At its core, this is a school-life novel. You don’t need to know basketball to enjoy it.

After collapsing on the court, Li Tunan wakes up as a cannon fodder side character in an otome game—one who gets publicly rejected after a confession, hated by everyone.

She also inherits that character’s paralyzed legs.

The good news: If she helps her school’s basketball team win the final championship, her legs will be healed.

The bad news: Her school is a rival to the one the original female lead attends—and in the original plot, her team is destined to lose.

To step back onto the court again, she decides to confront the power of the protagonist’s halo head-on.

——First step: Become the team’s coach.

Faced with everyone’s doubt and mockery, she secures the coaching position through a training match, then boldly reforms the team culture and silences criticism with sheer ability.

In her own words:

……

Later, at the National High School Basketball Tournament, spectators would always spot a girl in a wheelchair on the sidelines, commanding plays and leading her team with dazzling, unexpected strategies.

During breaks, the towering players would gather around her like loyal puppies, hanging on her every word as she explained tactics.

Even opposing teams, rather than being bitter, would try to recruit her:

“Coach Xiao Li, please come coach us! We’ll do anything!”

Only for her players to step in, surrounding her with eerie smiles:

“Sorry. She’s our coach.”