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Jiang Fushu was a junior national judo champion. Reports say his parents died in a factory explosion when he was eight, and he raised his younger brother, Xianren, who has a congenital heart condition. For ten years the judo uniform stayed in a box. When his brother collapses on the day of an arts-school exam and needs 50,000 yuan for surgery, he returns to the competition ring, where his former rival and friend, Lu Shiyi, now on a provincial team, waits.

The series has six episodes of about 10 minutes each, according to Chinese reports. Mango TV bills it as the first AI live-action drama, meaning a drama made to look like filmed people, a style Chinese media call fangzhenren ju ("lifelike-human drama").

The announcement framed the launch as a talent-agency exercise. Mango TV and the outlets repeating its account call it the first time in mainland China that a batch of native virtual actors has been launched under a complete agency model. Each artist has a persona, a sheet of three-view character drawings, a styling direction and a real-name verified Weibo account carrying an "AI artist" label. Mango TV says the five were generated from scratch and are not digital doubles of real celebrities.

Reports on the strategy list practical reasons: a virtual artist does not age, fall ill, clash with a shooting schedule or create a scandal, and the platform keeps ownership and operating rights.

The script, storyboards and image generation were done largely on Mango Lingchuang, Mango TV's in-house AIGC platform, the same one behind The Later Journey to the West. No report names the AI models behind the images.

Chinese media coverage of the debut split: supporters pointed to the realism of the performers and the absence of scandal risk, while critics said virtual actors lack real emotion and could reduce work for human actors. Reports say the series reached Weibo's trending list after the premiere. The coverage contains no ratings or play counts.