Riding the Tide of 2000: Starting by Rejecting the Campus Belle

Zhang Xiaobei, a poor, short, and unattractive man, dies in 2025 and transmigrates back to 2000, three months before his senior-year college entrance exams. Convinced that copying someone else's work first makes it an original, he starts plagiarizing songs for profit. Before Zhang Xiaobei transmigrated, he had sent a love letter to An Jing, the aloof campus beauty and top student. This makes rich second-generation heir Song Jiahao constantly pick on him. Though Zhang Xiaobei has the soul of a forty-three-year-old, he can only grit his teeth and deal with it. As he battles Song Jiahao, Zhang Xiaobei makes his first fortune selling songs and wins An Jing's favor. But the old soul of Zhang Xiaobei, who prefers mature women, changes his university preferences to dodge his fated entanglement with An Jing and ends up at a low-tier college.

This book tries to stay grounded in reality, without exaggerated wish-fulfillment fantasies about losers. Sorry if that's not your thing.

This novel and its characters are entirely fictional. Any resemblance to actual persons or events is purely coincidental. Do not imitate.