The Cannon Fodder Genius Mid Laner Has Awakened [Esports]

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[Blurb]

Ning Jue never understood what he'd done wrong, even after a hand injury forced him to retire.

He used to be a prodigious mid laner who debuted with a top-tier team. In his first year of competition, he won the Summer Finals FMVP award and was the talk of the town.

Then a substitute mid laner suddenly joined the team.

The new substitute was lively and adorable, quickly winning over the management and his teammates. Soon, the two were rotating in and out of the lineup.

During that rotation, Ning Jue had repeated conflicts with his teammates.

After an accident left his wrist severely injured, he lost his starting position for good and was left on the bench.

In his place, the substitute mid laner and Ning Jue's former teammates went overseas to represent their region in the S Championship.

Only then did Ning Jue learn that he was in an esports novel where the entire team doted on the protagonist.

The substitute mid laner was the protagonist, a beloved bottom who got everything with ease, while Ning Jue was just a tool character whose purpose was to make the protagonist look cherished.

His hand injury and the scandals that kept cropping up outside the game were all plot devices designed to make way for the protagonist and set up face-slapping scenes.

Now that the novel's plot had ended, Ning Jue's life had gone back to its original course.

Feeling frustrated, Ning Jue went out drinking.

When he woke up, he found himself back at the start of the new season.

The substitute mid laner hadn't arrived yet, and he was still the world's top mid laner, full of confidence and utterly imperious.

P.S.:

1. The setting is League of Legends. The game content is based on watching matches, guides, and research, all in service of the story.

2. No real-life inspirations. The timeline is set in a parallel 2026.

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After failing at his job, Ning Zhao inherited his family's nearly bankrupt zoo.

He worked tirelessly to raise the animals, and things were getting better day by day.

Then came the terrible news: Ning Zhao had cancer.

He found new homes for his little cubs before he died, then closed his eyes in peace.

But when he woke up, the world had changed. The cubs he'd cared for were not only still alive, they had become notorious ferocious beasts in the secret realms of the interstellar world, hated and hunted by everyone.

Ning Zhao: ? My well-behaved cubs could never be like that!

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To enter the secret realm and find his missing cubs, Ning Zhao has no choice but to take the Imperial Star's university entrance exam.

With his cubs on his mind, his behavior stands out from everyone else's.

"Why do you want to join the school?"

Ning Zhao says sadly, "I want to enter the secret realm and find my lost family."

After testing as an S-rank talent and sharing his tragic story, Ning Zhao becomes the poster child for the beautiful but tragic archetype as soon as he enters the school.

"Don't worry. Your family is surely waiting for you."

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At the end of his first year, Ning Zhao and his companions successfully qualify to enter a low-level secret realm.

But just as they enter, something goes wrong. The secret realm twists out of shape, and a renowned S-rank ferocious beast breaks in.

Just as everyone thinks they'll die in the secret realm, Ning Zhao spots a familiar figure and tentatively calls out, "Good cub?"

The next moment, the ferocious beast rushes over, whimpering as it buries its head against Ning Zhao's shoulder.

Everyone else: Wait, when you said you were looking for your family, you meant this kind of family?!

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