"The cold captain is attacked by × the paranoid year | ABO + eSports | Two-way redemption"
"The reunion you thought was the one I spent six years guarding with all my strength."
When Shen Zhao was eight years old, he was abandoned on the streets in the cold winter. It was Jiang Nianyu who took him home. In the small courtyard with the scent of orange, he met five-year-old Jiang Lin - an introverted child who always grabbed his clothes and called him "brother". They lived together for ten years until an accident forced them to separate when they were eighteen years old.
Three years later, Shen Zhao was already the most famous genius captain in the e-sports circle, a top Alpha, who operated as accurately as a machine, until a car accident destroyed his left hand and glands, leaving him in a coma for more than 500 days. After waking up, the coaching staff was disbanded, his teammates were betrayed, and his gender was changed. He was forced to disguise himself as Alpha and struggle to survive with TG who was submerged in the second-rate.
At this moment, Jiang Lin appeared. Jiang Lin's amber eyes curved into crescent moons, and he smiled innocently and dangerously, "Brother, I will be your substitute."
During the year they reunited, Jiang Lin became the most blatant "favoritist" in the entire TG team.
Shen Zhao tried to push him away, but Jiang Lin was like a sticky orange candy that couldn't be shaken off or quit.
It was not until much later that Shen Zhao discovered that Jiang Lin was not here to be his substitute at all. He is here to serve as his medicine.
"You can push me away a thousand times." Jiang Lin pushed the blood-stained inhibitor into his glands, with paranoid tenderness in his eyes, "But for the thousand and one time, I will still come forward."
This is not a reunion after a long separation, but two scarred souls finally learning to embrace each other for warmth.
——Bitter orange sinks, love is the only antidote.
Intent: In a scarred world, love is the most powerful salvation.
On the surface, Jiang Lin saves the fallen Shen Zhao, but in fact, they fill the gaps in each other's lives, just like the sourness and sweetness of bitter oranges. The two traumas are finally fulfilled; Jiang Lin's paranoid appearance is his constant protection for sixteen years, and Shen Zhao's cold appearance is a sense of responsibility engraved in his bones. Behind his extreme personality are the purest expressions of emotion.
The novel uses the core image of "bitter orange" to perfectly explain:
Under the sourest skin, there is often the most healing pulp. Just like the most scarring encounter, it achieves the most profound redemption.
