Mystery and wild imagination + infinite-flow rules horror + a System that seems innocent but is secretly sinister + overworked wage slaves striking back + double-strength leads who defy convention
Lin Wan, a thirty-five-year-old food delivery rider who was laid off, unexpectedly travels back to her senior year of high school.
Before she can even reminisce about her youth, a piercing, eerie laugh echoes over the speakers: "Welcome, players, to the exam-hall battle royale."
You can't eat in the cafeteria, you aren't allowed to sleep in the dormitory, and every answer you write in the exam hall writes your own fate.
The rules get more absurd with every turn, and breaking even one means the System will erase you on the spot.
As an adult who has been beaten down by reality, Lin Wan exploits loopholes in the rules to clear each challenge.
Expect comedy and absurdity, deduction, warmth, twists, and questions about the exam-oriented education system.
Five escalating stages: the cafeteria, dormitory, classroom, exam hall, and college applications. Each scenario has its own rules, layered within the others. Every stage brings them closer to the truth about the Gaokao system: it isn't designed to select talent, but to determine who is worth exploiting further.
Everyone is having a hard time: none of the villains in the scenarios were born evil.
A seemingly innocent but secretly sinister upperclassman x a clear-headed, overworked heroine
Packed with twists and nonstop thrills
This novel and its characters are entirely fictional. Any resemblance to real people or events is purely coincidental. Do not imitate.
