Yi Xingshuang was a five-time world champion in the game LDBS. His fans called him the Sniper King, God Z.
But in the end, he couldn't beat his illness and never got to win a sixth championship. Worse still, until the day he died, his family and club continued to exploit what little value he had left.
When he opened his eyes again after death, hundreds of years had passed. Once a global phenomenon, LDBS had gone through generation after generation of changes and become a full-dive game.
EvL was the world's largest streaming platform, and one obscure channel suddenly exploded overnight.
A variety streamer who'd made a living off his looks switched to gaming!
The boy, a cocky smile on his lips, won match after match.
The chat went from insults at first, to silence, and then:
Viewer 1: I can confirm the streamer is a magician. He just went whoosh and made the other guy's health bar disappear!
Viewer 2: That's no delicate little flower! That's a man-eating plant!
Viewer 3: Aww, keep streaming a little longer!!
Yi Xingshuang, now a health-conscious fanatic, promptly refused. At nine o'clock sharp, he ended the stream.
Invitations from professional teams poured in. He reclaimed the title of Sniper King and earned the nickname Little God Z.
Yi Xingshuang, heir to the old title, had one complaint: Things would be even better if a rabid dog weren't on his tail.
During one match, he was unexpectedly forced to use his sniper rifle as a melee weapon. He heard a low voice from an enemy whose face he couldn't see.
"Little God Z? You?"
"After he died, there was no Sniper King."
Yi Xingshuang: "?"
He never expected to have a devoted fan even hundreds of years later!
But why did this rabid dog's fighting style feel so much like that of the pup he'd once trained?
Qin Han, owner and captain of KEEn, one of the top teams in the scene, had been in a bad mood lately.
He kept dreaming that he was no longer a top-tier player, but a stray dog from hundreds of years ago, following the Sniper King, God Z, and only able to look up at him.
By the time he'd finally grown into a professional player who could stand shoulder to shoulder with him, his god had fallen.
Notes:
The game is original. You don't need to know how to play to enjoy the story.
Passionate, sweet, satisfying full-dive esports.
About the romance: The author absolutely cannot write angst, so the romance is sweet from beginning to end. You could call it mutual transmigration, but the gong doesn't fully transmigrate. That'll be gradually revealed after the story begins!
Many of the settings were created years ago, before the author started writing novels. The author is a longtime gaming enthusiast. This is a beloved-one kind of story, and it will start once enough people have added it to their reading lists.
This version of the blurb was written in August 2022. The first version of the setting was written in February 2020, and both have been documented.
Theme: Passion never fades