A New Life for the Mighty Veins

Synopsis of A New Dawn for the Zhuang Vein Lin Sheng, a young man who has chosen to lie flat, lives by the motto “None of my business.” That changes when his hometown’s county football league takes the internet by storm. He discovers that every goal he watches makes a countdown appear on his palm. The moment he is forced onto the field, he hears drums beating beneath the earth, dating back seven thousand years. It turns out that the Zhuang Vein, sealed by Buluotuo, ancestor of the Zhuang people, lies dormant beneath Guangxi. Every county-league victory awakens the divine vein. Meanwhile, multinational capital has already set its sights on it, ready to package an ancient faith and take it public as a financial product to fleece the world. In the deeper darkness lie the millennia-old secrets guarded by the Vein Protectors, the truth behind his father’s betrayal seven years ago, and a girl who has waited for him through eighty-one lifetimes. Every clue points to an inverted ancient city beneath Nanning and fourteen bronze pillars engraved with names. Lin Sheng has no choice but to run onto the pitch. Every touch and every pass holds the fate of a city in the balance. When the decisive penalty kick is set up, his mother is the goalkeeper, a corporate titan sits in the stands, and underground, his beloved is about to disappear. The kick he takes will be aimed at more than the goal. This is a match fought for the gods, with the faith of the past seven thousand years and every tomorrow for the people of this land at stake. The faith of football isn’t in the Champions League; it’s at the village entrance. The gods are reborn in the straightened backs of ordinary people.