Taming Mountains and Seas: A Slacker Girl’s Comeback at Shanhai Academy

Xia Yu, a gray-haired girl, has just made it through three years of middle school when an admission letter arrives from the mysterious Shanhai School. With a genius older sister, Xia Wu, and an ordinary gray-haired girl’s life ahead of her (Xia Yu: Though I guess getting an admission letter from Shanhai School already makes me extraordinary), she sets off on the broad road to Shanhai. (Though the back roads are an option too!)

(No CP. Feel free to imagine pairings if you want. Everyone is sweet on the outside but dark within. Later on: BE + HE + OE. The early chapters are a lighthearted school comedy. If any of this bothers you, feel free to leave. Sorry, sorry!)

Xia Yu thought this was just an absurd school-life comedy. Little did she know it would become a dream of Shanhai she could never wake from...