrow Esports: [@StillCarvingTheBoatToSeekTheArrow (Arrow lore bot): 🏹Submit your heartbroken Arrow fan stories🏹 Bio: When I was a kid, I read the story of Carving a Mark on the Boat to Find the Sword and thought the guy was an idiot. How could anyone think a boat on a river never moves? Only when I grew up did I learn that reality is even more absurd. How can all these dead people come back to life? But after coming back, they all left. All that remains is me, carving the boat and searching for S15's Arrow.] [@StillCarvingTheBoatToSeekTheArrow: Is this bot serious? Do you really think we don't know how badly the relationships among individual Arrow players ended? Seriously, the Arrow crew can't even get everyone together to make dumplings for Lunar New Year! And from the players to the fans, from the top-tier star owner to the team cook, not one of them is blameless. At least we had no regrets about the results back then. No need to cash in on nostalgia!] [@StillCarvingTheBoatToSeekTheArrow: Here's some Arrow lore: The people who can get together to make dumplings 🥟 for Lunar New Year are family or lovers, but we're Arrow players 🤗 We don't go on Love Never Ends, we only ever love Arrow players again 💘] [@StillCarvingTheBoatToSeekTheArrow: The League has a million dog analogies. Some players look like dogs, some act like dogs. Most of the dog comparisons are about cheerful puppies, loyal puppies, or “puppies are born to love people.” But Ruan Dai gets compared to a troublemaking dog, a dog that tears up the house for no reason, a shameless dog who can get slapped ten thousand times and still stay fired up at the table. And the Beagle Queen has turned every Arrow fan into a master of patience!] [@StillCarvingTheBoatToSeekTheArrow: Top-jungle is definitely a good ship. First it was, “Sis, I'm going to inherit everything from the former top-tier star player, including his ship with you.” Then Ruan Dai thought she was the perfect little angel in front of Sis and always acted cute for her. But really, Sis just enjoyed having a puppy act cute in front of her.] [@StillCarvingTheBoatToSeekTheArrow: The jungle-support duo has the most actual sweet moments, though. Who dares count how often 🌂 randomly brings up Xiao Dai on stream? All these years, they still keep choosing each other every transfer season. Can we make that dream come true at the Olympics?] [@StillCarvingTheBoatToSeekTheArrow: I've been studying the Arrow team's mid-jungle relationship, one of the Ten Great Unsolved Mysteries, full-time from home! Chi Hui is clearly a sunny, show-off type, surfing in California and flaunting his supercar. How did someone gradually turn him into a brooding, creepy ghost? Chi Hui, you were already back at the base with everyone else. Why take your first-ever red-eye economy flight back to Yuzhou to see her? What do those two letters tattooed on your finger mean? Who were you looking at when you went to pray on the first day of the new year? What's with your FPS account...?] [@StillCarvingTheBoatToSeekTheArrow: Here's some Arrow lore: Every S15 Arrow pairing is delicious, even when everyone gets thrown into the same pot! Mid-jungle is “a chosen one in everyone's eyes, but crawling in the dark in front of that one person”; jungle-support is a wholesome ship where they keep choosing each other whenever they get the chance; mid-support is “even if we both switch roles, we'll still be teammates”; top-jungle is “Sis is another version of me in a different world”; top-support is “rivals fighting over the last Worlds slot become an A-Cao road four-love pairing, because rivals are lovers ❤️”; coach-jungle is “can a pure-hatred warrior fall in love with his own tool of revenge?”; and bot lane is “I was psychologically manipulated by the League's number-one dog trainer and my white moonlight, and then I suddenly met a brand-new puppy”!] ❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥 The pairings in this blurb are just submissions from future fans digging up S15 Arrow, S16 Arrow, and S17 Arrow. The bot “@StillCarvingTheBoatToSeekTheArrow” takes no responsibility for whether the submissions are true 🤷🏻‍♀️🤷🏻‍♀️🤷🏻‍♀️ ❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥 * An underdog comeback story, no golden finger. * No romance, no dating. Quite a few supporting characters have a thing for Xiao Dai. (Honestly, I can't imagine anyone not loving Xiao Dai 🤔 It feels like the whole world is her follower 🤭) * When this was first published, Jinjiang didn't have a no-romance-plus category in its multi-genre channel. So even if “the heroine has no feelings for the supporting characters, but they have feelings for her,” it had to be listed in the harem category of the romance channel. Jinjiang added a no-romance-plus category to the multi-genre channel in 2025. Anything where “the protagonist has no romantic feelings or intentions, regardless of whether the supporting characters do” could then be moved to that category, so the editor moved this novel there in March 2025. * The general progression (following Xiao Dai): Streamer → Training Camp → National Tournament → Spring Split → Second-Tier League → Summer Split → World Championship → Bonus stories covering Xiao Dai and the Arrow players' entire careers. Theme: The importance of pursuing a career.