If you like Ctl+Alt+Life, you might like No Pain No Gain. Both dramas are premised on videogames and emphasize the gamer life.
However, Ctl+Alt+Life centers on professional eSports gamer, No Pain No Game centers on running a gaming company, the gaming industry, developers, and end users. It's also a workplace comedy and has an interesting premise.
However, Ctl+Alt+Life centers on professional eSports gamer, No Pain No Game centers on running a gaming company, the gaming industry, developers, and end users. It's also a workplace comedy and has an interesting premise.
In the multiplayer online game Glory, Ye Xiu is well known as the textbook-level expert and top-tier player Ye Qiu. Due to a series of circumstances, he was forcefully expelled from his professional team. After leaving the pro-gaming scene, he resides at an Internet Café employed as one of the managers. When Glory launches their tenth server, he throws himself into the game once more—equipped with ten years of gaming experience, memories of the past, and an incomplete, self-made weapon. His journey back to the top begins.
Han Shang Yan, a former legend in the CTF cyber-security esports world, had long retired to set up his own esports club, K&K, to train a group of young teenage boys as professional esports athletes. One evening, after a K&K loss at a CTF competition, Han Shang Yan walks into an internet cafe to cool off. A computer science genius and part-time online singer, Tong Nian had been helping her cousin man his internet cafe one evening when Han Shang Yan walks in and she immediately falls for him at first sight. Usually brave, outgoing, and having tens of thousands of followers from singing covers online, she finds herself wanting to get close to him and makes several clumsy attempts to do so. A further series of coincidences and misunderstandings throw the both of them together and, as Han Shang Yan slowly starts to soften towards her, Tong Nian also finds herself getting involved in K&K's activities and the world of professional esports, even uncovering the past about Han Shang Yan and the reason for his sudden retirement from the esports world.
In the ultra-competitive world of e-sports, the all-male ZGDX OPL team is second to none. Armies of adoring female fans follow the team wherever it goes. But when one of the team’s star players suffers a hand injury, the tall, handsome, and notoriously hard-to-please ZGDX captain Lu Si Cheng will not be rushed into choosing a replacement. The petite, lollipop-loving Tong Yao, meanwhile, is a budding amateur gamer – obsessed with OPL. Her skills are exceptional, but she is of the firm belief that in the male-dominated world of pro gaming, love is a big no-no – even though her own ex-boyfriend was a gamer. When the ZGDX team manager learns of her skills, he contacts her, thinking that recruiting her as the scene’s first female player will help score a major PR coup. Lu Si Cheng is dismissive of her initially, but eventually agrees to accept her as a substitute – a move that polarizes the team’s fanbase. But as they start to get to know one another better, could a closer bond begin to form between them?
