He became the youngest son of a village Party secretary in a northern Chinese countryside village in the 1980s, a boy who coughed so violently it felt like his lungs were tearing apart. At 1.7 meters tall, he was as fragile as a bamboo stalk, and a deathly pallor hung over his delicate face. Had he wasted eighteen years of his previous life as a city woman, only to start over as a fifteen-year-old boy who was already headed for the grave?
The Myriad Lives System has successfully bound to its host!
Ding! Beginner quest: Drink all the bitter medicine without grimacing. Reward: +1 point.
Ding! Daily quest: Find Aunt Wang's missing hen. Reward: +5 points.
He traded points for a constitution potion, and his sickly pallor visibly faded. A lottery draw won him a guide to poise, and his hunched back gradually straightened, proud as a pine.
Villagers rubbed their eyes. “How come the village secretary's sickly boy is starting to look like a little immortal from a New Year painting?”
He turned his life around through knowledge and got into a top university, but his stunning looks brought new troubles.
A talent scout blocked his doorway, slapping his thigh. “Comrade! It'd be a tremendous loss to the nation if you didn't act in movies!”
On the silver screen, he appeared for one fleeting moment, and the young people at the open-air cinema forgot to breathe.
Offscreen, he crouched back by the farmhouse stove and calmly added firewood. The System in his mind had just refreshed:
New quest: Prepare dinner with your own hands to unlock secret imperial recipes.
Become stronger? Become more beautiful? The System's golden finger maxes out his entire skill tree!
The one thing he can't change is how his fingers unconsciously brush over his short hair before bed, bringing a sudden, knowing smile to his face.
Who says this leisurely 1980s can't measure up to the prosperity of his previous life?
The frail boy's path to godhood with the System has only just begun!
[No romance! A satisfying career-focused story! His divine looks are a gift, but he builds his legend with his own two hands!]
