Drama Info:
Title: The King’s Avatar (全职高手) Quan Zhi Gao Shou
Episodes: 40
Release Date: July 24, 2019
Film Location: Shanghai, Hangzhou
Plot Synopsis:
A story about esports and the multiplayer game Glory. It follows the journey of a single player as he makes a comeback, all the while assembling a team of nobodies. It is based on the novel with the same name.
Ye Xiu is a well-respected player in the game of Glory and was one of it’s founding members. He is forced out from his original team and has to give up his gamer ID. He decides to work for a gaming cafe across the street. Ye Xiu decides to start all over again, with a new gamer ID and build himself back up. He meets many new faces along the way and they work to create a team to compete at the professional level. Ye Xiu must journey back to where he started, using his many years of experience, and his own special character and weapon.
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Cast & Characters:
Yang Yang 杨洋 as Ye Xiu 叶修
Former captain of Team Excellent Era. Current captain of Team Happy and the leader of the Chinese Glory Team. He is known as the ‘Glory Textbook’, as well as one of the Four Master Tacticians.
The King’s Avatar has a HUGE cast due to all the different teams and players. I will be doing a full cast breakdown in another post, stay tuned!