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Soth17K Novel Network

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Word count
761.7K words
Chapters
10

Tags

Male-Oriented Fiction Urban Fiction Athletic CompetitionSchool YouthLife DirectionFriendshipBasketball JourneyUnderdog RiseGrowth of GeniusComing of AgeWeb NovelYouth Reading

Summary

In 1995, Cheng Fei, a son of the Jingmen Cement Factory, enters Yichang's No. 6 Gezhouba High School—a frail boy with no interest in sports who nonetheless ranked first in the high school entrance exam. On his first night at school, he accidentally witnesses two mysterious tall men playing one-on-one on a dimly lit court, and is deeply shaken by their flashy dunks and streetball skills. His life's direction changes from that moment. Thereafter, while facing campus life and friendship, he sets out on the road of basketball, from team training to the high school league, competing against and alongside teammates and rivals from a generation of talents. He gradually grows from a frail scholar into a brilliant rising star of high school basketball, and proves his strength on ever broader courts.

Editor's review

A typical early web-novel basketball sports story, plain in its tropes but full of passion: a frail bookworm awakens through a night game and rises to become his team's core player. Its appeal lies in detailed game writing—dribbling, crossovers, and fadeaway jumpers are rendered with a vivid sense of motion—while campus life and team bonds feel simple and sincere. The weaknesses are an older style and pacing, thin supporting characters, and a later international arc that drifts somewhat. Suited to readers nostalgic for old-school sports fiction.

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Reading tips

  1. Read the night one-on-one in the first two chapters to quickly get the basketball atmosphere and style
  2. Read the game chapters as technical exposition and note the author's attention to action detail
  3. Don't take the later international-court plot too seriously; focus on the campus-stage growth arc

About the publisher

17K Novel Network

17K Novel Network (17K小说网) is a publishing platform centred on online literature, with 10,912 titles in its catalogue; publicly available information is limited, and its founding background and country or region are not confirmed. Judging from the existing titles, its publishing scope covers common categories such as male-oriented fiction, Eastern fantasy, urban fiction, female-oriented fiction, time-travel and alternate-history stories, and selected fiction, spanning male-oriented cultivation and urban-life themes as well as female-oriented time-travel and quick-transmigration narratives. Representative titles include Deities: Recruiting Earth Players from the Start, Rebirth of the Nine-Tailed Superstar, Quick Transmigration: When a Max-Level Boss Becomes a Toxic Dad, Supreme Pill King, My Beautiful Wife, Chaos Tang, Wind Howling through the Jianghu, and Great Qin: My Inner Thoughts Overheard by the Ancestral Dragon from the Start, most of which unfold with the length and pacing of online serialization. Representative authors include Yang Zhizhi, Yuyi Tingbing, Xuanyuan Lvedan, Zhenyong, Manyu, Wuweijiu, Meng Qingxuan and Tianyan Junran, reflecting a publishing approach built on contracted online authors and organized by genre.

Contents

  1. Chapter 1: The Mysterious Master
  2. Chapter 2: A Court Encounter
  3. Chapter 3: Challenge to the Top Three
  4. Chapter 4: Respect the Dream
  5. Chapter 5: An Eccentric and a Strange Dream
  6. Chapter 6: Watching Tigers Fight
  7. Chapter 7: Super Rookie
  8. Chapter 8: The Ace of No. 6 High
  9. Chapter 9: A Born Shooter
  10. Chapter 10: Full Team Training

FAQ

Where was this book first published? On 17k.com; it is completed and belongs to the basketball competition genre.
Does the protagonist understand basketball at first? Not at all—he is the top scorer in the high school entrance exam and a frail student.
Is there much romance? It focuses on basketball competition and campus growth; romance is not the focus.

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About the author

Soth Author

Soth is an author about whom public information is limited. Little can be confirmed beyond the name: neither nationality nor dates of birth and death are clearly recorded, and only one work by this author is held in the collection. The representative work is First Scorer, commonly classified under boys' fiction and urban fiction, which suggests writing aimed mainly at male readers and centered on urban themes such as competition, personal growth, or city life. Because the author's background, writing career, and awards cannot be verified, this introduction can only proceed cautiously from the work's categorization: the output appears small or still early, and questions of style and influence await more works and reader response. Readers interested in Soth may begin with First Scorer to sense the narrative orientation and character-building within its urban-fiction framework, and then form further judgments as more public information becomes available.