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Yang Cheng is an orphan working as an E-Soul actor at a children's theater under the employ of ice-ko shop owner Rock. He gets hired by his school crush—Xia Qing—who cannot tell it is him under his costume, to be a personal entertainer for her younger brother—Pomelo. Cheng and Pomelo bond as the latter helps him prepare for a competition to be a part of E-Soul's hero anniversary presentation. However, his zero Trust Value results in him losing. Still too afraid to confess his feelings towards Qing and sad over his loss, he leaves. Pomelo finds him but gets kidnapped by two of Cheng's former co-workers. Cheng gives chase and causes the kidnapper's vehicle to crash. Though no match against the kidnappers, Cheng refuses to give up, and Pomelo places faith in him upon seeing his determination. This gives Cheng his first trust value, unlocking electric power similar to E-Soul's, allowing him to defeat the kidnappers. Afterward, Cheng brings Pomelo home to Qing when he is confronted by one of the competition's judges—Shang Chao.

A young girl miraculously survives a plane crash and is found by journalist Liu Zhen. Suspicious that no hero intervened in the incident, Zhen writes a scathing article about it, but his publisher refuses to release it, prompting him to quit. He also secretly smuggles the girl to safety and leaves her with a friend, who is the dean of an orphanage, naming her Cyan. Cyan is soon revealed to be incredibly lucky, which the other orphans, the caretakers, and eventually even the dean begin to exploit. As a result, five years later, the orphanage has become a cult centered around her. However, this leaves Cyan isolated from her peers until she meets a new boy named Luo, who is said to bring misfortune. Confiding in him about her desire to be "average", he helps her feel normal, and the two bond. Another six years later, the now-teenage Cyan and Luo attempt to escape from the orphanage but are intercepted by the dean, who reveals himself to be a former hero with intentions of raising the orphans into heroes as well.

Liu Yuwei is a prodigy who graduates from university at fourteen years old, where she announces that she intends to become the number one hero. Four years later, she has signed up with DOS and is now the youngest hero to ever break into the top ten, with the public naming her "Queen." Concurrently, her colleague and fellow heroine Bowa wins the 16th biennial Heroes Tournament, becoming the second female top-ranked hero in history. However, Queen and Bowa do not get along, since the latter feels overshadowed by the former. Another four years later, Queen participates in the 18th Heroes Tournament. While it was expected to come down to a match between Queen and Bowa, both are easily defeated by a mysterious participant who instantly becomes the new first-ranked hero; with his true identity unknown, people refer to him by the top-ranker's epithet—"X". Afterward, Queen becomes depressed as she is faced with failure for the first time while Bowa succumbs to the power of Fear after learning that Queen is Zhen's daughter.

After hearing Queen's university graduation speech as a child, Luo Li gained aspirations of becoming a hero. Unfortunately, she struggles with gathering Trust Value due to her cute appearance not fitting people's stereotypical view of heroes. Not giving up, she builds a mechanical suit using spare parts from her scientist father's lab to fight crime while hiding her appearance as the vigilante "Loli." However, when her helmet accidentally comes off and she gets called "cute" by a girl she saved from a stalker, she nearly reaches her breaking point. Fortunately, Loli's father recognizes her genius and arranges for her to work under him at the technology firm Glimmer Lab. There, Loli reunites with the girl she saved—Wang Nuonuo—and bonds with her as they work together to improve the former's suit. However, after they return from a night out, the lab is suddenly attacked by former first-ranked hero-turned-villain DJ Shindig.

Since young, Wang Yi has had antisocial tendencies. Still, his silent demeanor caused others to view him as "cool," resulting in the Trust system rendering him mute. He eventually got scouted to be a hero by Mighty Glory—taking the name "Ghostblade"—with his primary work being assassinating rogue heroes. During one job, he saved a girl—Zhang Lan—who was as antisocial as himself, and they soon got married. However, Lan changed after their daughter—Nuonuo—was born, wanting Ghostblade to quit being a hero and start a family with her. Unfortunately, he was not ready to take that step, causing her to divorce him and take Nuonuo with her. Unable to be with his daughter conventionally, Ghostblade shadowed her throughout her life, himself being the "stalker" Loli saved her from. In the present, after the Glimmer Lab attack, Ghostblade volunteers to be security for Loli's father's excursion to the crashed UFO upon learning that the incident's witnesses, including Nuonuo, will be joining as well.

