Back to Seventeen [Esports]

"Let's cross this single-plank bridge together. We'll meet again after fighting through a thousand troops."

For Fu Yannian's sake, Ye Jian decisively turned down an invitation from the SUN esports club, worked desperately to get into the same school as him, and chose to study medicine, a subject he wasn't good at.

In a field that didn't suit him, Ye Jian could only ever be Fu Yannian's sidekick. Even after giving it everything he had, all he got was mockery: "You'll never catch up to Fu Yannian on this path, not in your entire life. He said that back then because he wanted you to know your limits. How can you not understand that?"

Watching Fu Yannian shine at the awards ceremony, Ye Jian finally understood the gap between them. Disappointed, he left.

Only after returning home did he learn that, after he had left, the SUN club his older brother played for had suffered a crushing defeat at the world championship. His brother endured four years of online abuse and fell into severe depression. The day before Ye Jian returned, he died in a car accident. Their mother, whose health was already poor, became bedridden with illness as well.

Ye Jian rushed home overnight and knelt in the morgue, weeping with regret. "If only I hadn't left you..."

When he opened his eyes again, he had really returned to that very day!

Ye Jian immediately changed majors, submitted a leave-of-absence application, and joined his older brother's SUN team.

Everyone said Ye Jian from the medical school had gone crazy after falling down the stairs. He stopped chasing after the academic prodigy, switched to the school's worst computer science program, and even filed for a leave of absence so he could go home and become a pro gamer?

Everyone waited to see him make a fool of himself.

But in less than a year, he won the world championship on the professional stage. He even came back and got the top score in every subject. Before he had graduated, big shots from every corner of the industry rushed to campus to recruit him, fighting each other to do it. Even the academic prodigy who had once looked down on him dropped his aloof act, blocked his way home, and asked, "Do you still like me?"

Ye Jian thought about it seriously. "No. I don't have time."

At eighteen, Ye Jian's life was dazzling, as if he had cheat codes.

*

After Ye Jian joined the team, Ji Huaiyu always told people, "He's my little brother. I hope you'll all look after him."

That was until Fu Yannian showed up outside the team base and asked Ye Jian to go back and finish his degree with him.

Ji Huaiyu, who had been sitting to Ye Jian's left, suddenly reached out and put an arm around his shoulders. His voice was cold enough to kill. "Who told you I was his brother? We have never even been on the same household register."

Fu Yannian, who was always so rational, suddenly paled and missed a step.

Reader's Guide: 1. The protagonist and love interest are not related by blood. They grew up in the same orphanage, and the woman they call their mother is the orphanage's caretaker. They are not related by blood either; they simply got used to calling her that. 2. Many people will fall for the protagonist. He focuses on his career at first and only falls for the love interest later. One-on-one romance. 3. The protagonist is highly intelligent and maxed out in every skill. Some things are a bit over the top, so please go easy on me. 4. The cannon-fodder love interest is reborn too, and there will be a "chasing your spouse to the crematorium" storyline. 5. The game is LoL. The version is the author's own, with no real-life counterparts.

Theme: Live for yourself.