[Exam-prep brainwashing + mindless power fantasy + winning through reason + overwhelming opponents with superior knowledge + creepy rules + Come home, child, come home]
When Lin Juan fell asleep for the 101st time in the study room while reciting “abandon,” he never imagined that he would literally give up being human.
When he opened his eyes again, he was in an infinite-loop world. A cold prompt sounded: [Please draw your starting talent.]
Other people got divine weapons and supernatural powers. He got a hazy, worn-edged copy of the Rainbow Book of Postgraduate Entrance Exam English.
As the people around him snickered, “What kind of trash talent is that?” Lin Juan tremblingly drew three cards.
The first: abandon.
“...” A familiar sense of despair washed over Lin Juan.
Just then, the beginner dungeon’s boss, a blood-soaked dungeon minion, attacked the group.
His teammates launched panicked attacks, but nothing worked.
In his desperation, Lin Juan used abandon on the boss.
The arrogant boss suddenly froze, then dropped to his knees with a crash, pounding his chest and wailing, “I give up! I can’t learn anything! I’m nothing but a useless failure! Waaah...”
All the players: “???”
Lin Juan looked at the two cards left in his hand: Fetid (adj. foul-smelling) and Disorient (v. to confuse).
He pushed up a pair of imaginary glasses and, against the background of the boss’s wailing, broke into the peculiar smile of someone preparing for graduate school exams: thirty percent numbness, seventy percent reckless abandon.
“Go home, child. Go home.”
“Looks like this world needs a little brainwashing from someone preparing for graduate school exams.”