Many years ago, during a mission to explore the crashed UFO, former first-ranked hero Ah Sheng captured an animal-like alien. Fearing it would otherwise get experimented on, he brought the creature back home with him, resulting in his son—Ah Johnny, A.K.A Little Johnny—taking it as his pet—Big Johnny. After his wife passes away from terminal illness, Sheng retires as a hero and moves to the countryside with Little Johnny and Big Johnny. There, they lived quietly as a family, with the Johnnies training to become heroes like Sheng. However, three years later, they were suddenly visited one day by Sheng's old colleague—the then top-ranker, Vortex—who requested his aid to deal with a rival hero, but he refused. That night, the Johnnies found Sheng dead outside their house, with Little Johnny assuming Vortex to be the culprit. Overwhelmed by anger, Big Johnny then transformed into a giant monster and attacked a nearby village, prompting Vortex to come to the inhabitants ' aid, while Sheng's true killer—Ghostblade—watched on.

Mickey and Shand team up to blame the events at the UFO on Rock, whom the latter is aware orchestrated the murder of his son—Chao. At the UFO, Loli fights Nice while her father and Nuonuo flee. However, they are met by dark-clad men—the results of Shand's Fear experiments—who knock Nuonuo into a coma and kill Loli's father alongside the other research team members; Loli defeats them all before resuming her battle with Nice. Meanwhile, E-Soul defeats Ghostblade and Little Johnny, causing Big Johnny to transform into his berserk form, destroying the UFO in the process. Fortunately, Queen and Cyan arrive, drawn by the commotion, and the former subdues everyone, ending the battle. One year later, the 20th Heroes Tournament got cancelled; X remains the top hero, Queen became the second-ranked hero, Ghostblade rose to fourth place but resigned from Mighty Glory, the Johnnies transferred to DOS and became the fifth-ranked heroes, and Loli signed up with FOMO and became the sixth-ranked hero. Elsewhere, Rock—revealed to be a worshipper of Zero, the original hero who became corrupted by Fear and nearly destroyed the world in the past—continues his own plans alongside the hero Dragon Boy.

Having been raised by abusive parents, Dragon Boy harbors a strong hatred toward the world and, together with Rock, seeks to destroy it by monopolizing the Trust System and becoming a god-like being, akin to Zero. To get him into the top ten, Rock orders him to take out one of their current members—former first-ranked hero Smile. Meanwhile, Shand orders Nice to do the same, though the latter is uncomfortable with it, since Smile is his childhood idol. Elsewhere, Smile secretly visits his friend—X—and warns him that the Hero Affairs Commission has ordered his death out of fear of his Trust Value getting too high now that he is the longest serving top-ranker following the 20th Heroes Tournament's cancellation. However, X reveals that he was already planning to forfeit said tournament. Afterward, Smile is confronted by Dragon Boy, who goads the former into attacking him by implying that Rock killed his daughter. However, their fight is interrupted when Dragon Boy notices Nice hiding nearby, waiting to take them both out.

Ex-circus dog Ahu gets adopted by one of his fans—Xin Ya—who intends to make him a hero to defeat TREEMAN, which is trying to take her community's land. While no one initially has faith in him, including Ahu himself, opinions shift after he scares off TREEMAN's thugs. However, TREEMAN responds by having Nice use his popularity to scam the people into giving up the land's deed. Ahu and Ya sneak into their hideout to steal it back, but are caught by TREEMAN's henchmen—Phobiaclone, the same men who killed the UFO research team. Fortunately, they run into X, who defeats most of them before leaving, only for them to be confronted by Nice, who orders the last clone to kill them. However, inspired by X, Ahu defeats the clone himself using his old circus tricks while Nice has a nervous breakdown and flees after a little Fear spills onto him. Afterward, Ahu takes credit for X's heroics, skyrocketing his Trust Value and elevating him to the eighth-ranked hero under FOMO; he also gains human speech. Meanwhile, a mentally unstable Nice gets berated by Shand over the failure, culminating in his suicide in episode 1.

Upon learning about the execution order on X, Ahu confronts him, having known his identity as a FOMO salaryman from their earlier encounter, and tries to convince him to drop out of tomorrow's 21st Heroes Tournament. However, they are then ambushed by agents and heroes from the Hero Affairs Commission and hero agencies, who learned X's identity through Rock's research on him. After X defeats them all, Ahu inquires about the former's mention of "the truth". Entertaining him, X teleports them to a dimension outside space-time where he explains to Ahu that the top ten heroes are "chess pieces manipulated by fate" by showing him several events through time, though Ahu fails to understand what X means. The next day, X transports them to the tournament's opening ceremony. The other top ten heroes then enter: Lin Ling, Lucky Cyan, Loli, The Johnnies, Ghostblade, Dragon Boy, Queen, and, shockingly, Nice, who is seemingly alive but has strange cracks all over his body; E-Soul fell out of the top ten. As Ahu enters, with his identity already compromised, X publicly reveals himself by taking to the stage in his civilian form.