After Five Crowns, Please Leave the Stage

The livestream chat exploded. Gu Chen cut her microphone. Half an hour later, Obsidian introduced Zhou Duo as its new franchise player. Nineteen, inhuman reflexes, “the only answer for a new era.” In the promotional video, he sat in Lin Zhou’s old chair and tapped its armrest. “Of course I should be the one to end the era our seniors left behind.” Rain hammered the windows when Lin Zhou returned to her empty apartment. The club had taken her training rig but overlooked a silver keyboard from ten years ago. A hairline crack still crossed its space bar. She connected it to an old computer, intending to recover personal match recordings. The screen turned on by itself.